There seems to be a lot of buzz regards to the next Google Nexus
smartphone. Only recently there were news regarding LG working on a
Google Nexus 5 prototype, which has been codenamed "
Megalodon."
As per
PhoneArena, the Google Nexus 5 will be very different from the LG
Megalodon. The website further goes on to claim that Google Nexus 5 will
come with a "triple camera sensor thing" along with a Nikon branding.
As per the current leak, it seems that Nikon will be contributing some
photo-capturing technology to the mobile. As per some rumours, HTC was
earlier planning to adopt this technology for their flagship HTC One but
the company settled for ultra pixel technology instead.
It is
noteworthy, that even last month, there was news that Google Nexus 5
will come with a differentiated camera. This piece of information was
shared by Vic Gundotra, Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering.
In February 2013, while replying to a question, Vic had posted on his
Google+ page that, "we are committed to making Nexus phones insanely
great cameras. Just wait and see."
Considering that most flagship
smartphone from Samsung, Sony and LG come with a 13-megapixel camera, it
is expected that the Google Nexus 5 camera too might be in the same
range.
This is not the first time that Google and Nikon will be
joining hands to work on a device. The two companies had recently worked
on Nikon Coolpix S800c, which was one of the first Android-based
cameras. This camera comes with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) on-board.
PhoneArena
via its anonymous tipster also claims that Google Nexus 5 will come
with a 5-inch screen with a 1080p display. The smartphone will have
Snapdragon 600 processor along with 2 GB of RAM. Google Nexus 5 will
allegedly offer two internal storage options - 8GB and 16GB and will
have 3,140mAh battery. This smartphone will run on Android 5.0, which is
expected to be released by Google at their I/O conference.
Google's current iteration of Nexus smartphone is made by the Korean smartphone maker LG.