Google's Nexus Tablet Shipping! 4 Cores and 7 Inches
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Software developers are entering the hardware market. Think Apple’s iPad, Microsoft’s recently announced Surface and, if a DigiTimes report is true, Google’s Nexus Tablet.

DigiTimes claim the long, long, long awaited Nexus tablet is currently being shipped and it will be formerly announced within a week at Google’s I/O 2012 developer conference. By their estimates, 3 million Nexus tabs will be shipped by the second half of 2012. 

Nexus, in the technophile’s complete dictionary, refers to a bare bone version of Android that is untainted by carrier or manufacturer bloatware. Because it doesn’t subscribe to third party tweaks, it will always get software updates first, giving it an advantage over any other Android branded tab.

The Android 4.0 OS will be powered by a quad core Tegra 3 processor. Despite ‘quad’ meaning four, the Tegra 3 processor has a 5th ‘ninja’ core which powers the tablet during efficient operations, such as music playback. Asus, who are rumoured to be making the Nexus tablet, feature a Tegra 3 processor in their Transformer Prime, and that’s clocked at 1.3GHz.

Unlike Asus’s Transformer Prime, this tablet will span 7″, be available in WiFi only, omit a rear facing camera and will cost far less.

Four-cores in a 7″ tablet? That’s more cores than Apple’s 10″ iPad and Samsung’s 10.1″ Galaxy Tab.

Asus Chairman Jonney Shih is expected to attend the Google I/O event to jointly announce the new tablet on June 27th. Word also has it Asus will be releasing its own 7″ tablet with a low US$179 price tag.