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Google Announces the Nexus 10: Sports 300ppi 2560×1600 Display.

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If you headed to bed early last night, knowing that the Google announcement was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy, you weren’t the only one. However, that didn’t stop Google from announcing their new Nexus devices anyway, so now you get to wake up to Nexus goodness!

First off the list (in my books anyway) is the heavily leaked tablet, the Nexus 10. This is as expected, a 10 inch tablet produced by Samsung with a super-high resolution display. The display is undoubtedly the highlight of the show here, clocking in at 2560 x 1600 resolution. With a pixels per inch count of 300, this rivals most top of the line smartphones available, and easily trumps anything we’ve seen on a tablet.

The rest of the specification similarly follow what we’ve been hearing, it’s powered by a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 chip (which we’d expect to be a Samsung Exynos variant) paired with a quad-core Mali T604 GPU and accompanied by 2 GB of RAM. Around the front there’s a 1.9 MP camera for video chat and around back there’s a 5 MP shooter for those people who absolutely insist on taking photos with a tablet. It is available in 16 and 32 GB varieties and (disappointingly?) is only in Wifi. Saying that, the 3G Nexus 7 was also announced last night, several months after the Wifi Nexus 7, so this gives us hope that a mobile version of the Nexus 10 might be incoming.

There’s oddly two NFC chips in the device, one facing forwards, the other backwards, and there’s also microUSB and microHDMI connectivity. It also packs a 9000 mAh battery which Google claims will last for 9 hours of constant video playback.

The other star of this device, other than the screen of course, is that it’s one of two all-new devices sporting Android 4.2. This latest iteration adds a bunch of new features, despite still falling under the Jelly Bean name. As well as extending the functionality of Google Now, there’s new “Gesture Typing”, which sounds like a Swype-like keyboard, and a new camera function called PhotoSphere. Watching the video shows that it plays like an extended version of panorama mode, allowing many photos to be stitched together (in any orientation, not just left and right but up and down too) to create a full “Photosphere” of the world around you, in every direction.

Another feature that people have been asking for is more streamlined support for wireless displays, allowing you to easily mirror your tablet to your TV . There’s also added support for multiple users on the tablet, each of which can have their own apps, login information, wallpapers, etc. This is something I personally have wanted for ages, as it always annoys me when someone else wants to use my tablet to check their Facebook or Google+, which of course means I have to log out, which removes all of the Google+ and Facebook data from my contacts.

Finally the best news is Australia is one of the launch countries! It will be available on the Australian Google Play store from November 13th, and will sell for  AU$469 for the 16 GB version and AU$569 for the 32 GB version.

So don’t take my word for it, actually what are you people even still doing here? Go check out the videos and let us know if this has tickled your fancy.

Sources: Google Play, Google: Official Blog, The Verge, Android Police

Written by : Bob is a physicist currently working in Milan, Italy, though originally he's from Newcastle. He's been an Android addict for a while now and rarely stops tinkering with any of his devices. His dream is to tinker with his phone long enough to teach it to fetch him a beer.
  • cameron charles

    $469 for a 16gb storage, 2gb of ram and a 300ppi screen tablet. i…am…in

  • funkyblue

    Anyway we can ask Google why they released 32gb in Nexus 7 and 10 BUT NOT THE NEXUS 4. SO FRUSTRATED. I want 32gb in my phone!

    • cameron charles

      purely price point, the n4 is US$300, for all you get in that phone its amazing anything more, like 32gb or 3/4g would boost up the cost even just having those models available raises costs, so ye sucks but, not to sound like a dick, i guess if 32gb is that important vote with your money and buy a phone with 32gb and hope google listen, they have so far

      • funkyblue

        The Nexus 7 with 3G AND 32gb is listed as $299USD. Yet the phone is more expensive and only 16gb. Sick of people telling me to buy something else. 4G is a waste of money right now too. There is no PURE GOOGLE phone that has 32gb!

        • cameron charles

          your right theres no pure google phone with 32gb, so far demand for that hasnt been big enough to warrant the cost in any phone line really, never mind the low cost aimed nexus line, i think the n7 is the big test case here for google, the demand for 32gb version of that tablet was pretty big and google have delivered if people put their money where there mouths are and it sells out chances are larger storage options will start flowing through the nexus line, until then the only option is too buy something else and make it a pure google affair yourself or sit and wait :s

    • Bob Burgess

      Funkyblue I feel your pain and in fact we have an upcoming interview with LG to talk about the Nexus 4 and we’re going to ask them precisely that question. I imagine however that they will make the argument that with cloud storage available, on-board storage is no longer a priority. Not that I accept that arguement with a 1 GB limit, but that’s what I imagine it’ll be. You’ll just have to see what their response is.

      • funkyblue

        Thanks. It would be good to know. The thing is how do you know demand unless you sell a product? Cost of 16 vs 32gb would not be much at all. Such a stunning device crippled by space. I’ll still probably buy it anyway since is has DC-HSDPA 42mbits.