News about the upcoming Google Nexus 2016 has emerged online leaking specifications and features of the smart phones that are codenamed as "Marlin" and "Starfish." Apart from that, images of the new Nexus 2016 phone were also leaked online.
Google Nexus 2016 phones will be the first to be released with Android Nougat. Said phones will be made by HCT and Huawei. Google's annual release of Nexus phones is a tradition since the phones are launch vehicles for their annual Android updates.
Renders of the new Nexus phone was recently released by Android Police but these images are not yet final and it is possible that the actual phone has a different final look than the renders. With that, a 3D video rendering was released by Tech Configurations to reveal the possible look of the phone.
Speculations reveal that the Nexus phones will be released on September this year. But other reports say that the phones will be out in August since the price of the two-year-old Nexus 6 was dropped to $180 in mid-June. Decreased in prices are usually done when a newer model is nearly released.
According to rumors, HTC will be manufacturing two new nexus phones this year but it was claimed by the general manager for Huawei's Consumer Business Group that they will be doing Nexus again this year. Hence, Huawei will be doing an updated version of the Nexus 6P.
“The Nexus product is a very niche product… the techies love it but there’s a very small number of people that buy it. Hence Cellucity only brought 300… into the country,” she explained according to an interview with XDA Developers.
The new phone is speculated to run with Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor and would be a high-performance handset. Its performance and power efficiency is expected to be doubled because of its Adreno 530 GPU which provides 40 percent better performance and its X12 LTE modem provides 33 percent better performance with 15 percent better power efficiency). It also has Hexagon 680 DPS and a quad-core Kryo CPU, PC Advisor reported.
Regarding the prices of the new Nexus phones, it is not yet confirmed. But it is expected that it will not be more expensive than the current prices of Nexus 5X at £299 and the Nexus 6P for £449.