LG 2016 is not build Nexus 5X successor to Google

LG wants to build 2016 no Nexus smartphone for Google. The Nexus 5X from last year will therefore receive no direct successor - at least not from LG. The betrayed on the edge of the MWC 2016 in Barcelona the South Korean manufacturer.

"LG needs to focus on its own brand," said an LG spokesman Roger Cheng of CNET at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Thus, the manufacturer explains the decision to build a Nexus smartphone for Google in the current year. Although it was satisfied with the cooperation so far and the results - the Nexus 5 from 2013 and nexus 5X of 2015. The relationship with Google is still good. However, the development of Android smartphones for Google required heavy investment by LG. And one wants to get stuck in future products, the more obvious are from our own spring and embody the LG brand.

Nexus 5X had a hard time with the Nexus 6P

LG says so on the dark side, which brings the development of a Nexus device for Google with it. On the one hand there is the possibility to bring the first smartphone with a new version of Android on the market. On the other hand, the own brand gets into the background. During the first Nexus 5 by LG also was a real crowd pleaser, it had the Nexus 5X from the beginning of serious, since it around the same time with the flashier Nexus 6P released by Huawei.

However, LG will naturally continue to rely on Android and Android Wear. What the manufacturers talking at MWC also held out the prospect is a return of the LG Watch Urbane LTE 2nd Edition. The watch had been taken just a week after its release in November 2015 due to display problems from the market. Even a second SmartWatch you plan for the second half of 2016th