Google and Asus have a tablet, reports The Verge, ready to run Android 4.1; Modaco.com has a screengrab with specs: a 1280x800 display, 8 or 16GB of storage, 1GB of RAM and a 1.2MP webcam.

  • theophrastvs

    wait… wasn’t there a snarky comment here previously?  i wanted to read the well considered refutation of its snarkiousness.   nuts, now i’ll never learn how to answer such untoward attacks upon our tender sensibilities.

    • scatterfingers

      It’s not an Apple product, so I was expecting something snarky.

    • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

      No.

      Edit: I see the mods deleted a snarky comment. Never mind. It’s amazing how you just can’t post about gadgets without instant sneering!

  • penguinchris

    I still use my Nexus One… interesting that they’re jumping right to 7 here. I guess it’s the best they can do to sound cool without using Nexus-6. Maybe they’re reserving that name for if they ever come up with a device that’s actually revolutionarily good. 

    Of course, one can speculate that Deckard and Rachel are actually more advanced replicants than the Nexus-6 models and thus themselves are Nexus-7 models, so maybe they are making a clever reference with the tablet’s model number ;) (though I do suspect that the tablet’s lifespan is four years or less…)

    • http://twitter.com/steve_mayne Steve Mayne

      The 7 is presumably a reference to its 7 inches of screenage.

  • PlutoniumX

    I think Nexus 7 because it has a 7 inch screen and looks to be the response to the Kindle Fire.

    Damn, on submit, what Steve Mayne said.

  • wrybread

    Those tech specs are pretty glaringly missing any mention of connectivity…

    And why aren’t they making a big deal out of the things this can do that the iPad can’t? It can play Flash animations, right? Can’t they make a big deal out of that, even if it isn’t?

    They’re really not doing a very good job, yet at least, of giving people a reason to buy this over an iPad other than price.

    • scatterfingers

       Flash is a slow burning bundle of pain to use on a mobile device. I don’t blame Google for trying not to emphasise slow burning bundles of pain.

      • wrybread

        Not all Flash is, only badly written Flash. And Flash has come a long way with Flex.

        And this device sounds like it has plenty of CPU and GPU so it really shouldn’t be an issue.

        And HTML5 still isn’t able to deliver a complete app experience (feel free to point me to an exception), while Flash is. So they could release some guidelines or starter code to have some sort of “web-based app experience” or whatever they want to call it.

        Dunno. Something. As it is, I don’t see any reason on the planet to get this thing over an iPad, except to save a couple of bucks.

    • Robert

      The specs show WiFi and Bluetooth, which doesn’t mean to me GSM/CDMA. Not exactly the go-anywhere device, say, the Xoom is. I wonder why they didn’t include a rear-facing camera? I’d have thought they were like cupholders: you had to have one.

  • http://twitter.com/steve_mayne Steve Mayne

    You can pre-order one on the Play store now!  I might just have done just that…. 

    “The Nexus Effect” as my wallet likes to call it.

  • http://www.openbuddha.com/ Al Billings

    Meh.

    • Robert

      My cat said that, but I know why. Why did you? :)

      • http://www.openbuddha.com/ Al Billings

         Because no one actually uses Android tablets for day to day stuff. It is the unspoken sadness. (I have an iPad 3 and an Asus Transformer and it is pretty clear why this is true too.)