Nexus 7 Tablet: Mega Value for your money

Along with the revealing of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, there was loads of other goodies that Google took time to share and discuss with its developers and users.

One of them that should not be missed is the unveiling of an awesome tablet, Google Nexus 7 Tablet.


This is one monster of a tablet for a fraction of the price you would have to pay for other tablets near similar specs. Not only that, this bad puppy will also run on 4.1 Jelly Bean, fully taking advantage of the latest updates.

All you have to pay for this great piece of technology is:

• USD199 for 8GB (internal storage) version

• USD 249 for 16GB  (internal storage) version

That would be like 700-800 Ringgit only! Take my money now!!!

Just try comparing this to the local tablet which a local maker is trying to sell for 999 Ringgit known as 1Malaysia Pad (click to view specs)

Here is a quick rundown on the specs for Google Nexus 7 Tablet:

• 7 inch IPS display - 1280 x 800 pixels

• 1.3GHz quad-core Tegra 3

• 1GB Ram

• 12 core ultra-low voltage Nvidia GeForce GPU

• 8GB or 16GB internal storage

• WiFi, Bluetooth & NFC (Google Wallet enabled)

• No 3G model (yet, probably in the near future)

• Front facing 1.2MP camera

• No rear camera :(

• Dimensions: 198.5 x 120 x 10.5 mm

• Weigh - 340 grams

• Battery - 4325 mAh 

How can someone not love all that sexiness squeezed into a 7 inch tablet for a couple of hundred bucks?

Promo video for the tablet:

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Time to have some Jelly Bean!

While were busy sleeping an all last nigh, Google I/O 2012 kicked off and revealed loads of goodies that will come in the near future. Google introduced it's latest sweet treat mobile OS, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.


In a nutshell, Jelly Bean will offer Android users:

• Framerate has been increased to 60 FPS

• Vsync is enabled

• Triple Buffering is enabled.

• Text Input improvement

• Voice Typing no longer requires network connection

• Improved Voice search - time for Siri to hide?

• Resizeable Widgets - finally, I have been waiting for so long...

• Improvement to predictive keyboard

• 18 new input languages

• Improved CPU utilization - faster is better!

• Improved Accessibility for the blind

• Camera App update - pinch to view in film strip

• Android Beam update- Video sharing via NFC and NFC pairing by just bumping with NFC enabled device

• Notifications update - now able to make phone calls, view multiple emails, able to expand apps all within the notification shade overlay

• Revamped mobile search

• Google Now - gives you search result information at the right time.

• eg. map/direction searches gives you directions now with how much time to get there, estimated arrival time, etc.

4.1 update will be pushed to some devices like Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S by mid July 2012, so expect it to hit the rest of the newer devices running on ICS after that.

Just some numbers from Google boasting about Android; 1 million Android users are activated everyday up from 400,000.

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