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hey what's up guys mkbhd here and every single year there are two main phones that really help us to shape our vision of the future of smartphones that really help us out and that is the iPhone the new iPhone every year comes out and the Nexus so there's going to be a future video about the new iPhone so stay tuned for that if you want to see that but for this video we're going to talk about the new Nexus the Android flagship coming later this year so first of all Android 7.0 nougat is already out there I've been running the beta on my Nexus 6p for a while and there's also now the new Nexus launcher that you can install on any phone if you want that's been out there for a little while - I've been using it and I'm pretty much used to it so the launcher still has an app drawer but it's no longer an app button you swipe it up from the bottom row of apps and then you have a search bar for all your apps at the top and a vertically scrolling list so that's sort of a new swipe gesture there it also has a new folder design which I didn't like at first but it's minor so I've already gotten used to it and then it shrunk the Google search bar that's usually permanently at the top to just a permanent letter G up in the top left-hand corner and then you can see it puts the date on the top right-hand corner but I wish I could click the date like just to get to the calendar but maybe that's coming soon there's also a new wallpaper picker which looks pretty sweet and now there's also these features are starting to trickle down into third-party launchers so like go launcher or a nova launcher if you're using those then you can sort of try one or two of these features at a time instead of going with the whole Nexus launcher experience right away I'll leave the apk that I use to install the Nexus launcher on my phone right below that like button if you want to try the whole thing but again if you don't then you can just grab like nova launcher and try a couple features we're also expecting a few new features to get added to the final version of android 7.0 before it gets launched with the new nexuses at the end of the year one of these being like right now when you long press the home button you get to Google now on tap the new Nexus is expected to launch with a fancy new animation where if you long press that you'll launch into a more full-fledged Google assistant so that's the software side and that's exciting everything but what I'm most excited about is the new hardware the new Nexus phones launching this year and I did say Nexus phones because we're expecting two new nexuses again now we got last year Nexus 6p from Huawei and Nexus 5x from LG a really high-end Nexus phone and then this sort of a mid-range lower price phone we're expecting to see the same sort of strategy again this year two new Nexus phones one high-end one mid-range both built by HTC so this is the Android police mock-up of what the next Nexus will look like both of them actually there's one will be smaller one will be larger but they'll both have this same design but yeah based off of all the information and leaks that they've gotten this is the representative model of what it should look like so right off the bat that dual tone design is a little bit head-turning obviously so it's a mostly metal body all the way around but then a really big glass window to allow for things like NFC and GPS and maybe wireless charging if it's tall enough not sure we'll have to see but also I'm feeling it's going to look a lot better in real life than it does in these mock-up renders I mean if you remember the Nexus 6p when we first got the renders and the leaks of seeing this phone for the first time it looked like the hump on the back was going to be huge and ugly and people hated it before it even came out but then we got the phone in real life and it's more of this slender glass window same idea here the other things you'll notice are there's no camera bump nice and there are also no front-facing speakers sadly it's a dying breed but overall it's a pretty simple looking phone no groundbreaking crazy-looking features or anything like that and then the specs so here's the specs of the smaller Nexus all right quad-core chip 4 gigabytes of RAM looks pretty good 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display so AMOLED again nice to see in a smaller phone and a 2770 milliamp hour battery 32 gigs of storage I hope that's the base model hopefully no 16 gig version a 12 megapixel camera on the back and 8 megapixel camera on the front and a fingerprint reader USB type-c port down facing speaker and a headphone jack up top and the larger higher-end nexus will be again quad-core Qualcomm chip 4 gigabytes of RAM not six but that's fine 5.5 inch quad HD AMOLED display same as Nexus 6p nice at 3450 milliamp hour battery again good to see 32 or 128 gigabytes of store age okay and another 12 megapixel camera on the back eight megapixel camera on the front fingerprint reader USB type-c port downward facing speaker and a headphone jack up top side note I do think it's ridiculous that we have to mention a headphone jack as a feature in a phone that's the second phone this year that's how to do that Juwan know what else it comes with an audio jack I'm just saying we also have this EV league's tweet that shows that Verizon may carry these nexuses for the first time in a long time last time Verizon carried a nexus was like that actually one of my favorite phones ever the Galaxy Nexus and they had their weird ways with that phone and they screwed it up in their own little ways but also verizon likes to rebrand a lot of their phones they make droid editions out of everything so he put Nexus in quotes as if they may rename it and rebrand it either way I'm still gonna buy the unlocked version so overall all this info is really good to have what it's really telling me is that these two phones are probably going to be very similar to each other both have the same design they'll both be made by the same manufacturer that didn't happen last year so HTC will make both and they may actually have the same exact camera modules again which did happen last year and that was pretty good for the mid-range phone to have a high-end camera but I think we're gonna have to wait and see for that and also I feel like we're gonna see a lot more emphasis on the Google assistant part of it at the announcement so the long press on the home button with the fancy animation to get to a little bit more than Google now on tap that's going to be a big focus in my head anyway we'll have to wait to see I got to give a shout out to Android police because 99.5% of the new info we have on these nexuses is because of their digging and their hard work so shout out to that I'll link what they do below and also have more smaller stuff like the camera app is going to get manual exposure back and the fingerprint reader will have a swipe down gesture to bring down your notification shade and the new version of Android stuff like that so we have it let the Nexus hype begin I'm pretty excited let me know which of the phones you're more excited for a lot of people were really psyched about the Nexus 5x last year I'm personally a big phone type of guy so I'm excited for the higher-end phone but most of this is just we shall see so thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one please