Nexus 5 (2015) Release date and specification

The Nexus 5 (2015), or Nexus 5 (second generation), is an upcoming smartphone expected to arrive in October 2015. Each year, Google partners with a manufacturer to produce a new Nexus phone. We now know that LG will build a 2015 Nexus while other, increasingly convincing, rumors continue to point to a second, Huawei-built Nexus. Read below for everything you need to know about the 2015 Nexus, including a highly suspicious new benchmark leak.

Who will make the 2015 Nexus?

A source close to the development of the 2015 Nexus has informed AndroidPIT that LG will be making what we've been calling the Nexus 5 (2015). We don't know if this name will stick, but we do know that the device will not be based on the LG G4, previously the most obvious choice for a blueprint. For more details, check out our exclusive LG Nexus 5 (2015) story.

We're also increasingly confident that Huawei will build a second 2015 Nexus. Recently, when a UK-based Huawei employee allegedly confirmed the rumor and we reached out to Huawei for comment, the response was ''no comment''.

However, we were assured that the search would begin for the employee in question. What we want to know is: why would you bother hunting down a loud-mouthed employee if there wasn't some truth to what was said?

Nexus 5 (2015) specs

An unbelievably high benchmark score (too unbelievably high, in our opinion) has been making the rounds. Supposedly from the Nexus 5 (2015) - a name we invented back in January for want of a better term - the AnTuTu screenshots show an incredible 85,530 points. They originate from a Russian site called MobilTelefon.

While these Nexus 5 (2015) specs and performance would make a lot of people happy, various sources have told AndroidPIT that the new Nexus will not be a specs beast because Google wants it to be affordable.

We're also not sure if the Snapdragon 820, the only CPU likely to be capable of posting such a high score, will even be commercially ready by then (unless it's a Huawei-made Kirin 950/Cortex A72, which seems even less likely). 

Then there's the peculiar fact that the AnTuTu score range at the top of the screenshots would not automatically adapt to accommodate such a high score. Can we really be expected to believe the score would run off the screen? 

According to Android Police, the smaller of the two Nexuses will be the LG Bullhead, a 5.2-inch device with a Snapdragon 808 processor and 2,700 mAh battery. With LG developing the original (and beloved) Nexus 5, this seems like it could be the upgrade that many fans wished the Nexus 6 had been.

The Huawei Angler will arrive with a 5.7-inch screen, 3,500 mAh battery and a Snapdragon 810 processor, presenting a Nexus 6-style device for fans of larger displays.As for the codenames, these are in keeping with the Nexus-lines aquatic theme: the Nexus 6 was codenamed Shamu and the original Nexus 5 was Hammerhead.

As soon as we hear about more Nexus 5 (2015) features we'll be sure to let you know, but you can pretty much count on at least one new Nexus packing a fingerprint scanner now that it is a stock part of Android M. Funnily enough, Huawei already has a fantastic finger scanner on the Ascend Mate 7...

Nexus 5 (2015) release date

It is still early days yet, and details could change between now and the expected Nexus 5 (2015) release date in October, but we'll keep you posted on everything we hear.

With persistent claims that the Android M release will appear in final form in August, we might even see an accelerated launch for at least one of the new Nexuses. Whenever it does appear, stay tuned to AndroidPIT for our Nexus 5 (2015) review.

Nexus 5 (2015) price

We don't have any word on a Nexus 5 (2015) price yet, but if we have two Nexuses, a large one and a small one, there needs to be something more than size to distinguish them.

So we'd expect the Huawei device to be more expensive and with better specs, and the smaller Nexus to be cheaper with less powerful specs. The information uncovered above certainly seems to support our long-standing theory.

Previous coverage: Following the rather credible rumor that LG was working on bringing a new Nexus to market, alongside a Huawei-built device, we contacted a source within LG for more information. That source confirmed that the 2015 Nexus was ''under consideration'' at LG. Head to the link to read our original report.

A more recent leak looked like the new Nexus had been hiding in plain sight, when the Android website showed a possible Nexus device. It was also previously speculated that Google had leaked the new device in the promo video for their Project Fi wireless carrier project.

While it seems impossible that Google would so blatantly reveal an unreleased device in a publicity video (remember how obscure the Nexus 5 was in the last video leak from Google - just go to 0:38), it is odd that Google would not just use the Nexus 6 - the only Android device to currently work with Project Fi - to demonstrate the project.