Asus has confirmed that it will be launching the Nexus 7 in India tomorrow. The tablet is already listed at Croma’s online store for Rs 19,981 for the 16GB model.
The Asus Nexus 7 was announced back at Google I/O in June and since then it has become a best seller. Asus in fact went on to say in its recent earnings call that it has almost been selling one million units a month.
The Nexus 7 was the flagship Android 4.1 Jelly Bean device that was a collaborated effort between Google and Asus. Initially Google had priced the device at $199 for the 8GB model and $249 for the 16GB model, but earlier this month it discontinued the 8GB model and announced a 16GB model at $199 and a new 32GB model at $249.
Apart from being a pure Google experience Android device, it has a 7-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels and has an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor tied in with 1GB of RAM.
Key Specifications:
- 7-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels
- Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz
- 16GB of internal memory
- 1GB of RAM
- Front-facing camera
- 9 hours of battery life
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
mc_g (India) 1 day ago
ReplyDeleteWhether it's Apple or Google, most foreign companies treat Indian customers like Indians are unwanted. Apple generally launches a backdated product in India when a better version of that product is introduced in US and others parts of the world (iPhone 5 was slight exception). Google's Nexus 7 was available in most countries - except in India - from beginning of launch of the product. Now, as Google's updated version of Nexus 7 is out in most countries, we hear Google Nexus 7 "will be" available in India. But, as I write the comment, it's not yet available in India (I checked their store). And how come the price of the tablet Rs. 19,990 in India when it's $199 in US? It just is clear they treat Indians poorly. In this situation, Indians and Indian companies should start creating their own cool stuffs. When US denied to give supercomputer to India, we Indians created our own supercomputer. Then what's a big deal in creating a tablet? We can very much create our own cool stuffs and we should start doing that now. After all, it's the work of Indian engineers (and engineers from other countries too) that allows Google or such companies to build cool products. If you fellow Indian engineers and entrepreneurs have minimum self respect, then stop waiting for Google or others to throw their surplus or backdated product at us at excess price. Let's stop being happy to own a backdated iPhone. Let's create with pride our own cool "Made in India" products.