Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/google_tablet_set_for_late_june_launch/
Asus-made Google pad set for June debut
All eyes on Google I/O
Posted in Tablets, 11th June 2012 11:14 GMT
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An Asus staffer has let slip that the Taiwanese tablet maker is indeed working on a seven-incher for Google and that the gadget will be announced at the end of the month.
The Android 4.1 standard bearer seems set, then, to be unveiled at Google I/O, the online advertising giant's annual technology conference, says Android Authority, into whose ear the Asus rep whispered during the Computex show [1] last week.
Such a device has already been spied on benchmark sites whose readouts appear to confirm the so-called Nexus 7 will use Nvidia's Tegra 3 chip [2] running at 1.3GHz and driving a 1280 x 768 screen.
Originally expected by the end of Q2, the tablet now looks set to ship in July [3], other moles from Taiwan's component manufactuerer community have said in the past. That would certainly tally with a late June unveiling.
Other whispers have it that the Nexus 7 will be priced at $199 to take the fight straight to Amazon's Kindle Fire as much as Apple's market-leading iPad. ®