Nexus is coming. The launch is happening, we know that carriers will be opening pre-orders on Monday the 26th of October, but we don’t quite know about when the Google Store is going live with orders. What we do know is that JB Hifi will be offering both the LG built Nexus 5X and the Huawei made Nexus 6P for outright sale.
The phones are now in the JB Hifi internal system with pricing and colour options, but it seems there’s no stock listed as ‘on order’ at this stage. The Nexus 5X will be available in both storage options in Black only (sorry White and Ice fans) while the Nexus 6P will be offered in 64GB only in Silver (Aluminium). Prices are listed in the system, slightly undercutting the pricing we’ve seen on the Google Store:
Nexus 5X – Black Only
| JB Hifi | Google Store | |
| 16GB | $639 | $659 |
| 32GB | $747 | $739 |
Nexus 6P – Aluminium Only
| JB Hifi | Google Store | |
| 64GB | $997 | $999 |
As a major partner of Telstra, there was a hope that there would be Telstra SKU’s listed in their system however there’s bad news on that front – but it’s not the end of the story. Telstra is well known to be cagey on release details and with pre-orders due to open on Monday at Optus and Vodafone we could still see Nexus phones on Australia’s largest carrier.
We’re trying to track down more information about retail and Google Store availability as well as launch timing on the Nexus phones, but from the looks of things the next week or two could be Nexus filled.
