Google has a tradition of naming its operating systems after desserts. Jelly Bean is an incremental upgrade to Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The biggest improvement in Jelly Bean is in its search function and now presents information in a fashion similar to Apple Siri.
Google has also introduced Nexus 7, a Google branded tablet.
Steve Jobs called Android a stolen product, as he believed Android was copied from Apple (AAPL) iOS. If Steve Jobs was alive today, he would be aghast at Google copying another feature from Apple.
Specifications of Nexus 7 come nowhere close to iPad.
Nexus 7 has 1280 x 800 display compared to 1248 x 1536 Retina display. There is no 3G connectivity like iPad in Nexus 7. The screen is seven inches compared to 9.7 inches on the iPad.
Google does not even pretend that Nexus 7 is the best tablet. The design looks rather pedestrian with one exception. The exception is that Nexus 7 may be a killer gaming machine.
Nexus 7 is powered by quad core Tegra 3 processor from Nvidia (NVDA) and has 12 graphic processing cores. This means that the device is unique in having 16 cores that make it a powerful gaming machine.
The 8-GB version is priced at $199 and the 16-GB version is priced at $249. Nexus 7 seems to be directed at Kindle Fire from Amazon (AMZN).
Just like Kindle, Nexus 7 is directed at content consumption as opposed to content creation and productivity. Google’s trump card against Amazon is that Nexus 7 runs on the Jelly Bean, whereas Amazon is running on a forked old Android operating system…Read more at Forbes
