![]() ![]() As we'll show later, it can even keep pace with the (significantly more expensive) iPads in many respects. The specs, design, and cost all make the Nexus 7 seem like the Holy Grail of tablets. All while maintaining a $199 base price point. Google adopted the internals of Asus's Memo 370 shown at CES in January, revamped the body, and bequeathed the device with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. ![]() You wouldn't buy one for yourself, perhaps, but it was a good enough present for the technologically apathetic: Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Technologically Illiterate Sibling.Įnter stage right-well, more like stage from above, the God of Tablets bombing down in a skydiving suit wearing Google Glass-the Nexus 7. While Amazon's tablet has a couple of enthusiastic fans here at Ars, the guess in our review that it would "end up often as a gift from early tablet adopters to late ones" seemed to come true. But the Fire's reception then, and sales performance since, doesn't suggest a raft of blissfully happy customers. The form saw its first measured success with the Kindle Fire, which cracked a few million unit sales in a single month during 2011's holiday season. All the while, companies keep trying to make 7-inchers work, hammering away at the form factor, making the same mistakes (underpowered internals, chunky bodies, poor performance), expecting different results. Yet sales for the 10-inch iPad continue to vault higher with each quarter. From one manufacturer to the next, one year to the next, these tablets have failed to find an audience or win any vocal supporters. The 7-inch Android tablet is one of the scrappiest models in the gadget landscape. ![]()
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