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Key facts
- Developer
- Manufacturer
- Google, various
- Type
- Smartphones , tablets , digital media players
- Released
- January 5, 2010 ; 16 years ago ( 2010-01-05 )
- Discontinued
- October 2016 ; 9 years ago ( 2016-10 )
- Operating system
- Android
- Online services
- Google Play
- Successor
- Google Pixel
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Google Nexus is a discontinued line of consumer electronic mobile devices that ran a stock version of the Android operating system. Google managed the design, development, marketing, and support of these devices, but some development and all manufacturing were carried out by partnering with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
A Nexus S running Android 2.3 (right) next to a Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7 (left) Alongside the main smartphone products, the line also included tablet computers (example: Nexus 7) and streaming media players (example: Nexus Q); the Nexus line started out in January 2010 and reached its end in October 2016, replaced by Google Pixel family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Google Nexus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.