LG Nexus 10 surfaces online; specs and release date revealed

In July, 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. Now, new leaks show that the 2013 variant of the Nexus 10 is being built by LG.

Several leaks of the new LG Nexus 10 surfaced on Reddit from UK retailer Tesco, a Telefonica employee and a Korean user  . The leaks clearly show LG V510 as the newest iteration of the Nexus 10. This is the same model that was earlier touted to be the Nexus 8. The UK retailer Tesco reveals some specs of the upcoming Nexus 10. It is likely to sport a 10-inch IPS display with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels.

LG built the 2013 Nexus 10 afterall…

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. Tesco also reveals that the tablet could be released on November 22 for a price of 299 British pounds (approx Rs 30,339). If this piece of news is true, we can expect an official announcement shortly.

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The original Nexus 10 had similar display specs: a 10.1-inch display with a 2560x1600 pixel resolution, but this rumoured new tablet will definitely improve on its processor specs. The Samsung tablet has a dual-core 1.7GHz Exynos 5250 processor, 2GB of RAM and a Mali-T604 GPU chipset.