The company has a dedicated tablet section in many of its stores and sells Tegra-powered Android devices from Samsung, Acer, Asus, Toshiba and others, including the Samsung Google Nexus 7, Acer Iconia, ASUS TF300t, and the Toshiba Excite 10.

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Asus, which produced the Nexus 7 for Google, recently denied a report that it would do the same.

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And is the Google Nexus 7 by Asus actually a good device?

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And sell it did, so much so that it moved the titans of tech to innovate the space, with Google enlisting ASUS' engineering for its popular and affordable Nexus 7 reference tab (named for its relatively diminutive size) and even Apple, which once infamously disavowed the smaller format altogether, releasing the 7.9-inch iPad mini.

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Asus' Android-based tablets include the popular Nexus 7, which it jointly brands with Google.

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Overall, however, Google and Asus have produced a very good tablet in the Nexus 7, one I can recommend.

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As a Nexus 7 owner, I have no doubt that ASUS can capably build a quality tablet at a budget price.

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Yes, ASUS is making a tidy income alongside its Google deal, but the fact that it's shipping a million Nexus 7 tablets a month leaves little doubt that higher-end (and higher-margin) tablets like the Transformer Pad Infinity are being overshadowed.

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