Nexus 7 2 Projected to Sell up to 8 Million Units This Year

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Friday, July 12, 2013

The Nexus 7 2 tablet is projected to sell up to 8 million units this year.

The device will move this many units due to information received from Taiwan-based vendors by DigiTimes. The site claims supply chain makers are not as confident in the tablet stating that the volume will be difficult to reach because many vendors will launch competing models.

The sources also believe that the Nexus 7 successor will not have the same pricing advantage as the previous model since many other companies have released slates in the same price range such as HP, Acer, Lenovo and Asus.

DigiTimes confirmed some specs for the device that include a 7-inch 1980x1200 display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera. The device is expected to be priced somewhere in between $199-$249 for the Wi-Fi model.

A device that could be the Nexus 7 2 was recently spotted at FCC running Android 4.3, JellyBean.

The sighting was reported by TechTastic who stated that an Asus device codenamed K008 is actually the successor to the original Google Nexus tablet. It is also running software version JWR11 also known as Android 4.3, JellyBean.

TechTastic's list of components for this Nexus 7 2 featured a mainboard labeled ME571KL. This could be the actual part that ends up on the device as it has shown up on other sites such as VR-Zone via NCC filings.

The FCC document also contains screenshots, which can be seen in the above link. The Nexus name appears twice in the actual documents further pointing to this tablet being the successor to the 2012 7-inch slate.