New Nexus, nexuses, nexi? Whatever...

[Tom]

Thought it might be a bit nicer than this.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/11/3487698/lg-nexus-phone-photos-leak

Fingers crossed this isn't a Nexus device.

 

[oska]

Odd that LG would be making it when Samsung are making the 10" tablet and the previous phones. Guess it all comes down to cost. I wonder who will make the rumoured $99 tablet.

 

[Tom]

HTC are rumoured to be doing one too as are Asus.

That LG returns to the "with Google" like the old Motorola Milestone.

I suspect (correctly in my opinion) that google want more control of OS releases, Nexus devices are the obvious way to ensure this happens.

 

[Dan519]

Odd that LG would be making it when Samsung are making the 10" tablet and the previous phones. Guess it all comes down to cost. I wonder who will make the rumoured $99 tablet.

I read something the other day suggesting the major Android manufacturers (HTC, Samsung, SE etc) may all have a Nexus device available, rather than one at a time. If it's true it's going to dilute the whole point of having a fully Google backed device for each software version, as there will just be 5 or 6 slightly different looking cases with identical function, so I hope it doesn't happen

 

[Scrooge]

The back of that is rank.

 

[Dan519]

HTC are rumoured to be doing one too as are Asus.

That LG returns to the "with Google" like the old Motorola Milestone.

I suspect (correctly in my opinion) that google want more control of OS releases, Nexus devices are the obvious way to ensure this happens.

also hints quite strongly at the likelyhood of Android and Chrome OS's being unified sooner rather than later

 

[Tom]

Well that was going to happen.

 

[sn00p]

I suspect (correctly in my opinion) that google want more control of OS releases, Nexus devices are the obvious way to ensure this happens.

And you'd be right.

Clearly google have had a problem since day one when every phone manufacturer "bastardised" android and created fragmentation hell.

Clearly between the first release and jellybean they've had bigger fish to fry, i.e making stock Android a worthy competitor to iOS.

Now that they're pretty much there with Jellybean, it makes sense for them to push the virtues of stock as much as possible, hence (the 99.9% true rumour of) multiple nexus devices from multiple vendors.

If the manufacturers had their heads screwed on properly, they'd only use their own hacked up android on cheap feature phones and use stock android on high end phones.

 

[EngineerD]

If the manufacturers had their heads screwed on properly, they'd only use their own hacked up android on cheap feature phones and use stock android on high end phones.

This. Stock Android is a joy to use.