I think "retina" is an Apple trademark. Didn't know you could trademark body parts... but whatever.
According to Apple, Retina goes from the high end of 326ppi (iPhone 4/4s) down to 227ppi in the Macbook Pro 13".
Nexus 7 is 216ppi so technically not retina.
Nexus 10 is 300ppi, just for comparison.
Samsung's latest chips outperform NVidia's.
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There's a lot of rumor specs now that are floating around the internet of the imminent Nexus 7 II. And it actually sad to hear, cause I just got mine 3 weeks ago and it'll be sold the same price as the Nexus 7 1st gen with upgrades. Lol.
I've heard that it'll have a full HD resolution 1080p which is awesome, but it also means larger video files to truly take advantage of that. The memory storage problem is now solved with OTG so that's not an important upgrade. They might give it a better graphics engine for gaming.
I don't really care about the built in speaker cause I use my earphone like 90% of the time.
I just want the Nexus 7 II to come on top in comes to display, color depth, and video graphics. Everything else can be retain.
I might get it maybe after 2 years? hehe. Or maybe when they release the 3rd gen. Right now the 1st gen is a solid tablet that can give my needs in terms of multimedia activities.
They should make the screen a little bigger. 7.7 would be nice. That .7 would make a real difference I think.
1. No the bezel is functional. Functionality over visual. I.E the iPad minis non bezeld display is a pain in the ass to hold one handed.So Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is out of Google's kitchen, and us sugar fiends will have to wait until summer 2013 for our next big rush, which leads me onto the replacement for the Nexus 7, which given the cut-throat competition is a certainty.
So here are my dream specs, which are based on upcoming technology and some common sense!, give me this Google and you've got my money.
1) Bigger screen, but same size chassis as Nexus 7, thin bezels are sexy
2) Tegra 4 quad-core & 2GB RAM. Tegra 3 might not have been the most powerful beast, but it has served us well, and Nvidia game support is always a plus.
3) Resolution full HD - 1920 x 1080, you just know that the next iPad mini will retina up their screen, so lets not fall behind.
4) Faster I/O. Moving away from crappy eMMC to the newest µSSD SATA, which will result in two to three times the performance of current storage tech, as many N7 owners will tell you slow I/O really bottlenecks system performance.
5) With all this tasty hardware you need equally tasty software enter Android 5.0 - Key Lime Pie.
So would these specs tempt you to buy or are you happy enough with the 'old' Nexus 7?