Recode: Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Wednesday that the company plans to continue working with partners on its Nexus smartphone line, though it may become more “opinionated” on issues like how the phones are designed. “Our plan is still to work with hardware partners,” Pichai said, speaking at the Recode conference. Thus far Google has worked with a range of partners to build Nexus phones, with Google tightly controlling the software and some hardware elements.