Google wants to foray itself into the tablet market by launching its own Nexus branded tablet tomorrow in the company’s developer conference to be held in California.
This rumoured upcoming tablet from Google is expected to be called Nexus 7. Nexus 7 as per the rumours will be manufactured by Asus for Google.
Features and rumoured specifications:
This new tablet will use Android ICS 4.1 (codenamed Jelly Bean) as its main operating system. The screen size will be 7 inch and it will feature Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset with 1.3 GHz quad core CPU. If the leaks or rumours are to be believed than this tablet will feature 1 GB RAM which is more as compared to apple iPad and Kindle Fire. It will also have a 1.2 MP secondary camera for video recording. It will be available in two models 8 GB/ 16 GB depending upon the internal storage.
Competition:
This new Nexus tablet from Google will face competition manly from Apple’s iPad. Though if one decides on the basis of specifications than Nexus 7 will easily maul away iPad. But iPad’s strength is not in its specifications but instead its main strength is in the availability of apps for its operating system IOS. IOS app store has vast variety of applications designed specifically for iPad but on the other Google does not reveal if there are any apps designed specifically for Android Tablets on Android market.