Google will create its own phone to compete with iPhone: report – CNET in Spanish

Google launched its own line of phones but maintain support for Nexus.

Josh Miller

Google is planning to launch its own smartphone later this year, could know the Telegraph which ensures that the company is already in talks with mobile operators to release the device that also become a hardware company.

the new phone is not would be a device from the Nexus range, where Google works closely with manufacturers to launch equipment incorporating Android pure, but this time the company would design a cell from scratch, which will aim to achieve what the iPhone has managed to Apple: greater economic benefits, but above all to reduce the fragmentation of the operating system.

the source indicates that the greater interest of Google is to control the software and to secure the future of services like search or stores like Google Play Store still running on computers.

the Telegraph what drives Google to take this step is the fragmentation that exists in the Android operating system, because many manufacturers do not keep a good pace of upgrades its equipment.

A test of the progress of Google in terms of developing devices is hiring earlier this year by the company of Rick Osterloh, former president of Motorola, and who now heads a new division of hardware, remember the source.

a few months ago a report said that Google would put pressure on manufacturers to keep pace with updates, or otherwise publish a list of those companies that renew the operating system their equipment, which would reveal which do not. Recently the company renewed the time of updating the Nexus equipment, which have guaranteed the first two years since its launch.

The Google phone could also come at a time which Samsung gives more prominence to Tizen OS abandoning Android Wear and even when Huawei plan to have a “plan B” if his relationship with Android does not come out quite right.