On July 24th, 2013, Google announced its new Android tablet – the new Nexus 7. Coming with the latest Android 4.3 and new Snapdragon chipset, the new Nexus 7 rapidly caught our eyes. We can’t help to caompare it with another Google Android tablet – the Nexus 10. And this article just gives you a brief review of these two tablets.
1. Appearance
As a 10 inch tablet, Nexus 10 is much bigger and heavier than the new Nexus 7. The new narrow bezel makes the new Nexus 7’s display bigger. (The pictures are not the real size)
New Nexus 7 Nexus 10
New Nexus 7 Nexus 10
New Nexus 7 114 x 200 x 8.65 mm 290g(Wi-Fi), 290g(LTE)
Nexus 10 263.9 x 177.6 x 8.9 mm 603 g
2. Display & screen
Nexus 10 has a 10 inch, 2500*1600 display. It has the highest resolution of tablets. The new Nexus 7 has a 7 inch, 1920*1080 display. It has the highest ppi.
New Nexus 7 Nexus 10
New nexus 7 Nexus 10 7.02” 1920x1200 HD display (323 ppi)
1080p HD IPS Scratch resistant Corning® glass
10.055 ” 2560 x 1600 (300 ppi) WQXGA True RGB Real Stripe PLS
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2
3. Processing unit
The main improvement of new Nexus 7 it the chipset. It adopt the quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset. The Adreno 320 GPU makes it has better performance than the Mali TS04 which Nexus 10 adopts.
New Nexus 7 Nexus 10
New nexus 7 Nexus 10 CPU: Quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro GPU: Adreno 320, 400MHz
CPU: Dual-core A15 Samsung 1.7 GHz Exynos 5250 GPU: Quad-core Mali TS04
4. Connectivity & network
One defects of Nexus 10 is that it doesn’t have 3G or 4G option. It only supports 2.4G Wi-Fi. The new Nexus 7 adopts dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4G & 5G) and 4G LET. In addition, it supports wireless charging.
New Nexus 7 Nexus 10
New nexus 7 Nexus 10 Dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4G/5G) 802.11 a/b/g/n NFC (Android Beam) Bluetooth 4.0 Optional 4G LTE Wireless charging
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n (MIMO+HT40) Dual side NFC Bluetooth Magnetic Pogo pin charger No 3G/4G option
5. Price
From the table we can see that the new Nexus 7 has more advantages in price. The wireless charging and 4G LTE makes it has more competitiveness.
Source: http://www.epubor.com/new-nexus-7-vs-nexus-10.html
New Nexus
7(16GB Wi-
Fi)
New Nexus
7(32GB Wi-
Fi)
New Nexus
7(32GB LTE)
Nexus
10(16GB Wi-
Fi)
Nexus10(32
GB Wi-Fi)
$229 $269 $349 $399 $499