Welcome to the Next Nexus 7, The Nexus 7 2, The New Nexus 7, The Nexus 7 2nd generation.
Oh I don't know what I've decided to call it just yet.
Rather surprisingly, Google have managed to keep this open secret close to their chest,
right up to the point of release.
What I mean by that is everyone knew a successor to the original Nexus 7 was coming, but we
didn't really start hearing firm rumours until last week, and now we find it's due to arrive
within a week.
Jolly good stuff.
The original N7 was successful for four reasons.It entered the 7 inch market before the iPad
Mini and the Kindle Fire's global release.It was the most powerful and highest resolution
screen 7 inch tablet on release.It released with Jellybean, an operating system that finally
worked on tablets.
It smashed up the existing pricing structure of tablets by costing much less than anything
else.
So if it aint broke, don't fix it and that's basically what Google has done with this new
incarnation.
It's more powerful, more or less the same price and doesn't include a lot more than
the basics.
Here are the key points.
The processor has been upgraded to a dragon so that means it must fast and the RAM has
been doubled.
Technically speaking I don't care too much for numbers, as long as it's smooth and snappy
like the original N7 that's fine by me.
What is of much more interest is this.
It remains a 7 inch display which is my absolute sweet spot for screen size.
It's perfect for reading and when held in landscape your two thumbs can cover the whole
screen.
Personally I find the slightly larger iPad mini, well, too big.
And then there's the resolution.
1920x1200.
It was pretty difficult to spot pixels on the original.
It should be impossible on this screen so everything should look glorious.
It�s just a shame it's not AMOLED like Samsung screens.
They're so lush.
The dimensions are as follows: the New Nexus 7 is slightly taller in height , but slightly
thinner in width and depth.
This is a pretty critical part of the tablet because, personally speaking it was pretty
much perfect the way it was so I hope these mini changes only improve the way it feels
in my hand.
It's fractionally lighter too but I am a little disappointed that the rubberised plastic back
seems to have disappeared as it was a really good and grippy surface.
In terms of additions to the hardware of the Nexus 7 there is good news and bad news.
Once again there is no SD or micro SD card slot so you're stuck with the 16gb or 32gb
model you purchase.
However, a 5mp rear facing camera has been added and something called Slimport.
Until today I'd never heard of this but apparently it enables video out so we should be able
to plug this badboy into televisions.
Nice!
In terms of the software the new Nexus 7 will come with Jellybean 4.3 which, on the face
of it, looks pretty similar to what's already available and it's my understanding that this
will be rolled out to the old Nexus 7 almost immediately anyway.
So, the question I'm sure you're all asking is, VGJFelix are you going to get one.
Ohhh yeah!
I would love to get one on or before release day which is the 30th of July.
But as I live in the UK it might be a few weeks away.
Either way, thumbs up and stay tuned.
And if Google are watching: come on, I've made 150 videos on the original, surely you
could give me one.
Pwwwweeeesssss!