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Nexus Phablet From Motorola Expected This Month

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Google’s 5.9-inch Nexus phablet is expected to make its debut this month, according to The Wall Street Journal(Opens in a new window).

The next-gen handset, code-named Shamu, will come with a massive 5.9-inch high-resolution screen, and be manufactured by Motorola Mobility—the company Google is selling to Lenovo for $2.91 billion.

The search giant declined to comment on the rumors.

If the Journal’s sources are right, the Motorola-built phablet will dwarf Apple’s towering 6 Plus, which stands tall at 5.5 inches, and Samsung’s 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 4.

Initially, reports said the new Nexus smartphone would be 5.2 inches, but a September report from 9to5Google put it at 5.92 inches with a 2,560-by-1,440 display, which amounts to about 498 pixels per inch (higher than the iPhone 6 Plus’s 401ppi), as well as a 3,200 mAh battery.

That report said that device will run a quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor and 3GB of RAM, and sport a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front facing shooter.

Google also plans to release a new version of its Android operating system around the same time. But Android L will likely roll out piecemeal on a device-by device and carrier-by-carrier basis later this year. For more about Android L, see the slideshow above.

HTC, meanwhile, is also rumored to be prepping a Nexus tablet. Rumors about an 8.9-inch slate cropped up in June, dubbed HTC Volantis. By late September, the Journal was saying HTC and Google execs were hard at work on the mysterious gadget.

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