Google's Patrick Brady tells us how the Nexus 7 went from 'start to finish in four months'

![Google's Patrick Brady tells us how the Nexus 7 went from 'start to finish in four months'][1]

At this past year's [CES][2], we were inundated by tablet after tablet after, well, tablet. Some were big, some were small, and some were just right. A few, though, kind of faded into the wallpaper and didn't return. Such was a little prototype [NVIDIA brought by][3] for us to play with, a 7-inch tablet from ASUS with Tegra 3 power and an amazing price tag -- just $250. We got our hands on it briefly (as seen in the video below) and it was impressive, but it was never to be seen again.

One month later, Google's Director of Android Partner Engineering Patrick Brady joined [Matias Duarte][4] in Taipei to meet with ASUS and to launch the project that would become Google's first Nexus tablet, the 7-inch, Tegra 3-powered [Nexus 7][5] that is shipping soon for an even more amazing $199. Coincidence? Join us for a discussion with Patrick about how Google's mighty little tablet came to be.

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