It has been said that Motorola will have a Nexus smartphone out by the end of the year, and that it won’t be a Moto X version.And it may be released from Motorola by the end of the year(Q4).

Motorola is already said to launch a Google Play edition of the Moto X, although it’s not clear when that will happen.

We expect the next-gen Nexus handset to arrive at some point later this year, with a next-gen Android OS version in tow, assuming that Google will continue to launch such new products towards the end of the year like it did in the past.