Today at a special event in California, Google announced Android 4.3 and a revised Nexus 7 tablet. Android boss Sundar Pichai mentioned that one out of two tablets run Android. With the new Nexus 7, its apparent Google is taking the tablet market seriously. The original Nexus 7 was launched last year with mediocre specs. It ran a NVIDIA Tetra 3 processor and had a horribly low resolution display of 1280 x 800. It originally was only offered in 8 GB and 16 GB storage configurations but was later bumped up to 16 and 32 GB configurations.
Fast Forward to 2013 and along comes the New Nexus 7 or Nexus 7 II as some are calling it. The tablet features a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2 GB of RAM and has a much, much better screen resolution of 1920 x 1280 pixels. This works out to a PPI rating of about 320, the highest ever on a seven inch tablet.
Powering this amazing tablet is Android 4.3 which yes is still called Jelly Bean. Android 4.3 brings support for Bluetooth 4.0 low energy, which will allow better support for wearable devices like smart watches for example. 4.3 brings support for OpenGL ES 3.0 which should improve graphics performance and Android 4.3 also improves the dialer app to include auto- complete for phone numbers (something Samsung and HTC have had been supporting for years but was omitted from stock Android.) 4.3 also brings added functionality to user accounts on tablets and even improved battery life.
The new Nexus 7 will go on sale in the United States first on July 30th for $229 for the 16 GB model (WiFi) $269 for the 32 GB (WiFi) and $349 for the 32 GB ) LTE model (which will support T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon). The device will launch in additional markets in the coming weeks after that. It will be available directly from the Google Play Store as well as several retailers.
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