Is The Indian Price Of Nexus 7 Justified? Here Are A Few Alternatives
Well, Google’s Nexus 7 has at last managed to land in India. ASUS India has confirmed that the tablet has been priced at Rs 19,990 and will be available through Chroma, a Tata group electronics retailer, and other large format retailers. Nexus 7 has already become a hot seller and is the most sold Android tablet in the world within just three months of its launch. The tale is a little twisted in this part of the world. Nexus 7 became a hot seller, simply because of a low price point and a high spec sheet. There are hardly any alternatives to the Nexus 7 in the global market to offer a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor at just $199. A powerful processor at a low price is simply ‘wow’ globally but when it comes to India, we would anyday prefer a device that delivers more in real time than what it’s actually made for.
For instance, majority of us would have expected the Nexus 7 to house at least a 2 mega pixel rear camera along with USB OTG for connecting pen drives, a standard external memory card slot of 32 GB capacity, but unfortunately, Google’s Nexus 7 is totally out of the box! Of course, Indian tablet buyers are excited about the Nexus 7 but most of them end up with one question: “What to do with it?” From a consumer point of view, this reaction is totally justified as we are used to economical tablets from home grown brands as well as big guns like Samsung, Huawei, Sony, HCL etc offering a much usable spec sheet than the Nexus 7. So, here’s a quick look at the cons of the Nexus 7 as seen from the eyes of an Indian buyer:
No external memory card slot: Only the 8 GB and 16 GB version of Google’s Nexus 7 is available in India as of now. So, if you buy the 8 GB version, you will get around 5 GB of storage space and around 12 GB in the 16 GB version.
Nexus 7 cannot read your pen drive: There is no USB OTG support on the Nexus 7, so, you cannot plug in your pen drive to watch movies.