With Apple’s major announcement event and IFA now well behind us, things are starting to tone down a little. Initial euphoria about the iPhone 6s and the Xperia Z5 line seems to be dying out and people are once again looking forward to the next big announcement in the mobile realm.

And the thing you were most excited about this past week is definitely the upcoming Nexus duo. The LG and Huawei units have been popping up in various rumors online – more notably, a few more specs details for the Huawei one which will apparently boast a 5.7-inch QHD display, 12MP camera, Snapdragon 810 SoC and 3GB of RAM. The LG Nexus 5 got its fair share of the spotlight as well with a few new leaked shots in a fresh mint color.

Samsung also made some headlines. In today’s fast-paced mobile world it is never too early to discuss the next big thing and we have no doubt that the Korean giant is already hard at work on the Galaxy S7. A new leaked benchmark suggests that the handset, dubbed “Project Lucky” will have 3GB of RAM. Another Samsung project might bring about a veritable revolution at the beginning of next year. Project Valley promises to be the first foldable phone to hit the market and the concept definitely looks interesting and very promising.

And as long as we are on the subject of interesting projects, the new Elephone “Vowney” is one that deserves some attention if you are a Windows fan. The device, which is already up for preorder comes with the promise that it can potentially run Windows 10 as well as Android on one of its two modifications and with quite a powerful hardware platform, featuring a QHD screen, quad-core Intel SoC and 3GB of RAM.

In other news, Microsoft has been keeping busy. The Lumia 950, 950 XL and Surface Pro 4 are set to debut on October 6 and the US giant also has other things in the works, like the Lumia 550 – a budget-friendly LTE phone. HTC also has a few things in the oven, like the eagerly-anticipated One A9 (Aero), which promises a thin metal body with the new Snapdragon 617 SoC and Android 6.0 out-of-the-box and sadly a quite steep alleged price tag of €700.

Other upcoming devices that made an appearance this week and are definitely worth checking out are the dual screen LG V10 and the LG Class metal-clad phablet, which should be unveiled on October 1 and September 21, respectively. And a day later, on September 22, Xiaomi will be unveiling its upgraded Mi 4c model. Also, the Meizu PRO 5 is shaping up like an interesting premium offering that might be the start of a new sub-brand for the OEM.

For this and more, check out this quick run-down of our most popular articles below.

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Huawei Nexus gets benchmarked with Snapdragon 810, 3GB of RAM
The upcoming phablet is going to run Android 6.0 Marshmallow from day one, as you’d expect.

New LG Nexus 5 leaks in mint attire
Another color option to complement the white and black versions that have already showed up.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 sets new record with over 1.5 million sales
The budget-friendly smartphone is selling like crazy on Xiaomi’s home market and numbers are still ramping up.

The Elephone “Vowney” has a QHD display and 3GB of RAM for $299 and it runs Windows 10 Mobile
The impressive Chinese offer is now up for preorder and it is said to dual-boot Android and Windows 10.

Motorola launches the Moto X Play in India
Priced at $278 for the 16GB model and $301 for the 32GB model.

Lenovo A7000 Plus goes official in the Philippines with 5.5″ 1080p display
As its name suggest, the newcomer is an updated version of the Lenovo A7000 that debuted…

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We looked at the history of the iPhone, so it’s time to look at how Android’s Nexus line developed over the years. The seventh generation models are coming very soon too, so this weekly trip down memory lane comes just in time.

January 2010: Nexus One by HTC

HTC is the one that started it all with the Nexus One (fitting, HTC also built the first-ever Android phone). Closely related to the HTC Desire, the first Nexus had impressive specs for its day – a 3.7″ AMOLED display inside a Teflon-coated body, a 1GHz processor and a 5MP camera.

Android 2.1 Eclair debuted on the Nexus One. Google had partnered with Cooliris to develop a fancy 3D image gallery in part to demo the 3D API, which launched with version 2.1. The flagship 3D app, however, was Google Earth – Google put the whole world in your pocket!

By the way, former Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg claimed that Google had initially asked the Xperia maker to build the Nexus One but Sony Ericsson declined. We guess they really regret that decision now.

December 2010: Nexus S by Samsung

Later the same year the baton passed on to Samsung, which based the new Nexus on its Galaxy S flagship and dubbed it the Nexus S. It had roughly the same specs as the One: a bigger 4″ Super AMOLED, a 1GHz processor and a 5MP camera.

Google Nexus S

Android versions had progressed and the Nexus S introduced Android 2.3 Gingerbread, one of the longest-lived Android versions (hopefully ever). It started off quite pricy (€650, ouch!) but four months later the price was slashed.

October 2011: Galaxy Nexus by Samsung

About a year later Samsung churned out the next Google phone, the Galaxy Nexus. Once again based on the Galaxy S line this one brought a 4.65″ 720p Super AMOLED screen and a dual-core processor. It also introduced the 4.x branch of Android with Ice Cream Sandwich.

The Holo design was Google’s take on flat UI (and techinically started with 3.x Honeycomb, but few devices ran that). It featured a lot of black backgrounds, perfect for the AMOLED screen.

The Galaxy Nexus was “curved” – the display itself was flat, but the glass above it and the general shape of the phone were curved, well before it became a popular gimmick. This was the first Google phone with LTE and while it kept the camera at 5MP it was the first to shoot HD video, 1080p no less.

After a while (in June the next year) the price of the Galaxy Nexus was slashed to $350. It was one of the cheapest phones with a large screen (4.65″ was considered big back then) and with great performance too. This set the tune for cheap-but-powerful Nexus phones to come.

October 2012: Nexus 4 by LG

In the midst of a Hurricane Sandy Google unveiled the Nexus 4. Manufacturing had jumped over to LG, which based it on its own flagship, the LG Optimus G. The screen remained more or less the same – a wider 4.7″ IPS LCD with just over 720p resolution.

This was the first truly powerful Nexus though – it was based on the Snapdragon S4 Pro (very similar to the Snapdragon 600, which came later). It was the chipsets other Android flagships were using but the phone got even cheaper – $300!

That’s for the 8GB version, it was $50 extra for the 16GB version (the Galaxy Nexus had 16GB). The phone was so popular that the US stock ran out in just 24 minutes.

There was, however, a strange reversal – no LTE. Hackers discovered that the phone did indeed support LTE and even successfully managed to turn it on. LG officially announced that “essential hardware parts” like the signal amplifier and filter were missing and LTE just wouldn’t work well. It was fully disabled with a software update later on.

The Nexus 4 ran Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, which lacked exciting additions over 4.1 JB, which itself was a fairly small update over Ice Cream Sandwich.

October 2013: Nexus 5 by LG

The success of the Nexus 4 meant that LG kept the contract and built the Nexus 5 the following year. It went up to Snapdragon 800 – again a flagship class chipset – and added optical image stabilization to its 8MP/1080p camera.

LG also fixed the snafu of the 4 – this time LTE was available and Google had even ordered more units – yet the 16GB units still ran out in a few hours. The Nexus 5 was sold at $350 for the 16GB model (no more 8GB) and $400 for the 32GB model.

Google experimented a bit with the…

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This week was relatively calm in the Top 10 chart, but new Apple, Sony and Samsung devices are replacing their older siblings in the Top 10. The Apple iPhone 6s held on to the first spot, while the bigger iPhone 6s Plus also made it into the ranking for the first time since its announcement. Last year’s iPhone 6 fell out of the running.

The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium stole the second place from from the Note5, after falling from #1 to #3 last week. The Samsung Galaxy Note5 itself returned to third place.

The Motorola Moto X Play makes its return to the Top 10 after being absent for a few weeks. The Moto X Style is yet to stage its return. The mid-range Moto G (3rd gen) continues sliding down the chart (was #4 just a couple of weeks ago).

The rest of the field is taken up by Galaxys – J5 and J7, Grand Prime and in the final spot, Galaxy S6.

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