Flagship Android device, unlocked, without contract, for $299. Impressive. From the marketing video it looks like Android 4.2 gained Swype-like keyboard. It seems that they're no longer using tablet UI, even on Nexus 10 (i.e. it has status bar on top, navigation buttons are in the middle of the screen). That's weird, and I definitely don't like it, but it might not be that big of a problem.
Very impressive pricing! On the other hand, it doesn't support LTE. When will Google realize that basic things like fast network speed are more important than fancy things like face unlock and NFC.
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#202And someone finally implements the killer-feature for the "Family Tablet": Multi-Account Support: > But what makes Nexus 10 unique is that it's the first truly shareable tablet. With Android 4.2, you can add multiple users and switch between them instantly right from the lockscreen. We believe that everyone should have quick and easy access to their own stuff -- email, apps, bookmarks, and more. That way, everyone ca…
Will phones get this? Or other-size tablets? Does anyone know when the 4.2 update will go out?
I, for one, never want to use someone else's poop phone...even a friend's.
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#203As 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.
In (a small subset of) Europe. Smaller, poorer countries like mine get shafted.
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While I have no hard figured I believe the cost difference is because Google is probably selling these devices at or around there cost. They are selling them (like how amazon does with their tablets) as content delivery systems. Simply as a way to get more people to into the google ecosystem. Other companies must sell their devices to make a profit, google does not. As long as they are close to making even on device…
I thought Apple's app store makes a fraction of what they make on the phones? Although Google's profit's are in the billions, so are their users. Their profit per user is actually pretty small to be running an at a loss hardware device. And we can't pretend that people don't use their ecosystem on other devices anyway. I honestly have no clue at what Google are trying to achieve sometimes. I mean it makes sense for A…
Last I checked it was the other way around, iTunes and the App store are basically run at cost to get people to buy more devices.
Re: Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
#205Flagship Android device, unlocked, without contract, for $299. Impressive. From the marketing video it looks like Android 4.2 gained Swype-like keyboard. It seems that they're no longer using tablet UI, even on Nexus 10 (i.e. it has status bar on top, navigation buttons are in the middle of the screen). That's weird, and I definitely don't like it, but it might not be that big of a problem.
Unfortunately they are selling it for £239 in the UK, which is more like $380 - Still an absolute steal for a headline retail price, but not quite the incredible £185 I thought it would be initially.
So for now, having paid only slightly more for my sim-free S3 months ago, it's not that good a deal.
Still patiently waiting for a nexus with a hardware keyboard like the good old days...
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Nope :-( "Available only on tablets.", see http://www.android.com/whatsnew/
Well that's disappointing. I suppose they thought the UI was too confusing to put it on smaller screens?
They probably also thought (understandably?) that the use-case for a tablet is more likely to involve sharing than a phone.
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What kind of app do you find yourself wishing for? The apps I use the most are the default apps, i.e. Calendar, Mail, Chrome, Reader (google version) and Google+/Facebook/Twitter.
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Couldn't you just use Google Maps? You can mark certain areas of the map to be cached for offline usage.
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What kind of app do you find yourself wishing for? The apps I use the most are the default apps, i.e. Calendar, Mail, Chrome, Reader (google version) and Google+/Facebook/Twitter.
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Have you tried Google maps offline mode map downloading? Might not allow downloading such a large area but worth a shot.
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#209What, no 3 hour long livestreamed press event? edit: oh, they had one planned in NY, cancelled due to the hurricane
I honestly prefer this format. I got all the critical details within 10 minutes, the press will be able to salivate over it for the next week, and I'm still just as hyped about the devices.
I think Google are going to lose out though. This was a potentially huge launch. For example: The Guardian has absolutely nothing on this at the moment, but they were all over Surface and the iPad Mini. They'll catch up in a couple of days, but there will be no livestream on the Guardian front page etc.
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Well that's disappointing. I suppose they thought the UI was too confusing to put it on smaller screens?
The UI is on the lock screen, so plenty of room. More likely (1) Honeycomb style rush job and (2) "everyone should have their oen phone"
Well, it makes a little less sense on phones, since unless you switch the SIM card, you are still treated as the other person as far as the phone network is concerned. It would be a little odd to be logged in as one person, but the phone network treat you as the other. And since there are features like importing and exporting contacts from the SIM card, those would be more complicated in multi-user scenarios.
I think there's a certain sense that a phone is a much more "personal" device than a tablet. While it would probably be possible to add multi-user support, it would be more difficult, and be less useful, than on a tablet.