Nexus 7 2 to be Manufactured by Japan Display Inc., AUO and Quanta

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Friday, June 14, 2013

Three companies will be responsible for the manufacturing of the Nexus 7 2.

Japan Display Inc. and AUO will work on the display while Quanta will make the tablet itself, according to a market researcher IHS's recent comments to CNET.

"As far as I know, JDI and AUO didn't start to supply this panel to Quanta yet. However, they are saying it will start from June or July," said Ricky Park who heads research for TV, Tablet, Monitor and Notebooks display at IHS to the publication.

He also stated that the launch of the Nexus 7 2 is "not far" in the future.

The Nexus 7 2 will be priced in between $199 and $249. The company will not join other tablet manufacturers that have been slashing prices on their lower end devices, according to a report from DigiTimes.

The publication claims to have received this information from an upstream supply chain. The 16GB version could cost around $229 and will be released sometime in July.

However, the successor to the Nexus 7 has not been made official yet, and DigiTimes is not always the most reliable of publications so this rumor should be taken with a grain of salt.

A possible Nexus 7 successor was recently spotted in a Bluetooth SIG filing running Android 4.3, JellyBean.

The filing was dated for May 27 and the documentation does not clarify if this is a Nexus 7 as it lists the device plainly as the 7-inch tablet. It has similar features in comparison to the original version and goes by the model number ME370T.

This is actually the same model number of the first Nexus 7, which hints at a possible successor being in the works. The device in the filing is also running software version number JWR11, which appears to be an Android build. This is not a software version that is available on other Nexus devices. This same build has been in various server logs, according to Android Authority.