The Google Nexus 7 Tablet Is Officially Official

The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally come today during the Google I/O Keynote speech that just ended. Google announced the much anticipated ASUS Google Nexus 7 tablet. And I must tell you, this thing appears to be a total beast!! However, it’s quite a beautiful looking beast at that! This tablet is a must have!!

There are two versions available to order directly from the Google Play Store. One is the 8GB for $199 and the second is the 16GB at $249. Yeah, that’s damn right, you read those prices correctly. That’s dirt cheap for a tablet in the first place. But wait until you see the specs of this thing. It’s a quad-core tablet with 12-core GPU. That’s 16 total cores working within this little 7″ tablet to make it the best thing since sliced bread in my opinion!

The best thing about this tablet in my opinion isn’t just the price, but the fact that it comes with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. For those of you who didn’t get to catch the keynote speech, there are a LOT of new improvements to Jelly Bean over Ice Cream Sandwich that are going to be totally awesome.  However, there are other posts that will be speaking about that specifically, so I’ll leave it to those posts here on our site to go into those details. You can see that post here: Jelly Bean 4.1

SCREEN

7” 1280x800 HD display (216 ppi)

Back-lit IPS display

Scratch-resistant Corning glass

1.2MP front-facing camera

SIZE

198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm

MEMORY

8 GB and 16 GB internal storage

1 GB RAM

CPU

Quad-core Tegra 3 processor

OS

Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

BATTERY

4325 mAh (Up to 8 hours of active use)

FEATURES

Microphone

NFC (Android Beam)

Accelerometer

GPS

Magnetometer

Gyroscope

If you want to order one of these, hit the link below. I can tell you I’ve got an order in for both the 8GB and 16GB versions. The 8GB will be mine, while my dad will be getting his first tablet ever and will have the 16GB version. Let us know if you have already placed your order for one or if you plan on doing so in the very near future.

Google Play Store: Nexus 7 Order Page