Google Nexus 7 Price & Specifications

The original Google Nexus 7 was unarguably one of the most widely acclaimed gadgets of 2012. Among the several reasons of its success, was the element that it came at a price tag which made it accessible to almost everybody.

Now, after one year, Google has made the successor to the Nexus 7 official. The new Nexus 7 comes with a number of new, important features,  better internals, including a better and more portable design a hugely-better display and rear-camera.

The display of the original Nexus 7 was already fine with a resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels but Google has upped it even further, intensely, to 1200 x 1920 pixels. Protection is supported out by Corning Gorilla Glass.

It comes with completely improved hardware now. In Google Nexus 7 the storage options have been made enhanced, stature from 8 and 16 GB versions to 16 and 32 GB. The amount of RAM is also increased to up to 2 GB from 1. As for the processor, the new Nexus 7 approaches with a new quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, clocked at 2 GHz on a Krait CPU, up from NVidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor.

Last year’s Nexus 7 came with only a front-camera as a rear one might have increased costs. This year, that was thinkable so the new Nexus 7 pretensions a 5 megapixel camera at the back, proficient of doing 1080p Complete HD video. To be honest, a rear-camera on a tablet doesn't make much sense but it’s definitely better than having nothing at all.

The tablet is also much more convenient. It’s a full 50g lighter and 1.8mm stripper than last year’s offering.

Here are thespecifications of the tablet:

Latest Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

7 inch display with resolution of 1200 x 1920 pixels

Corning Gorilla Glass protection and 10-point touchscreen

8.7 mm thick

290g heavy

1.5 GHz quad-core SnapDragon S4 Pro processor and Adreno 320 GPU

2 GB RAM and 16/32 GB non-expandable storage

5 megapixel rear-camera with 1080p Full HD video

1.2 megapixel front-camera

Dual-band WI-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0, NFC, HDMI

Support for Wireless Charging and Google Wallet

3950 mAh battery

Available in Black

The new Nexus 7 is a bit pricier compared to the last year’s offering. The 16 GB version costs $230 now while the 32 GB is available for $270. That’s more expensive compared to last year’s tablets which cost $200 (8 GB) and $250 (16 GB). But you simply can’t ignore the fact that this year’s models come with twice the storing capacity, much, much better power under the hood and a monumentally better display, because of these, the price difference is more than justified.

The new Nexus 7 will hit the markets worldwide in the starting of the then month. The best all-round 7 inch account on the market just got even better!

At its announcement, Google called the original Nexus 7 the tablet which started the power of Android in the tablet scene. Will the new Nexus 7 turn that supremacy into an undoubted lead until the arrival of its successor? That remains to be seen.