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at long last Google has decided to make a true iPad competitor a 10-inch tablet and it is running the latest and greatest in jellybean it has the Nexus branding let's get this guy out of the box this is of course our review unit so we don't have the nuts and bolts unboxing if you will but we'll do our best I wonder how Google's gonna keep on keeping track of all these numbers because they have the Nexus 4 in the Nexus 7 and the Nexus 10 10 but the Nexus 4 is a phone but the next seven is a tablet I'm just saying it's getting a little messy in the Nexus world okay focus focus all right you check this guy out this is actually much more like the surface in that it's very rectangular you can tell it's probably meant to be viewed horizontally more often than vertically seems just a little less squared off than the iPad it has a nice surface on the back actually it's sort of plastic and a little bit tacky by which I mean it doesn't slide around as much like you grab a knife I pad these days and it just goes flying this not so much okay our screens already coming on nicely preloaded with apps because Eric Franklin's been having a good time with this back in the CNET lab it's a nice looking thing let's see what else we have in the box not much there we go probably a little charging brick and of course our Nexus QuickStart guide or like I mentioned earlier the only tech support you're ever likely to get with a nexus product all right that's just how it is at least there's a warranty and that is all okay let's talk specs find out why you might want to choose this over an iPad the Nexus 10 tablet is built by Samsung it is a true 10-inch tablet it has a 10-inch diagonal display with a 2560 by 1600 pixel resolution the front is Corning Gorilla Glass 2 so it should be pretty durable of course we'll try that out the weight is about 1.3 pounds a little bit heavy but it actually doesn't feel that heavy there's micro HDMI out it has a 5 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing 1.9 megapixel camera there's Bluetooth Wi-Fi and NFC and of course this tablet is running Android 4.2 jelly bean so you can really take advantage of some of those cool jellybean features like the Google now cards what is Google's stock price the Nexus 10 has two ways to charge microUSB and that cable is included in the box or a magnetic Pogo pin charger now that's gonna charge the tablet a lot faster but you have to buy the charger separately it's $399 for 16 gigs or $4.99 for 32 gigs if you are looking for a 10-inch tablet this holiday season I have to say this is looking like the strongest iPad competitor I've seen in a long time unlike previous Android tablets it's running a truly completed operating system jelly bean is fun to use it has a lot of useful features and it's easy to figure out unlike honeycomb plus I think the pricing is very smart starting this tablet at 399 means frankly it's kind of a better value than a new iPad I would give this one a serious look