14 DAY TRIAL // When it rains, it pours, and when it comes to a possible Nexus Two device being brought to the market, rumors keep on coming. This time around we learn that the smartphone, supposedly manufactured by Samsung, has been delayed due to a hardware issue.
Rumors on the upcoming arrival of this device have been floating around the Internet for quite some time now, though Samsung stepped up not too long ago and denied them all.
However, a recent article on TechCrunch suggests that the Nexus Two smartphone does exist, and that it was actually delayed to the next year, due to some hardware issues discovered during dogfooding.
According to them, the smartphone would be delayed until the said issue would get fixed, though there are no details available on when that might happen.
What sets this device apart from the other Android-based mobile phones out there is the fact that it would arrive on shelves with a “clean install” of the operating system.
Basically, this means that, the same as with Nexus One, the smartphone won't include specific software mobile phones makers usually pre-load on their handsets.
As for the actual platform it would run under, rumor has it that it would be Android Gingerbread, or the 2.3 version of Google's OS.
In addition to delivering a new version of the Android platform, the handset is also expected to come with appealing hardware.
Initial rumors suggested that we might see the Nexus Two launched on November 8th, but Samsung denied these suggestions, stating that Samsung Continuum, a Galaxy S handset for Verizon, would get launched on that day.
At the same time, the company stated that Nexus Two rumors “are simply not true,” even if some people claim they've seen the device and even played with it a little.
We'll put the info on Nexus Two's delay on the rumor side for the time being, the same as handset's existence, but we'll still hope that the device would prove real in the end.