The name "Nexus 7 with mobile data" is a clunky mouthful, but it's perfectly appropriate — this tablet is the Nexus 7 with a little bit of connectivity grafted onto it. This tablet is exactly, utterly the same as the tablet we reviewed in June, save for a tiny cut-out rectangle about a third of the way up the left side. Poke a SIM tool or paper clip into the small hole in the cut-out, and out pops a SIM card tray. Pop in an AT&T; or T-Mobile SIM card, and you're off and running. The whole thing is so well camoflauged that you might never notice it's there, even feeling along the side with your fingers.

Like the Nexus 4, there's no LTE support on the Nexus 7 Mobile. That's unfortunately unsurprising, but it's also just unfortunate — the Nexus 7 Mobile's data speeds don't come anywhere close to what I've gotten with the iPad's LTE model. On AT&T;'s HSPA+ network, I consistently got download speeds between 3-5Mbps and uploads between 1-2Mbps. That's sufficient for web browsing or triaging your email, but YouTube and Hulu had to pause to buffer much more often than on an LTE connection. The device holds its connection well, though, never once losing service unless I was underground or in otherwise impossible-to-reach places — it's at least as capable as a good smartphone in that regard.

Google's carrier-free approach is great, but I missed having LTE

For everything you need to know about the Nexus 7 otherwise, be sure and check out our full review of Google's tablet. In short, it's a really solid device. (I bought one myself, and love it.) Its soft-touch back is comfortable to hold, and everything from text to movies look good on the 7-inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 display. The design is great for reading in portrait, and for turning on its side for watching movies — personally, I prefer the form factor to the iPad mini. It's a little thick and heavy, especially compared to the iPad mini, but it's still really usable in one hand. Its Tegra 3 processor is fast, and Android 4.1 (since upgraded to 4.2) is a reliable and mature operating system.

Every test I ran on the two Nexus 7 models provided similar results. That's mostly not surprising — have I mentioned they're almost entirely identical? — but the one result that impressed me was battery life. On a stable AT&T; HSPA+ connection, I got 5 hours, 50 minutes of battery life on the Verge Battery Test, which cycles through a series of websites and high-res images with the screen set to 65 percent brightness. The Wi-Fi model lasted all of ten minutes longer. In practice, it means you'll need to charge the Nexus 7 Mobile only every few days.

The Nexus 7's problems make the jump to the new model as well. There are limited storage options (only up to 32GB), the Play Store doesn't have the depth or breadth of content some of the App Store, and most of all there are still far too few good apps for Android tablets.

Every pro, every con, every feature on the Nexus 7 is here as well. But the Nexus 7 Mobile has that one extra wireless radio, and it kind of changes everything.