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With the Galaxy S5 revealed and the iPhone 6 still months away, the rumor mill is setting its sights on the next Nexus, or perhaps Nexii, if you believe the latest word out of Europe that Google and LG are working together on a Nexus 6 to be introduced at the same time as a Nexus smartwatch in the second half of this year.

A report out of Germany claims that LG and Google will team up again for the successor to the Nexus 5 after a pretty successful run collaborating on the last two Nexus smartphones and the Google Play edition LG G Pad. Android head Sundar Pichai confirmed that the new Nexus was in the works to a French site last month.


Just as we initially heard the Nexus 5 was based on the LG G2, the German report says the Nexus 5 will resemble a stripped-down LG G3, which has yet to be officially announced. I’ll be taking this with a grain of salt, as in the case of the Nexus 5 it seemed as though Google’s engineers weighed in pretty heavily on the final design, and the Nexus 5 wound up being pretty different from the G2 in a number of ways.

On March 09 2014 13:59 Maxhster wrote:
afaik the moto g and the moto x are made in the US of A

On March 09 2014 14:11 skyR wrote:


Nope. Only Motomaker Moto X's are made in the US. Moto G and Moto X are both made in China.

Speculation that Google is indeed planning to release an 8.9" Nexus tablet this year, is starting to pile up, and now we have two more candidates for the rumor mill. Rhoda Alexander, director of tablet and monitor research at IHS Technology, has confirmed the speculation, revealing some very interesting facts about the tablet.

First off, the Google Nexus 8.9 is likely to be a "high-performance" device, with "volume production expected to start in July or August." She also adds that "this will be a lower volume product, carrying a premium price tag to support the specifications," and "would not be surprised if it is higher than $299." Another juicy tidbit is that Alexander thinks HTC will be the manufacturer of Google's larger tablet, which we've heard before.

Hot on the heels of these claims, comes another report, by Digitimes Research, which reiterates that the Nexus 8.9 will start production in July. It also confirms the top-shelf specs and price tag, saying that the tablet will feature a screen resolution of "more than 2K," and a price tag north of $299.