One of the most talked about and rumoured handsets is the Google Nexus 5 or as some call it the Google X. The X Phone has been rumoured to be arriving in May at the I/O, however some have said this isn’t going to happen. New rumours now suggest that the handset could be coming onto the market this August.This rumour has made many fans very excited of course, however there is more news to come and this will please people who are with the carrier AT&T.
AndroidAndMe have said that the X Phone will be coming out in August and that it will arrive first at AT&T, who will have it exclusively for 3 months. If you are with any other carrier, the bad news is that you will have to wait until November to get your hands on the device. This is very similar to what we saw with the Sprint Nexus 4G and the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus which arrived many months after their GSM counterparts.
It has been said that the Google Nexus 5 / Google X Phone will arrive with all-time activated voice control. It is also said to have predictive intelligence that will be able to launch apps and that features can be used by the way the phone is held.
There were some rumours going around that the device would run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. However now there are rumours that say the handset will have a low price tag and will not be high end as it was first said to be. Therefore it will more than likely have the Snapdragon 600 processor says A&M.
It is strange that this is the first time even that rumours surrounding the handset have nothing at all to do with the OS. Rumours have said that the handset will have Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie and that this too will be launched at the I/O this year. However there are some serious questions about the OS.
At the moment the chance of Key Lime Pie coming out at the I/O is looking on the bleak side, thanks to many reports about the testing of the next version of Android, which may be Android 4.3
Of course at the moment these are all rumours and we are waiting to hear what Google and Motorola have to say. So are you excited about a potential Google Nexus 5 made by Motorola? Or do you still believe that the Google Nexus 5 and Motorola X are two different devices but the X just happens to be getting first dibs on the next Android version first because of Google’s recent takeover of Motorola?
