HTC Nexus 5

 

The Nexus range of Android hardware has always been popular among purists of the platform, but last year even more users got a taste of the benefits of owning devices such as the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7. There have been a number of rumours that other manufacturers may be designing devices for the range, and this HTC Nexus 5 looks amazing.

This image that you can see on this page is another Nexus 5 concept that seems to be growing in numbers as only a few days ago we had another impressive looking design for you. Today’s HTC Nexus 5 concept we have for you is by designer Suman Chatterjee courtesy of Concept Phones.

The idea of a new HTC Nexus 5 smartphone brings a design that features a 4.9-inch Full HD touchscreen display with almost no bezels surrounding it. Specifications come in using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad core processor that is running at 2.3GHz, and this is paired with 3GB of RAM.Other features include either 32GB or 64GB of built in storage, 16-megapixel rear facing camera with autofocus, and a 3-megapixel front facer.

 

There is a 2,800 Li-Polymer battery that is also removable and the physical buttons have been replaced by virtual ones.There has been talk that LG could be responsible for the next Nexus smartphone and there is a good chance that we may hear some official news next month at the Google I/O event.

It seems like an eternity ago, but some of you should still remember HTC‘s first Android-powered device, released in October 2008. It was a collaborative project between Google and HTC that was called the T-Mobile G1 in the States and the HTC Dream elsewhere. For all intents and purposes, the G1 was the first Android. Google and HTC worked closely together and released a smartphone running the “pure Android experience”. Today devices like that go by the “Nexus” name. Fast-forward to January 2010 and the duo did it again, this time releasing the Nexus One which served as a reference platform to which other manufacturers could look to and model their hardware.

The relationship between Google and HTC seemed to split after that. The “next Nexus” smartphone was made by Samsung, followed by another. More recently LG got in the game with the Nexus 4. During this time HTC has continued to crank out Android-powered phones.

HTC  has learned from their mistakes and are starting to make differentiated devices. They’re breaking the mold and coming up with some impressive new hardware. Of course there’s new “guts” inside powering the HTC One, but it looks different, and it looks good! The HTC brand is rising from the ashes and we’re beginning to see what they are really capable of. Now it’s just a matter of time.