Last week we reported that a new device that responded to the name of TF500T he had passed through the National Communications Commission in the United States. Several media announced that it was a new tablet in the range Asus Transformer PrimeHowever, another possibility is beginning to circulate and that is that the TF500T could be a cover name for the Nexus 10.
AsusEeePad, a page specialized in Taiwanese brand devices, has sown doubts regarding the TF500T model whose reports of its passage through the FCC we had news last week. At first, most of the media thought that it would be a new hybrid tablet midway between the TF300T and TF700T models and whose only relevant and reliable data were two: that it had a processor Integra 3 quad core and one port HDMI.
The aforementioned website assumes that the device registered with the FCC was not a new hybrid tablet from the Asus Transformer range, but the next Nexus 10 (which perhaps takes the basis of the Transformer design), and creates it for a number of fairly logical reasons.
In the first place, Asus has never played to generate mystery around its devices; always working on a new device it has been known in advance; so the fans of this brand found the announcement of a new model very strange without any prior notice by the company.
Quite the opposite happens with Nexus. There is never a lack of rumors about any device, but the entire Nexus 7 process was carried out with a lot secrecy by Google. What's more, the Nexus 7 model that passed through the FCC was once called MEMO 370T. It is not ruled out that Nexus 10 has decided to adopt that label for play the distraction with your device, just like you did before.
Also, the idea that Google is preparing a 10 inch tablet to compete with iPad is nothing new. Early july we echoed of a rumor based on the commissioning of a shipment of high definition screens that appeared in Digitimes, where they took for sure that behind such movement was the gestation of a new Google tablet of similar dimensions to those of the iPad.
On the other hand, a new Asus Transformer tablet with Android would contribute little to the current offer, and we cannot imagine a new Asus device with Windows RT when the Taiwanese brand has already announced the Tablet 600 which was recently registered with the National Communications Commission.
Finally, we could add that participating in the manufacture of a 10-inch Nexus tablet that will be sold practically at cost price, would be for Asus as throw stones at your own roof. But it is no less true that if there is to be a Nexus 10 it is better to be on their side and give project name than to be totally confronted with it and be one of the many other devices that will be buried by its success. There is always the consolation that, in case the Nexus 10 is not a hybrid tablet, it does not have to represent a very direct competition.