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CNET News - Inside Scoop: New rumors on Nexus tablet, Moto X phone

2013-07-23
hello welcome to insights k phi SI me das joining me at Seth Rosenblatt senior writer for cnet's f thanks for being with us thank you sir me so you have an appointment with Google tomorrow mm-hmm um ask you have a few other people I hope so yeah what do you expect to see what's the rumor so the right now rumors are thin we know that the event is going to be hosted by sundar pichai who is in charge of not just chrome anymore not just apps but also android following Andy Rubin okay so it gives us some clues as to absolutely absolutely devices yeah we know it's not going to be a car but we're we think it's going to be something related to Chrome OS could be a new Chromebook they launched a new Chromebook for two hundred fifty dollar one last year at this time right so we could get a new Chromebook it could be a chrome OS tablet we know that they've been working on getting touch features into Chrome OS so that's something we're probably going to see Android 4.3 and we don't think we're going to see any Android phones they're doing the big Moto X revealed next week on august first so a new phone would seem to be a little odd in terms of timing okay so next week you mentioned there is this big announcement there are the motorola phones what is that going to be do what do we know about that so far because it seems like people are usually more interested in phones than they are in other devices yeah well with the Moto X its motorola motorola mobility's big new push they've been sort of off the vine for quite a while Dan we have not heard from Motorola formal for a while no they really seated see today the Android lead to Samsung and Google's purchase of the company you know 12 billion dollars hasn't really produced much so this is their big chance to show that they are still in the game we know that the phone is going to be customizable a little bit in the hardware as well as in the operating system it's going to be a pure version of Android hardware too mm-hmm so what do we think that might look like for now we think it's going to be customizable backs we've seen a couple of those mocked up beyond that we don't really know do we know anything else about the Moto X any clues about what we might see you next week the rumor mill has a going that it's going to have a dual core Qualcomm s4 processor 16 gigs of on-board storage 4.5 inch screen but these are all rumors we don't actually have any facts at this point okay and as far as the event tomorrow there are some rumblings about chrome and Android greater integration in that so you know because of Sooners role in charge of both divisions we could see the beginnings of chrome and Android integration tomorrow it's a possibility don't know how likely it is another thing that we could see as well is the launch of the second Nexus 7 tablet it see very almost it's been over a year since the last yes yes Apple the first the first nexus 7 launched at google google io 2012 and again with this you know it was the first sort of super successful android tablet it sort of created the 7-inch form factor space for tablets i've been using it i think it's a great tablet so i think a lot of people going to be curious to see if it comes what kind of hardware it has what form it takes all right Seth thanks so much now you are going to be keeping a close eye on this first right yes absolutely tomorrow morning 830 a.m. pacific I'll be live-blogging with my cnet colleagues and I will be tuning in for inside scoop im sue me does thanks for watching
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