Google Nexus 7 news, specs, details and updates: 7-inch Nexus tablet coming in 2017?

Google recently released its new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, which made many tech experts and fans think that the giant tech company will not anymore issue a new phone from the Nexus brand.

New reports, however, claim that Google is still working with HTC to come up with a new Nexus 7 device. This is after reports that Huawei declined the job after Google insisted that the latter drop their logo from the finished product.

Huawei, however, previously worked with Google for the Nexus 6P, but it is reported that the company wants to get more from the partnership, with its Consumer Business Vice President Colin Giles saying that they just need recognition for the work they are doing.

Although Huawei is still willing to work with Google, the company feels that they should at least be recognized for the investment they put on their smartphones. Because of this misunderstanding, however, the Pixel contract did not push through with Huawei.

Now that HTC is tasked to produce new Google smartphones (they also produced the new Pixel line), speculations suggest that a new Nexus tablet is coming courtesy of the company.

The upcoming tablet is slated for a 2017 release, and rumored to be equipped with the Andromeda Operating System (OS), with a 7-inch screen display, powered by a SnapDragon 829 processor, 4GB of random-access memory (RAM) and 64GB worth of interior storage.

Its price is set around £199 in the United Kingdom.

The new Google Pixel phones also reportedly sport a unique Android Nougat OS that cannot be experienced by Google's previous Nexus smartphone models as the older models lack the new equipment to carry all of Nougat's included features.

Many users, however, decried this as a marketing tactic employed by Google to compel users to switch to the new Pixel devices, even though their current Google smartphones are capable of a Nougat upgrade.