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Google I/O attendees get a free bundle of Nexus devices

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, June 28th, 2012 at 4:27 PM
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On top of getting treated with skydivers and extreme bike riders to demonstrate Project Glass yesterday at day one of Google I/O, attendees left the keynote with a very generous amount of upcoming Google Nexus gadgets.

Those lucky folk were the first to receive the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, which includes some nice across-the-board improvements to the OS. That’s cute. Then on the hardware side of things, Google gave everyone a free Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Nexus Q streaming media player, and Nexus 7 tablet. Total value of the three devices: approximately $850. If Google hadn’t lowered the price of the unlocked, contract-free Galaxy Nexus to $349 yesterday, the accumulated value would have been over $1,000.

Google I/O attendees were also the very first people in the world to get access to Project Glass. It doesn’t come for free — or anything close to free — but for a whopping $1,500, developers can pre-order Google Glasses and they’ll ship in 2013. The prototype glasses aren’t available to the mainstream yet and won’t be any time soon, but Google will have to chop off a large chunk of that price tag if it wants to see good sales numbers when it does hit the market.

Chances are you weren’t at the conference yesterday, so you’ll want to know regular pricing information. The Nexus Q and Nexus 7 will ship in July for $299 and $199 respectively — one insanely high price and one insanely low price. Jelly Bean will start out as an OTA update for the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus next month, but hopefully it’ll roll out to the majority of Android handsets by 2034.

[via Google I/O]

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  • http://twitter.com/SPK4LIFE Hernandez

    haha wasn’t expecting that last bit.

  • http://isolthai.com/courses/ccie.html george@ccie bootcamp

    Great news…. didnt expected that from google…. Nexus devices are much better than other local devices

  • http://internetworksolutions.net/mcitp-training-boot-camp/ mcitp training

    While I love the price point and the fact you can now buy a quad core tablet (i’ll be getting the 8gb £159 version) for so cheap considering i bought my nexus s in january for £200 haha, what surprises me the most is that they did away with the tablet UI and i’m very sad about that, was using my mates transformer couple of days ago and for a tablet it just makes sense for it to all be at the bottom, rather than 2 bars 1 at the top and 1 at the bottom.

  • http://ccnp-training.co.uk/ bryan@ccnp exam

    I am going to Google I/O next year. I will be there, I promise you that.