The next Nexus (tablets?)

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The ink is barely dry and already there are speculation somethings are coming out for Google I/O this coming May. Last May they introduced the Nexus 7. As a note the keynote version has a white back, unlike the full commercial version, which would make it a rarity in eBay.

The current talk has two topics going. The first is that Google will still use Samsung to make the Nexus 10, which will be refreshed to an Exynos 5 Octa processor. By then assuming the Galaxy S4 comes out with the Exynos 5 Octa, Samsung plans to produce huge volumes of that chip and spread it across their lines, including the upcoming Galaxy Tab 3 with two different size points, the Nexus 10 tab, and quite likely even a refresh of the Samsung Chromebook.

The second is that Google will continue to work with Asus for the Nexus 7 refresh. I wonder how that will be? The hot speculation is that it will get a 1020p screen, More powerful processors are likely too, but remember, they have to sell this for $200 to $250. I am quite curious as to how the processor will be for this one.

There are two other lines of speculative rumors. One of them is possibly a Nexus 5 phablet, and so far the fingers are pointing to LG but I won't be surprised if this will go somewhere else (HTC or Sony perhaps). The other line is about possibly a new phone, not a Nexus, but the so called Motorola X. Considering the Nexus logo looks like an X, that seems to implicate this to be a near Nexus device that gets updates from Google and even sold in the Google Play store. Familiar? They did that with the Motorola Xoom, which was a tablet. Xoom was the lead flagship for Android Honeycomb back during the day, and these tablets are running Jellybean now without a skin. Note that Xoom starts with a X.

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A new rumor, or speculation, that suggests that Google might go with the Qualcomm S4 Pro (chip used on the Nexus 7, Droid DNA, among others), as the heart for the next generation Nexus 7. Cost considerations, and the ease of LTE integration might be driving this decision.