![]() ![]() Display and soundīudget tablets typically make the biggest sacrifices on the display front, and certainly the 1,024 x 600 resolution on the Kindle Fire feels a bit constricting at this point. #Nexus 7 Bluetooth#WiFi (802.11b/g/n) is your only option for data connectivity, though there's naturally Bluetooth and NFC, not to mention GPS, an accelerometer, a digital compass and a gyroscope, too. As there's no microSD expansion here, you'll probably want to pay the extra cash. On the inside is an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor running at 1.2GHz (though it can step up to 1.3GHz when it wants to) and paired with 1GB of RAM with either eight or 16 gigs of flash storage (doubling the capacity will cost you a $50 premium). Its curved edges, too, make it far more comfortable. That's a very noticeable difference and it makes the Nexus 7 much nicer to carry around. But, crucially, it weighs much less: 340g (12 ounces) versus 413g (14.6 ounces) for the Fire. It measures 10.45mm (0.41 inches) thick, which is just half a millimeter thinner than the Kindle Fire - itself no slender belle. Even so, the tablet has a very sturdy, strong feel to it - but that's partly thanks to it being just a little bit chunky. It looks like brushed metal, but feels more like plastic. #Nexus 7 full#Just the silvery ring that runs around the full device. On the left edge of the device, similar dock contacts to those found on the Galaxy Nexus can be found, presumably waiting to be tickled by some future accessory, while up top you'll find. ![]() ( You can, of course, use an MHL adapter if you like.) Thankfully, ASUS's proprietary connector found on the Transformer tablets doesn't make an appearance here, but neither do we get a dedicated HDMI output, which is a bit of a bummer. Centered down there is a micro-USB connector and, to the far right side when looking at the display, the 3.5mm headphone jack. It's a slit that runs roughly two-thirds of the way across the back, centered and sitting about a half-inch above the bottom - which is, by the way, where you'll find the tablet's only ports. Move further down toward the bottom of the back and you'll find the device's single speaker. (Even the FCC logo and other noise are on a piece of plastic you can easily peel off.) There's also no camera lens poking out here, as the 1.2-megapixel shooter up front is all you get. That's it, though: understated and sophisticated. There are two other logos to be found, though, starting with the Nexus branding embossed in big letters on the top, with a much smaller ASUS graphic on the bottom. While there's no MOMO logo to be found, the feel is much the same and, we presume, rather more durable. #Nexus 7 skin#No cow shed its skin to cover the back of this tablet, of that we can assure you, but the dimpled pattern here is not unlike the sort you might find on leather-wrapped racecar steering wheels. Though the cost is the big talking point about this tablet, you'd certainly never know it just by holding the thing. Yes, it is rubber, but it's very nicely textured, nice enough to fool one tech journalist into thinking it was leather. Okay, so there's more polycarbonate than panache here, but the design of the Nexus 7 feels reasonably high-end, starting with that rubberized back. Though that low cost is the big talking point about this tablet, you'd certainly never know it just by holding the thing. It's called the Nexus 7, it too is $200, and it's better than Amazon's offering in every way but one.%Gallery-159346% The latest challenger to enter the competition is ASUS, partnering with Google to create the first Nexus tablet, a device that not only will amaze with its MSRP, but with its quality. A flood of cheap, truly awful slates preceded Amazon's Kindle Fire, the $200 tablet from a major brand that looks to have been the proper catalyst in plunging prices. Sony was wrong, its stance lasting about a year before joining the competition with its own VAIO W.įour years on we're buying better laptops than ever before and, with the netbook class now more or less dead, that downward competition seems to have shifted to the tablet front. The " race to the bottom," the company said, would profoundly impact the industry, killing profit margins and flooding the market with cheap, terrible machines. #Nexus 7 Pc#In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. ![]()
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