Google is said to drop off the Nexus brand for its smartphones, as the highly anticipated Marlin and Sailfish smartphones to be dubbed as the Pixel and the Pixel XL, respectively.

The company's upcoming Android-powered Nexus smartphones will be the successors to the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P that were unleashed in 2015. The upcoming devices, for which Google has tapped the mobile phone network company HTC as its manufacturing partner, will be breaking Google's six-year tradition of naming the handsets with the Nexus brand, according to Android Police.

The odd part at this point is the fact that people knew HTC is making these smartphones, for the reason that there are two FCC filings for the devices that showed HTC as the maker.

So, as HTC is manufacturing the devices and Google supposedly giving them the Pixel name while dropping HTC branding, the confusion has reached the highest point of confusion, Droid Life reported.

As for the reason behind the name change, given that these new Nexus smartphones will have the most cohesive and Google-influenced design on devices to date, to the extent that the handsets will be all but identical in everything but size, display resolution as well as battery capacity, maybe this was the time to become different.

However, it's also immediately unclear whether these Pixel handsets will just be a rebranded version of its existing Nexus range, even though people believe this is the case. But, HTC is still expected to continue doing the manufacturing, based on the report of Business Insider.

Anyway, the prices of the Nexus smartphones, now called as the Pixels, have been leaked in advance of Google's official announcement. The 32 gigabyte Pixel will be sold for $449, while the 32 gigabyte Pixel XL will be sold for $599.

Google is expected to announce its latest smartphones over the next few weeks. By then, people can confirm all the official details of the upcoming smartphones.

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