CowBoom (Best Buy Company) (Best Buy Company) has the pre-owned Google Nexus 7 Gen 1 8GB Pre-owned Android Tablet Sale for $59.99 + Free Shipping. 14 day returns. Fair condition. Use coupon code: Nexus731215 Expires Soon

Insanely cheap price for a capable tablet. Give it to the kids and save a ton or try out Android tablets.

This is the original generation, so it's roughly $100 cheaper than the new one, but perfectly good choice.

This tablet runs Android 4.1, known as Jelly Bean. We have one, and after you hit update, you will have downloaded 4.4 Kit Kat. It features a high quality 7" screen using the high quality IPS technology. One of the best screens in this class.

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Our blog post, Which Tablet to Buy? helps you sort out all of the different tablet options. Be sure to check out our Making the Call Between iPhone or Android Smartphones post to learn if  this is right for you.

Other features:

• Tegra 3 Quad Core 1.2Ghz processor for fast and beautiful graphics for gameplay
• 12 core graphics processor for better effects
• 1.2 Megapixel front camera for applications like Skype
• All your favorite Google services such as Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, are easily accessed
• Over 600,000 apps in the Google Play Store

How is this different from the similar sized iPad mini?

• More tablet enabled Apps on the iPad
• iPad's iOS is easier to use
• iPad mini costs more
• Nexus 7 screen is better
• iPad mini has dual cameras
• Battery life is roughly the same

We figure that if you use an iPhone, you will probably stick with the iPad. Android Smartphone users would probably opt for the Nexus 7. Few people would cross both sides to have to learn another operating system.