Huawei allegedly interested in manufacturing the 2016 Google Nexus 7
According to a new rumor, Google is planning to launch a refreshed Nexus 7 tablet in 2016, and there's a good chance that the tablet will be manufactured by Huawei. Allegedly, Google has yet to lock down Huawei as the manufacturer of the new Nexus 7 tablet, although it is said that the China-based telecommunications giant is keen on continuing its partnership with Google.
As is always the story with unofficial information coming from Asia's Weibo, make sure to treat this info with a large dose of the proverbial salt.
Since the Nexus 7 era, however, Google seems to have abandoned the idea of cost-effective Nexus devices: the latest Nexus 6P is nothing if not a premium smartphone at a premium price while last year's Google Nexus 9 - manufactured by HTC - was introduced at a price of $399.
If this rumor turns out to be accurate and Google really is planning to launch a refreshed Nexus 7, it will be interesting to see if Google will go back to its previous cost-effective model. For its part, Huawei's most recent tablet is the X2, a tablet that comes with specs such as a 7-inch display with a resolution of 1200 by 1920 pixels and a Huawei Kirin 930 SoC with either 2 or 3GB of RAM.
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