Google announced this week that it will include the latest Samsung flagship, the Galaxy S4, to its hardware lines that run vanilla Android. Release date for the Nexus 5 rival is set June 26.

While the GS4 specs are largely known to many, which expectedly will be carried over on the Nexus version, what to expect from the LG Nexus 5 remains a mystery. But basing on the notion that Google will surely bump up from the Nexus 4 features plus the already circulating Nexus 5 specs, we generally have a clear idea on the phone's upcoming look and behaviour.

Pitting the two Nexus devices points to an interesting Android showdown, considering the fact that both Samsung and LG are so-called Nexus veterans. The former was responsible for the Galaxy Nexus while the latter put together the Nexus 4.

Listed below are three likely pluses that the GS4 Nexus enjoys over the LG-manufactured fifth Nexus.

GS4 brings to Nexus world the formidable Samsung gene

Two South Korean firms will tussle out in the coming to prove which Nexus brand is the batter make. In truth, more pressure is on LG's shoulder as Samsung has long established its name in the smartphone sphere. It is the number one mobile device maker and is dangerously close in dislodging Apple from its throne as the biggest revenue generator among the smartphone competitors.

When LG and Google released the Nexus 4 in Q4 2012, the Android world greeted the cheap but powerful device with excitement. Yet the phone hardly made a dent against Samsung's Galaxy S3, which finished the past year with more than 40 million in total sales and still counting.

To be sure, Google will ride on the tsunami wave created by Samsung and in picking the GS4 as part-carrier of the Nexus label, the tech firm is boosting the possibility of the brand making it to million of hands around the world. Such spectre is a remote likelihood with LG at the moment.

GS4 Nexus hardware is on the winning column

Samsung's Nexus make has all the ingredients to cook up a fantastic menu that attracts millions. Top-notch chipset architecture, Full HD Super AMOLED, camera components that jibe well with Google's insanely great cam applications and a gadget design that opens up hordes of possibilities.

The GS4 came out with a removable back cover and memory expansion slot that Nexus edition will surely leave untouched. Both options empower user to beat the limits set by out-of-the-box features - getting an extra battery to extend the phone's power juice sliding in a microSD card for more space to store files.

As far as the Nexus 5 is concerned, these capabilities remain a question mark.

Samsung's mighty distribution network will spread the GS4 Nexus more rapidly

Google has indicated that the main retail arm of the GS4 Nexus is the Play Store. However, the company did not rule out the possibility of Samsung employing its muscle to deliver the device to as many locations as possible and with great speed.

Observers immediately noted that for a Nexus device, the GS4 make is rather pricey, bearing twice the price tag of the Nexus 4. This disparity, however, is expected to be greyed out along the way as Samsung, flexing its clout, will likely forge partnerships with telcos and retailers around the world. Ensuing subsidies and discounts could lead to sizable price slashes that would make the GS4 Nexus more accessible to buyers.

There is even the possibility that the GS4 Nexus will be dangled for free as distributors compete to push out as many units as possible, which was seen during the early phase of the Nexus 7 global release. It is likely too that Google would end up shouldering some of the cost of owning the GS4 Nexus, a move that is line with its goal of providing the tools for greater access to its contents.