Nexus 7 2013 Model Price Leaked, 16GB Version to Cost $229

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The Nexus 7 2013 models prices leaked this week.

The new 16GB version of the tablet will cost $229 while the 32GB version will sell for $269, according to an unnamed retailer that leaked a snapshot of their inventory. The device is listed under Nexus 2 7".

The Nexus 7 successor is expected to debut sometime later this month. Another recent report revealed that it will be available in late July in Taiwan.

Analysts recently weighed in the popularity of Nexus 7, predicting that its succesor will sell up to 8 million units this year. The device will move this many units due to information received from Taiwan-based vendors by DigiTimes. The site claims supply chain makers are not as confident in the tablet, stating that the volume will be difficult to reach because many vendors will launch competing models.

The sources also said that the Nexus 7 successor will not have the same pricing advantage as the previous model since many other companies have released slates in the same price range such as HP, Acer, Lenovo and Asus. This new report confirms that the company will raise the price on the device.

Some of the rumored specs for the Nexus 7 2 include a 7-inch 1980 x 1200 display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera. The device is expected to be priced somewhere in between $199-$249 for the Wi-Fi model.

Google released the original Nexus 7 tablet around the summer of last year and the tablet went on to become one of the company's most successful products to date. It solidified itself in the low-end tablet market that was first established by Amazon with the Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble with the Nook at the end of 2011.