Google Nexus 7 now in India

 Asus Google Nexus 7

The long-awaited Google Nexus 7 tablet is now available in India. Some online retailers are selling the 8 GB version of Google Nexus 7 tablet in India at around Rs 17,000, with a promised shipping time of around 2 weeks.

Although Nexus 7 carries the Google brand, the machine is made by ASUS. Google Nexus 7 is powered by quad-core processor 1.3 GHz Tegra 3 and it runs on the latest Android operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Google Nexus 7 is the first tablet to run on this operating system.

Google Nexus 7 has a 1.2 MP camera that can be used of video calling or taking pictures.

Other features

GENERAL	2G Network	N/A
	Announced	2012, June
	Status	Available. Released 2012, July
BODY	Dimensions	198.5 x 120 x 10.5 mm
	Weight	340 g
DISPLAY	Type	LED-backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	800 x 1280 pixels, 7.0 inches (~216 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass
SOUND	Alert types	N/A
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	8/16 GB storage, 1GB RAM
DATA	GPRS	No
	EDGE	No
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
	Bluetooth	Yes
	NFC	Yes
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA	Primary	1.2 MP
	Features	Video-calling
	Video	Yes, 720p
	Secondary	No
FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v4.1 (Jelly Bean)
	Chipset	Nvidia Tegra 3
	CPU	Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9
	GPU	ULP GeForce
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
	Messaging	Email, Push Email, IM, RSS
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	No
	GPS	Yes
	Java	No
	Colors	Black
		- Google Wallet - SNS integration - MP4/DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263/WMV player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player - Organizer - Image/video editor - Document viewer - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration - Voice memo - Predictive text input (Swype)
BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 4325 mAh
	Talk time	Up to 10 h

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The nine-year old company has experienced an explosion in popularity since launching on Facebook little over a year ago with its saga games, in which players move through a competitive landscape and pass their friends on the way.

The games appeal to a growing trend for players, more and more of them female, to play puzzle games with their friends in short bursts, especially as games are increasingly played on the move on phones or tablets to kill spare minutes.

Bubble Witch Saga, King.com's top Facebook game, now has more daily players than Zynga's hit game Farmville, in which players have to invest longer periods of time in activities like planting virtual crops and raising livestock.

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Instagram says that as of the end of 2011, its users had uploaded some 400 million photos or about 60 pix per second, suggesting the sort of activity that Facebook seeks as it tries to wring revenue from mobile devices. Instagram launched its Android app just last week, garnering more than one million downloads already.

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"We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience," Zuckerberg said.

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YouTube, the world's most popular online video website, streams 4 billion videos every day and its users upload more than 60 hours of video to the site every minute. Although much of the content on YouTube consists of home videos that are free to watch, YouTube has increasingly added professionally-produced content, some of it available to rent for a fee.

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Consumers can rent the films, generally for 24 hours or 48 hours, for anywhere from $2.99 to $3.99.

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