More information about a possible Motorola Nexus 6 has been slowly trickling out today. After hearing the first suggestion that such a device might exist, The Information apparently has it on good authority that Motorola is indeed working with Google for a new 5.9-inch Nexus device, and has been ever since Motorola’s sale to Lenovo. But why is this collaboration only happening after the sale?
Separately, Motorola is also getting a boost from working on an undisclosed phone-tablet project with Google—the type of initiative which, ironically, it could not pursue as a Google subsidiary due to concerns about favoring the house-owned Android vendor over others
After Lenovo agreed to buy Motorola, Google’s Android unit began working with Motorola to develop a co-branded “Nexus†phone that’s considered to be a “phablet,†or phone-tablet, because of its large screen size, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
The more we hear about the secretive world of Android manufacturers, the more it sounds like the Bold and the Beautiful. But what about Android Silver, the program that was famously rumoured to be ending the Nexus line of devices, including the aforementioned Nexus 6?
According to the report, Google Chief Business Officer, Nikesh Arora, was to head up the Android Silver initiative, however he is said to be leaving Google soon:
Some in [Arora’s] camp wanted Silver to supersede the Nexus phone program. But with Mr. Arora’s absence, there are questions about how much firepower Google will give to the Silver program.
This isn’t to say that the Android Silver program won’t still go ahead and somehow coexist with the Nexus line, or even still replace it, but it does leave open the door for a few more Nexus devices to escape should it go ahead at some point. There’s definitely more going on behind Google’s closed doors than is being reported, so we’ll see how this pans out at the end of the year when Google traditionally releases a new Nexus device.
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Source: The Information via Android Police
