News June 27, 2012

Google Announces Nexus 7 Tablet

The Nexus 7 tablet has been leaked all over the place, but it has now been officially announced by Google at today’s keynote. The Nexus 7 is being made by Asus. It has a 1280×800 HD display, Tegra 3 with quad core CPU and a 12 core GPU, front facing camera, wifi, bluetooth, NFC and 1 GB of ram. The battery has 9 hours of video playback, 300 hours standby time. Weighs only 340 grams. Ships with Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”.

How can you get one? It’s available for ordering today at $199 for 8GB and $249 for 16 GB; it comes with a $25 dollar credit in Google Play, and it ships in Mid July.

Tags: Android Phones and Tablets, Google, Ultra Portable Tablets

10 Video Clips for the 10th Anniversary of John Entwistle’s Death

Tay Zonday Brings a Fitting End to the ‘Call Me Maybe’ Meme

About Joel McLaughlin

View all posts by Joel McLaughlin

Joel is a system admin for a local college in Columbus, OH. While he loves Linux and tends to use it more than anything else, he will stoop to running closed source if it is the best tool for the job. His techno passions are Linux, Android, netbooks, GPS, podcasting and Amateur Radio.

cgavula

This is a really interesting device and I think it will definitely compete well with the Kindle Fire (even though I thing Amazon’s ecosystem is stronger). For me personally, it’s lacking components eat away too much at the value of the device – no rear camera (probably not a big thing for most people), no GPS, no cellular, no external SD storage, very limited storage (forcing folks to the cloud too much I think), and really bland styling – all these things make me concerned that it won’t seem like a great value.

What will be interesting here is to see what MS really brings to the table (too many specs are unknown yet). The style of surface is interesting and it brings a couple of new things to the game so we will see where they go with it and how that impact the overall market. In any case, it’s going to be an interesting fall – MS Surface, Google tablets, iOS6, a new iPhone, Jellybean – yup – a very interesting fall!