Is Google planning to launch a Nexus 10 refresh soon?

Rumours around a new refreshed Nexus 10 have been doing rounds for quite some time now. News has it, yet again, that Google will be launching its new Nexus tablet anytime soon. According to a report by CNET, Google Play Store has changed the “out of inventory” status of the tablet to “Coming soon”, which leads to speculation that a new Nexus 10 could be on its way.


The device had gone ‘out of stock’ late last year, and Google had confirmed to TechnoBlimp that it won’t be getting fresh Nexus 10s, once it runs out of stock. In July 2013, there were rumours about Samsung-built Nexus 10 while in August it was believed to be Asus who would be crafting the 10-inch Nexus tablet. Later, new leaks showed a 2013 variant of the Nexus 10 built by LG. Several leaks of the LG Nexus 10 had started surfacing on Reddit from UK retailer Tesco, a Telefonica employee and a Korean user . The leaks clearly showed LG V510 as the newest iteration of the upcoming Nexus 10.


Going by the previous leaks, the upcoming Nexus 10 could sport a 10-inch IPS display with a resolution of 2560×1600 pixels. Under the hood, one can expect it to be powered by a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. Some other specs revealed by the retailer include Android 4.4 KitKat, a 4-megapixel front camera and a 10-megapixel rear camera. On the storage front, it will come in 16GB and 32GB variants. However, a lot of water is flown since we heard these rumoured specs. So, we wouldn’t be surprised to see some changes in the specs listed earlier. On the other hand, it is also widely speculated that this time around, Google may come with an 8- or 9-inch Nexus tablet instead of a 10-inch.


The original Nexus 10 came with a 10.1-inch display with a 2560×1600 pixel resolution, dual-core 1.7GHz Exynos 5250 processor, 2GB of RAM and a Mali-T604 GPU chipset.