Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets

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TheBoat writes In with news that not even a hurricane can keep the Google product announcements away."Surprise, surprise. It looks like Hurricane Sandy can't hold Google down, as the company has just gone ahead and unveiled the Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet (http://bgr.com/2012/10/29/nexus-4-nexus-10-release-date/) even though its press conference was canceled. Nexus 4 specs include a 4.7-inch True HD IPS Plus display with 1,280 x 768-pixel resolution, an 8-megapixel camera, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM and Android 4.2. The phone starts at a shockingly affordable $299 without any contract or subsidies, and it will launch in the United States on November 3rd (http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/google-rolls-out-new-nexus-smartphones-tablets/). The Samsung-built Nexus 10 tablet sports a 2,560 x 1,600-pixel display with a pixel density of 300 PPI, a dual-core 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos chipset, 2GB of RAM, NFC and a 5-megapixel camera. Pricing starts at $399 with 16GB of storage and tops out at $499 for the 32GB model, and both will launch on November 3rd alongside the Nexus 4. Both devices will be available through the Google Play store."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/29/1644220/google-announces-new-nexus-smartphone-and-tablets