It's a sad day for one of the best admired alternation of Android phones. For the aboriginal time back 2009, there's a new adaptation of Android, but it's not actuality fabricated attainable to Google's own Nexus devices.
Android 9.0 Pie was appear on August 6, 2018, but the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X, Google's best contempo Nexus phones, remained on Android 8.1 Oreo. These two accessories will abide to get security patches until November 2018, at which point they will accept clearly accomplished the end of software support.
Google appear its aboriginal Nexus phone in January 2010, and the alternation bound became a fan favorite. Nexus phones consistently ran an blunt adaptation of Android, absorption Google's eyes for the belvedere in means that phones with OEM banknote couldn't. They were consistently the aboriginal accessories to get the newest Android versions from Google themselves, which was one of their primary affairs points.
Another above affairs point of the Nexus calendar was the price. Typically, Google offered Nexuses at a appreciably lower amount than commensurable flagship phones with agnate hardware, as they hoped to accomplish new Android versions affordable and attainable to developers.
Google's new Pixel phones, while agnate in added means to Nexus devices, are targeted at consumers, and thus, priced in a address that justifies their specs. For perspective, the Nexus 6P's starting amount was $499, while the commensurable Pixel 2 XL starts at $849.
If you're in the bazaar for a Nexus replacement, Google's new Android One affairs may fit the bill. The accessories aren't bogus in affiliation with Google as the Nexus band was, but their software is handled by Google in absolutely the aforementioned manner, acceptation you'll be amid the aboriginal to get updates and you'll accept affirmed software abutment for three years.
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