In one day, retailer sells half the stock of Nexus 7 in Brazil - Paginadanoticia.com

In one day, Walmart.com sold more than half of the stock of the tablet Nexus 7 in Brazil. After nearly three months of negotiations with the Asus, device manufacturer, the online retailer has started selling the device in the country on Thursday (25) morning. The tablet arrived in the online store at a price of U.S. $ 1000.

“Two weeks ago we got the hammer to buy the full batch of Nexus 7 from Asus that was available in Brazil,” said the G1 Flávio Dias, president of Walmart.com in the country. “Our expectation is that the rest of the supply runs out quickly,” he added.

G1 contacted Asus and Google in Brazil, they said no comment. Equipped with Tegra 3 quad-core 1.3 GHz, the Nexus 7 has 1 GB of RAM and battery life of 9 hours when playing videos. The screen of the device, which weighs 340 g, has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.

The Walmart.com has no confirmation whether to buy a new product stock, however, due to the success of sales, the retailer hopes to make a new negotiation. “It is a product with great features, it has a very strong brand, beyond the expectation of Brazilian consumers have this product,” says Dias.

According to the executive, sales in the category of tablets at Walmart. increased with 400% between January and April this year compared to the same period in 2012. “The tablet is a product that has great grip for Brazilian consumers, besides the increase of available models.”

The Nexus 7 tablet was announced by Google in June 2012 (Reuters)

Dias explained that the deal was made only by the party ecommerce Walmart. “The Walmart.com is a separate company. Not long ago we opened a new company in Brazil only for e-commerce. We even have an office with more than 500 employees, “he said.

At the end of March, Google launched the Nexus smartphone in Brazil 4 event in the city of São Paulo in the presence of Brazilian Hugo Barra, vice president of global Android. On occasion, Barra said Google had not expected to bring the Nexus 7 tablet in the country. Even so, the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has already approved the product for sale in Brazil in January this year.

Google tablet, only with access to Wi-Fi, is sold in the United States in two models: 8GB (for $ 200) and 16GB (for $ 250). In October, the company announced a new version of the Nexus 7, connecting to the 3G network and memory of 32 GB, sold for $ 300.