The picture quality was anything but consistent, which leads us to believe there is plenty of room for improvement and is by no means a reference for the format.

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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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