According to an interview given by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the next six months will see Google begin marketing ‘a tablet of the highest quality’. Presumably this will be along the same lines as the Nexus range of phones – not manufactured by Google but being the standard for each new release of Android.
Google has already tried something similar with the Motorola Xoom, which was the first tablet to be released with vanilla Honeycomb (Android 3.0) on it, which didn’t work out particularly well – it will be interesting to see how Google fight back against the success of the iPad and Kindle Fire.