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The Nexus 7 is an innocuous looking little device. The unassuming face of Google's first foray into the tablet world has no hardware buttons aside from the power button and volume rocker, and the lithe 7-inch form factor means it can be slipped away into your bag or even jacket pocket. With prices starting at US$199 for the 8 GB model, the device has basically sold out on its first run in the U.S. So is this early success just a question of cost, or is it a genuinely good Android tablet? We take the Nexus 7 for a spin to find out.

The Nexus 7, especially for a tablet of this size, packs some serious hardware grunt. A quad core Tegra 3 processor provides the processing power, with 1GB of RAM providing enough memory, in tandem with Android's fairly robust multi-tasking abilities, to handle the variety of tasks a typical day of use can throw at it. The device itself comes with either 8 or 16GB of onboard storage, depending on how much cash you're prepared to splurge (we've been using the $199 8 GB variant, the 16 GB model costs $249).

Unless you want to store your entire music library or a collection of HD movies locally, either size will probably serve your needs, and Google is angling this as a cloud device "made for" its Play store. The lack of an SD expansion card slot, however, means that you're stuck with whatever you started with.

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