Google to unveil $199 Nexus tablet at I/O conference today

Google Inc plans to unveil a $199 tablet co-branded with Tawian’s Asustek Computer Inc at its developer conference this week, taking direct aim at Apple Inc’s iPad, Bloomberg reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Rumours that the search engine giant planned to launch a tablet at its annual developer conference have been doing the rounds in tech blog posts for weeks. The 7-inch tablet, running Android mobile software, will showcase new features of Android, according to one person, who said the latest version of the software is named Jellybean, Bloomberg reported. [caption id=“attachment_358394” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Screengrab of Google’s I/O website.”] [/caption] According to  Gizmodo , the hardware details of the tablet are: 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7… it’s built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB. The Nexus tablet will also feature NFC and run Google Wallet (probably only in the US) and Android Beam.    Google officials could not be reached for comment outside of regular business hours. With inputs from Reuters