Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 5 Smartphones

By Kamal Nayan - 14 Mar '15 11:46AM

Google has discontinued the Nexus 5 to focus more on the new Nexus 6, according to reports. The previous flagship of Google has been made unavailable for purchase at the Google Nexus page.

Earlier Google had hinted that it would stop selling the Nexus 5 sometime in the first quarter of 2015. Reports also suggested that in the past year Google had ceased production of their current handset and waited until they ran out of stocks before finally bidding it goodbye.

"While some inventory of Nexus 5 still exists, our focus is on the Nexus 6 at this time," Google said.

Consumers now have Nexus 6 as their only choice for a premium Nexus model.

Nexus 5 had 4.95-inch 1080x1920 display, 2300mAh battery, 8MP rear camera, 1.3MP front camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 at 2.26GHz CPU and Adreno 330 at 450 MHz GPU.

One the other hand, Nexus 6 sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 quad-core 2.7GHz processor that will allow unbelievably fast multi-tasking and Adreno 420 GPU for brilliant graphics, including 3GB RAM, a pair of front-facing speakers, 3220mAh battery and 13MP camera.