Google Nexus 7

We nabbed a good chunk of hands on time with the Google Nexus 7, the new challenger in the tablet market.
The new tablet, which weighs in at just 340g, packs a 7 inch screen with 1280x800 screen and comes complete with a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, plus a 12 core GPU too.

What's more, the tablet costs just £159 or £199 (depending on whether you want an 8GB or 16GB variant) and will be $199 in the US.

However be warned: there's no microSD card slot nor a rear-facing camera… although we're not sure many people will miss the latter.
It fits nicely into the hand, and although the back is encased in plastic it still doesn't feel as cheap as the price tag would suggest.

Oddly the headphone port is placed at the bottom of the Google Nexus 7 rather than at the top or the side - this creates something of a lop-sided feel when you're playing with the tablet, and we can see wireless headphones being a real boon here.

The battery life is a big talking point too, with a very decent nine hours of video playback or up to 300 hours of standby if you promise to be really lean with your tablet.
It's rocking Android 4.1, the latest version of the OS (codenamed Jellybean) which adds in a few minor updates to the OS - namely better voice recogntion and the likes of Google Now, which will display cards in a contextual manner when you ask questions of the tablet.