Nexus 6 Release Date Looms Large as Realistic Render Surfaces & Android L is Finalised

Two solid indicators have popped out this week that seemingly point to the nearing release date of the stock Android-powered Nexus 6.

Nexus 6 render

First to excite the Nexus fans are pictures of the device, renders actually, that showcased the Nexus 5 replacement's likely colour variants of black and while.

According to Droid Life, Google's signature phone for 2014 is basically the second-generation Moto X but with two distinctions - a bigger front panel that is stretched in near 6-inch screen profile and back plate that clearly shouts of the Nexus and Motorola brandings printed side by side.

The render also 'revealed' a home screen that is in line with earlier suggestions of minimalist design philosophy that is one of the core features Android L will bring to the table. Essentially, the front panel accentuates a user interface that has Material Design written all over it.

As for the specs, Droid Life simply looked back to the recent report that the Nexus 6 is the scaled up Moto X and is currently codenamed Shamu.

The device will sport a 5.92-inch display panel that beams out images and clips in 2K resolution. Bringing the phone into life is a quad-core Snapdragon 805 chip while the camera offering is a combination of 13MP on rear and 2MP on front, with the former set to capture high-quality pics with its optical image stabilisation feature.

Material Design

And as if confirm that Google is unleashing the next Android version sooner than expected, SamMobile pointed out a video that showed the Samsung Galaxy S5 running on Android L or 5.0.

In the clip, Android L build LRW58J is quite remote from being a vanilla Google operating system and is still plagued by bugs and sluggishness. "It contains a plethora of bugs and is slow as a turtle ... and even slower than the stock (Galaxy S5) KitKat firmware," SamMobile said on its report.

Yet the real point of the news is the easily noticeable trace of Material Design with Samsung's TouchWiz-laced Android build, which only buttressed the building up assumption that KitKat will soon become history to make way for Android L or Lemon Meringue Pie.

For sure, the first device that Android L will fuel up is the Nexus 6 smartphone and the release date of which is believed to happen in the immediate weeks or days after the rumoured Google event on October 16, probably alongside the 8.9-inch Nexus 8 or HTC Nexus 9.