Nexus 7 Tablet vs. Kindle Fire vs. the Rest: Spec Smackdown (Chart) - duganwoured

Google's Nexus 7 tablet, the company's Android Jelly egg-hopped-up device, is heavy on the specs as it guns for Amazon's Kindle Fire and the Nook Lozenge. IT's not only the form factor and screen size up Google is challenging its competitors on, merely also the price — starting at $200 — which means consumers will have quite a a choice for a 7-inch Android pad of paper at this price point.

The Nexus 7 is manufactured by Asus for Google and joins the Nexus line of products from the search company, which theoretically are meant to cost a guideline for other Android manufacturers. However, unlike Humanoid phones, for which the Nexus line just showed Google's vision for the weapons platform, tablets with the OS have non been selling all right — unless they feed Android in an unrecognizable forg, such as the Elicit Fire, which quickly became the add up two pad of paper happening the market behind the iPad.

This changes with the Nexus 7 though. The tablet is non only approaching at the same low-altitude price point as the Kindle Flack and the Corner Tablet, but it too tops them on many specs. Let's take how the specs of the Nexus 7 compare with the Evoke Terminat, Nook Tablet and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), which runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Nexus 7 Tablet vs. Kindle Fire and the Field: Spec Smackdown

The Nexus 7 comes with 8GB of reposition for the submission example at $200, which is in wrinkle with all the other tablets in this comparison. The difference is that the Tab 2.0 and Nook Tablet have expandable repositing via microSD, patc the Fire and Nexus 7 lack this option — a potential bargain breaker for those who need much the 16 GB you could get along on a higher-stop Nexus tablet ($250).

Google's tablet is also the thinnest and lightest among the four, although information technology packs a 4325 mAh battery, sufficiency juice for 8 hours, Google says, and a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, the fastest therein field. As for RAM, the Nexus 7 comes with 1GB, on par with the Tab 2 and the 16GB version of the Nook Pill ($250), and double what's on the Kindle Fire.

Then there's the important test, which at 7-inches packs 1280-by-800 pixels resolution — that's 216 pixel density — a notch above the other tablets. In that location's a 1.2MP camera (and microphone) along the front for video calls, just there's no television camera on the back — altogether an improvement over the tv camera-less Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire. The only tablet with threefold cameras in the comparison is the Galaxy Tab 2.

If you can get over the fact that there's no expandable storage on the Nexus 7, in that location are several other goodies compact in the tablet that the competition lacks. That includes NFC hold for Android Electron beam wireless transfers, Bluetooth and GPS, which the Fire and Nook lack. The Nexus 7 also comes with all Google services and apps (including Google Play), which means you have access to a a good deal wider selection of software than on the Kindle and Corner, which apply their own app stores and interface on top on Android.

Heretofore, the Nexus 7 looks like the Android tablet to beat — unless Amazon comes up with a refreshed Arouse Firing soon, which would amend connected specs and address some of the weaker points of the pad. Only until then, the high-res display and all the superfluous goodies you get with the Nexus 7 (that includes first access to bran-new Android Oculus sinister releases) make it a skilled choice for a budget 7-inch tablet.

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