Google has successfully unveiled the second generation Nexus 7 tablet at the company’s press event several hours ago. The new Nexus 7 tablet is slimmer, lighter with higher resolution screen, improved performance, dual-speakers, LTE support (optional) and on top of that is the Android OS update to version 4.3. Read on for more details.
The new Nexus 7 is still a 7-inch tablet, but now equipped with a higher resolution screen display capped at 1920×1200 resolution, which translates into pixel density of 323 PPI. Previous model has pixel density of just 216. Yes, the texts and graphics appear crisp and sharper than ever.
The ASUS-built tablet is powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 Pro quad-core processor coupled with an Adreno 320 GPU, 2GB of RAM and two choices of storage size – 16GB and 32GB. The tablet is measured at thickness of just 8.65mm and weighing just 317.5 grams.
In addition to that, there is a new 5MP rear camera, a 1.2MP front-facing camera, dual stereo speakers (and virtual surround sound from Fraunhofer), WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, wireless charging, slim port support for playing 1080p video on your TV and not forgetting the tablet runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box.
Check out the latest Nexus 7 videos uploaded to Youtube.
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Availability and Pricing
Both WiFi-only 16GB and 32GB models costs $229 and $269 respectively. The new Nexus 7 will go on sale starting July 30 in the Google Play Store in US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, Japan and South Korea, with more countries “coming soon”.
By the way, LTE model is making its way soon.
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