The Google Nexus 7 is a pretty great tablet right out of the box. It has a speedy NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. But before doing anything else with my Nexus 7 when it arrived, I wanted to unlock the bootloader, […]
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Google Nexus 7 tablet starts shipping
Google’s new flagship tablet is now available… to some customers. If you ordered a Google Nexus 7 from the Google Play Store, it will probably ship any day now. But if you pre-ordered one from Gamestop, there’s a good chance it’s ready for pickup. A number of folks have received calls from their local Gamestop […]
Android 4.1 UI is different for 7, 10 inch tablets
Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was the first version of Google’s mobile operating system designed to run on phones and tablets. But it doesn’t look exactly the same on both devices. On a phone the notification bar is at the top of the screen, while on a tablet it’s merged with the task bar at […]
How to enable Android’s tablet UI on the Google Nexus 7
The Google Nexus 7 may be the first tablet to ship with Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. But like Android 4.0, Jelly Bean has slightly different user interfaces for smartphones and tablets — and for some reason Google decided to make the smartphone UI the default on the Nexus 7 tablet. If you’d rather use […]
Google Nexus 7 dissected, analyzed
The folks at iFixit provide instructions and tools for repairing your own consumer electronics devices. But over the past few years they’ve earned a reputation for posting detailed tear-down guides of the latest tech. Today’s entry? The Google Nexus 7 tablet. We already knew that Google’s new tablet features an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, […]
Google Nexus 7 hacking begins (root, custom recovery, system dump, more)
The Google Nexus 7 is an Android tablet with a 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and a starting price of just $199. It’s also Google’s latest flagship device aimed at least in part at developers. So it should come as no surprise that it’s extraordinarily […]
Google Nexus 7 tablet now available for $199 and up
Google is now taking orders for the Nexus 7, the first tablet to wear the Nexus name. As expect, it’s built by Asus and has a starting price of $199 for an 8GB model. There’s also a 16GB version available for $249. Google is selling both through the Play Store, alongside the Galaxy Nexus smartphone […]
Leak: Asus Nexus 7 tablet to launch soon for $199 and up
Google will likely introduce a 7 inch Nexus tablet at the Google I/O conference later this week. But the folks at Gizmodo Australia stole a bit of the company’s thunder today by publishing some of the most important details. The information comes from a leaked training document, and fits pretty well with all the rumors […]