Google Nexus 7 Tablet Shows Up on Benchmark Site - smithalitill

The reference Nexus tablet shown at CES 2012 — The reference Link lozenge shown at CES 2012

Google's long-hoped-for Link tablet has popped up on benchmarking site Rightware. According to the spectacles, the pad of paper, dubbed the Nexus 7, will use a quad-core NVidia Tegra 3 processor, and come with the Android 4.1 ("Jelly Bean") OS.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt promised a Google tablet would be coming within vi months finish December. If Google is to meet that six-calendar month timeframe, Google likely will officially introduce its first Android tablet in June.

Google Asus Nexus 7 benchmarking info. Image: Courtesy of Rightmark

Rightware's PowerBoard benchmarking tool gives us some hints on what to expect. Freshman, there's the name: "Google Asus Nexus 7," suggesting this will be a 7-inch tablet manufactured by Asus. Details on the gimmick register the display to have a 1280-pixel-past-768-picture element resolution. Internal, the slate tablet sports a quadriceps-core NVidia Tegra 3 central processor (which in reality has a hidden fifth center) clocked at 1.3GHz along with an NVidia ULP GeForce graphics processing unit.

As for software, the Nexus 7 shown connected the PowerBoard site is running Google's latest Humanoid tablet Osmium, Android 4.1 JRN51B or "Jelly Bean," as Android Constabulary discovered with a little digging.

NVidia and Asus showed cancelled a $199 7-inch tablet at CES 2012. That mention model had a 1.2GHz quadriceps-inwardness Tegra 3 mainframe (role of NVidia's early inexpensive tablet weapons platform, Kai), a WXGA (1280-pixel- away-800-pixel resolving power) display, 1GB of memory, and 16GB of storage. The Link 7 tablet could real well personify supported that reference tablet and as wel personify priced at $199–making Google's tablet passing free-enterprise with both Amazon's Kindle Fervor, $199, and Apple's iPad (the lowest-priced iPad costs $399.)

Five Nexus devices, including some smartphones and tablets, are expected this fall, merely look out for the flagship Google Nexus tablet any day now.

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