Motorola & Google officially unveil the Nexus 6: it’s a monster

Google Nexus 6

Finally, after months of speculating we can give our readers the full scoop on the Nexus 6, the most recent iteration in the Nexus family of phones. Are you ready? This is what you have to know.

The Motorola team have made official that they will be the ones to bring the Nexus 6 to the masses, along with promises of a huge 5.96” AMOLED screen and the best battery life on any smartphone yet. Apparently, only 15 minutes of charge can give users up to 6 extra hours of use! The Nexus 6 (along with the Nexus 4 & 5) will debut Android 5 Lollipop, the latest Android OS which claims to be the most flexible, fast and responsive yet.

The Nexus 6, just like all other phones in the Nexus family at the time of release, is an absolute powerhouse, and has a 2.7GHz Snapdragon 805 with quad-core CPU under the hood with 3 GB of ram to play with. Just to put this in perspective, the latest iPhone 6 and Nexus 4 have 1 GB while the Nexus 5 had 2. It comes in two versions, one with 32 GB and another with 64 GB for storage in only one size: 159.3mm tall ( 6.27 inches), 83.0 mm width ( 3.15 inches) and a curve of 3.8-10.1mm (0.15-0.39 inches) weighing 184 grams (6.49 ounces): this phone is absolutely massive, being halfway between a regular smartphone and a tablet.

The Nexus 6 sports 2 cameras, a rear one with a 13 MP capable of 4K UHD video capture (so those 64 GB of storage can be put to good use) and a front, 2 MP one. It will come in two colors, Midnight Blue and Cloud White which it seems to have inherited from the Moto X family of phones.

While this all sounds fantastic, users will still have to wait a little more to buy as it will be available for pre-orders through the Google Play Store in late October. Furthermore, the starting price seems to be a staggering $649 USD, which is about twice what the Nexus 5 costs. Worth it? well, that is more the user’s call than ours.

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Nexus 6 pictures leak: Motorola’s Shamu Nexus 6 is a reality

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Up until days, hours ago, everything about the Nexus 6 was a secret. Not anymore, though, as a few pictures of the device have leaked online.

Turns out there’s a new picture going around the web now of a working version of the Nexus 6 displaying Android’s ‘About phone’ screen. Based on this, we can confirm the 5.92-inch QHD screen and rounded corners, one of Motorola’s trademarks.

The pictures and mock up that illustrate this story came via Android Police, who clarified that the kernel seen in these images is way more recent than previous leaks for up to two months. The official unveiling has not happened yet, but journalists around the web are reporting a possible announcement date for October 15/16.

As more pictures and information surface you can be sure we’ll let you know what’s up, after all, this is only the other second phone family with a 6th main iteration coming out this year. Let’s just hope this one doesn’t bend.

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Android Silver Devices Will Replace the Google Nexus Line

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Recent reports from TheInformation.com suggest that Google might kill the Nexus family of phones and tablets in favor of high-end Android Silver devices.

One of the things that made the Nexus line so popular was the price-quality ratio. At half the price of their Apple counterparts, Nexus smartphones and tablets packed plenty of firepower to satisfy even the most pretentious Android users. Still, after this year’s Nexus 6 smartphone (which most likely will also be made by LG) and the Nexus 8 tablet HTC is rumored to work on, the line will be no more. If anyone wants to analyze the names of the products, they might notice that after 6 comes 7, and Nexus 7 already is a product. Have to admit that Google might not have thought this through when they started naming their devices. The new Android Silver line makes sense not only from a naming viewpoint.

The launch of the Android Silver handsets will mark a change on how Google treats its own products and customers. By creating a new line of products, Google tightens the competition with Apple, while diminishing at the same time the power (and the market share) of Samsung.

The Information reports that “The expensive effort involves dumping the Nexus phone brand in favor of a new programme called Silver, under which manufacturers and wireless carriers will be paid to produce and sell high-end devices that closely adhere to Google specifications, according to four people briefed on the project.”

LG and Motorola (whom Google sold to Lenovo earlier this year) might be the first one to build Android Silver smartphones. On the other hand, Samsung, HTC and Sony might not have this privilege so soon, so they will remain with the satisfaction of having Google Play editions of their handsets.

A new line of products could represent the best opportunity for Google to launch a new version of Android, maybe even 5.0. This move has been anticipated for a while, but instead of making it, Google decided to take small steps.

In the end, the role of the Android Silver line is to reduce the bloatware and the number of non-Google apps that come on Android phones. That and delivering products of an even higher quality.

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