Google I/O event might see the launch of Google Nexus 6

Moto X smartphones from Google-Motorola stable is seeing a new low today. According to a report published in Droid Life, Motorola on Friday extended the $70 sale on all Moto X variants until February 22.

This discount reduces the 16GB edition to $329 and the 32GB to $379, according to this news report. The company website says “Get a Moto X for Verizon starting at just $.01—with a new, two-year agreement—from now through February 22.”



This sudden dip has raised the hopes of Android fans that a new Google phone is in preparation. Last year’s launch came to stores in Canada on the 30th of October last year and landed in Indian stores on the 1st of November. Looking at a more intense competition this time, we can expect Google to go for an early launch schedule. “The more exciting implications attached with plummeting Moto X price tags is the likelihood that the move is in preparation of something bigger - that is the Nexus 6 release date that Google could advance by a few months from the original schedule”, says IBTimes today.

Last year we expected that Moto X to take the Nexus baton from Nexus 4 (launched in 2012), but LG surprised us with a new and faster Nexus 5 in 2013. The speculation for this year goes that, “Motorola may finally snatch the Nexus project from LG as Google is set to turnover ownership of the device maker to Lenovo”, says the IBTimes report.

Now that Google has sold the handset business to Lenovo, the new Nexus product could come as a project from Lenovo and Motorola.





United Press International however believes that Nexus 6 could come this year from LG stable rather than Lenovo’s research labs.  The arguments seems convincing too. The Nexus 5 was loosely based on the LG’s G2. The G 2 came first followed by Goog;e’s Nexus 5. This time LG has already announced the G Pro 2 as its new flagship phone, which could easily inspire the Nexus 6.

According to this report if the G Pro 2 translates into the Nexus 6 later, it might sport an 8-core clocked at 2.4GHz or 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 5-inch display screen, 3100 mAh battery and storage options that takes a higher end at  64 GB or 128 GB.

Like the past years, Google will organize its Google's annual I/O Developers Conference in May or June in 2014. The new phone could come to the show with a new Android OS. The Nexus 6 might come to the event “with the release date to following in the immediate weeks ahead, likely bearing Android 4.5, high-end components inside and reasonable pricing”, says IBTimes report.

Nexus6o also believes that “there is good news for Google smartphones fans that there is a probability and chances that Google may schedule the Nexus 6 release date in the second quarter of 2014, instead of 3rd quarter.”