{"id":5608,"date":"2013-07-30T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2013-07-30T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T09:50:02","slug":"google-updates-the-nexus-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/google-updates-the-nexus-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Google updates the Nexus 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/offers\/26226219\/Steve+Jobs+-+The+Exclusive+Biography+%28hardcover%29\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs<\/a> saying the 7\u201d form factor not being ideal for customers? Well the greatest inventor in the world got it wrong. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Apple+iPad+mini&amp;bcid=41\" target=\"_blank\">iPad mini<\/a> is a resounding success and Google is following the lead with an updated version of the Nexus 7.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the 7\u201d form factor successful? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/7389\/Tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\">tablet<\/a> fits easily into the hands of the user, does not weigh a lot and makes a brilliant media consuming device. The Google Nexus 7 will feature the latest version of Android and will be priced below the iPad mini to ensure adoption on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p>Google is steadily ramping up the importance of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Google+Nexus\" target=\"_blank\">Nexus range of products<\/a> and showing their interest in hardware. As expected, the new Nexus 7 is a 7-inch tablet running the unannounced Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system. It will be available in a 16GB, 32GB or 64GB version just like the iPad mini. Among the key features are an HD screen (with 1,920 x 1,200 resolution), front and rear cameras (1.2 and 5.0 megapixel respectively), Bluetooth 4.0, a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM and an Adreno 320 GPU (the same graphics chip used in the Samsung Galaxy S4).<\/p>\n<p>So it is becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Apple\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> vs Google in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/7389\/Tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\">tablet<\/a> land. Which one will you buy and why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/nexus-7-multi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5616 aligncenter\" title=\"nexus-7-multi\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/nexus-7-multi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember Steve Jobs saying the 7\u201d form factor not being ideal for customers? Well the greatest inventor in the world got it wrong. The iPad mini is a resounding success and Google is following the lead with an updated version of the Nexus 7. Why is the 7\u201d form factor successful? The tablet<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/google-updates-the-nexus-7\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[580],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}