Google wanted it so … Motorola admits: Nexus 6 was too large
When the Nexus 6 was launched end of 2014 there were many different opinions on this stock-Android device. Motorola now admits that this smartphone was on the large side.
Nexus 6 – too big
Motorola does in an interview that the Nexus 6 was too big. Motorola made the phone with Google and that was the party that has pushed there by the screen size. It had to be a true phablet with high-end specs and that was the case. With a 5.97-inch screen, the Nexus 6 was really big. If it had been at Motorola they opted for the same screen size as the Moto X 4.7 inches.
Adrienne Hayes, Chief Marketing Officer at Motorola have announced that there was a big learning curve after the introduction of the Nexus 6. The expectation then was that the screen sizes in the future could be larger, but the tide has turned somewhat. The current flags vessels are between 5 and 5.5 inches. A 6-inch smartphone we return regularly, but Motorola is in hindsight not quite see satisfied with the Nexus 6.
The new line of Nexus smartphones therefore have smaller screens. As the Nexus 6P has a 5.7 inch screen and is the Nexus 5X chosen a 5.2 inch screen.
Google wants more control over design and manufacture its own smartphones
Google wants more control over their own smartphones. The company wants other technology companies, which now contribute to the smartphones, have less control over the process.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has in an interview with The Information on a “vertical integration” of execution. That would be similar to how Apple iPhones develops and manufactures.
Google works primarily with other companies for making smartphones, while Apple will contract other companies and gives orders.
For example, Apple has contracts with Foxconn, that the majority of the iPhone put in each other. Google would like to work in the same way, for example, Huawei, LG, HTC and Samsung.
Collaboration
Those companies are now working mainly with teams at Google and are involved in the design and production. Google has for each subset of the Nexus series working with a smartphone maker.
For example, Google Nexus 6P developed by Huawei, the Nexus 5X with LG and Nexus 6 by Motorola (Lenovo). With such a partnership were used Google the name as that of another manufacturer.
The Nexus series of Android smartphones get with the new way of working, only the Google brand name.
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