“Reference” Android-smartphone under the brand Nexus might disappear – CNews.ru

G: a new Nexus?

According to the resource Android Centralсо, citing industry sources, Android smartphones 2016, Google produced for its traditional partner, the Taiwanese company HTC, instead of the usual marking Nexus will have the words “Google” front and center back of the devices. While we are talking about two models with diagonals screens of 5 inches and 5.5 inches, which received the working title of Marlin and Sailfish.

the Publication reports on the possibility of the emergence of smartphones marked with the symbol “G”, but no one can tell the exact information about the new labeling, as well as to describe the fate of the brand Nexus.

Six years of solitude

the transition to the new branding of Android smartphones, Google will put an end to the six-year history of phones under the Nexus trademark. The first smartphone in this range in December 2009 was presented to the device produced by HTC called Nexus One, the latest steel is released in 2015 models Nexus 6P and 5X.

Marking Nexus might disappear from smartphones Google

under the branding of smartphones and tablets in the Nexus program with Google collaborated with such industrial partners as Samsung, LG, HTC and Huawei.

Google-backgrounds 2016: what’s new?

a New smartphone under the brand Google, according to Android Central, will be supplied with a package of additional software. In addition, each model will have a redesigned user interface instead of the standard version of Android.

This is the main difference of the novelties of the brand Nexus smartphones, which initially shipped with a basic version of Android. Perhaps it was the desire of Google to promote their smartphones with additional applications, features and services is a reason of rejection of the use of the brand Nexus in its original incarnation.

will there be a branded tablet or smart watch Google?

Despite the approaching announcements of new products running the new OS Android Nougat, the biggest intrigue remains the new policy of Google in relation to Android-based smartphones under its own brand, especially in light of the announced last summer, the leadership of Google”completely new” strategy for the hardware platforms.

so far there is no reliable data about the Google plans to release any new tablet models. However, Android Central is the first, yet unofficial information about Google plans to release before the end of 2016, two smart watches Android Wear under its own brand.