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Google Nexus 7 tablet
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Google made its long-awaited debut into the tablet wars on Wednesday,
unveiling the Nexus 7 to compete with Apple’s dominant iPad as well as
the recently announced Microsoft Surface.
The Nexus 7, developed in conjunction with Asus, features a 7-inch
(17.8-centimetre) screen, making it smaller but more portable and
lighter than its main competitors, which both feature screens of about
10 inches (25 centimetres). That places it in direct competition with
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, which is by far the most successful running
on Google’s Android operating system.
The Nexus 7 goes on sale for $199 effective immediately on Google’s
online store Google Play, with delivery starting in the U.S., Britain,
Canada and Australia in mid-July, Google said. That makes it far more
affordable than Apple’s cheapest iPad, the older model iPad 2, which
sells for $399.
The Nexus 7 weighs just 340 grams, features an Nvidia Tegra quad core
processor and a battery allowing for up to nine hours of video play on
its 1280x800 pixel screen, or 300 hours of standby(there is no 3G / 4G option).There's also a 1.2-megapixel front-facing
camera and all the sensors you'd expect from a modern slate, including
NFC.It ships with
Google’s popular Chrome browser as the default programme for surfing the
web. It also features Google Now, a refinement of Google’s search
service that provides personal information gleaned from your Google
history, rather than mere internet links.
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| Google's Cheryl Pon demonstrates the new Google Nexus 7 tablet at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco |
Android upgraded
Google unveiled the device at its developers conference in San
Francisco, where the company gave details of its latest version of
Android, nicknamed Jelly Bean, which improves major components such as
touch, search, notifications and Google Maps.
Also revealed at the conference was the Google Q, a home entertainment
hub that streams movies, music and other content, designed to compete
with Apple TV and other entertainment hubs.
Google said some 1 million Android devices are newly activated around
the world every day, with 400 million Android devices now in use.
In another mark of the rocketing popularity of Google’s mobile operating
system, Google said that its online store now boasts more than 600,000
apps, with 1.5 billion apps downloaded by users every day.
Google glasses
Google co-founder Sergey Brin announced that the company’s
network-enabled computerized eyeglasses would be made available for
pre-order to the 5,000 developers attending Google’s I/O developer
conference in San Francisco. The price: 1,500 dollars.
Mr. Brin showcased the glasses in one of the most unusual tech demos
ever held. It involved teams of skydivers, cyclists and rapellers
combining to bring Brin a set of the high tech specs, while using the
devices to beam live video of the event over Google Hangouts, the
company’s social networking video conferencing tool.
The glasses, which are actually wearable mini-computers in the shape of
eyeglasses, use a tiny projector fixed just above the user’s eye-level
to beam information directly into the user’s field of vision. The
futuristic device can be controlled via voice commands or tiny buttons
embedded in the frame.
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