Staples taking pre-orders for Nexus 7 tablets

Staples is accepting pre-orders for Nexus 7 and will ship the product between July 12 and July 17. Staples will accept pre-orders for Nexus 7 till Wednesday.

Video game retailer GameStop Corp also plans to sell the Google tablet in its US stores.

Google will also sell the Nexus 7 through its online store Google Play. Nexus 7 will sell for $199 in an 8-gigabyte model and $249 in a 16-gigabyte model.

Staples says that on buying the tablet customers will get $25 credit to spend on Google Play, as well as some free content, including your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Features of Nexus 7

• 7" display with 1280-by-800 resolution display protected by scratch resistant Corning glass
• Over 9 hours of HD video playback, 10 hours of web browsing, 10 hours of reading and up to 300 hours of stand-by time so you spend less time charging
• Comes with a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor
• Powered by Android 4.1, Jelly Bean
• 1.2MP Front-facing camera
• WiFi 802.11 b/g/n; Bluetooth