Google Announces Nexus 7 Tablet

Posted on Jun 29 2012 - 12:49am by Bakhtawar Shaukat
Google Nexus 7

Google Nexus 7

Google is known to give the news of it upcoming items whenever it is up to launch a new product in the market. It is not at all like Apple that hides not only its products features till release but also doesn’t even disclose the device that will be released soon. Google announced in its conference that it is indeed be selling a 7-inch tablet co-branded called the Nexus 7- the Jelly bean powered tablet. The company called it the world’s first social streaming device that will come in mid July.
The features that it will have in it are
• 1280×800 display that runs on a Tegra 3 quad-core processor
• 12-core GPU
• 1GB of RAM
• Wi-Fi
• NFC capabilities
• Bluetooth on board
• 1.2MP front-facing camera
• micro USB port,
• microphone
• GPS
• Gyroscope
• Battery that purports to last 8 hours even when movies
• Weight : 12 ounces
The new version of Android will be in it. For efficient working chrome will be the default browser. The home screen will be just like a library where you will keep your books, magazines and other media organized and conveniently available to you. Recommendation engine will also be in the library that will help you discover new media to consume. The most stunning feature is offline map support. It means that you can download entire city map and navigate them without worrying about the internet availability. The Nexus tablet has build in Google Play Store cash that costs about $25. The price of this tablet will be $199 for the 8G version but $249for the 16 GB version. This tablet will release in mid July. The basic theme that was in the mind of the researchers was gaming. With excellent quad-core performance and sensors like a gyroscope and accelerometer you can roll and tilt the phone. More than 600,000applications can be installed in it. The applications will work without making the device slow. Google play is there for the games lovers. The Nexus 7 will definitely give a competition to Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire that also runs on a modified Android OS. From this number anyone can easily judge the market of the Android. There was feature in the previous versions of Android that converts your speech into emails. The advantage of this feature is that you can’t use it in plane because there is no internet available there. This feature will also be available in Nexus but with quite modification. It will have voice recognition to translate your speech into emails even when there is no connectivity. New 18 input languages are added by Google which includes Persian and Thai too. It is said that one million new Android devices are activated daily and it means twelve new devices are activated every second. Now everyone is waiting to see this mind blowing tablet. The features are already told by Google so no more surprise feature is expected.

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