Google chooses HTC to make upcoming Nexus tablet

Google Inc has selected HTC Corp to make its upcoming 9-inch Nexus tablet. 

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, the technology giant had been mulling HTC as a potential Nexus tablet partner since last year.

HTC engineers have been flying to the Googleplex in Mountain View in recent months to work on the project, the report added.

Google's decision to pick HTC reflects its long-term strategy of building a broad base of partners from device to device to prevent any one manufacturer from gaining a monopoly, the WSJ report said.

That may also be one of the reasons why Google chose HTC over bigger rivals Samsung Electronics Co, maker of the Nexus 10 tablet.

Google and HTC declined to comment on the report.

(Reuters)