That's it, though: understated and sophisticated. There are two other logos to be found, though, starting with the Nexus branding embossed in big letters on the top, with a much smaller ASUS graphic on the bottom. While there's no MOMO logo to be found, the feel is much the same and, we presume, rather more durable.
#NEXUS TABLET SKIN#
No cow shed its skin to cover the back of this tablet, of that we can assure you, but the dimpled pattern here is not unlike the sort you might find on leather-wrapped racecar steering wheels. Though the cost is the big talking point about this tablet, you'd certainly never know it just by holding the thing. Yes, it is rubber, but it's very nicely textured, nice enough to fool one tech journalist into thinking it was leather. Okay, so there's more polycarbonate than panache here, but the design of the Nexus 7 feels reasonably high-end, starting with that rubberized back. Though that low cost is the big talking point about this tablet, you'd certainly never know it just by holding the thing. It's called the Nexus 7, it too is $200, and it's better than Amazon's offering in every way but one.%Gallery-159346% The latest challenger to enter the competition is ASUS, partnering with Google to create the first Nexus tablet, a device that not only will amaze with its MSRP, but with its quality. A flood of cheap, truly awful slates preceded Amazon's Kindle Fire, the $200 tablet from a major brand that looks to have been the proper catalyst in plunging prices. Sony was wrong, its stance lasting about a year before joining the competition with its own VAIO W.įour years on we're buying better laptops than ever before and, with the netbook class now more or less dead, that downward competition seems to have shifted to the tablet front. The " race to the bottom," the company said, would profoundly impact the industry, killing profit margins and flooding the market with cheap, terrible machines.
#NEXUS TABLET PC#
In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing.
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