Shop Divvy via eBay offers the factory-refurbished, second-generation ASUS Nexus 7 16GB 7" Android Tablet, model no. NEXUS7-ASUS-2B16, for $129.99 with free shipping. That’s tied as the lowest no-rebate price we’ve seen for a refurbished unit and the lowest total price we could find for a refurb today by $35. (We saw one for $10 less three weeks ago, but it required a rebate.) Features include a 7" 1920x1200 touchscreen, Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB flash memory, 5-megapixel rear camera, 1.2-megapixel front camera, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11n wireless, HDMI, and Google Android 4.3 OS (Jelly Bean). A 90-day Asus warranty applies.
Newegg had it a few days ago for $103 after rebate.
Newegg offers the refurbished 2nd-generation ASUS Nexus 7 16GB 7" WiFi Android Tablet, model no. NEXUS7-ASUS-2B16, for $102.99 with free shipping via the directions below. That’s $27 under yesterday’s mention and the lowest total price we’ve ever seen for this model. (It’s also the best deal we could find for a refurb now by $57.) Features include a 7" 1920x1200 touchscreen, Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB flash memory, rear and front cameras, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11n wireless, HDMI, and Google Android 4.3 OS (Jelly Bean). Deal ends August 25. To get this deal:
Add the ASUS Nexus 7 16GB 7" WiFi Android Tablet to your cart for $169.99
apply coupon code “VCO” and checkout with Visa Checkout to drop the price to $152.99
redeem this $50 mail-in rebate for a final price of $102.99
Note: A 90-day warranty applies, but it’s unclear who backs it.
More than likely the warranty coverage limited to North American purchases, however you can check with the ASUS Warranty page for further information: http://www.service.asus.com/#!warranty/c22lj
You can’t go wrong at this price, this is a great tablet. Full HD, and although it doesn’t include a microSD card slot (thanks, Google!) you can buy a cheap doohickey on ebay to use for SD/microSD card access, USB mounting (you can mount desktop hard drives!) and HDMI (I bought a dongle that does it all and costs only $8 or so)
The newegg deal was after a sucky $50 Visa cash card, at least this Woot deal is fair and square.
[edit] forgot to mention one thing: compared to Samsung’s crappy tablets, when you get one of these you’re practically guaranteed to get updates to the latest Android version (the same way the Nexus 5 gets updates right away while third party phones get them much later, and sometimes never)
Why is it always the Nexus 7 and never the Nexus 10? All these other, lesser tablets in the iPad’s original form factor, but it’s like nobody but me wants the Nexus 10.
Better screen, RAM, and cameras than the recently announced Barnes & Noble Nook (basically a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, I believe), at a much lower price. The Nook does have a micro SD slot, but I’m thinking these days that a good home server is more important than tablet expandability.
I’d be interested in a Nexus 10 deal too, but I suspect that it’s a matter of limited supply. There probably haven’t been sufficient numbers of returned units to refurb and offer her.
I’d love to see Google sell a Nexus 12 or larger, but I think they may be scaling back their Android hardware efforts… they’ve made their point to the leading Android platform manufacturers, and pouring more resources into Nexus starts to look like creating unnecessary conflicts of interest (or at least picking the winners and losers).