Pff. I was expecting a remake of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvUYYUd-Ye0 - and then it's just another phone.
Nexus 7, Made for Google Play
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#152Is this a Kindle killer? I have the original iPad (twas free!), which I've really loved, but the cost is significant compared to the newer 7" tablets. I use the 3g a ton, but suppose I could fix that with a personal cellular wifi solution. But, being a Kindle (e-ink) user since inception, I've always felt that if it were my dollars talking, I'd go with the Fire. I can't justify the cost of the iPad, but could with th…
As an avid Android guy, I have to admit that ONE thing Apple got right was the aspect ratio on the iPad. Even though I have the TF101, it's way more convenient to use the iPad in both portrait and landscape as compared to the Android tablets.
And of all the things, I'd thought Amazon would be in on this. What with their Kindles being 4:3 already.
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#153No SD card slot? Urgh. 8/16GB is not a lot of room, especially for a tablet that is not going to be online all the time.
I think this is what the "Made for Play" thing is all about. It also leaves room for Asus and other manufacturers to come out with tablets with more ports.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love that people accuse Apple of planned obsolescence in the phone market when Google releases operating systems that don't even work on devices that came out in the current year.
"don't even work on other companies devices that they have no control over " Fixed that for you. The Nexus (minus the G1) line of phones gets regular updates - my old Nexus One was always updated within a few weeks of a new version of android coming out. If you want updated OS software on your phone, be smart about which droid phone you get. Ain't goog's fault Samsung won't allow updates to Phone #4123.
I'm just a user of Google's Android OS. My three-year old Windows and Mac computers still get the latest OS versions, as do my iPhones. I don't care about the particular reasons why my phone with Google's Android OS doesn't get updated. I just know it doesn't. Those are Google's problems, not mine. My problem is that I own an Android phone that is not on the latest version.
> be smart about which droid phone you get
My solution to this problem is to get an iPhone. Even the phones Google makes don't have the kind of update longevity Apple's do. The Nexus One did not get ICS, much less Jellybean. The 3GS is getting iOS 6.
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#155Do any of you use a 7 inch tablet as a distraction-free writing device? I have got a 10.1 tablet that I use for reading and writing. A smaller tablet will be more friendlier for reading.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.
I imagine a future-proof tablet would be modular and easy for consumers to modify, like PCs. Modularity for PCs is possible in-part because of standard form factors. But this is something that hasnt been fully embraced by mobile device manufacturers (to my knowledge). I would love to have a tablet where I could easily add memory, processor, screen, etc. So instead of buying a new one every year, I can just upgrade an…
The problem is that having user-serviceable parts significantly adds to the bulk of a device, and it's pretty clear that's not an appealing tradeoff to most users and manufacturers.
E.g.: just to have a removable battery, you have to put a protective case on the battery as well as an internal "case" to receive the battery inside the device (generally, another layer of plastic. Even on laptops that is becoming prohibitively bulks; on tablets, it's a non-starter (see the recent MacBook Pro redesign). You just can't pack the parts together tight enough and still have them be user-replaceable.
I love the idea of a modular mobile device as well, but it's pretty clear things are headed in the other direction: thinner, sleeker, longer-battery-life products sell better than bulky but more customizable products.
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#157Android's UI as a "media consumption" device is terrible compared to what Kindle Fire and Nook have done. The average user (say your parents), aren't going to go to the Google Play Store (which is a terrible non-obvious) name to buy books, movies, apps, etc. unless you explain to them that you have to use the Play app to download content. Kindle Fire nailed the obviousness of this with the top bar being labeled with…
Have you used it? At this point, these are just opinions based on a demo and no hands on experience.
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#158Nexus One, S, Galaxy, 7 and Q Pretty confused branding I think.
At least they're not reusing names, that's a start.
iPad, iPad 2, iPad.
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#159Am I missing something? Why is this made by Asus and not Motorola Mobility?
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