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if you've been reading the headlines you know that a special new tablet launched today I'm Taylor Martin this is pocket now and this is our unboxing of the 2013 Nexus 7 so google just announced the nexus 7 the successor to last year's Nexus 7 which was affordable groundbreaking and quite a nice tablet but we had some problems and Google's answered those this is the 16 gigabyte Wi-Fi model and other than that there's nothing to go on about about the very bright blue vibrant box so we're going to get inside this thing here if we can just and pop the top off the bucks we're going to set the Nexus to the side for a minute and inside the box I can't imagine we have too much because this is only two hundred and twenty nine dollars starting for the 16 gigabyte model plus tax of course and in here we've got pamphlets warranty and safety and some instructions on how to get started and beneath that we have the AC adapter with a micro USB cord so nothing too fancy there just your standard contents nothing special inside the box so we're going to put that aside and go back to the tablet right off the bat it's easy to see that this thing is a lot smaller and more narrow than its its predecessor it's easier to hold in one hand it's it's about six millimeters narrower and it's one point eight millimeters thinner so it's noticeably smaller more lightweight and it feels really good at least the size but let's get the plastic off really quick and look at the tablet maybe I'm having trouble with just about everything so put that to the side so in the front here we have a 7-inch 1920 x 1200 display which is noticeably more dense at least before we turn it on then the original Nexus 7 which had a 7 inch WXGA display and around back we actually have a camera this time it's a 5 megapixel camera your horizontal Nexus branding your Seuss's course the manufacturer and you've got your power volume rocker and what looks to be a microphone on the lock or on the right edge nothing on the left edge the top has your 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and some speakers that point outwards and along the bottom we've also got two more little speakers that point out and your micro USB charging port other than that there's really not a lot on the hardware except for your 1 point 2 megapixel front-facing camera inside it has a 39 50 million power battery and a 1.5 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon s4 pro chipset so that's not the best news ever it's not the worst it's also not the best it has two gigabytes of RAM which is nice and it comes in 16 or 32 gigabytes and storage and it will eventually come in an LTE model which will also work with tmobile AT&T and Verizon the same model which is really nice it's unlocked and it will work with any of those which is nice and maybe a little positive note for the future of Nexus and carriers and LTE of course but let's power the display on and see what this actually looks like because I'm interested to see if it's the one of the problems we have with the the original Nexus 7 is how poor the display is not only was it low resolution it didn't have great color reproduction or contrast or much of anything it was really kind of just there alright so we have this thing finally set up at least enough to where we can get in and look at the display now it's it's hard to tell because I don't have a nexus 7 right here beside me but this looks noticeably more vibrant than the one before it's the color reproduction looks pretty great at least so far I can't tell these these colors look maybe a little pale pillar than they should be I don't know it's hard to tell without any kind of comparison right now but the blacks look pretty dark they don't look very dark hair there's a little a difference between the bezel and the blacks on the display but it does look a little better than what I remember the nexus 7 to be and we do actually have a little lag here so it's actually trying to download a bunch of my apps so that could be the problem but stay tuned for more nexus 7 coverage in the next few days in the coming weeks and I'm Taylor Martin this is pocket now and this has been an unboxing of the new Nexus 7