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Bloomberg 'confirms' Google tablet coming tomorrow

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 26 Jun 2012 9:25 User comments (2)

Bloomberg 'confirms' Google tablet coming tomorrow According to Bloomberg, Google will in fact unveil their first branded tablet tomorrow at their annual I/O event.
The tablet will be built by Asus and retail for $199, say the sources speaking with the site.

As rumored, the tablet will also come with Jelly Bean, the latest iteration of Android, said to be version 4.1.

Although completely unconfirmed, the rumored specs are a 7-inch WXGA 1280x800 IPS display, a powerful 1.3GHz Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM and a 12-core GPU. Furthermore the tablet will have 8GB of internal storage, Android Beam, NFC and Google Wallet.

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2 user comments

127.6.2012 15:46

I just want to give a big congrats to Google/Asus for turning a sure thing into a steaming pile of crap/no thanks... no sd card expansion and no hdmi out, complete and utter deal breakers... this new tablet will be for a select few who do not care about a do it all in one device device. The price was too good to be true.

227.6.2012 18:16

Yeah, I thought I read it was going to be $150

I got my Kindle Fire at $150 and it's ok at that price...
But $200 needs a bit more expansion.

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