Google today announced the Google Nexus 4
Smartphone, the Google Nexus 10 Tablet and the 32 GB version of the
Google Nexus 7 tablet.
The Google Nexus 4, the newest
smartphone in the Nexus line-up from Google, was announced today for
availability starting next month in select markets.
“LG is proud and excited to play this role in helping
build the latest Nexus smart-phone,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President
and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Com-munications Company. “Users will
be delighted by the perfectly balanced combination of form and function
with the latest generation of Android.”
The specs of the Google Nexus 4 include a
4.7-inch True HD IPS Plus display (1,280 x 768), an 8 megapixel rear
camera, Gorilla Glass 2, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of
RAM and the latest rendition of Google Now. Turn-by-turn navigation via
Google Maps is included, as are 3D Maps, Street View and Indoor Maps.
The Nexus 4 will be sold unlocked, supporting some 200 carriers that
play by the GSM / HSPA+ rules. It’ll be made available in both 8GB and
16GB versions starting November 13 in the US, UK, Canada, Germany,
France, Spain and Australia, with pricing set for $299 (8GB) / $349
(16GB).
“This is the first time we collaborated with LG to
build a Nexus device,” said Andy Ru-bin, Senior Vice President of Mobile
and Digital Content at Google. “They brought an extraordinary amount of
talent to the project, and the result is a feature-packed device that
feels great in your hand, and blazingly fast under the hood.”
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Also, Google released the 32GB version
of the Nexus 7 tablet, signalling an end to the 8GB version. The 16GB
Google Nexus 7 has now taken center stage in Google’s Play Store, with
$199 netting you a slate that’s currently boasting a “now shipping”
status. Those willing to fork out $249 can get a 32GB model (also listed
as “In Stock”), while $299 provides access to a GSM-enabled 32GB model
that’ll hop onto cellular networks — unfortunately, that one’s listed as
“coming soon.”
And last but not least, out comes the
iPad rival from Google’s stable, the Google Nexus 10. The new tablet,
built in collaboration with Samsung, has one big bragging point — the
highest resolution display of any tablet on the market — a 2560 x 1600,
300ppi, 10-inch touchscreen. Google promises about 9 hours of continuous
video playback and about 500 hours of standby time. Despite being a
Nexus device, the new tablet picks up on the design language of the
Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Note 10.1. It features a pair of front-facing
stereo speakers on either side of the display (when it’s held in a
landscape orientation) plus an 8-megapixel rear camera and a
1.9-megapixel front camera for video chats. Under the hood, there’s a
dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM and built-in NFC. It also gets a
built-in micro-HDMI port.
Like the Nexus 4, the Google Nexus 10
will ship with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. One new 4.2 feature Nexus 10
users may enjoy is the ability to have multiple user profiles on a
single device. The Nexus 10 will ship on Nov. 13 at a price of $400 for
16GB of storage and $500 for 32GB.