Sentences with phrase «last nexus tablet»

Things were especially bad for the poor Nexus 9, the last Nexus tablet Google released in 2014.

, the last Nexus tablet Google released in 2014.

Not exact matches

The Internet giant's new Nexus lineup comes after Apple last week announced the 7.9 - inch iPad mini, while Microsoft officially began shipping its Surface tablets and is introducing Windows Phone 8 smartphones this week.

As Mashable Tech Editor Pete Pachal said last year, «the Nexus 7 is the Android media tablet the [original] Kindle Fire was supposed to be.

One large difference from last year's Tab S 10.5 is that the Tab S2 is set in portrait mode instead of landscape, more closely resembling the iPad Air 2 and other Android tablets like the Google Nexus 9.

Its dimensions and weight are similar to those of the Google Nexus 7, one of our favourite Android tablets of last year.

Google last week announced its own tablet, the Nexus 7, after tepid initial sales of Android - based tablets.

The Nexus 7's battery life is even competitive with 10.1 - inch Android tablets; Acer's Iconia Tab A700 lasted 8 hours, 11 minutes; Toshiba's Excite 10 lasted 7 hours, 5 minutes; the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 lasted 11 hours, 41 minutes; and the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity lasted 7 hours, 58 minutes.

The screen is where the most dramatic improvement comes between last year's Nexus 7 and the newest version of the tablet.

The Google Nexus 7 is the best thing to have happened in the 7 inch tablet category ever since the Amazon Kindle Fire had first lit up the segment at the end of last year.

However, considering that the Nexus 7's screen is rated for a super-bright 400 nits, you may be comfortable running it at 25 percent brightness which, in our tests, caused the tablet to last 7 hours and 58 minutes, more than 30 minute improvement.

It sure took a while, considering how popular the two Nexus 7 tablets have been since the first model was launched last year.

The Nexus 9 is a sizeable upgrade to last year's 7 - inch Nexus tablet made by Asus.

Google launched the Nexus 9 Android tablet last night alongside the Nexus 6 smartphone.

One other new tablet worth a look at is the Novo 7 Venus that launched last month and is available for $ 149 through a site called TabletSprint — this new model runs Android 4.2 and compares closely to the Nexus 7 — featuring a Quad Core processor and HD 1280 × 800 IPS Screen; while also offering a few features the Nexus doesn't — including a 2 - Megapixel rear camera, a MicroSD memory card slot, and HDMI 1080p; plus 3G internet connection through its USB port — TabletSprint also includes $ 25 in Bonus Apps.

Last year, the Nexus 7 was a great tablet because the experience was very good in relation with the price.

After successes like the 2014 Moto X, the DROID Turbo and the Nexus 6, it seems that Motorola has brought their A-game with devices, so it can be hard to imagine why they wouldn't want to try their hand at tablets again, but when you consider the launches and lifespan of the last two tablets they offered, the Xyboard lineup which launched on Verizon Wireless a few years back, those devices were a far cry from the type of success seen by Motorola's most recent smartphones.

That follows last week's debut to a handful of other Android - powered devices (the Nook HD and HD + and select Google Nexus tablets).

Last week I posted an article with a list of 10 covers and cases for the 2nd gen Google Nexus 7 tablet.

By comparison, last year's Nexus 7 has 216 ppi, and the Nook HD, which had the highest resolution screen of any 7 ″ tablet until now, has 243 ppi.

The last new Google tablet was the HTC built Nexus 9.

Microsoft's announcement of its Surface tablet last week and Google's Nexus 7 add up to a «troubling» situation for tablet makers such as Samsung Electronics Co., said Jeff Orr, an analyst with ABI Research.

I just don't see Google putting out a tablet with 5 GB of RAM, especially considering the Nexus 7 and Nexus 5 from last year featured only 2 GB of RAM.

Nexus 10 tablet has been on everyone's lips over the last couple of weeks and it seems that Google will officially announce it at the press event scheduled for October 29th.

Google's Nexus 10 tablet has been announced last week and it should be released on November 13th.

Amazon's Kindle Fire proved popular last year, and the small - format Google Nexus 7 joined the Samsung Galaxy in the hot tablet market, dominated by the iPad, which has a screen of nearly 10 inches (24.6 centimeters).

The 2013 Nexus 7 benefits from one of the core tablet improvements of the last 12 months — much better screen resolution.

The next - best model was Sony's Xperia Tablet S, which impressed with a battery life of 10 hours, 48 minutes; Google's Nexus 7 followed closely behind, lasting for 10 hours, 12 minutes.

Samsung was the manufacturer of the last Nexus 10, but rumours suggest that the company which manufacturers the Nexus 7 tablet - both the current and previous versions - will take the reins this time around.

While those were all considered reasonable losses to hit a cheap price point last year, competitors like the Nexus 7 and Fuhu Nabi 2 have showed that you don't have to make all of those compromises to have a speedy, under - $ 200 budget tablet.

The 8.9 - inch device is Google's new flagship tablet, completely replacing the beloved Nexus 7 from last year.

Last year saw Google and Apple jump into the mid-sized tablet market with the Google Nexus 7 and iPad Mini competing against the second generation of Kindle Fire tablets that included an 8.9 - inch version.

Tablets such as the Nexus 7 had the spotlight last week, but this week was more about Android smartphones.

Late last night Bloomberg identified Google's upcoming device as a 7 - inch Nexus tablet that will match the Fire's $ 199 price point, and though Reuters» source refuses to be drawn on the specific price and release date, the implication is that both of those specs are indeed accurate.

Google launched two new Nexus smartphones last year but did not release a tablet.

Just last week on Friday, we reported on a speculation that Google's upcoming tablet could be known as the Google Play, and if Google's practice for their upcoming tablet is the same as for their Nexus devices, then there is a good chance that Google will be outsourcing the manufacturing of the tablet to one of their manufacturing partners, and thanks to a recent set of rumors, it is said that ASUS will be the ones manufacturing the device.

The Nexus 7 2013 launched late last year and is still one of the best tablets in this price range, offering a screen with a pixel density of 323 ppi.

Google is rumored to be dropping the Nexus 7 series entirely in favor of the upcoming Nexus 8 tablet, so the Nexus 7 2013 might be the last 7 - inch tablet in the Nexus series.

Not only do they provide the hardware for the 2nd generation Google Nexus 7 that was released last week, they are also releasing a new 7 - inch tablet under their own brand name called the ASUS MeMO Pad HD 7.

Nexus 4 users are still saying that this update has not been launched for their smartphones, but this shouldn't last long as the Nexus tablets already got theirs.

The new line of Kindle Fire HD tablets were announced early last month and while they run a forked version of Android versus the full 4.1 Jelly Bean experience on the Nexus 7, they look to offer some decent specs and performance.

What we find most impressive about the Nexus 7's display is that is packs in as many pixels as last year's (and many of this year's) 10.1 in tablets, resulting in 215 dpi pixel density.

And as if Google's own disinterest in the Nexus tablets wasn't enough, the company further confused consumers by releasing the Pixel C last year, a $ 499 Android tablet that was trying to kill both the iPad and Microsoft Surface Pro in one swing.

The tablet market — specifically, the 7 - inch tablet market — got a jolt of excitement last month when Google debuted the Nexus 7, an affordable touchscreen device that also happens to be the best 7 - inch tablet ever made.

However, as we noted in the last Transformer tablet we reviewed, the screen bezel is pretty chunky, giving it a less «modern» appearance than something like an iPad Air or Google Nexus 7.

Marking a departure from its previous work with Asus for the Nexus 7 tablet, the move to partnering with HTC apparently stems from previous production discussions before Asus became involved, though there is also talk of it possibly being the last iteration of Nexus tablet.

Google may be ready to roll out new Nexus hardware this year, but that doesn't mean potential Android tablet buyers should forget last year's models.

The Google Nexus 7 arrived last year priced at $ 199 ($ 249 for 16 GB) packed with a host of top - level specs and the latest version of Android in tow, while the price for Android tablets in general has fallen steeply with more bargains (like the Acer Iconia 300).

The Nexus 7 released last year began the race to the bottom in the tablet world.

Last year we reported that Google was planning to launch an Android offshoot internally dubbed Andromeda on a Huawei - made Nexus tablet.