Google has confirmed that it’s NOT discontinuing the Nexus line

Google’s Nexus line is not dead yet, according to Google’s Android engineering chief. “People have been commenting about Nexus because there is something else and they think that means the end of Nexus. That is the totally wrong conclusion to make,” Google’s Dave Burke told ReadWrite in a recent interview. Burke explained that when Google develops a new version of Android it develops a device with one of its partners right alongside it. “There are sort of two outputs…a Nexus device and…the open source code. There is no way you can build the open source code without the phone or tablet,” Burke said. The Android engineering chief’s comments appear to contradict a report by The Information in late April that said an initiative dubbed “Android Silver” would see the end of Google’s Nexus effort. Reports about Silver have always made it out to be a very different beast than the Nexus program, a view that Burke appeared to confirm. Burke wouldn’t talk about Silver, although he did seem to implicitly confirm its existence in his talk with ReadWrite. From earlier reports, however, it appears Silver will be a program to offer versions of high-end Android handsets running stock or near-stock Android installations,sans the custom interface tweaks created by device makers.