By Salvador Rodriguez
Google will announce a Nexus-branded 7-inch Android tablet at its developer conference later this week, according to a report.
The tablet, which is believed to be called the Nexus 7, is expected to be the first device to run Google's next Android OS, Jelly Bean, and be available for $US199 for an 8 GB model and $US249 for 16 GB.
The leaked images of the Nexus 7 first reported by Gizmodo Australia.
The Nexus 7 is being reported by Gizmodo Australia, which claims to have got the details from a training document that says the device could arrive, at least in Australia, as early as next month.
The announcement of the tablet is expected to come at some point during Google I/O, the company's conference that is being held in San Francisco and begins on Wednesday.
The in-house Google tablet, which has been rumoured for a while, is built by Asus and has a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor. It has 1 GB of RAM and it has a GeForce 12-core GPU. The Nexus 7 is also expected to come with near-field communication (NFC) and run Google Wallet as well as Android Beam.
The report says the tablet will have a battery that lasts nine hours, an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle and a screen resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. It is also expected to have a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera and a 10-point touch capability.
Rumours that Google may sell its own tablet have been circulating since late March, so news of a tablet isn't shocking but the possible details are fresh news.
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