In an effort to stop information being leaked, Samsung's legal team appears to have accidentally leaked some information about the next generation Google Phone.

That Google was working on a replacement for its Nexus S smartphone is no surprise, but there has been speculation not just about what the specifications would be, but also who would make it for them. The Google takeover of Motorola being too recent a development to have any impact on this new phone.

Now Samsung America has sent a cease and desist letter to the geek.com website warning them against publishing information about the Nexus Prime smartphone. Nexus Prime is the previously rumoured name for the next Google phone.

Although the website has indeed desisted from publishing the information they have apparently been supplied with, they did not demure from publishing a copy of the legal letter - which confirmed the codename for the new handset.