Google Unveils Nexus 7 Tablet for $199

Google unveiled a new tablet computer Wednesday called the Nexus 7 that rivals Amazon's popular Kindle Fire in both size and price. John Letzing has details on The News Hub. Photo: Bloomberg.

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... the ... are you looking ... Google's new Lexus seven tablets ... and they are trying to take on Apple and ... Amazon will tell you about that right yet right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable let's go to ... John Letzing protective order ... in separate Cisco has been covering this event go ... jaunt to kicked off its three day ... event CIO conference we we saw a preview now on Digits ... on Sunday with our covering its ... calm ... to tell us about this ... new tablet wanted trying to take on ... the likes of ... Amazon and Apple ... well it's all about influence and territory a new one ... control is much of that as you can whether that's through software or hardware like it that way ... the ... so what what do we know about this on we know we know its price Israel all its two hundred box ... yes I mean that the price is low it's also actually the same prices Amazon's tablet the Kindle Fire so it appears to be directed maybe more ... at that minute that it is ... at for example Apple'siPad which is even the cheapest version is significantly more expensive ... now what one thing we know about how Amazon's Kindle Fire ... is that that that's a device that can be cheapened can lose money because it's designed to influence you to find things on Amazon so that they make some money off apps ... than Apple's I've had so we're still way it's a lot of money but they have a great ecosystem of apps how's this fit in with that on that scale of things ... no one fits in pretty grim into both been subsidizing things that fund its online advertising business for years ... aam the Android software is just one example of that it wants to spread as much of its influence and control ... out over the Internet as possible and thereby have as much influence or control ... over ... the online advertising to its knees ... so for months now we know that the tablet market is listed with some of the daily as some of the law this device is out to launch the men come down in price and ... you know most of them look black in color and then I manage this consigned to become some of them and so what about ... how you think this will fat What's the day initial consensus on this ... when people really don't know it's difficult to tell just because is or at least in part because Amazon has a hundred ninety nine dollar effort with the Kindle Fire ... is a little bit mysterious because Amazon does not break out individual Kindle Fire sales figures from overall Kindle figures which includes the U K per person as well ... ALM so it's a little bit unclear whether selling of this price point ... in rivalry With Apple is is is necessarily a good thing into ... some of the very quickly it is ... to hold manufacturing the stores in making the effect on approval and in it so it that's very different from the phone strategy which was to provide this awful lot of people to the ... let them fall in manufacturing ... well I guess it's all there should be great in terms of that what you're doing or not they are doing this in partnership with a suspect ... aam ... the which is interesting to note I guess in regards ... to the fact that ... it will just recently purchased ... the maker of a tablet and Motorola has not said using a tablet made by Motorola ... um whether or not that said this is a deal they came together before who will close the acquisition or this is some sort of gesture ... to other Android hardware partners that they're they're still open for business with them too ... that's little unclear ... how terrible we will find that I knew not to like those on slab of ten Lexus of those on self made in July and the US ...