Google finally
announced the Nexus 7 tablet device today at its Google I/O developer
conference in San Francisco. It’s designed with content consumption in mind and
comes with an enhanced. Google Play store which now lets you browse, download
and enjoy digital magazines, television shows, movies, in addition to Android apps
and more…
The Nexus 7 will
be the first tablet computer to run Google's latest Android software. Device
quoted price $199 (£127) , built by Asus, runs the new Android 4.1 Jelly BeanAndroid Operating system and includes a 1280 x 800 HD screen, Tegra 3, Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth and NFC, and 9 hours of HD video battery life. It weighs 340 grams.
It has a 1.2-megapixel camera – unlike the Kindle Fire – and is available with
8GB of memory or 16GB.
According to
Google, this device is well suited for more tasks like reading books and
magazines. Google magazine app has an ability to zoom in on articles or get it
in a text-only Flip board style format. Google is also demonstrating how the
device can be used to watch movies and television shows. It’s also the first
device to ship with Chrome as the standard web browser.
Total sales of tablet computers will reach 105m units this
year and 143m in 2013, according to the research firm IDC – compared with total
PC sales of about 400m, of which more than 60% will be laptops.
The Nexus 7 can be ordered online now from the Google Play
website and ships in mid-July in the U.S., Canada and other countries.
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