Take a photo. Sounds simple enough … except there’s no camera app by default on the Nexus 7. So that means the camera only activates when you’re using an app that needs it, such as with a Skype video ...

Google Glass got most of the attention, hardware-wise, during Google I/O 2012, but Google had a second, far more modest piece of hardware at the event in the Nexus 7 tablet. It was widely available, ...

The Google Nexus 7 is a pretty great tablet right out of the box. It has a speedy NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. But ...

Nexus owners eager to update their tablets can download the 4.2 package from Google or just wait for the over-the-air update. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet hit the streets this week. And almost immediately folks figured out how to install a custom recovery and root the tablet. Meanwhile, some folks tore apart the 2013 Nexus 7 ...

Today marks the eighth anniversary of Google releasing the original Nexus 7 tablet and it’s easy to forget the impact that it had on the industry at the time. Sure, many phones today are approaching ...

Google's new Nexus 7 to go head-to-head with Apple's iPad Mini. July 24, 2013 — -- It wasn't exactly Google's best kept secret, but the company did in fact announce today a refreshed version to ...