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We’re now pretty confident that Google will reveal its first own-brand tablet at the end of the month during its I/O conference, and it will be dubbed the ‘Asus Nexus 7’.
The fabled 7-inch tablet has been rumoured plenty over the past few months, with various pictures of the device appearing online in various corners of the internet. It’s become increasingly clear that Google has partnered up with Asus to create the tablet, and now we know what they’ll be calling it.
The name has been revealed by a couple of very boring pictures that were uploaded to Google’s Picasa photo sharing site recently. These pictures, inconspicuously of some tiled office ceilings (see, we told you they were boring!), show that they were taken on a device called ‘Asus Nexus 7’.
To add further conviction to the story, the images were uploaded by a chap called ‘Somit Bh’, who just so happens to have some deep ties with plenty of engineers at Google HQ.
Both images have the same 1280 x 960 pixel resolution, are located in Building 44 on Google’s Mountain View campus, and show to have been taken with the Asus tablet.
It’s not any concrete proof of course, but it certainly looks as though Google is testing a tablet device that’s manufactured by Asus at the very least. Previous rumours point towards a very affordable 7-inch tablet that will utilise a powerful Nvidia quad-core processor, all running on the next version of Android which is thought to be version 4.1, called Jelly Bean.
Google’s annual I/O developer conference kicks off in San Francisco at the Moscone Centre on June 27th. They certainly wouldn’t knock us off our chair with such a device, but that doesn’t stop us getting very excited at the prospect. Amazon’s Kindle Fire may not be out yet in the UK, but it seems to be ruling the roost in the U.S cheap Android tablet market, which seems to be where Google aims to send its first tablet.
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Via: The Verge
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