Google Nexus 6 Motorola Release Date: ‘Shamu’ Phone Speculated To Pack Fingerprint Sensor, Allegedly Slated For November Launch

Google Nexus 6 Motorola release date: Motorola is reportedly working on a device with Google featuring a fingerprint sensor according to recent reports. According to The Epoch Times, this smartphone is allegedly slated for a November release.

Reportedly, the project, codenamed "Shamu," came about after Lenovo agreed to buy Motorola in January 2014, that paved a way for Google's Android unit to collaborate with Motorola for the new phone.

According to The Epoch Times, "Shamu is the name of a killer whale, and is in line with the "sea animal" code names that Google dubs its Nexus line. For instance, the Nexus 5 was code named Hammerhead."

IBT reported via Yahoo News that this rumored 5.9 inch smartphone has 440x2560 resolution (534ppi), Octa-core MediaTek processor, 64-bit technology and a 13 megapixel rear facing camera.

Details about this gadget are not yet clear, but it is reported by Android Police that this gadget is supposed to be directed to major US carriers and unspecified carriers in other parts of the world which would probably include those markets with current access to Nexus devices.

Head of Android engineering and the Nexus program at Google Dan Burke told ReadWrite in June that Nexus is still flourishing at Google.

"When we are working, there are sort of two outputs. We're building a Nexus device and we're building the open source code. There is no way you can build the open source code without the phone or tablet or whatever you are building," Burke said.

"You have to live and breathe the code you are developing. You can't build a platform in the abstract, you have to build a device (or devices). So, I don't think can or will ever go away. And then, I think Nexus is also interesting in that it is a way of us explaining how we think Android should run. It is a statement, almost a statement of purity in some respects. I don't see why we would ever turn away from that, it wouldn't make sense."

Reportedly, the rumored timing of the Nexus 6 release puts it right in line with the launch of Google's upcoming mobile OS, the Android L. Motorola has confirmed that the Moto X at least will get Android L support, which prefigures well for the rumors that Google and Motorola are working together on the Nexus 6.