Android Silver: everything you need to know about Google’s upcoming range of premium smartphones

Google’s Nexus range is reportedly on the way out and will be replaced by “Android Silver”. Silver won’t be a range as such, but more a set of hardware and software standards set by Google – if a device meets those standards, it’ll be considered an Android Silver device and can be sold as such. Here's everything we know – or think we know – so far about Google's next range of devices.

THE IDEA IS TO DELIVER A PREMIUM ANDROID EXPERIENCE

Unlike the rigidly-controlled iOS, Android is a highly fractured platform – hardware ranges from low to high-powered and build quality ranges from cheaply put together to highly engineered, there are several different versions of the operating system knocking around, and on top of that many manufacturers are laying their own Android UI (Samsung’s TouchWiz and HTC’s Sense are examples) on top of the stock Google version .

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