Those looking towards the Google Play Store will still see a ‘coming soon’ style listing, however it looks like the Nexus 7 has already begun arriving with one retailer. That retailer is Best Buy and the tablet is available for online purchase as of this morning. Gone is the pre-order button and in the place is a simple add-to-cart button.
Perhaps more important, the listing for the 16GB and 32GB Nexus 7 are showing a shipping notification that suggests delivery will be soon. The specific wording is as follows; “Usually leaves our warehouse in 1 business day.” Furthermore, we are beginning to see reports suggesting in-store availability has already begun at select retail Best Buy locations.
With that in mind, those heading out in hopes of securing a Nexus 7 may want to give their local store a call first. You know, just to double check the inventory situation in an effort to avoid a wasted trip. Otherwise, the pricing is the same as we had seen Google announce earlier in the week — $229.99 for the 16GB model and $269.99 for the 32GB model.
This refreshed Nexus 7 is arriving with a quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro process, Adreno 320 graphics, 2GB of RAM, 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera and a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera. The tablet is running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and also has goodies such as Qi compatible wireless charging, a SlimPort for video out, NFC, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
While those specs all sound good enough — the key seems to be in the display. This new Nexus 7 has retained the 7-inch display, however the resolution has jumped to 1920 x 1080 and with a ppi of 323. For those curious, that means Google is currently able to tout the Nexus 7 as having the “highest ppi of any tablet on the market.” That all being said, you can check out some of our initial thoughts from the hands-on time we spent with the tablet following the announcement.
So…any word on usb-otg yet?
Screw Best Buy, I’m still waiting for Newegg to carry them.
Got mine Friday. Love it. The bestbuy help knew nothing about it. The packaging was strange because there was one strip of tape holding this baby in the box.
I like. “Assistant” is pretty useless and made with young men in mind. Powering up the first time was dicey, as the closest language was French. That little glitch fixed itself.
Now all I need is a gorgeous case.
I bought my Nexus 7 2 gen yesterday, my first tablet but updating android was no big deal and had a good wi fi signal. The performance and video are great. Unfortunately I happened to notice if you have the tab in landscape view and tap the lower right corner there is a rattle inside the case. So returned the nexus 7 2 tab to bestbuy for refund where they had 2 others that had been returned. Made one more attempt to buy the nexus 7 2 at a different store, but before buying opened the case w/o cutting the single piece of tape signifying its new and this tab had the same rattle inside the case. I hope Google switches to LG, asus quality control is poor.