Hot on the heels of Microsoft's Surface, Google on Wednesday unveiled its first branded tablet, the Nexus 7 at the I/O developer conference. With a powerful quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, a bright ...

Google has released a number of tablets over the years, but none have quite lived up to the hype of the original Nexus 7.

Following Google's announcement of its own tablet yesterday, reviewers have gotten some hands-on time with the device, finding it a higher quality machine than some other $200 tablets we could name.