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Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by bane »

btipling wrote: post #5

It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up a…

Or just get a 10 inch Samsung tablets and buy one of the stylus's that are available anyways. It's no different than an iPad with one of the 3rd party stylii.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by DiabloD3 »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #67
dorianj wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Specs say 216ppi? "7” 1280x800 HD display (216 ppi)" The Retina iPad is 264ppi.

1280x800 on 7" is a very high resolution, it will make everything look tiny. I think what parent was referring to is that the OS doesn't scale the text and UI elements, like the new iPad does. The new iPad has a 2048x1536 screen, but the UI looks like it's 1024x768, it's simply twice as sharp. I have very bad eyesight, looking at the tiny UI in the screenshots on Google's tablet page made me cringe. I wouldn't be abl…

Uh, thats false. Android scales the UI across foir sizes.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by will_work4tears »

whiskers wrote: post #70
MartinCron wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Google tablet is half the price of an iPad. If that's not competing on price, I don't know what is.

It's also 3" smaller, shorter battery life, much lower resolution, and maxes out at 16GB of storage. I suspect Google has priced this very competitively (low margins) specifically to compete with iPad by offering something half the price. If they'd put out a device with comparable features in screen, battery, and storage it would have had to be priced so close to the iPad that the question "why not just have an iPad?…

I'd pay more than an iPad for a tablet with identical specs if it had replaceable batteries.

I'll never, ever personally purchase an Apple product until they do.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by rmckayfleming »

biot wrote: post #46
guynamedloren wrote: post #22

I loooove Google, but I can't get over this "Play" nonsense. I get that it's short and (maybe) easy to remember, but it just sounds stupid. They certainly could have come up with a better name than that.

I thought RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook name was brilliant. To the consumer market, they read it as "play book" and think of all the fun things they can do while playing with it. For the business market, they read it with the sports metaphor as a "strategic playbook" which fits their purposes well.

Anecdotally, they've also done relatively well here in Ontario ever since they dropped the prices to 200$ and up. Many of my friends and family have one (no Kindle Fire up here).

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by rayiner »

UnFleshedOne wrote: post #16
btipling wrote: post #5

It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up a…

You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?

No, they should do like Apple and not obsolete Android devices that aren't even released yet. It's part of making customers feel good about buying your product.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by gte910h »

btipling wrote: post #5

It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up a…

While I'm all over you getting an iPad (I'm primarily an iOS dev), the Nexus line of phones, other than the G1, have shown markedly more updatability than the run of the mill random crapware phones you get for free by doing X or Y.

Perhaps you'll get a few years of updates out of it?

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by napillo »

MartinCron wrote: post #60
Cd00d wrote: post #41

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Thanks for that. I had no idea the Fire lacked a hard volume button. I almost compulsively use the one on my iPad, as I find quantified increments far easier than sliding my fat finger over something my fat finger is blocking.

Not only that, but the soft volume controls aren't uniformly available. When you're watching a movie in Netflix, you have to stop the playback to adjust volume, but you can't hear the volume until you start playback again. Just painful. Note: this experience may have been fixed, I haven't used my kindle fire for watching movies in months, for obvious reasons.

What's worse is that flash videos have their own volume control, and some of them default to having volume at half staff, and for some reason, sliding your finger on the (flash) volume bar doesn't adjust the slider at all, it moves the whole webpage around. Really frustrating watching flash videos on an Android device.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by cgislason »

awakeasleep wrote: post #72
MartinCron wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Future-proof is a reasonable goal for a desktop PC, television, digital camera, automobile, wristwatch, or other more mature technology. It's just too soon to expect future-proofing from tablets or phones. As long as the tablet continues to do what it's supposed to do , it shouldn't really matter that there's a newer OS out there. As compared to the Kindle fire, which was never any good at doing what it was supposed…

How does the future-proofedness of Android tablets compare to the first iPad? I think it's held up pretty well, it doesn't get apps or features that require the camera, but aside from that it still gets updates and can run stuff. Andriod tablets can run new apps but not the operating system upgrades? I don't have any experience to know.

Just FYI, the first iPad will not be compatible with iOS 6. Still a pretty decent lifespan, but coming to an end.
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