HTC is set to unveil the HTC Nexus Marlin and HTC Nexus Sailfish later this year (possibly September-October), and we know the specs in these two devices by now. In a new report, the HTC Nexus Marlin has appeared “in the flesh” (so to speak; we’re dealing with phones here, not humans) that shows the device running Android N (or what we know already as Android Nougat).
The HTC Nexus Marlin features something of a metallic build, as can be seen by the photo that shows a light shimmer in the light on the left side of the phone. The three software keys at the bottom are typical of Nexus devices, and the same three-key setup can even be seen on older phones such as the Nexus 4 (2012) and Nexus 5 (2013). We see that “Android N” is written there, though this has to be a pre-Android Nougat announcement unit (since Google’s already announced the name of the upcoming handset; we don’t have to call it Android N anymore). While the name “Marlin” is found there, and could be a simple naming tactic (I can rename my Nexus 5 to be the HTC Nexus Marlin if I so wanted it), the baseband version shows the number “8996,” which is the model number for the quad-core, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Prozessor.
Das HTC Nexus Marlin verfügt auch über den Sicherheitspatch vom 1. Juli 2016, ein Zeichen dafür, dass dieses Telefon relativ neu ist (zu diesem Zeitpunkt haben nur neue Telefone den Sicherheitspatch vom Juli 2016). Aus all diesen Indizien schließen wir, dass es sich bei diesem Gerät tatsächlich um das High-End-Gerät HTC Nexus handelt, das von Google in diesem Herbst angekündigt wird.
Zu den technischen Daten des HTC Nexus Marlin gehören ein 5,5-Zoll Quad-HD (2.560 x 1.440p) AMOLED-Display, ein Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC (könnte mit dem Snapdragon 821 ausgestattet sein, despite the 820 shown in the photo below), 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 32GB of storage, 8MP/12MP camera combos, and a 3,450mAh battery which may be sufficient beyond a day’s use (we’ll have to get the phone in-house first before making this call).
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