Since February, it’s been reported that Google has chosen HTC as the next manufacturer for the next Nexus tablet and while there have been possible mentions of the tablet in AOSP commits, there was nothing until now that proved HTC was the manufacturer.
According to a now-removed NVIDIA document about a patent suit against Qualcomm and Samsung, NVIDIA included a list of consumer and developer products that shipped with its Tegra K1 SoC, including the Chromebook and Project Tango devkit. Within that same paragraph, a reference to the “HTC Nexus 9″ was made and it gave out its expected release date of Q3 and the SoC it will use, which will be the Tegra K1. Now, we’re not sure if this is the quad core 32-bit version or the dual core “Denver” 64-bit version.
Aside from this, the tablet may end up coming with dual front facing stereo speakers, a 4:3 ratio screen resolution, and an 8.9-inch display. Other specs have been thrown around a lot so there’s no point in covering them. The last tablet from Google was the Nexus 7 (2024) and it was announced in July of last year, but since then, nothing new has surfaced.
The tablet, alongside a new version of Android Wear and the offical lanch of Android L will most likely be announced mid-next month.
