Google announces Nexus 10 tablet
Are you a mini iPad or Nexus person?
On the heels of Apple’s iPad Mini announcement, Google unveils its upcoming Samsung Nexus 10, the highest resoultion tablet on the planet.
Google touts the upcoming device, via its official blog, as the “ultimate tablet for watching movies or reading magazines.”
It boasts a 10.055″ display at 2560-by-1600 (300ppi), coming out to over 4 million pixels, beating (at least on paper) Apple iPad 3′s 9.7 inch display with 1536 x 2048 resolution and 264 ppi pixel density. Under the hood is two Cortex-A15 cores running at 1.7GHz, a quad-core Mali T-604 GPU, and 2GB of RAM.
Other features include a built-in NFC, microUSB, microHDMI, a 5MP rear-facing camera, and a 1.9MP front-facing camera. It is also 8.9mm thick, and weighs in at just 603 grams.
Initially, just the Wi-Fi version will be available in 16GB or 32GB version for $399 or $499 respectively. The Google Nexus 10 drops November 13th on the Google Play store in the U.S., UK, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada and Japan.
