Although hurricane Sandy put paid to Google's New York presentation event yesterday, the firm just couldn't keep the lid on its new products. As well as presenting a couple of new Nexus 7 tablets, Google yesterday unveiled a Nexus 4 smartphone, starting at £239, and a spec-packed 10.1" tablet starting at £319. There may have been no flashy presentation event in the end, but Google has teamed up with South Korea's finest to take the tech market by storm.
The rumours about Google's new Nexus mobile and tablets turned out to be pretty accurate. The latest Nexus products were officially unveiled yesterday, and it looks like Google is set to hit the market hard.
The Nexus 10 10.1" tablet is built by Samsung, with a look that's clearly inspired by the Galaxy Note 10.1. The Google tablet, however, is finished in black and its tech specs have been seriously boosted, with a 1.7 GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 processor, 2 GB of RAM and the Mali T604 GPY graphics chip. That's pretty heavyweight stuff in the current tablet market—but it gets better—as that little lot is topped off with a 2560 x 1600 pixel screen (300 dpi)!
Connectivity is covered by NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi (MiMo) b/g/n. There are micro USB and micro HDMI connections, plus a 3.5 mm headphones jack. Google has turned its back on microSD slots to push people towards the firm's Drive online storage facility. The internal memory of these new Nexus products therefore can't be expanded. The Nexus 10 comes with a 9000 mAh battery, promising nine hours of video playback.
The price tag is pretty impressive too, as the 16 GB Nexus 10 is announced at £319, while the 32 GB model will sell for £389. It'll be out on 13 November in the Google Play Store. With Microsoft's Surface and Apple's iPad Mini and iPad 4 outed just last week, Google already seems to have upped the ante on the tech front (in theory, at least) and come up with a product that's considerably cheaper!
Google isn't doing things by halves with its Nexus 4 smartphone either. This LG-made mobile has a 4.7" True HD IPS screen (as seen in the LG Optimus 4X HD) with 1280 x 768 pixels. It runs on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5 GHz quad-core processor that recently burst onto the market armed with all kinds of impressive benchmarks. There's 2 GB of RAM, as well as NFC, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, an 8-Megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2-Megapixel front-facing webcam.
The Nexus 4 is compatible with HSPA+ but not 4G. However, you'll still be able to enjoy 3G+ networking at up to 21 Mbit/s.
This handset is cheap as chips too, starting at £239 for the 8 GB model or £279 for the 16 GB version. It'll be out on 13 November in the Google Play Store. All in all, the Nexus 4 is a pretty bargainous phone given its specs! We were expecting to see Chinese phone-makers like Huawei and ZTE trump everyone with their cheap, spec-rich mobiles, but Google's drive to push Android with its own seriously competitive products looks set to make some waves.
Both of these Nexus devices run on Android 4.2. New features here include multiple user accounts so each family member can have their own session on a given device, and a Photo Sphere mode for shooting 360° panoramic shots. Google Now has also been reworked.
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The rumours about Google's new Nexus mobile and tablets turned out to be pretty accurate. The latest Nexus products were officially unveiled yesterday, and it looks like Google is set to hit the market hard.
The Nexus 10 10.1" tablet is built by Samsung, with a look that's clearly inspired by the Galaxy Note 10.1. The Google tablet, however, is finished in black and its tech specs have been seriously boosted, with a 1.7 GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 processor, 2 GB of RAM and the Mali T604 GPY graphics chip. That's pretty heavyweight stuff in the current tablet market—but it gets better—as that little lot is topped off with a 2560 x 1600 pixel screen (300 dpi)!
Connectivity is covered by NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi (MiMo) b/g/n. There are micro USB and micro HDMI connections, plus a 3.5 mm headphones jack. Google has turned its back on microSD slots to push people towards the firm's Drive online storage facility. The internal memory of these new Nexus products therefore can't be expanded. The Nexus 10 comes with a 9000 mAh battery, promising nine hours of video playback.
The price tag is pretty impressive too, as the 16 GB Nexus 10 is announced at £319, while the 32 GB model will sell for £389. It'll be out on 13 November in the Google Play Store. With Microsoft's Surface and Apple's iPad Mini and iPad 4 outed just last week, Google already seems to have upped the ante on the tech front (in theory, at least) and come up with a product that's considerably cheaper!
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Google isn't doing things by halves with its Nexus 4 smartphone either. This LG-made mobile has a 4.7" True HD IPS screen (as seen in the LG Optimus 4X HD) with 1280 x 768 pixels. It runs on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5 GHz quad-core processor that recently burst onto the market armed with all kinds of impressive benchmarks. There's 2 GB of RAM, as well as NFC, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, an 8-Megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2-Megapixel front-facing webcam.
The Nexus 4 is compatible with HSPA+ but not 4G. However, you'll still be able to enjoy 3G+ networking at up to 21 Mbit/s.
This handset is cheap as chips too, starting at £239 for the 8 GB model or £279 for the 16 GB version. It'll be out on 13 November in the Google Play Store. All in all, the Nexus 4 is a pretty bargainous phone given its specs! We were expecting to see Chinese phone-makers like Huawei and ZTE trump everyone with their cheap, spec-rich mobiles, but Google's drive to push Android with its own seriously competitive products looks set to make some waves.
Both of these Nexus devices run on Android 4.2. New features here include multiple user accounts so each family member can have their own session on a given device, and a Photo Sphere mode for shooting 360° panoramic shots. Google Now has also been reworked.
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