Google’s Nexus 7 revamp has cropped up in an FCC listing and it’s still being spearheaded by Asus if reports prove true.
The news comes via AndroidAuthority, which has conducted a sterling investigation into the FCC filing and presents some extremely convincing evidence that this is indeed the Nexus 7 successor.
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The device listed carries the codename K008. This is a name we’ve seen before, as it first appeared few days ago on a Bluetooth SIG listing and carrying a software version number associated with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The Bluetooth SIG also states explicitly that this is a 7-inch Asus-made device.
The K008 code number doesn’t fit with the first-generation Nexus 7’s convention, which carried the ME370T designation, however.
This is where it gets interesting, though. The FCC documentation lists a particular model for the device’s mainboard: ME571KL. A model number ME571 has previously been associated with official device filings out of China for an Asus K008 (ME571K) and Asus K009 (ME571L) believed by locally-based tech publications to be Wi-Fi and 3G/4G versions of the Nexus 7 successor.
Better still, the official filing for the K009 tablet specifically mentions the Nexus brand-name twice and the ME571KL name under the mainboard spec. Oddly the Nexus name does not appear in the K008 filing.
According to the reports, the spec for the ME571KL-equipped K009 includes a 7-inch 1920x1200 pixel Full HD 1080p display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor (APQ8064) with Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM. It also has 32GB of onboard storage, a 5-megapixel primary camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing secondary, NFC, Wi-Fi, 4G LTE and a 7.5mm-8mm thick chassis.
Previously the only rumoured specs for the Nexus 7 successor have included a thinner and lighter body (the original Nexus 7 was 10.1mm thick), a narrower bezel around the display and an enhanced Full HD display with a 1080p resolution. Certainly the K009’s alleged spec sheet sits very well with this.
We’re still not 100 per cent sure about this but, as we said, it’s very convincing. We’ll be keeping our ear to the ground for more news of the Nexus 7 successor and hopefully someone will leak a name soon – we’re getting a bit fed up of calling it the Nexus 7 2, Nexus 7 revamp and Nexus 7 successor as in reality it’s not going to be called any of these things.
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