You can bet the farm now on the Nexus Marlin featuring SD820, 4GB RAM, 13/8MP cams

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Mobile industry insiders have been known to make mistakes regarding high-profile unreleased devices, especially those manufactured by companies like LG, Huawei, Motorola or Asus with Google’s supervision and Nexus seal of approval. And pre-launch benchmarks can also occasionally be misleading.But it’s hard to imagine an assortment of the two different classes of reliable sources could so perfectly sync up to misrepresent the oft-leaked HTC-produced

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Rumors about Google-branded, non-Nexus smartphones are back on the table

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When dealing with a company as secretive as Google, which is also extremely active and involved in so many different segments of the large tech landscape, you’re bound to occasionally come across unfounded speculation and wild rumors that never pan out.Remember reports from last fall calling for in-house Mountain View smartphone chip designs aimed at suppressing Android fragmentation? They smelled fishy off the bat, and went nowhere since then, as did a slightly less sketchy story first ...

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FCC inspects HTC Nexus devices, both of them

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Documents have popped up at the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology for two new HTC devices. We are certain that these are the much rumored Nexus devices.NM8G-2PW2100 is what we’re assuming to be the smaller “Sailfish” model while G-2PW4100 will be the “Marlin”. The Draft User Manual submissions required for both devices mention the Google Nexus support site.The special “G” notation for the models is something new ...

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Sailfish photos leaked, giving us first real-ish look at Nexus

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Something real has seemingly appeared on the Nexus front. It is not like anything we’ve seen before, unless you count very vague appraisals and a generic slab non-Easter egg in a Google Photos ad that everyone (including us) thought it just might have been similar enough to something else.That said, what else can manufacturers’ slab culture run ...

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That definitely looks like an HTC-made Nexus in a Google Photos promo

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Google continues its promotional campaign for its Photos service, but with one big detail that feels quite out of touch.The Instagram clip shows some Google groupies ready posing for the ubiquitous “freeze jump” shot when just as the phone’s about to take the photo, an iOS prompt tells us that the phone’s storage is full. We pull back from the screen to see a hand flick away the prompt, right past the Google Photos pinwheel logo.“Never run out of storage ...

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Verizon is expected to carry both 2016 Nexus devices, but likely on its own terms

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The nation’s largest wireless communications service carrier and the world’s number one search provider have been engaged in a love-hate relationship for many years now. Heavily favored by Google when the Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus launched back in the day, Verizon messed up the stock Android experience with unnecessary bloat and delivered tardy updates.Nothing was the same afterwards for Nexus devices on Big Red, which arrived late, or lacked CDMA support if purchased outside the operator’s own stores. But this fall, the rapport between the two tech giants could become friendly ...

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Could a Nexus-only Night Mode shun Android Nougat?

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Perhaps this thing about Google being more assertive in its design on its Nexus phones has a whole bunch of implications that we may have to dive into come release time.Remember the Night Mode feature that was dropped so long ago? We remember it every night when an urgent notification interrupts our rest and we ...

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Benchmark lends credence to solid, not stellar Google Nexus Sailfish specs

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If Samsung, which is always a force to be reckoned with in the smartphone spec wars, refrained from loading everything but the kitchen sink into the Galaxy Note 7, why would we expect Google and HTC to go overboard when it comes to the “Sailfish” and “Marlin’s” hardware?Well, we don’t, as neither next-gen Nexus device should exceed

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HTC Nexus release date rumored to be October 4

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With the LG V20 being the first OEM device to feature Android Nougat from first boot, we’ve been wondering when Google (and its supposed manufacturer partner, HTC) would get its act together and release a couple of new Nexus phones.The simple answer, thus far, is October 4. The long answer lies in a confusing truth.To be clear, one of Droid Life’s trusty sources spilled that ...

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Android 7.0 Nougat due with August 5 security update

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For the first time ever, it would seem that the new version of Android will not be released at the same time as the latest Nexus hardware is announced. In fact, it might come earlier.It’s only part of the story that tech leaks reporter Evan Blass is tweeting about.Android 7.0 releases next month, with the 8/5 security patch. Sorry Nexus 5 owners, no Nougat for you — Evan Blass (@evleaks) July 30, 2016We ...

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HTC Nexus ‘Sailfish’ ROM dump appears to confirm Snapdragon 820 inside

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There’s a new Google Nexus 2016-centric leak hot off the press, and this time, the smaller, slightly less capable Sailfish takes the spotlight instead of its big brother, codenamed Marlin.We already know both these devices, although following in the footsteps of the LG-made Nexus 5X and

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First purported real-life HTC Nexus ‘Marlin’ photo is a bit of a disappointment

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Before you go there, let us clarify we’re not referring to the actual Google/HTC-co-manufactured device as a disappointment. It’s too early for anything remotely resembling such assessments, and we have too little factual information to go on. We mean that this being the “first real image”, allegedly, we were expecting to see more than just the About Screen. Maybe a little bit of the device itself? Here’s hoping for ...

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Two HTC Nexuses, one design? A recreation with many questions

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The new Nexuses may share a single a single design despite their rumored size differences. Whether or not you consider it as good news or bad depends on how you view these prospective renders. And if you’re seeing what we’re seeing, one thing comes to mind — it’s as if the Nexus 6P’s glass capsule on back started swallowing rear-side real estate like “The Blob”.We ...

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HTC Marlin benchmarked, affirms rumors of next big Nexus specs

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The M1 crawls from the edge of London all the way up through the Midlands up to Aberford in West Yorkshire where it meets up with the A1. We say it crawls because the M1, also a codename for a rumored HTC-made Google Nexus device this year, seems to be crawling and holding itself back.The device, also known as “Marlin,” now appears in a Geekbench log running Android N — because duh — ...

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Second HTC Nexus device, “Marlin,” has specs leaked

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When one shoe drops, the other shoe has to at some point. When one of two Nexus devices — both supposedly made by HTC — got its specifications splayed out in the open, you knew that the other had to be outed sooner or later. Well, Android Police has an idea of what a 5.5-inch phablet will bring, thanks to its source.So, what’s going on with this spearfish? An

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