Nah, I'm happy with Apple ecosystem. I must admit it looks like to be the most impressive ipad contender that's come out so far though and good luck to it.
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Tablets Any iPad owners considering the Nexus 7?
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Looking into getting one for my birthday, but would much prefer to have a 7" Apple Tablet then the Nexus since I love iOS and how stable/safe it is. We can only hope, a 7" iPad would be absolutely beautiful for my needs.
A good, level headed, unbiased review of this new device here:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/google-nexus-7-tablet-review-the-new-best-way-to-spend-160-quid/
Very tempted to pick one up.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/google-nexus-7-tablet-review-the-new-best-way-to-spend-160-quid/
Very tempted to pick one up.
Was tempted until I discovered there's no 3G version.
Having to tether a MID to another MID such as a smartphone to get online always struck me as an incredibly dumb paradigm.
Having to tether a MID to another MID such as a smartphone to get online always struck me as an incredibly dumb paradigm.
I guess many people tend to assume that most will naturally have their mobile phone with them all the time anyway, and, like with the iPad, the WiFi model is the most popular.
Firstly due to the ridiculous mark up Apple put on the 3G addition which cannot ever be justified, and that you can just use your mobile you have with you anyway for the odd occasion you need it.
Of course, some do need 3G in their tablet but only the minority
not bad...over 9 hrs runtime on a form-factor that small with a quad-core cpu is pretty impressive. the non-3g support isn't as big a deal as some try to make out and is par for the course for tablets on this size and price point.
would have liked to have seen sd card support from the get-go, but 16 gb is sufficient for most use cases.
would have liked to have seen sd card support from the get-go, but 16 gb is sufficient for most use cases.
Not every carrier offers tethering options on their smartphone plans, or they price it so high that a separate data plan for your tablet is actually more economical. And what odd occasion? I use cellular data on my iPad almost every time I leave my house. Also, currently I have an iPhone because my employer is paying the phone bill. If not, I would just get a dumb phone and just have my iPad. And then there's the matter of battery -- I haven't tethered myself, but I've seen reports of people saying tethering drains their smartphone battery rather fast. In that case people might not want to depend on their smartphone to supply the data connection for their tablet.
for novel reading, a 7 inch reader that's significantly lighter than the iPad totally has uses at home, in my experience. and sometimes when this is brought up people get into pissing contests about "how weak are you if you can't even hold the iPad for reading".. but the weight does make a difference, especially to disabled or elderly people. I'm neither, but I still prefer my 9 oz Sony Reader if I'm reading for hours in bed.
It does look like a nice device. I am considering it, but if I do, it won't be to replace my new iPad. I'd get out of curiosity because the price isn't too much. I would like to see how Android works and have never messed with it before. I think it would be a good experience for me to gain perspective on the iOS competitor.
I'm getting one, but I like to play with everything. I have an ultrabook and a MBA and I'm tempted to sell the ultrabook for a Surface Pro when it comes out :-D
The nexus devices are just as stable as apple devices. Jellybean is quite a bit ahead of iOS. I much prefer using my galaxy nexus over my ipad 2 and have ordered a nexus 7 16gb.
When you're talking Gizmodo and Android stuff, it's never going to be unbiased. They hate Apple.
The Nexus 7, a tablet that Google are making a massive loss per unit in a desperate bid to put it into people's hands at just $200. As opposed to the iPad which people want and are willing to drop up to £649 on (depending on model). Google, by taking the hit per unit, are essentially paying you to buy one.
Do you have a source for this information? The articles I have read is that it is the 8gb version should be very close to cost and the 16gb version should have a slim profit.
The "taking a hit per unit" business model sounds very similar to American cell phone plans and videogame console makers such as Microsoft and Sony.
But more importantly... Do you own an iPad and if so, are you planning on getting a Nexus 7?
Cult of Mac in their latest podcast mentioned it, as John Brownlee was at Google I/O.
And I just spend £649 on a 64GB new iPad WiFi and Cellular, have over £500 worth of apps since getting my first iPhone in 2008. So no, I have desire to buy a Nexus (what happened to the first 6) 7.
It IS a serious tablet, since it can do MORE than the iPad: file system, manage every file type (zip, rar, etc), no need for video conversion, download stuff from the web, widgets, change ROMS to add more functionality, bluetooth (REAL bluetooth), NFC, better Google Maps and Gmail and YouTube, voice search and offline voice typing, Google Now, better notifications, quad core, etc.
And he says its not a serious contender.............. Sure dude. Sure...
It can do MORE.
Oh, I also forgot... real USB and not Apples proprietary pin.
While it's a real mini USB you still can't hookup a flash thumb drive to it, to expand it's storage. It does have nice specs but i'll wait for the Nexus 10.
While it's a real mini USB you still can't hookup a flash thumb drive to it, to expand it's storage. It does have nice specs but i'll wait for the Nexus 10.
Yes you can, but with an adapter. I saw a video of this with a Galaxy Note. They guy connected his pendrive to the phone with an adapter and used a file explorer to play videos and watch PDFS.