Summary: The search giant has finally built a 10-inch Android device of its very own to compete directly with Apple's flagship tablet.
On Thursday early morning in New You are able to City, Google was predicted to variety a major Android-related occasion. Because Natural disaster Exotic was barrelling up the shore harmful the southern seaboard, that occasion was terminated.
Instead of delaying the occasion, Google simply declared a sequence of new Android os products on its web site. Google released the next version of its Android os managing program, edition 4.2, along with an new edition of their Nexus 7 with more storage space and mobile data options.
But the top jewelry in the simple 'non-event' statement was the discharge of a new budget-conscious device created by LG Gadgets known as the Nexus 4, and also a full-sized product known as the Nexus 10.
While there have been a variety of 10-inch Android os Tablets released into the industry over the last two decades by its OEM associates -- not restricted to Samsung, Asus, Acer, Sony models, and New samsung -- Google had yet to go to promote with a full-sized product of its own marketing that would straight contest with Apple's iPad.
The Nexus 10 is considerable in that it is a complete "Google Experience" program, in that all factors of the os and application that is packed onto the product is under Google control, which means it should get application up-dates much quicker than OEM 10-inch Android os Tablets, such as the New samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Asus Transformer.
It is also the first Android os product which truly symbolizes a direct task to Apple's iPad, which has sold 100 thousand models as of early Oct, according to the Cupertino, CA.-based technology massive.
The product has been released in collaboration with New samsung Gadgets, who has produced the product, and as such is intended to set the standard for which all future Android os Tablets will be assessed.
In addition to the "Nexus" name which places the product apart from its competitors, the Nexus 10 is of 100 percent New samsung design, in that it uses almost all elements from the Japanese electronics massive, such as their own System on a Processor (Soc), storage space, display storage space, battery power and show, accomplishing a level of straight incorporation previously unusual on Android os product.
The show, a 2560x1600 quality, 10-inch LCD, actually exceeds Apple's own Retina show in quality with 300 pixels-per-inch (ppi), which is still a very amazing 2048x1536 at 264 ppi, both going above the 1080p show standard (1920x1080) on high-definition tvs.
It continues to be to be seen whether or not the Samsung-manufactured show unit on the Nexus 10 suits the luminosity or legibility of the iPad, and whether the average end-user can actually tell the difference in terms of sharpness.
The Nexus 10 (16GB) will cost $399, a complete $100 less than Apple's top-end iPad with Retina show -- known as the iPad 4. It's smack-bam in the center of Apple's costs design. While this undercuts The apple company by a considerable edge, it was probably within Google and Samsung's abilities to further reduce the price of the product at launch (perhaps to $329 or $350) as well as provide the customer with advantages that would have given signficant value-add and created the product an even more powerful buy.
For example, the Nexus 10 could have been released with two decades of free 100GB of Google Drive storage space and 10 Gogoinflight goes, as the lately released ARM-based New samsung Chromebook was just over a week ago.
While the elements is definitely a taken across Apple's bow, Google still needs to get over a variety of issues that have affected Android os Tablets in general in order to present a serious risk to the product industry innovator, which include a lack of tablet-optimized programs, user-friendliness and overall program performance.
On Thursday, Google said it has equalled up The apple company in the variety of programs in its competing Google Play application store for Android os gadgets, according to Bloomberg. That said, very few can even take advantage of the Nexus Tens higher-resultion show, making many Android os non-smartphone customers in the dark.
Instead of delaying the occasion, Google simply declared a sequence of new Android os products on its web site. Google released the next version of its Android os managing program, edition 4.2, along with an new edition of their Nexus 7 with more storage space and mobile data options.
But the top jewelry in the simple 'non-event' statement was the discharge of a new budget-conscious device created by LG Gadgets known as the Nexus 4, and also a full-sized product known as the Nexus 10.
While there have been a variety of 10-inch Android os Tablets released into the industry over the last two decades by its OEM associates -- not restricted to Samsung, Asus, Acer, Sony models, and New samsung -- Google had yet to go to promote with a full-sized product of its own marketing that would straight contest with Apple's iPad.
The Nexus 10 is considerable in that it is a complete "Google Experience" program, in that all factors of the os and application that is packed onto the product is under Google control, which means it should get application up-dates much quicker than OEM 10-inch Android os Tablets, such as the New samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Asus Transformer.
It is also the first Android os product which truly symbolizes a direct task to Apple's iPad, which has sold 100 thousand models as of early Oct, according to the Cupertino, CA.-based technology massive.
The product has been released in collaboration with New samsung Gadgets, who has produced the product, and as such is intended to set the standard for which all future Android os Tablets will be assessed.
In addition to the "Nexus" name which places the product apart from its competitors, the Nexus 10 is of 100 percent New samsung design, in that it uses almost all elements from the Japanese electronics massive, such as their own System on a Processor (Soc), storage space, display storage space, battery power and show, accomplishing a level of straight incorporation previously unusual on Android os product.
The show, a 2560x1600 quality, 10-inch LCD, actually exceeds Apple's own Retina show in quality with 300 pixels-per-inch (ppi), which is still a very amazing 2048x1536 at 264 ppi, both going above the 1080p show standard (1920x1080) on high-definition tvs.
It continues to be to be seen whether or not the Samsung-manufactured show unit on the Nexus 10 suits the luminosity or legibility of the iPad, and whether the average end-user can actually tell the difference in terms of sharpness.
The Nexus 10 (16GB) will cost $399, a complete $100 less than Apple's top-end iPad with Retina show -- known as the iPad 4. It's smack-bam in the center of Apple's costs design. While this undercuts The apple company by a considerable edge, it was probably within Google and Samsung's abilities to further reduce the price of the product at launch (perhaps to $329 or $350) as well as provide the customer with advantages that would have given signficant value-add and created the product an even more powerful buy.
For example, the Nexus 10 could have been released with two decades of free 100GB of Google Drive storage space and 10 Gogoinflight goes, as the lately released ARM-based New samsung Chromebook was just over a week ago.
While the elements is definitely a taken across Apple's bow, Google still needs to get over a variety of issues that have affected Android os Tablets in general in order to present a serious risk to the product industry innovator, which include a lack of tablet-optimized programs, user-friendliness and overall program performance.
On Thursday, Google said it has equalled up The apple company in the variety of programs in its competing Google Play application store for Android os gadgets, according to Bloomberg. That said, very few can even take advantage of the Nexus Tens higher-resultion show, making many Android os non-smartphone customers in the dark.
