The new Nexus 5X phone is displayed during a Google media event on September 29, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo : Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
If the numbers is to be the basis, LG is the best Nexus device manufacturer to date with three models under its belt - the Nexus 4 that came out in 2012, the Nexus 5 in the following year and this 2015's other vanilla Android from Google, the Nexus 5X.
But beyond the numbers, Google is reportedly convinced that its partnership with South Korea's LG has been the most rewarding. "LG is the best partner for engineering the Nexus smartphone," G4Games quoted a senior Google official as saying.
And the praises heaped on LG is not without comparison. As the report noted, prior to LG, HTC and Samsung took the honors of providing the hardware for the first three Nexus smartphones but the Google flagship phone really roared up with the LG Nexus 4 and the LG Nexus 5.
Both devices were far from the commercial success of their chief rivals - Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy - but were good enough to win loyal followers. There hardcore fans continue to anticipate what Google and LG have to offer that rumors say the Nexus 5X was conceptualize and built with the Nexus 5 in mind.
Clearly, folks over at Google are impressed with the work turned in by LG so far. But will the admiration lead to another round of collaboration and something that surely is welcome to the Android world?
The two companies are not saying anything that could lead to a likely deal in 2016 but if Google is to seriously consider the words coming from Googler David Burke, who according to G4Games is vice president for Android Engineering, then a return by LG for a Nexus 2016 device isn't too remote.
Burke is saying that Google and LG "have become an excellent team," adding that the Asian mobile device maker "shares (with Google) the same approach to the mobile device market."
And if LG will once again issue a Nexus 2016 smartphone, will it be modelled after the rumored first LG flagship scheduled for early next year - the LG G5? Will the next Nexus also boast of the might and speed that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820, rumored to be first showcased by Samsung' Galaxy S7, will afford?
