Google and ASUS have been working for several months on a quad-core tablet that would cost only $199, but for now the prototypes designed by the companies raise the purchase price to $249 and Google is not too happy about this. Google wants to introduce a viable alternative for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet and its product could become exactly what the company wants. I'm talking about a tablet with a 7-inch screen that would have a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and at the price of $199 I think it will be extremely popular.
The Mountain View team plans to make some design changes and hopes to lower the price from the current $249. The tablet, made in partnership with Taiwan's Asustek Computer, currently comes with a 7-inch screen, an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and is Wi-Fi-only. It runs Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. The $249 price tag on the current Google-Asustek tablet is higher than previous reports of a $149-$199 device. Amazon's Kindle Fire, another 7-inch tablet that retails for $199, is the obvious competitor that Google will be taking on in that size and price range.
Although the tablet was supposed to go into production in May, Google postponed plans to reduce another $50 from the final price of the device and it remains to be seen if their decision will be a good one or not. Their tablet will enter a market where there is not much competition because the Kindle Fire sells extremely well and the rest of the tablets with a 7-inch screen are not very successful. With a tablet of this kind, Google could affect the sales of the iPad tablet and steal part of the market share of the product from Cupertino, but it remains to be seen how the "Google Nexus Tab" will present itself.
