Google plans 'Nexus' tablet to take on Apple iPad

Google will release a flagship Android tablet in the next six months to challenge Apples iPad, its chairman Eric Schmidt has revealed. In an echo of the firm’s smartphone strategy, whereby its own Nexus range forms the vanguard of the Android attack on the iPhone, Mr Schmidt said Google is developing a tablet. “In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality,” he told an Italian newspaper.