Google sent all Google I/O attendees home with a Nexus 7 and offered those not at the conference the ability to pre-order the $199 tablet starting moments after its official announcement with the promise to ship those tablets mid-July.
Friday it made good on that promise, announcing it had begun shipping pre-orders from Google Play via a post on Google+:
“Locked and loaded, ready to play: we’ve started shipping +Nexus 7 pre-orders today!”
Essentially Google’s answer to the Kindle Fire, the 7-inch tablet packs quite a punch in its small frame. The tablet has a 1280×800 HD display (216 ppi) and a 12-core CPU, the device packs a heavy punch under its exterior.
The Asus-manufactured tablet is also the first 7-inch tablet with a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor.
The Nexus 7 is also being sold at a number of other retail locations including GameStop and is available in a 8GB version for $199 and a 16GB version for $249.
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