Nexus 6: Another reason why Google might favor phablets over smaller phones

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Google surprised Android fans who were anxiously waiting for a new Nexus smartphone last year by only launching one new handset, a 6-inch Nexus 6 phablet that proved to be too big for some-users. The correlation between the gadget’s name and its screen size might help explain-why Google had to release a phablet last year. Google may-have also done it-to show developers what apps running on a vanilla version of Android look on a phablet, though. That said, -there might be one other reason behind Google’s decision to only launch-a bigger Nexus phone in 2014. DON’T MISS:-Former Android diehard ‘never looking back’ after switch to iPhone 6 – find out why Google’s advertising chief Sridhar Ramaswamy on Thursday told The

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