This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the gang takes a look at the spoils of this year’s Google I/O conference: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 tablet and the Nexus Q.
Opening this week’s show, Gadget Lab senior editor Jon Phillips and reviews editor Mike Calore talk everything Google I/O. First, Jon and Mike take a look at the new Jelly Bean OS (Android 4.1) and Google’s tablet, the Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 is Google’s answer to the Kindle Fire — it’s focused on content consumption, designed with heavy Google Play integration. The Nexus 7 costs $200, the same price as the Kindle Fire, but it has a 1280 x 800 resolution screen and a quad-core CPU, among other top notch specs. Jelly Bean has a number of innovative new features, including Google Now, the Android version of Siri.
Next up, Jon and Mike check out the Nexus Q, a spherical media streamer. You control it with your Android device, and the Nexus Q plays media straight from the cloud. It has a band of 32 RGB LEDs that light up when you play music, acting like a rainbow-rific audio visualizer. Inside, it’s got a 25-watt amp and basically the brains of an Android phone. It’s a great piece of equipment from what we can tell so far, but the question is: Does it justify a $300 price tag?
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