NEXUS 7 - A NEW STEP BY GOOGLE IN TABLET MARKET

Today the Google Inc., one of the largest search engines on the web has take a new step in the tablet android market with his new model NEXUS 7.The Nexus 7 comes with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean installed on it with google play.The company has partnered with Taiwanese manufacturer Asus to launch the Nexus 7, a 7in tablet computer built around Google's popular Android software.

NEXUS 7

.And now it lok like that, Google is officially in the tablet hardware business. When Google is mere minutes away from kicking off its yearly I/O conference and perhaps the biggest news of the show, the announcement of the Nexus 7, was spoiled by the Google Play Store. Here is the Google/Asus Nexus 7 in all its glory.


The announcement yeasterday came at Google's I/O developer conference in California, will pitch Google into battle with Apple's iPad and the online retailer Amazon, whose Kindle Fire tablet was launched in the US seven months ago. Priced at $199 (£127), Google's Nexus 7 is both more affordable and physically smaller than many of its rivals. Like the Nexus 7, Amazon's Kindle Fire has a 7in screen and is priced at £127. its like a war between nexus and

NEXUS 7

Both 8GB and 16GB models pack a 7-inch 1280×800 HD display (216 ppi) back-lit IPS display covered in “Scratch-resistant Corning glass”. A Tegra 3 SoC powers Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and Google promises the 4325 mAh battery should provide up to 8 hours of use. There’s NFC, GPS and a 1.2MP front-facing camera.

The tablet is light. Weighing in at just 340 grams you’re probably not going to notice any extra weight when you throw it in your book bag or purse. The back-lit IPS display is easy to see from a variety of angles, and while some connectivity issues prevented us from doing things on the web what we were able to do on the tablet without an internet connection -– or with a spotty one at times — zipped along.

Most important is the Nexus 7's price point, which up until now has largely been one of the main issues with Android tablets - price. It's fair to say that the Kindle Fire has done a good job proving that there is indeed a market for lower cost, simplified tablets at an aggressive price point, and the Nexus 7 is Google's answer. Pricing for the Nexus 7 is $199 for the 8 GB model, and $249 for the 16 GB model. There aren't any other differences between the two, nor is there a model with cellular connectivity – this is strictly WiFi only, but again, this is a tablet for the masses without the carrier hurdle.

Contrary to the leak early today, ICS’s menu bar is still intact with a row of icons positioned above it. You can see Jelly Bean’s slightly tweaked interface in the video below-

ASUS Tablet Specification Comparison
	ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity	ASUS Transformer Pad 300 Series	ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime	ASUS Nexus 7
Dimensions	263 x 180.6 x 8.4mm	263 x 180.8 x 9.9mm	263 x 180.8 x 8.3mm	198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm
Chassis	Aluminum + Plastic RF Strip	Plastic	Aluminum	Plastic + Rubber back
Display	10.1-inch 1920 x 1200 Super IPS+	10.1-inch 1280 x 800 IPS	10.1-inch 1280 x 800 Super IPS+	7" 1280 x 800 IPS
Weight	594g	635g	586g	340 g
Processor	1.6GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T33 - 4 x Cortex A9)	NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30L - 4 x Cortex A9)	1.3GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30 - 4 x Cortex A9)	1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30L - 4 x Cortex A9)
Memory	1GB DDR3-1600	1GB	1GB	1 GB
Storage	32/64GB + microSD slot	16GB/32GB + microSD slot	32GB/64GB + microSD slot	8 GB / 16 GB
Battery	25Whr	22Whr	25Whr	16 Whr
Pricing	$499/$599	$379/$399	$499/$599	$199/$249

When you look at the above specs, it seems puzzling that ASUS was able to get the price down to $199 so effectively. Getting to that lower price point is easier with a few things - physically smaller device and display, exclusion of full size USB or other ports (there's only microUSB), no rear facing camera, and good commodity component sourcing. The added plus is that if you run 1280 x 800 at a smaller size, out comes a pretty high DPI panel at the same time. Other than that though, you end up getting a device which is actually very impressive otherwise, with a quad core SoC and attractive form factor.

Nexus 7 was made for Google Play, so all the entertainment you love right is in your hand: the world's largest collection of eBooks, millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, and a growing selection of magazines – plus over 600,000 apps and games.

Nexus 7 comes with all your favorite Google Apps – like Gmail, Chrome, Google+ and YouTube – putting the best of Google in the palm of your hand. Easy to use, everything automatically syncs across your tablet, phone and computer. With tons of free cloud storage and features you’ll find nowhere else, Nexus 7 brings the best of Google together in one simple, beautiful device.