Google Nexus 7 tablet preorders ship today

Nexus 7 with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

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Good news, tablet-lovers. Google will units of its 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet to customers who pre-ordered the device, the company announced in an online post.

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The Nexus 7 tablet is equipped with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean right out of the box, and is powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. Its clear screen and dirt-cheap $200 price tag make it primed to wrestle the Amazon Kindle Fire, but there are some downsides, like the lack of expandable memory, and no HDMI port or rear-facing camera.

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