Leaked Image of Nexus 9 Shows Up with HTC Logo and Matte Finish

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A man tries to get connected to the youtube web site with his tablet at a cafe in Istanbul March 27, 2014. REUTERS

October will bring a treat for Nexus fans. According to rumours, two Nexus devices will be announced this October. The devices one would be a smartphone and the other is a tablet. The tablet rumoured to be called Nexus 9 is manufactured by HTC and will sports an 8.9 inch display. Fresh images that were leaked on the internet give the first impression of the device. The leaked images proved that the previous rumours were wrong. The new images indicates that the upcoming tablet has a matte plastic back and not the metal finish that rumours had stated earlier. The image was posted on twitter by Upleaks. According to Aivanet.com the leaked images of the Nexus 9 looks more like the Nexus 5. Its design, camera and logo at the back of the Nexus 9 closely resemble the Nexus 5.

The HTC Nexus 9 also called the Volantis has specifications that will give any tablet a run for its money. It has a 9 inch display with Quad HD 2,560 x 1,600 resolution. This device has an Android L operating system and is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra K1 chip architecture with Kepler graphics and 192 shader cores.

According to NVIDIA the 192 graphic cores can do things that no other technology can do. These graphic cores put incredible amount of power into a tiny package. The Kepler architecture is used to speed up the world's most powerful supercomputers. This chip is a console class mobile technology that is used in extreme gaming PC's and will give full support for PC class gaming technology like the DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.4 and Tessellation in a smartphone. This tells us how powerful the Nexus 9 would be.

The HTC Nexus 9 will be a tablet apt for gaming. The graphics that are used in games will come alive in their full potential in the Nexus 9. It is rumoured that Wi-Fi and LTE models are to be made available in the 16 GB and 32 GB variant. This would be announced officially by Google sometime in the near future.

The image of the HTC Nexus 9 as seen on Twitter.