A new report about Huawei Nexus 7 has surfaced on Thursday saying that the new flagship tablet will be officially launched in May 2016. The news comes after both Google and Huawei teamed up to develop the new tablet. They are now fast tracking the production so that the tablet will be officially released on the target timeframe, a report form Latinone said.
"Google will reportedly release a new Nexus 7 (2016) in May, and this time it will work with Huawei rather than ASUS. Google and Huawei have already launched a device together, introducing the Nexus 6P earlier this year, and apparently had a fruitful collaboration if a second device is in the cards. None of it is official for now, but reports of an upcoming Google Nexus 7 (2016) tablet from Huawei started making rounds recently and are now intensifying. The fact that the current Nexus 7 (2013) got hefty discounts further adds fuel to the fire," Tech Times reports.
According to the report, if the rumors about the Huawei Nexus 7 are true, then it is expected that the upcoming tablet will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip. It can be recalled that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 mobile chip was recently launched in Asia earlier this month.
This adds to the speculations that the new mobile chip will be integrated to more than 70 devices by 2016. Among the devices expected to use Qualcomm's new chip is Huawei's upcoming tablet, mobile experts claim. The company has yet to announce the price of the Huawei Nexus 7 including the software that will be installed in the device.
"Nexus 7 will come with an Android N operating system. One of the main features of the new operating system will be the split screen view. As of now, there are is no official word as to the Nexus 7's features and specs, but knowing Google, they are bound to add some innovations to the device's hardware," the report said.
