Will This Be Google's Android-powered iPad Killer?

According to a leaked staff training document, what you see below is the Nexus 7, a 7-inch Asus-built tablet that will first see the light of day at Google's I/O conference this month. It does look very nice, but the good news doesn't start and end with its looks.

The Nexus 7 carry's a 1280x800 pixel display, a 1.3-GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor with 1GB of RAM, 1.2-Megapixel front-facing camera (although, strangely, no rear-facing one) and 8 or 16GB of storage. All of this will make the tablet fly.

The price you say?
The price of the Nexus 7 is just $199 and $249 (£127 and £160).

The spec sheet and the low price aren't the best bits of news to come from the leak. Also on the document is word that Google is to take control of all future Android updates. The Nexus 7 is due to launch on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), but will receive any further update directly from Google, to try and avoid fragmentation and delays.

It is still unclear whether this applies just to the Nexus 7, or to all Android devices running on Jelly Bean and up, but if it does, then it will mark a dramatic change in the way Android updates become available.