Members of the press received an invitation to a Google
event next week, with the only hint about the subject being a host in Sundar
Pichai, the head of Android. He took over Android chief Andy Rubin's role when
Rubin took on new projects.Rumors and images were already circulating around a
Nexus 7 tablet successor, and the event may be just the way Google decides to
unveil it.
The latest images, which have been slightly altered to
protect their source referred to as "Brett," show a device with Nexus
emblazoned on the back beneath a spec sticker, but there's no telling if this
is a prototype, a final product, if the specs are accurate, and so on.
Whatever this thing is, it's said to be manufactured by
Asus, as the original was. It has two cameras, a Qualcomm APQ8064 motherboard
with a Snapdragon S4 pro processor, 4 gigabytes of DDR3L RAM, and stereo
speakers.
If this turns out to be the heir to Nexus 7's crown, it
still looks a little chubby compared with an iPad Mini.But a screenshot adds 5
pounds -- isn't that what they always say?
Here's another image of the device, perhaps a little
clearer:
