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Best Buy and Future Shop also begin Nexus 7 pre-orders

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By Charlene S.

Published: Jul 08, 2012, 8:05 AM

Best Buy and Future Shop also begin Nexus 7 pre-orders

In addition to GameStop, Staples and Google itself, Best Buy and its Canadian counterpart, Future Shop, have also started to accept pre-order for Google’s new 7-inch slate. Interestingly, the Nexus 7 is listed at $259.99 for the 16 GB version with a link to Best Buy’s price match guarantee right underneath it. We’re not sure why you would opt to pay $10 more for the device, unless perhaps you have some Reward Zone certificates to burn through.

July? August?

Nonetheless, Best Buy’s pre-order site indicates that it expects to have the device in its warehouse on August 10, 2012. Conversely, Staples says it will ship between July 12th and 17th and the official release date from Google is still Q3 2012, so we’re definitely left with some date conflicts.

What we know for sure is this slab will feature a 7-inch display, 1.3 GHz quad-core Tegra 3, 1 GB of RAM, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and that you can slap down $250 or so of your hard earned money right now and expect a tablet at your door sometime between ‘Julyish’ and ‘Augustish’. Let’s hope Staples is the winner on this one.

source: Best Buy & Future Shop

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Charlene S. is a former tech news writer at PhoneArena. Her content contribution focused on deep software coverage. She was active between 2011 and 2012, producing a ton of news stories on various topics, as well as going hands-on with the Galaxy Note 2.