Nexus 9 should launch in early October at an HTC event

Sep 22, 2014 09:16 GMT  ·  By

It seems like Google’s upcoming Nexus tablet has been in the rumor mill since like forever. The tablet was expected to make a debut at the Google I/O this summer, but this didn’t happen to be the case after all.

Throughout all these months, the general consensus was that HTC was behind Google’s latest tablet efforts, although we had a bunch of scattered reports claiming this was not the case and that ASUS will continue the manufacturing processes of the Nexus line of tablets.

Report confirms Nexus 9 will be made by HTC

Anyway, as we are closing in to the rumored October 8 date, when Nexus 9 has been tipped to be finally unveiled, a new report coming from the Wall Street Journal confirms HTC is indeed behind the upcoming tablet.

The article also sheds some insider information on how this partnership became possible in the first place.

The most interesting part in the report highlights the fact that Google was hell-bend on choosing HTC regardless on the fact that the company’s focus is one smartphones.

The reason behind that is that the search giant wants to avoid any manufacturer gaining a monopoly over a certain mobile niche.

Furthermore, Google’s focus is to build a broad base of partners for the manufacturing of various devices.

Google originally contacted HTC for the Nexus tablet ever since last year, but the Taiwanese company rejected the offer, claiming it wanted to concentrate all its sources on bettering its smartphone business.

Google helped out HTC with the design of the Nexus 9

However, it appears that at some point HTC had a change of heart and realized that a tablet could draw a great deal of attention to it. On top of that, HTC and Google teams conjoined in an mutual effort to design better hardware.

Google’s choice of HTC might be considered a bold one in some circles. After all the smartphone maker has maintained its distance ever since experiencing a total fiasco with its first Android tablet, the Flyer, which was rolled out on the market back in 2011.

It’s been three years since then and Google seems confident that HTC now has the expertise to build a worthy tablet that customers will love.

Surely, the Nexus moniker plastered on it, will surely help with sales. But apart from that, if the rumor mill is correct, the tab should take advantage of a nice list of specs too.

The tab is expected to make a debut with an 8.9-inch display with quad-HD (2560 x 1440 pixel resolution), NVIDIA Tegra K1 (Denver) 64-bit process and Android L to name a few.