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In an effort to make its products more widely available across the world, Google has released its ever-popular Nexus 7 tablet in India, just roughly one month after launching Google Play Books in the country. For now, only the 16GB WiFi-only model of the Nexus 7 is available to India customers, at a price of 15,999 rupees (just south of $300).

Google Play lists a ship date of April 5 in India, and while it’s certainly not the cheapest tablet that residents of India have access to, it’s great that Google is making its products available in such a large country. It’ll certainly be interesting to see how well it sells in a country like India.

However, the Google Play store in India only offers apps, games, and books, so users in India will certainly be limited to the amount of content that they’ll be able to stuff onto their new Nexus 7 tablets, but hopefully we’ll see movies, music, and more goodies come to the country. In the meantime, you’ll be limited to apps, games, and a bit of reading if that’s your thing.

Of course, Google I/O is coming up quick, so we could see Google announce availability of more of their products in more countries, India included. Google I/O is set for May 15-17, which is just a month-and-a-half away roughly, and tickets for the event sold out in under an hour, so it’s going to be a hot conference, just like last year.

[via Android Police]

Google now offering Nexus 7 in India is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s time to bring out the big guns with The Conduit HD for Android, a game that’s been boosted into the mobile space by the developers at High Voltage Software assisted by the Tegra team at NVIDIA. With this version of the game you’ll be rolling out with everything you saw on the original Wii version and more – 9 mission of furious blasting of alien beasts from the comfort of your own smartphone or tablet! This game is out this week for Tegra-toting machines, here in the mobile universe for the first time!

What you’re seeing here is a rather radical environment in which your mission is to destroy a mysterious and other-worldly enemy with a dynamic user interface available right from your touchscreen device or wirelessly with your own Bluetooth-connected gaming controller. You’ll be using pistols, machine guns, and a fabulously strange “All Seeing Eye” device (ASE in the game) to explore this strange new world and puzzle solve as you blast through the opposition. Below you’ll see the game running on the Google Nexus 7, the ASUS-made tablet working with NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor under the hood.

You’ll be able to control your gameplay from start to finish with control options everywhere from flipped tapping to auto-fire mode. You’ll be able to change the layout of the buttons and controls, change the way you target and move, and you’ll have – specifically – GameStop Controller support as well. This is the more “traditional” way to play the game, they say, with Bluetooth-connected blasting on your side.

The weapons you’ll be using number to 18, unique firing modes and actions for each, with the ASE to back you up from start to finish. You’ll be destroying your enemies which number to 14, for starters, both human and alien creatures coming at you not just from straight up in front, but below and up above as well. Head down the stairwell, watch out for snipers up on a second level, and toss grenades all around.

And the best part is the graphics have been given a bump between the original Wii version and here with NVIDIA’s Tegra SoC. With the Tegra 3 quad-core processor you’ll be blasting up and out with what the Chief Creative Officer of High Voltage Software, Eric Nofsinger, calls “console-quality visuals on mobile devices.” This includes enhanced lighting in all your darkest corners, higher resolution graphics than ever before, and “much-improved” visual fidelity compared to this game’s original release.

This game will be available to you immediately if not soon from the Google Play app store through the NVIDIA TegraZone with a rather unique pricing structure. You’ll be able to download the game for free, and the first two levels are completely free. After that you’ve got the option of buying the whole rest of the game at once for $4.99, or you can buy each of the two halves of the game for $2.99 each. At the moment we can’t imagine why you’d only want half the game, but to each their own.

Have a peek at the timeline below for more Tegra-enhanced games available in the NVIDIA TegraZone right this minute, and don’t forget to hit up our own massive Tegra Hub too for more NVIDIA mobile action than you can handle!

The Conduit HD Android Tegra Enhanced Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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“Transformer” is the perfect name for the latest all-in-one from Asus. It’s a PC that can become an 18-inch tablet. It runs Windows 8 and Android. And it’s freakin’ huge at more than five pounds.

It’s finally arrived – the official Google Nexus 7 Pogo Pin dock made for your very favorite 7-inch tablet, straight from the big G. This release has been awaited by fans of the device since it was first realized that the unit had a set of Pogo Pins on its side. What this means is that you’ll be able to drop the tablet in to the charger sideways and you’ll have to do no plugging of any sort to make with the charging – so simple!

This device is being shown in each of the three major sales locations for the device on Google Play, both in the USA and across the sea in both the UK and greater Europe. The price remains relatively similar depending on where you’re grabbing it from – so similar, in fact, that you’ll want to pick one up in the store that resides inside your own land mass, without a doubt.

For the USA version you’ll be dropping $29.99, in the UK you’ll be paying up 24.99 in English Quid, and across the Euro mass you’ll see 29,99 EU, as it were. The device remains essentially the same no matter where you’re purchasing it, save the wall-plug, of course. If you’ve seen this device before this release, you’ve quite likely been paying $10 USD more (or that’s what we’ve seen in general, that is).

This device is quite simple, only holding your Nexus 7 upright and charging it just so long as you’ve got the cord out the back plugging in to a power port. And that’s it, that’s all, that’s all there is! Have a peek at the Nexus 7 timeline below to see other recent happenings surrounding this lovely tablet device.

Nexus 7 Pogo Dock hits Google Play store online is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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