Glass houses – week 40 recap: week in review

The technology world is a fast moving one, and hence, there are more than 100 stories we publish on a weekly basis here on Pocketnow. Those include reviews, videos, editorials, news, and more. With this new, weekly series, we’re making it easier for you to look back at the most interesting, exciting, and popular topics of the week, in case you missed anything.Look for the Pocketnow Week in Review every Saturday morning. It contains the most popular ten stories of the week printed on the portal, as well as top ...

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Google Nexus 6 wish list

We’re all getting just a little excited now that the traditional release of the next devices from Google is just around the corner. Center among them, we suspect, will be a new smartphone to replace the Nexus 5 from last year. We’ve heard plenty of rumors, some contradictory, but what do users want? Here is my Nexus 6 wish list.Battery LifeAll of us have been complaining about battery life for years. The bigger the screen and ...

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Carved Nexus 6 vs Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 size comparison, new renders

The next Nexus phone might be the first made by Motorola, the company that Google purchased, and then sold to Lenovo. The next Nexus phone, so far known by a tentative codename, Shamu, might wear the name of Nexus 6, and that might be because it’s the sixth Nexus smartphone, or because it is rumored to have a six-inch(ish) screen.In any case, what you see above, and below, is a Nexus 6 carved out of wood, respecting the 5.9-inch rumored screen measurement, as well as the other bits of information which have leaked in the recent past. Said carved mock-up has been then shot in a Nexus ...

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Nexus 6 may have just been spotted in the wild

Excitement about Google’s next Nexus smartphone has been heating up fast, fueled in recent weeks by a string of leaks revealing the Motorola phablet codenamed Shamu – the phone believed to arrive as the Nexus 6. We’ve seen a render, heard descriptions of the hardware, and even checked out a photo or two. Now the handset appears to be back, spotted out in the wild getting some real-world testing.At least, this certainly looks the ...

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Who is the Motorola Shamu for?

The LG-built Nexus 5 is a wonderful phone. Before it landed, many complained that the screen would be too big, and the overall size of the device would be prohibitively large for a smartphone. In the year since its been around, however, the Nexus 5 has proven to be very usefully sized, without being too large to comfortably carry. Now that we’re getting close to when we suspect the “Nexus 6” will launch, we’re hearing rumors that it may be ...

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Detailed Nexus 6 rumors attempt to confirm name, hardware specs

The last week has been chock full of leaks attempting to reveal the Motorola phablet under development as codename Shamu, believed by many to be the device that will become Google’s next Nexus phone. But even with this hardware showing up in the flesh, a host of questions about the device and how it might launch continued to puzzle us. Last night, some new details about purported plans for the phone emerged in a new ...

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One more new Motorola Shamu Nexus pic turns up

This week is proving to be a bit of a gold mine when it comes to us getting an idea of what the Motorola “Shamu” phone we’ve been talking about for a while – the model expected to be the next Google Nexus phone – will look like when it finally arrives. We quickly moved from a render to an actual photograph, though that pic was only of the phone’s rear. Today we add a new image to that collection, and this ...

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Motorola price leaks: new Moto G, Shamu prototype

Motorola’s upcoming product announcements are starting to feel like they’re a done deal already. What hasn’t been nearly confirmed by Motorola itself through some not-too-subtle-at-all invite imagery, we’ve been piecing together ourselves thanks to no shortage of rumors and leaks. Those leaks have really been stepping things up in recent days, helping to answer some of our outstanding questions about this hardware. But this morning we switch gears from hardware details to pricing ...

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Motorola Nexus phablet rumor picks up additional backing

Is it finally Motorola’s turn to make a Nexus phone? Like HTC, Samsung, and LG before it, rumors have turned to the idea of Motorola – even as it changes hands from Google to Lenovo – manufacturing the next Nexus handset. Yesterday we looked at some early evidence pointing to the existence of this Motorola device codenamed Shamu, reportedly a 5.9-inch phablet. Now we’ve got some new corroboration to add to those claims, as well as some updates about what might be in store for Google’s ...

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