Director Chris Yerga of Google engineer shows the new “Nexus 7″ tablet produced by Asus. Photo: AFP.
tablet 7-inch (17.8 centimeters) diagonally, manufactured by the Taiwanese company Asus (Asustek Computer) and equipped with the system Google’s Android OS has a thickness of less than 2 mm and is slightly narrower than the previous version, launched last year.
“It’s really a big difference when you have it in hand. enters much more easily in a purse or coat, “said Hugo Barra, vice president of Google Mobile, Android, putting the device in his back pocket to present to journalists.
Google also highlighted the new HD screen and high-performance speakers.
Customers in the U.S. can buy from next Tuesday in the online store Google Play and shops at a starting price of $ 229. In the next few weeks will be on sale in Canada, UK, Spain, France, Australia and South Korea.
Google has become the main rival to Apple for mobile devices, to the extent that its Android software is used by a variety of manufacturers of smartphones and tablets.“Almost one in two tablets sold worldwide use Android,” he said on Wednesday the head of this division, Sundar Pichai.
More than 70 million Android tablets have been activated to date in the world.
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