The Nexus 10 2 on release date is a 10-inch plus device that sports a 12-inch screen profile with a new powerful Tegra 4 CPU, made by NVIDIA, humming away inside its super-thin tablet casing.

Tech blog site Motoring Crunch has reported that the large-screen stock KitKat slate will indeed show off quite a huge display panel, measuring "a foot diagonally," on the viewing side but achieving relative portability by sticking with the 10-inch body build.

While the same report was short on details, it was provided too that the extra 2-inch of screen will be squeezed by working around on the rigid 10-inch template of the previous model. This will be achieved by eliminating the Menu button from the tablet.

How exactly the modification will go about, Motoring Crunch is silent on the matter.

Note that the same site published last week reports of a supposed benchmark result that suggested the powerhouse behind the device is not the expected Snapdragon 800 that is made by Qualcomm. Instead, Google tapped NVIDIA to supply the Tegra 4 processing chip for the Nexus 10 2.

The shift, Android watchers said, seems to indicate that Google and Samsung is looking to deliver a game-centric tablet with a mighty CPU under the hood plus an impressive display panel attributes - wide and high-resolution - to lure and satisfy mobile gamers.

If true, the move makes sense as it has been long-discussed that the second-gen Nexus 10 is Google's answer to the rejuvenated fifth-gen iPad, which Apple gave a slimmer look but enhanced components.

The 9.7-inch iOS tab is now called the iPad Air.

But one bit of reminder; Motoring Crunch on both reports failed to cite its sources. There were also no images to support the blog report's claim of benchmark results.

Still, the incredible specs and features would make the second Nexus 10 a viable contender not only of the iPad Air but also of the Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 and the Galaxy Note Pro 10.1 that Samsung is set to unleash in Q1 2014.

And if the speculations prove right that Google also made sure that build number two of Nexus 10 is a sight to behold, then the device should be a winner in the making - fully capable of mounting a good fight against the prevailing tablet leaders.

Yet what really will make the Nexus 10 2 a definite attraction, analysts said, is its pricing. The benchmark to watch for is the iPad Air's starting price of $499. If the former is released with a more solid price tag, hovering between $300 and $400, then it just might lure great numbers of buyers.

While the Nexus 10 2 release date failed to materialise on last year's Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the regular 2013 holiday season and the 2014 CES, Android fans now look to the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC) that is set for staging in Barcelona on February.