The Nexus have recently become the smartphones with the best quality / price ratio on the market. However, the objective of the Mountain View company would be to end the Nexus program, and replace it with a new program, which would be Android Silver. The goal would be to create something similar to the Google Play Edition, although perfected.
Basically, and according to the information that has been leaked, and that finally could not be entirely true. The new system would try to combine the two platforms that currently coexist, and that do not quite work perfectly: Nexus and Google Play Edition. The problem with the Nexus is that they are smartphones manufactured by a single company and sold under the Google brand. The anger of the other companies is there, and it does not allow everyone to compete. That can cause problems, for example, between Google and Samsung, which neither wants, especially Google. On the other hand, the Google Play Editions also have their problems. And it is that they are only currently sold in the Google Play store. All that would change with Android Silver.
We are going to summarize it in the following points:
1.- Android Silver smartphones will be smartphones with pure Android, or with very few added applications. In any case, the pure Android style should be kept.
2.- Android Silver smartphones can be manufactured by any company and can be smartphones that have been created for both Android Silver and to have company software, as well as smartphones that have been created solely for Android Silver.
3.- The manufacturers of Android Silver will undertake to carry out regular updates and comply with the update deadlines established by Google.
4.- Smartphones will be sold in retail stores. In other words, we will not have to buy them in the Google store, but they will reach local stores.
5.- Google will take care of part of the marketing. It will promote the smartphones that are launched under the platform Android Silver. In addition to what the company itself wants to promote.
The variations are not too noticeable with respect to Nexus or Google Play Edition. In fact, the two systems have been combined and refined. The goal is to generate less work for Google, while ensuring that all manufacturers have the same conditions to benefit from Google's pure operating system smartphone program. The rumors about this system are also not new, we already talked about it in the past, when it was rumored that the Nexus program could disappear.
Source: The Information
Too bad for us fans of nexus phones
Exactly bad for those of us who like our Nexus