Rumor: LG is working on a Nexus device with a 5.2 “screen

Google will this year with a LG-made successor to the Nexus 5 with a 5.2 “screen. The Nexus 6 would also receive a successor this year that would come from the Huawei factories. However, Google would not have its own tablet this year. want to release.

The LG-made device with a 5.2 “screen would probably run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808. The South Korean manufacturer uses the same soc for its G4 smartphone. The code name for the LG device would be Angler, the usually reliable reports. Android Police The battery is said to have a capacity of around 2700mAh, making it the first ‘smaller’ Nexus device since the Nexus 5 appeared in 2013.

In addition, Huawei is working on a device codenamed Bullhead, which, with its 5.7 “screen, would be more of a successor to the Nexus 6, which has a 6” screen. That device would run on a Snapdragon 810-soc, also from Qualcomm. That would be striking, because Huawei invariably makes its own socs for its top models in the Kirin line. For example, the new Huawei P8 has a Kirin 930 soc. Huawei would like to use a battery with a capacity of around 3500mAh.

Android Police is concerned, because the characteristics of the devices could still change before the release. That also happened last year, when Google and Motorola removed the fingerprint scanner from the Nexus 6.

The new Nexus devices should come out around October and run on Android M, the upcoming Android version that Google will probably announce this week.

The Nexus 5