Bye bye Nexus

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Since Android started, Nexus was the personification of how Google meant it to be. But the Nexus is no more ...

With the October 4 announcement of Pixel and Pixel XL the era of the Nexus brand came to and end. While the Pixel phones have excellent hardware and promise a great performance but they seem to lag behind the Nexus line in terms of price to performance ratio. At the base price of $650 it has already shattered the Nexus tradition of killer price to performance ratio angering many Nexus fans.

Let us see how this new strategy works out for Google but for now it seems the Nexus philosophy is truly being honored by the Chinese brand OnePlus. Nexus you will be missed.

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