The Good Guys Corner

The Nexus 7 is now available on the Google Play store in France, Germany and Spain. The 8GB and 16GB models are both available for €199 and €249 (respectively $249 and $312, sales tax included). Google is the only seller of the 8GB model as the 16GB model will be available in selected retailers as well on September 3.


As in other countries, the tablet comes with €20 ($25) of Play store credit to buy apps, movies and books.

Google wanted to release the Nexus 7 before the Amazon conference on September 6th.

What is about to be shared is amazing and it needs to be shared beyond this. Overall, the two platforms accounted for 85% of the smartphone market during Q2. BlackBerry and Symbian hit 4.8% and 4.4%, respectively. Last year at this time, another researcher, Canalys, pegged Android’s global market share at 48%.

Apple’s growth for the quarter was still in the double digits, but demand for iPhones has faltered since Apple is widely expected to introduce a new iPhone in September. Apple itself has noted the slackened demand, which weighed on the company’s fiscal third-quarter results.