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ASUS should definitely make one of the Nexus phones this year

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"Does Google deserve a "free pass" for I/O 2013 in light of choosing to polish their current portfolio of services instead of announcing new software and hardware?"

Brandon Scoggins No.

Tim Feierabend I wouldn't coin it as a "free pass" but I am glad they are polishing all the services that they have for the future. They already have a good selection of online services I don't see why they should announce and work on more.

Lukasz Dudek I did not expect any new devices.

Lanh Nguyen Like Taylor Martin who's now with pocketnow said Google announcing a new version of android last year at IO was an anomaly. Typically the next version always comes in the fall with the release of a new nexus phone. This is a developers conference after all so they weren't doing anything different from what they did prior to last year. More than likely they will refresh everything in the fall.

Dustin T. Robles Opinions get in the way of a yes or no answer I'm less likely to read a 700 character answer than the 3. like this, If I continued at some point you would stop reading