Tuesday, December 10, 2013

LG takes on the Nexus 7 with an 8-inch Google Play Edition tablet


LG's Nexus 5 smartphone made quite the splash, and now the Korean electronics manufacturer is back for more. For the same $349 you'd spend on the phone, you can now buy the LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition tablet. As you'd expect from the name, it's a tablet with stock Android 4.4, serving up KitKat on a 8.3-inch 1920 x 1200 Full HD IPS display with rather thin bezels. That "8.3" number doesn't just refer to the screen size, though, but also the fact that the tablet is just 8.3mm thick.


The whole kit is powered by a quad-core 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 system-on-chip, and comes with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0, dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and dual cameras. With a 4600mAh battery inside, it weighs...


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Source: The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5196978/lg-takes-on-the-nexus-7-with-an-8-inch-google-play-edition-tablet

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