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Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by huggyface »

incision wrote: post #49
huggyface wrote: post #37

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They run beautifully in Safari on the iPad. Indeed, they run quite well in Firefox (beta) on the Nexus 7. They ran quite well in the stock browser pre-JB. Those are only a couple of sample sites, but there is an endemic inefficiency of Chrome on Android that makes it unusable as a primary browser. Metacritic -- forget about it. I could go on and on. I have to think that people who like Chrome on Android must actually…

Get over yourself. You're a web browsing snob of discerning and demanding tastes, we get it. It's plainly evident by your own admission that the browser is widely lauded in the first post that Chrome on Android is not unusable. Your self-aggrandizing generalization about "people who like Chrome" and the "ghetto of mobile" sites is ridiculous. Honestly, you should be happy. If your favorite places on the web keep rend…

Out of morbid curiosity, are you always this obnoxious?

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by taligent »

sogrady wrote: post #36
darklajid wrote: post #29

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Whoa, thanks. I wasn't able to follow your instructions (I tried finding a setting like that on my mobile or the tablet, but failed), but the location history (that clicked!) website's dashboard allowed me to redefine 'home'.

you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.

It's not technically impressive and odd they would be getting it wrong. They know where your hits are coming from and the WiFi/GPS information on mobile. If a Maps app can it get right 100% of the time why can't Google ?

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by taligent »

sogrady wrote: post #6
antidoh wrote: post #3

>Q: How do you use the Nexus 7 differently than you used your Xoom? >A: Mostly, I use it more. It’s just small enough that it will fit in my shorts pocket (though admittedly sagging them to dangerously teenage levels), so if I’m walking over to lunch at the sushi bar, I’ll bring it. It’s replaced my Galaxy Nexus as the device I carry around the house or the property for browsing, Twitter and so on. And once I start t…

> The best computer is the one you have with you. best summary i've heard of the device's utility. the nexus 7 may well be the cameraphone of tablet devices.

If you are sufficiently 'large' enough that it will fit in your pant's pocket of course.

If you aren't then the existing combination of phone/tablet or phone/MBA still seems optimal.

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by wickedchicken »

sogrady wrote: post #5
wickedchicken wrote: post #4

> Twitter has yet to release a tablet specific Android application. Why would you use the official Twitter client on Android when the incomparable Twicca[1][2] is available? I'm not sure how well it works on a tablet but its UI is the best Twitter UI I've seen anywhere. This is especially refreshing given the significant disagreements I have with Twitter's designers on what makes a usable site. It also has quite a la…

[i'm the author] i'll check out Twicca, but the primary reason i use the official client over nice alternatives like Tweet Lanes [1] is the integration with Android itself, i.e. notifications, and so on. they just keep sucking me back in. but i'm more than willing to give it a shot. [1] link to the .apk: https://t.co/rkE4sw0j

> integration with Android itself, i.e. notifications

You mean like new @replies, DMs, and so on? Do other clients not do this?

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by taligent »

TheBoff wrote: post #30
loeschg wrote: post #23

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Q: So would you recommend the Nexus 7 overall? A: For straight Apple households, probably not. Haha, I'd say I'm in a pure Apple household (though I run a personal Ubuntu server... perhaps I'm disqualified). I'm still considering the Nexus 7 even with the iPad "mini" on the horizon. I think there's something to be said from having familiarity with the different devices/eco-systems (especially as a developer). The rev…

Fair enough then, I've got the wrong end of the stick. I must admit, I didn't really think pure apple households were at all common.

They are pretty common from what I've been noticing.

I think a lot of it is people replacing older PCs with new Mac laptops, picking up the AppleTV because it is so cheap then finally buying an iPad as more of a curiosity.

A lot of them didn't really pay much attention to the competition because they weren't serious, considered choices.

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by darklajid »

sogrady wrote: post #36
darklajid wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whoa, thanks. I wasn't able to follow your instructions (I tried finding a setting like that on my mobile or the tablet, but failed), but the location history (that clicked!) website's dashboard allowed me to redefine 'home'.

you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.

Hmm.. Those settings on the cards seem (so far, as far as I can tell, insert disclaimer about being new to the tablet and all) only affect the parameters of this _type_ of card. So I can say when ('before commute' and other opaque event like names) a card should show up, how important the content is .. but I haven't found any setting in Google Now that actually allows me to change the content (remove that listed location, add a different one, change my home address..), the data itself.

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by Aldor »

Roritharr wrote: post #12
sogrady wrote: post #10

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> Especially Google Now, while certainly interesting, seems to be useless to me so far (or I just don't get it?). this is interesting, because for my usage, Google Now was one of the most useful additions in Jelly Bean. i use it all the time, and love the notifications about nearby public transit, time and distance notifications for appointments from my calendar and so on. it's pretty basic at present, but it's alrea…

I guess you are living in one of the rare places on earth where google maps works for public transit. It's sometimes really frustrating to use technology in a place that is not the San Francisco...

I know everyone else is saying this, but it also works in NYC and a lot of the tri-state outside of the city.

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by sogrady »

taligent wrote: post #52
sogrady wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.

It's not technically impressive and odd they would be getting it wrong. They know where your hits are coming from and the WiFi/GPS information on mobile. If a Maps app can it get right 100% of the time why can't Google ?

GPS location is, agreed, not technically impressive. but successfully leveraging location history alongside of real time traffic data to intuit home and work addresses and the drive times between them with zero user input and an acceptably high level of accuracy seems somewhat impressive here.

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by ralph »

Do people find it's happy with an ad hoc wifi hotspot, e.g. as set up in Ubuntu 12.04. http://www.howtogeek.com/116409/how-to-turn-your-ubuntu-lapt...

It doesn't work for me, the hotspot isn't listed on the Nexus among the many local networks, and without other wifi equipment I'm unsure where the fault may lie; so many possibilities.

Re: Seven Days With a Nexus 7

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Post by sogrady »

ralph wrote: post #59

Do people find it's happy with an ad hoc wifi hotspot, e.g. as set up in Ubuntu 12.04. http://www.howtogeek.com/116409/how-to-turn-your-ubuntu-lapt... It doesn't work for me, the hotspot isn't listed on the Nexus among the many local networks, and without other wifi equipment I'm unsure where the fault may lie; so many possibilities.

i've had no issues with ad-hoc hotspots working off a Galaxy Nexus and a Xoom, FWIW.
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