With the Google Pixel C likely coming to store shelves this week, Google's next move will most likely be to launch a smaller tablet, and it could be a 2016 version of the Google Nexus 7.
According to Yibada, the upcoming 10.1-inch device provides some solid clues that point to a 2016 edition of the Google Nexus 7 tablet, which will be a smaller sibling to the tablet-laptop hybrid (Pixel C) that will go toe-to-toe with the Surface Pro series and the iPad Pro.
It is likely though that Asus will no longer be producing the Google-run tablet and will probably be switched over to Huawei as the manufacturer, considering that the company has done a superb job with the Google Nexus 6P that received a great surge of positive reviews, says First Post Tech.
Of course, the device is expected to launch out of the box with the latest iteration of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow firmware, which so far has reached Android 6.0.1 but more updates could come out before Nexus 7 hits the market.
The Nexus 7 is also expected to maintain its 7.0-inch display screen size, speculations make users believe that Google will stay closer to a selling price of $229 for the 16GB version and $269 for the 32GB model. Tech News Today adds that users should not expect anything lesser than Huawei's very own Kirin 930 SoC chipset to run the device, along with 3GB of RAM.
Google has had two iterations of the Nexus 7 with Asus. The 2012 version showed some promise with a 7-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, but the 1.2 megapixel primary camera proved to be too little. The 2013 version got some improvement when it launched with a 5 megapixel front shooter. It was also powered by a more powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon S4Pro with 2 GB RAM, where the 2012 model was powered by a Nvidia Tegra 3 with 1 GB RAM.
The Google Nexus 7 2016 is believed to launch during the I/O Developers conference of next year.
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