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Don’t Doubt Google’s People Skills

, Jul 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Google IO opened with a bang last week, spilling Jelly Beans, cheap tablets, augmented reality and more, but for all the search giant knows we’re looking for, is it still out of touch? After the buzz of Google Glass and its base jumping entrance – thoroughly milked the following day by Sergey “Iron Man” Brin – attendees have been adding up what was demonstrated and questioning Google’s understanding of exactly how people use technology. Geeks getting carried away with “what can we do” rather than “why would we do it” is the common refrain, but make no mistake, everything Google showed us is rooted in solid business strategy.

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Google: Nexus 7 is proof we won’t give Motorola special treatment

, Jun 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has explained why it selected ASUS rather than Motorola Mobility for the Nexus 7 tablet, arguing that the good of the Android ecosystem is more important than giving the US company preferential treatment. "We acquired Motorola to help the ecosystem in terms of patents and intellectual property" director of Android partner engineering Patrick Brady told CNET, though conceded that he could understand other partners looking on with some skepticism and fear. Read The Full Story

GameStop announces Google Nexus 7 tablet pre-orders

, Jun 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

GameStop has announced that it is now ready to take pre-orders for the Google Nexus 7 Android tablet. The company has been selling Android tablets and other gadgets for a while now. With the Nexus 7 tablet being unveiled this week, there's a lot of anticipation centering on the new Google offering. The tablet will be the first to feature Android Jelly Bean, and it will launch mid-July. Read The Full Story

Google Nexus 10 reportedly in pipeline

, Jun 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google is reportedly planning a 10-inch version of the Nexus 7, presumably to be dubbed the Nexus 10, as the Android company readies for a huge push into the tablet segment. Announced on Wednesday at Google IO, the Nexus 7 will apparently gain a bigger brother according to DigiTimes' sources at touch panel manufacturers. Read The Full Story

Nexus 7 pre-orders hit UK retailers

, Jun 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google's new Nexus 7 tablet has begun to spring up for pre-order at UK retailers, with Ebuyer offering the 16GB version of the Jelly Bean slate. Priced at £199.99, though - unlike through Google's own Play store - with free shipping to save you a tenner, only the larger Nexus 7 is available, as will be the case with other retailers. Google is keeping the entry-level 8GB version for itself. Read The Full Story

Google Earth 3D hands-on at Google I/O

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Google has released the first public build of Google Earth's 3D flyover features, and at the Google I/O 2012 developer event, we got the chance to take a peek at a relatively massive set of four HDTV units combined to bring on one giant vision of the future. This 3D mapping feature is currently out for Google Earth on Android and will be coming soon to iOS as well, as our Google hosts note in the video below. Read The Full Story

Google Now hands-on

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Google has introduced a new component to their search and location-aware ecosystem in the mobile realm called Google Now. This system sits at the heart of Android, with your ability to access it sitting right in your lock screen. Google Now is effectively an add-on to the Google Search experience, adding a selection of “cards” that show you where you are, how you’ll be getting to the next place you’re going, and where you might very well want to go.

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Google Nexus 7 guidebook details Jelly Bean

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

We know you’re itching to get your hands on the Nexus 7, trawling the internet for every scrap of information you can find, but why not get all the details directly from Google? The company has thrown up a Guidebook to the Nexus 7 on the Play Store, containing around 90 pages of technological goodness. It’s not just a guide for the tablet either, featuring some in depth information on Jelly Bean. Read The Full Story

Google IO 2012: Jelly Bean, Nexus 7, Google Glasses and Nexus Q

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google’s IO 2012 keynote has been and gone, and while the developer event as a whole isn’t over, you can certainly tell where the focus is by what made it onto the opening agenda. I’d already laid out my expectations for IO over at the Google Developers Blog, but there have been some surprises along the way too.

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How is the Nexus 7 so cheap?

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google’s Nexus 7 didn’t come as a great surprise when it launched at IO 2012 yesterday, but the $199 price tag still raised some eyebrows in astonishment. At under half the price of a new iPad, it’s competitive – though very different – to Apple’s slate, but it also undercuts a fair number of other Android tablets too. You can’t even accuse Google of milking international buyers to make up the difference, as prices outside of the US are, surprisingly, very reasonable too. The Nexus 7 will sell from £159 in the UK, for instance, versus expectations of around £250. So, how has Google (and hardware partner ASUS) managed to make the Nexus 7 so cheap?

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Google Nexus 7 16GB heading to UK retail stores

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google announced its Nexus 7 tablet yesterday, with the Jelly Bean device seemingly only available through the Play Store in the UK. Engadget has confirmed with ASUS that the 16GB model of the tablet will go on sale in retail stores, specifically PC World, Dixons, Comet, eBuyer, and the Carphone Warehouse. Those stores will reportedly be receiving shipments for the tablet starting from July 20th, although the official sale date for retailers is July 27th. Read The Full Story

Google Nexus 7 Review

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Google have revealed a device manufactured by ASUS and made for the media-consuming public: the Nexus 7. This tablet is the first of its kind in several ways. First in its value proposition: an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor inside a tablet with a price that up until now has been reserved only for devices with much, much less to offer. Second, the Nexus 7 represents Google’s first attempt at a tablet for their Nexus series. Third, it’s the first tablet to be working with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

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