Google Inc., trying to match its success in smartphones, stepped up its challenge to Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. in the $66.4 billion tablet market with the Nexus 7, a $199 device that sports a slim 7-inch screen.
The tablet will feature the latest version of the Android operating system, called Jelly Bean, the company said at its Google I/O developers conference Wednesday in San Francisco.
The Nexus 7 tablet, to be available in July, is being made in partnership with Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. It has a front-facing camera and runs on a Tegra 3 processor from Nvidia Corp., Google said today. The Jelly Bean version of Android provides faster speeds and other advances, including improvements to voice-based search.
Android tablets are already available from companies such as Samsung Electronics Co., HTC Corp. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., which Google acquired last month for $12.5 billion. Amazon.com's 7-inch-display Kindle Fire tablet also runs on Google's operating system while featuring many of its own services, music and book sales.
The Nexus tablet should help Google compete with the Kindle Fire, given its price and size, said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
"They've definitely upped the game," he said. "Google felt they needed to build a device to show how Android should be delivered on the tablet."
Click here to see Photos: An up-close look at Google's $199 Nexus 7.
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