nexus phone

Forget about the Galaxy S3 Mini. The latest Samsung rumors are swirling around a Galaxy Premier device that will be one step up from a Galaxy Nexus, but below the global GS3 in the smartphone pecking order.

According to Gotta Be Mobile which names German tech news site Mobile Geeks as the original source, the Galaxy Premier will feature Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but will be powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz processor and not the fancy quad-core Exynos chip inside the global Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note II. The Premier's screen will also share the same size … Read more

Sometimes I wonder if the view from Mountain View, Calif., is a little obscured by giant piles of cash -- Google buys a big smartphone maker in Motorola and then spends the next year further cozying up to its biggest competitor to make its signature Nexus phones?

The latest report from Digitimes -- admittedly not the most consistently accurate cog in the rumor mill -- says Google is looking to Samsung again to put out its next Nexus model.

Nexus phones are designed to serve as a sort of keystone for the Android OS, a way to remind consumers and phone makers of how an Android phone should/could be. You probably know the most recent came in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which has proven to be one of the more popular Android phones of the year so far. … Read more

We get questionably definitive proof that someone at Google listens to the show with Google's roll out of its an app compatibility function for the Android Market, just weeks after we complained about system requirements for Android apps. You can thank us later. Also, we take a look at a free entry-level Android phone, get video proof that the Droid 3 is coming from Motorola, and speculate on what may end up being the unicorn of smartphones, the Nexus 4G---not to be confused with the Nexus S 4G--a phone with specs that you wouldn't believe. But which of … Read more