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The Google I/O opening keynote came and went without the announcement of any new hardware (unless you count the Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android). But that doesn’t mean we won’t see some new devices from Google soon.

A sharp-eyed reddit user noticed that the Nexus 7 tablet in a promo video from Google Hangouts had an unusual feature.

Google Nexus 7 with status LED

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4 replies on “Lilbits (5-16-2013): New Nexus 7?”

  1. Yeah, if the next Nexus doesn’t have an SD slot, it’s as dead as the current Nexus as far as I’m concerned.

  2. A notification LED…okay.
    Unless the notification is that it now has an SD card slot I think I would dismiss this as a real easy gimmick to work into their tablet to freshen it a bit.

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