Google promising “new treats” on September 29

 We’d already heard rumors that Google’s big new Nexus reveal would take place in San Francisco on September 29, and now the tech giant has made it official: Members of the press have just received invites to “a morning conversation about some new treats from Google.” An LG-made Nexus 5, a Nexus 6 from Huawei and maybe even new Chromecasts are on the cards.

 

 

If you want to set your alarm clocks, everything starts 9am Pacific Time and the event is going to be streamed live on YouTube if you don’t happen to have an invite. We should also hear about the official roll-out of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, though it’s not clear when exactly it will begin appearing on phones — last year there was a gap of a few weeks between the announcement and the release.

Over the last couple of days we’ve also heard a couple of fresh rumors about what Google’s flagship smartphones for 2015 are going to be called: Get ready for the Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P. Quite what the “X” and the “P” stand for isn’t clear, but it would help differentiate the handsets from the older models, and make life easier for consumers and search engines alike.