Asus non-Nexus 7-inch tablet images surface

Whatever Asus is cooking is starting to bubble to the surface, as blurry, but purportedly official, shots reveal a new 7-inch tablet sans Nexus branding.

Russian retailer ogo1.ru has a listing for the Asus ME172V, complete with the first blurry images of the 7-inch tablet.

The tablet is shown in both black and white, with casing strikingly similar to the Nexus 7. However, the main difference between the Nexus 7 and the ME172V is the latter bears an Asus logo on the back rather than the word Nexus appearing anywhere.

The differences between the ME172V and Nexus 7 become greater when looking under the hood, as the new tablet features a 1024 x 600 resolution display along with 16GB of storage, an 800Mhz CPU, 1GB of RAM, and Android 4.1.

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