Huawei Could Manufacture The Nexus 7

The strategic naming hints that Google might just be looking to recreate the magic of the original Nexus 7 which came out back in 2012. Firstly, news has it that the company has replaced Asus with Huawei as the company manufacturing the next tablet. Huawei previously worked with Google on the Nexus 6P that has been reviewed well across the board, so that track record is clearly standing to it. Then Google stopped producing tablets, and concentrated more on Nexus phones.

The Huawei Nexus 7 tablet might be announced at the Google I/O 2016 event, normally held in between May and June, if the rumor will turn out to be true, Weibo reported.

If indeed the Nexus 7 2016 would materialize, it’s fair to expect that inside and out of the device will speak of high-end components. The translated post reportedly reads, “2016 Google Nexus 7 project began, but did not determine to Huawei”. This is a very interesting development and it will be interesting to see if Huawei follows through. The benchmark for these specs is the 7-inch MediaPad X2 that Huawei released earlier this 2015. It is powered by an octa-core Nvidia Tegra X1 chipset which is build with 4 Cortex-A57 and 4 Cortex A53 cores with ARMv8 bigLittle architecture, 2.7GB of RAM, 53GB of storage, 7megapixel amin camera and 2 megapixel front camera, all of this running on Android 6.0.1 Marshamllow. The last Nexus tablet (Nexus 9 ) was made by HTC. With the time lessening between now and “the holidays” a new rumour is pointing to the 8th of December as the launch date for the tablet.