Confirming months of speculation, a new report claims that LG will indeed be producing one of the 2016 Nexus devices for Google, but contrary to speculation, the smartphone won’t be based in the LG G4. This means that the device will have a completely new design, which only serves to increase our excitement. Not that the LG G4 isn’t a nice looking phone, quite the contrary, but it’s always nice to see something new.
After months of speculation about who Google will team up with for its next Nexus device, it looks like LG could be the one to build this year’s Nexus 5. According to Android Pit a source has confirmed that LG will be building the Nexus 5 (2015) – though an official name has yet to be announced. Rather than basing the Nexus 5 (2015) on its latest flagship, the LG G4, it is claimed that LG will be creating the new handset from scratch. If true, the choice of going with LG for the next Nexus 5 is not too surprising, as LG built the previous Nexus 5, but we’ve also heard strong rumours that Chinese manufacturer Huawei would be creating a Nexus device. So does this mean we won’t be seeing a Huawei Nexus smartphone? Not necessarily. For a start, the rumour of LG making the Nexus 5 (2015) hasn’t been verified, so nothing is set in stone. We’ve also heard that Google could be planning on releasing two new Nexus phones this year, while another rumour suggested that Huawei would be building a larger Nexus device (though possibly not quite as big as the Nexus 6 phablet), with LG creating a smaller Nexus handset that could have the codename LG Angler.
