By: Aseem Gaurav on July 29, 2012
It’s Google's first own-branded tablet, running the all new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, and may be the most competitive Android tablet yet released. It’s low cost, packed with great features and significantly raises the Android tablet experience. The tablet has been designed to narrow the gap between Apple’s highly popular iPad range of tablets and budget Android tablets. With a $199 price tag, the Nexus 7 is clearly a worry for Kindle Fire fans more than Apple lovers. Here iPadfanzz, is giving you five reasons why you should go for the tablet:
Design
The size of a tablet is an important consideration at the time of making a purchase. The 7 inch is almost a perfect size for a tablet. As you go bigger, portability may be sometime of a concern to you. The 7 inch tablet may work best when you have to immediately take out the tablet from your coat pocket or a handbag. It’s also easy to wrap your thumbs around it to type. Going for a larger tablet, say 10 inch, may be a good option when you want to use it mainly for home, or want to do casual browsing.
Gaming
The Nexus 7 is a beast when it comes to gaming. The tablet is equipped with the quad-core Tegra 3 processor which features a unique 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture to deliver outstanding performance in terms of gaming. While playing games the tablet is smooth and responsive, and even playing multiple apps is easy. Being a powerful quad-core tablet, it is capable of playing even graphic intensive games with effortlessness. In addition, the tablet’s gryoscope and accelerometer makes it perfect for action-heavy games like "Horn" and the zombie shooter "Dead Trigger." As of now all the Nexus 7 tablets come with two freebies – a copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and $25 of Google Play credit.
Google’s latest operating system Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean
With Jelly Bean, Google has made it easier to do more with less effort thanks to some tweaks. The new OS is certainly one of the scoring points of the tablet as it is quite fast to operate and is more stable. Other important features of Jelly Bean include: accessible task manager, useful notification system, lets you access your frequently accessed data through widgets and enables you to hide infrequently used apps. Swiping between screens and opening the app drawer is fast and there are also significant improvements in terms of animations. But one of the most prominent and anticipated feature of Jelly Bean is Google Now, which utilizes actions you've performed on your phone in the past (i.e. search queries, calendar appointments, your locations, etc.) to get an idea of your general interests and habits. It then uses those ideas to help you in different ways by making little clips of info called "cards." You can activate the feature by tapping on the search box or swiping up from the bottom of the screen. It will then display Google Now cards filled with up to the minute, contextualized information. The feature comes in handy when you are commuting or want to know what weather will look like for your location and your work. One more thing, the cards are populated automatically, so you don’t need to search for it or open other apps.
Value for money
The Mountain View, California-based company has delivered a product that it made to its specifications by Asus; the 8 GB version is already selling like hot cakes. The Nexus 7 appears to have struck a chord with consumers, although Google has not yet released any figures for sales. Consumers who have purchased the product can do almost everything they’d expect from a tablet – web surfing, watching videos, HD movies or TV shows, playing games, reading e-books, and accessing apps. It is truly durable for even the most demanding mobile users, and claims of delivering up to 9.5 hours of battery life. Google also claims that the device can deliver up to 10 hours of web browsing, 10 hours of e-reading, and over 8 hours of HD video playback. The Nexus 7 sells for $200 with 8GB of storage – costing similar to Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet at the same storage capacity. You can also get the 16GB version for $250. It is a WiFi only tablet and there's no 3G/4G connectivity option. Further, it has a 1.2 megapixel forward-facing sensor that is useful for video chatting. Unfortunately, there’s no microSD for expansion, which is a big letdown about the Nexus 7.
Build quality
Google and Taiwan-based tech firm Asus have finally created an Android tablet, that is good looking and feels like a premium product, almost making us double check the price. The Nexus 7 is a thin (10.5 mm) and weighs just 340 grams. The tablet is comfortable to hold and comes with black rubberized plastic on the back. The tablet’s 7-inch in-plane switching (IPS) panel is solid. The bezel of the tablet is quite wide and the screen doesn't get close to filling that edge-to-edge glass. The scratch resistant Corning glass gives a premium look to the tablet and the buttons and ports also feel solid, not like what we’d expect from cheap budget tablets.
Features and specifications
Series: ASUS Nexus 7
Operating System: Android 4.1
CPU: NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30L Quad-Core@1.2Ghz
Memory: 1GB
Hard Drive: 16GB
Display: 7" WXGA (1280x800) Screen, IPS Panel, 10 finger multi-touch support
Wireless: WLAN 802.11 b/g/n@2.4GHz
Bluetooth: Yes
Webcam: 1.2 MP Front Camera
Expansion Slots: N/A
I/O Ports: 2-in-1 Audio Jack (head-out/MIC), 1x micro-USB, 2x Digital microphone,2x High Quality Speakers, 1x Docking PIN
Keyboard: N/A
Pointing Device/s: G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Gyroscope, E-compass, GPS, NFC, Hall Sensor
Battery: 9.5 hours, 4325mAh,*2 16Wh Li-polymer
Dimemsions: 198.5 x 120 x 10.45 mm
Weight: 340 g.
It’s Google's first own-branded tablet, running the all new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, and may be the most competitive Android tablet yet released. It’s low cost, packed with great features and significantly raises the Android tablet experience. The tablet has been designed to narrow the gap between Apple’s highly popular iPad range of tablets and budget Android tablets. With a $199 price tag, the Nexus 7 is clearly a worry for Kindle Fire fans more than Apple lovers. Here iPadfanzz, is giving you five reasons why you should go for the tablet:
The size of a tablet is an important consideration at the time of making a purchase. The 7 inch is almost a perfect size for a tablet. As you go bigger, portability may be sometime of a concern to you. The 7 inch tablet may work best when you have to immediately take out the tablet from your coat pocket or a handbag. It’s also easy to wrap your thumbs around it to type. Going for a larger tablet, say 10 inch, may be a good option when you want to use it mainly for home, or want to do casual browsing.
The Nexus 7 is a beast when it comes to gaming. The tablet is equipped with the quad-core Tegra 3 processor which features a unique 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture to deliver outstanding performance in terms of gaming. While playing games the tablet is smooth and responsive, and even playing multiple apps is easy. Being a powerful quad-core tablet, it is capable of playing even graphic intensive games with effortlessness. In addition, the tablet’s gryoscope and accelerometer makes it perfect for action-heavy games like "Horn" and the zombie shooter "Dead Trigger." As of now all the Nexus 7 tablets come with two freebies – a copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and $25 of Google Play credit.
With Jelly Bean, Google has made it easier to do more with less effort thanks to some tweaks. The new OS is certainly one of the scoring points of the tablet as it is quite fast to operate and is more stable. Other important features of Jelly Bean include: accessible task manager, useful notification system, lets you access your frequently accessed data through widgets and enables you to hide infrequently used apps. Swiping between screens and opening the app drawer is fast and there are also significant improvements in terms of animations. But one of the most prominent and anticipated feature of Jelly Bean is Google Now, which utilizes actions you've performed on your phone in the past (i.e. search queries, calendar appointments, your locations, etc.) to get an idea of your general interests and habits. It then uses those ideas to help you in different ways by making little clips of info called "cards." You can activate the feature by tapping on the search box or swiping up from the bottom of the screen. It will then display Google Now cards filled with up to the minute, contextualized information. The feature comes in handy when you are commuting or want to know what weather will look like for your location and your work. One more thing, the cards are populated automatically, so you don’t need to search for it or open other apps.
Value for money
The Mountain View, California-based company has delivered a product that it made to its specifications by Asus; the 8 GB version is already selling like hot cakes. The Nexus 7 appears to have struck a chord with consumers, although Google has not yet released any figures for sales. Consumers who have purchased the product can do almost everything they’d expect from a tablet – web surfing, watching videos, HD movies or TV shows, playing games, reading e-books, and accessing apps. It is truly durable for even the most demanding mobile users, and claims of delivering up to 9.5 hours of battery life. Google also claims that the device can deliver up to 10 hours of web browsing, 10 hours of e-reading, and over 8 hours of HD video playback. The Nexus 7 sells for $200 with 8GB of storage – costing similar to Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet at the same storage capacity. You can also get the 16GB version for $250. It is a WiFi only tablet and there's no 3G/4G connectivity option. Further, it has a 1.2 megapixel forward-facing sensor that is useful for video chatting. Unfortunately, there’s no microSD for expansion, which is a big letdown about the Nexus 7.
Build quality
Google and Taiwan-based tech firm Asus have finally created an Android tablet, that is good looking and feels like a premium product, almost making us double check the price. The Nexus 7 is a thin (10.5 mm) and weighs just 340 grams. The tablet is comfortable to hold and comes with black rubberized plastic on the back. The tablet’s 7-inch in-plane switching (IPS) panel is solid. The bezel of the tablet is quite wide and the screen doesn't get close to filling that edge-to-edge glass. The scratch resistant Corning glass gives a premium look to the tablet and the buttons and ports also feel solid, not like what we’d expect from cheap budget tablets.
Features and specifications
Series: ASUS Nexus 7
Operating System: Android 4.1
CPU: NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30L Quad-Core@1.2Ghz
Memory: 1GB
Hard Drive: 16GB
Display: 7" WXGA (1280x800) Screen, IPS Panel, 10 finger multi-touch support
Wireless: WLAN 802.11 b/g/n@2.4GHz
Bluetooth: Yes
Webcam: 1.2 MP Front Camera
Expansion Slots: N/A
I/O Ports: 2-in-1 Audio Jack (head-out/MIC), 1x micro-USB, 2x Digital microphone,2x High Quality Speakers, 1x Docking PIN
Keyboard: N/A
Pointing Device/s: G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Gyroscope, E-compass, GPS, NFC, Hall Sensor
Battery: 9.5 hours, 4325mAh,*2 16Wh Li-polymer
Dimemsions: 198.5 x 120 x 10.45 mm
Weight: 340 g.
