Nexus 7 sales near 1 million a month

ASUS, the design brains behind the Google Nexus 7, has been boasting that Google is getting through almost 1 million units a month.

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The Nexus 7 has been a big hit, providing a well-designed, well-built 7-inch tablet – running Google’s own Android 4.1 operating system – for a reasonable price.

It seems that obvious combination has paid off for Google and ASUS.

Talking to the Wall Street Journal the ASUS CFO said “At the beginning, it was… 500K units a month, then maybe 600, 700K. This latest month, it was close to 1 million.”

Even so, with a maximum of 3 million sales in three months that pales in comparison with the 14 million that Apple shifts in the same period. However with Google cutting prices and releasing more devices, their sales can only increase.

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