Google's Nexus 7: The Latest Entry in the Tablet Wars

Business users swear by Google's Android mobile devices have several new products to forward to. At its I/O developer's conference today in San Francisco, search giant announced a new tablet computer called the Nexus 7, as as several new features for the new Android 4.1 operating system called "Jelly Bean."

Google's play the tablet market comes the heels of Microsoft's launch of Surface last week, and Apple's new iPad several weeks before . The Nexus 7 was built by computer maker Asus and features a 7-inch 1280×800 high-definition display, is smaller and offers less resolution the new iPad's Retina screen. It in 8GB and 16GB models, priced at $199 and $249 -- an attractive selling point for anyone who's in the market a new tablet.

The Nexus 7 also will run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, is the latest iteration of Google's popular OS. It will become available across many Android-powered smartphones.

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Jelly Bean includes cache of interesting features businesses and consumers, including a voice recognition tool -- like Apple's Siri -- that answers questions and performs searches. For entrepreneurs the go, Google says the new voice-activated typing function will work without internet connection.

The new Android OS will also include a service Google Now, which mines your search and location history and your calendar to help guide . "Google Now figures when you commute from home to work and , and tells you how your commute takes usually, and gives you a faster if there's lot of traffic," Hugo Barra, Google's director of product management, said during event. "On public transit, if you're on the platform a subway, Google tells you when the next bus or train arrive."

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The Nexus 7 tablet is expected to start shipping the next two weeks. On smartphones, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will begin rolling on the Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom and Galaxy S starting in mid-July, Google says.


Adapted from: entrepreneur.com, June 27, 2012.