If you’re still nursing an old Nexus 7 in a drawer somewhere, or remember the first time you pulled down an expandable notification, or recall when “OK Google” felt like science fiction — you owe that memory to Jelly Bean. It was the Android version that finally, definitively answered the question “when will Android be as smooth as an iPhone?”
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Nexus 7 Revisited: The $200 Tablet That Cut Too Many Corners
Samsung was selling one of the cheapest dual-core Android phones at $350; Google and ASUS walked in with a quad-core 7-inch tablet for $199. On paper, the Nexus 7 looked like a blunt-force weapon aimed at every budget slate and maybe even the iPad. In practice, it’s a very fast, very focused device that also […]