News - Nexus 7 sales are approaching one million a month: ASUS

[HEXUS]

Taiwanese firm reports largest quarterly profits in over four years.

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[3dcandy]

Nexus 7 was the first real contender as an iPad beater - but I reckon the iPad Mini is too little product for too much money...

[dangel]

It's a cracking device at bargain money so this isn't shocking.

[jnutt]

We have a Nexus 7. Its just brilliant. Fast easy, to use, and good battery life.

[scaryjim]

The Taiwanese tech company posted profits of $229 for Q3 2012

Cool, the board can go out for a slap meal at McDonalds

Or is there perhaps an M missing there?

[crossy]

Cool, the board can go out for a slap meal at McDonalds
Or is there perhaps an M missing there?

Nah, it's an adjusted figure accounting for "damages" awarded to Apple by a US court - after all, the Nexus 7 is successful so I'm assuming that Apple will sue Asus for copying an iPad Mini prototype.

Joking aside, it's heartening to see the Nexus 7 doing well - haven't got one myself (although if I can find an 8GB for <£150 then I'll dive in).

At the other end of the market we have more traditional larger tablets like the 10-inch iPad, Google Nexus 10 (made by Samsung) and Microsoft Surface.

And not forgetting Asus' own Transformer tablets - it would be nice to hear how they're selling. I see the TF300 "budget" model in a lot of shops so I'm going to assume that it's doing okay sales-wise.

[Wozza365]

ASUS tablets are great, ive got the infinity which is the best tablet about, much better than the ipad 4

[dangel]

ASUS tablets are great, ive got the infinity which is the best tablet about, much better than the ipad 4

...Nexus 10 disagrees

[TheAnimus]

I do like my Nexus 7, despite its low build quality its "robust enough" and you don't cry when you scratch it or get DEET on it because its so cheap.

I would however like it thinner, lighter and with more battery life, however most of my complaints about the latter are due to the software I run on it.

Can't see the sales slowing any time soon, even with the Kindle competition.

[Hicks12]

@Crossy, the 16gb n7 is £160 at richer sounds if you create a vip account and use the free £10 voucher, think thats close enough for you?

[Smudger]

@Crossy, the 16gb n7 is £160 at richer sounds if you create a vip account and use the free £10 voucher, think thats close enough for you?

It's £159 on Google Play, without voucher

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Cool, the board can go out for a slap meal at McDonalds

Or is there perhaps an M missing there?

Don't you mean a slap-up meal?? Now I have a picture in my head of Taiwanese executives in suits slapping each other with burger patties!!

[brasco]

It's such a steal at that price, not surprised it's done so well. Nexus 10 soon with it's super high density display, if they go in cheap enough again (I think they've said $400), they'll make a serious dent in the tablet marketshare.

you don't cry when you scratch it or get DEET on it because its so cheap.

Does it attract bugs? *Budamchisssh*

[3dcandy]

It's such a steal at that price, not surprised it's done so well. Nexus 10 soon with it's super high density display, if they go in cheap enough again (I think they've said $400), they'll make a serious dent in the tablet marketshare.

you don't cry when you scratch it or get DEET on it because its so cheap.

Does it attract bugs? *Budamchisssh*

Is that another fly repellant?

[Hicks12]

It's £159 on Google Play, without voucher

Unfortunately you have to pay p&p of £10 so it ends up £169, and richersounds you can just pick up which is handy... has me mighty tempted

[Smudger]

Unfortunately you have to pay p&p of £10 so it ends up £169, and richersounds you can just pick up which is handy... has me mighty tempted

Ah, I didn't realise there was a delivery charge...