Google Nexus tablet reportedly shows its pre-rendered face, packing Android 4.1 and a $199 price

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There's been a longstanding rumor that Google liked [ASUS' Eee Pad MeMO ME370T][3] well enough to bestow it with an official Nexus badge and take it underground until it was ready to show its [Jelly Bean][4] face. If we're to believe a render and a raft of claimed training documents nabbed by _Gizmodo_, that face is getting its debut in about [two days' time][5]. As it's described, it could largely be what we'd expect from the ME370T being revived as an Android 4.1 reference device: a 7-inch, quad-core Tegra 3 slate with a front 1.2-megapixel camera, NFC, 8GB to 16GB of storage and a 1280 x 800 IPS-based LCD. If you're looking for gotta-have-it features that will have you rushing to fork over the cash, though, they may be limited to the OS and [Kindle Fire][6]-busting $199 and $249 prices for the two storage capacities. That image? There's a very distinct possibility that it's still a cleverly-done fake. Nonetheless, the prism-like backdrop has a whiff of [Galaxy Nexus][7] about it, and that textured, rounded back lines up neatly with what we've seen in an [FCC filing][8] for the ASUS design. We'll know soon enough whether or not it's real or just a fantasy -- if the tip (and others we've been hearing) is right, Nexus slabs will spread 'round the world come July.

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