What’s the deal with Google lately? Several devices, like the Galaxy Nexus LTE, have just been vetoed from Google’s Nexus developer pages. That’s on top of the recent changes they implemented to their actual search’s Privacy Policy that is drawing quite a bit of criticism from various analysts and privacy advocates alike. Various EU commissioners have even called on Google to cease from implementing these changes until they conduct their own analysis on its potential repercussions (dream on, EU).

Now back to their recent smartphone troubles. The folks over at Droid Life were the first to notice this, and in the screenshot below, we can see that the devices codename, “toro”, no longer appears to be on the list of supported devices as well as a blatantly clear message up top that reads “No CDMA devices are supported.”

Google Removes Support For CDMA Smartphones Due To Technical Issue

But it doesn’t end there. Two other devices have noticeably been taken off the list as well—“crespo4g”, which is the Nexus S 4G with Sprint, and “stingray”, a moniker for the LTE/CDMA Motorola XOOM. Both of which also happen to be CDMA phones. Coincidence? No, obviously not.

However, what appeared to be a mystery-decision at first turned out to be a technical issue with CDMA. Android Engineer Dan Morril released a brief statement explaining the situation, which in a nutshell, explains that CDMA is signed on a different AOSP code than GSM devices, and so Google isn’t providing their fullest extent of support to CDMA devices anymore. Morril went on to say that Google will still try and do as much as they can to help.

So, what does this mean for the many customers who recently purchased any of these aforementioned devices? Google will not fully handle your software updates anymore, and Galaxy Nexus LTE users certainly won’t be the first ones to receive the updates now either. Instead, companies and the phone providers will have to take care of it, and who knows how well that will go.