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Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

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And soon enters the paradox of choice. Do I bring my smartphone, mini-tablet, tablet and/or my laptop in my bag? Wait, why did I buy all of these again?

The Galaxy Note could replace your phone and tablet, especially if you don't like to carry items on your person, and prefer to throw them into a bag or handbag.

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As expected, very little support for other countries (specifically Canada where I am). Movie purchases, and HSPA, but no magazines or TV shows, no google music. Nexus 4 not available in Canada. [edit]Correction - magazines now available in Canada (Woohoo!) they just didn't say so. Now, can we please have google music?

Surprisingly Google Music "match" (similar to itunes and amazon) will first be available in Europe.

Canada has always been a tough region for music support. Spotify has a pretty decent international reach (including many parts of Europe), but Canada is still out of the picture. Same goes for Pandora.

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via Gizmodo: Quad-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB RAM, 8GB storage, 4.7-inch 1280 x 768 display, and an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera. Impressive indeed!

Why 1280x768 rather than 720p? Is it for the software buttons? Otherwise it'd be odd to scale a pretty standard size for videos etc. or have black bars on the side.

I believe that's exactly the reason.

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Yeah, these prices look almost too good to be true. Other Android vendors may be getting some serious indigestion from this.

Nexus 7 devices are being sold at a loss, so I suppose in one sense yes, the price there is too good to be true.

What I heard is that Google isn't making money on them, but ASUS is.

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The screen for 10.1" model is great: 2560x1600 (300ppi) - iPad (3 and 4) are 2048x1536 (264ppi). Which means it has 30% more pixels (409600 vs. 3145728).

However, the screen is "PenTile" ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family ), which means that each pixel is only 2/3 of what we'd usually think of a pixel. And it really does look like crap, even at high densities (such as on the Galaxy Nexus). If you calculate out the number of subpixels (what actually shows colors on the screen, the important number), the 2048x1536 display on the iPad is still signifi…

Confirmed that PenTile is crap. I came from a OG Droid to Galaxy Nexus and was horrible not impressed by the PenTile screen. It is really noticeable when using low brightness.

Re: Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

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Thank you Google, for making the Nexus 7 16gb 199$ 1 week after i bought mine .. I love this tablet, but the one thing i really wish is i had the 16gb version, but couldn't afford it at the time.

Not sure if you're in the US, but if so you have 15 days to return it:

http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...

Go get a bigger tablet!

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Apple isn't in the business of exploiting your private data to advertise products/services/content from third parties at you though. The incentives are completely different.

Sure they are, they're just not as good at it as Google is. Apple has built Facebook and advertising into iOS. Besides their own advertising network, Apple made support for third party tracking using the IDFA (ID For Advertising, it was created after they decided using the UDID for ad tracking was not ideal).

> Apple has built Facebook and advertising into iOS

That simplifies things in a very reductive way.

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