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Thursday, 23 August 2012

Google's First Tablet Nexus 7 Launched; Nexus 7 Specifications



As expected, Google released its first tablet Nexus 7 on the first day of its ongoing annual developer conference Google I/O, which begun on Wednesday in San Francisco.


Nexus 7 is a new tablet with a vibrant, 7" 1280x800 HD display, powerful, portable and designed for Google Play. It comes preloaded with some great entertainment, including the movie "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," the book "The Bourne Dominion," magazines like Condé Nast Traveler and Popular Science, and songs from bands like Coldplay and the Rolling Stones.


Google Play is digital entertainment source, with more than 600,000 apps and games plus music, movies and books. It's entirely cloud-based, which means all of your content is always available across all of your devices. Google will also offer magazines, episodes of broadcast and cable TV shows, purchase and rent movies etc.

The Nexus 7 will be the first device to ship with Jelly Bean, a new version of Android. Jelly Bean uses cards to help gets the right information at the right time.

"Starting in mid-July, we'll start rolling out over-the-air updates to Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom and Nexus S, and we'll also release Jelly Bean to open source," said Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content.

Tablet Nexus 7 Specifications

Google's new tablet has 7" 1280x800 HD display. It features 1.3GHz Nvidia Tegra-3 chipset, with a quad-core CPU and 12-core Graphics Processing Unit GPU, making everything, including games, extremely fast. And best of all, it's only 340 grams, lighter than most tablets out there. It is the first 7 inch tablet with a quad core processor.

Nexus 7 has 1.2-megapixel front camera with 8GB memory.

Price of Tablet Nexus 7

Nexus 7 is available for preorder from Google Play in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia, and starts at $199 in the U.S. It will start shipping in mid-July. It is expected to be available in India soon though the search giant has not announced it.

($1=Rs.57 approximately)

Google's Tablet Nexus 7 Demo

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HTC launches dual-SIM Desire V in India



NEW DELHI: Less than a month after HTC launched its dual-SIM Desire V smartphone in the international market, the handset is now available in India on some retail websites.

The online retailer Flipkart is selling HTC Desire V dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) smartphone for Rs 21,999. Desire V comes packed with 1GHZ single-core processor and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with HTC Sense 4.0.


It also boasts of a 4-inch WVGA display and offers dual-SIM with dual standby. HTC's latest release, however, restricts the use of 3G to only one SIM. The alternate SIM offers GPRS support only. Desire V comes loaded with Beats Audio support apart from a 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash.

Key specs:

* Weight: 114 g

* Dimensions: 118.5 x 62.3 x 9.3 mm

* OS: Android 4.0 ICS with HTC Sense 4

* Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7227A, 1GHz processor

* Display: 4-inch, 480x800 pixels

* Camera: 5 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash

* Storage: 4GB internal memory, slot for microSD cards
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