14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month I told you of some pieces of news surfaced in the Taiwanese press, which claimed Google wouldn’t be giving up the Nexus brand and would continue to make devices using the same moniker.
According to the info, Google will take up a partnership with device manufacturer HTC in order to breathe life into what might actually turn out to be the ill-fated next-gen Nexus 10.
The rumors went on to say the slate could arrive as soon as Q3 2014, but we all knew the new Nexus 10 has a history of being tipped to arrive, but ending up a no-shower.
The tablet has been expected to make an appearance on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, before and after Christmas, New Year and CES 2014.
Different rumors have claimed several manufacturers were going to take up the design and production of the slate, including ASUS, Samsung and now HTC.
Anyway, tech visionary, Hasan Kaymak has posted on his Google+ page a render of an HTC Nexus tablet set to arrive in 2015, according to the description.
So it might as well be the next-generation Nexus 10. Even if current rumors state the slate will arrive in Q3 2014, we should take the information with a grain of salt.
For now, Kaymak has posted only a teaser image of the slate, but we’re pretty sure in the upcoming weeks we’re going to see an entire gallery being detailed.
Judging by what we see in the image, this appears to be the first Nexus tablet to boast an edge-to-edge screen. Its curved edges give off the impression this is a gaming tablet of sorts.
Kaymak doesn't mention anything about the specs, but reviewing the trends we have seen at MWC 2014 this year, the HTC Nexus might come with a 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, but we wouldn't be wrong to speculate a 4K display either. A Snapdragon 801 processor combined with 3GB of RAM should lie under the hood,.
The default operating system will be Android 4.5 which has been tipped to arrive in June, alongside the Nexus 8 if not on the Nexus 8 per-se.
HTC hasn't been too popular in the tablet business and both its tablet efforts haven’t really caught well with consumers.
Nevertheless, the company has been hailed as capable of delivering smooth aesthetics with its products, so maybe that’s why so many of us haven’t given up hope HTC will roll out something really disruptive in the tablet department, some day.