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Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

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Post by brazzy »

grego wrote: post #331
mtgx wrote: post #77

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And with that crazy resolution.

Actually 16Gb storage is not enough considering the pixmaps for games etc. will now eat a lot more space. I hit the same issue with my 16Gb iPad 3. This being Android, I'm a bit disappointed that it does not appear to have a microSD slot. There is also a relatively heavy premium for 16Gb more internal flash.

> There is also a relatively heavy premium for 16Gb more internal flash.

Market segmentation. The goal is to make more money off people who don't care much about the price without losing those customers who do.

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Post by cageface »

onetwothreefour wrote: post #420
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #372

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Wow thanks for that cool analysis. It's not like their feuds with Verizon and Wallet are well known and documented. Surely you're baseless accusations of... what exactly... are right on.

I wasn't accusing anyone of anything. Unless calling you delusional is an accusation. So let me get this straight. Google's entire reason for not supplying LTE is global availability, and yet, one barely used feature on one carrier is apparently what stopped them from shipping it? Oooookay. Verizon and Wallet have nothing to do this with decision. Zero. Verizon doesn't exist outside the US, just so you know. For any…

Read the article on the Verge. They left out LTE to stay out from under the thumb of Verizon and their track record of delaying updates to the previous Nexus Phone.

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Post by dubya »

MikeKusold wrote: post #321
dubya wrote: post #212

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I'd be interested to know if there's something like Papers or BibDesk for Android. Something where you can browse ArXiv, save PDFs for later, and then read and optionally mark up what you've saved. Integration with bibtex would be nice as well.

If you are looking for a PDF annotator, I really like EZPDF ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.re... )

A good PDF reader is the minimal requirement, but the organization is more important than the annotation for me. Possibly something like Zotero online would work, but I'd definitely want to see a review or find a store where I could play with one for a while.

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Post by blrgeek »

Finally Android tablets have caught up to (and even surpassed on some things) the iPad. [Of course iOS vs Android is a big choice.] It's taken just 4 years!

Nexus 10 - clearly better than the iPad on price, display (resolution, size, aspect ratio), sound, Wifi, RAM, GPS. Battery life is unknown though, GPU likely to be worse.

Nexus 7 - beats the iPad Mini on price and resolution, matches on most other things.

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Post by codeulike »

Tuesday: I'd say the storm has cost Google a lot of publicity. Guardian Tech is leading with the Apple management reshuffle, way down the page there's a small article saying 'google were going to launch something or other but had to cancel, here are some rumours'.

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Post by dschep »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #45
programminggeek wrote: post #40

Ok, um, did anyone else notice that 4.2 is called Jelly Bean, like 4.1 was called Jelly Bean? Up until now it was Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. Did they run out of tasty treats already?

2.0 & 2.1 were both eclair, and 3.0 & 3.1 were both honeycomb. The fact that they didn't change the product name indicates that this is a fairly minor update.

There was also a 3.2 Honeycomb release.

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Post by OriginalSyn »

Raphael_Amiard wrote: post #68

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.

I think you can only blame yourself for purchasing a Nexus 7 last week. There was already plenty of speculation by that point that they'd be announcing the next iteration at the event.

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Post by dspillett »

gdilla wrote: post #159
upthedale wrote: post #30

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Doesn't Windows 8/RT do this too?

And the new Nook HDs from B&N.

Isn't that the same as the Nexus (IIRC the Nook HD is based on Android 4.0 with some B&N specific changes and some 4.1/4.2 bits back-ported).

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Post by mikeash »

dbecker wrote: post #305
mtgx wrote: post #227

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@merrit - Because it has not been a focus of laptop manufacturers. Instead the focus has been faster CPU's or bigger hard drives. Going premium on the display, means you have to cut on something else to deliver the laptop at the same, and I don't think Intel is going to cut on their CPU prices anytime soon. In some laptops, Intel's chips take up to 40% of the BOM price. That leaves little wiggle room for experimentin…

My eyesight isn't great, but I can't tell the difference between the resolution on my "retina" devices and resolution on other screens. Can most people tell the difference? If not, this marketing and competition on resolution may be distracting us from issues that have a bigger impact on our usage experience.

Definitely makes a big difference for me, and most people I talk to. Reading on a "retina" display is vastly nicer.

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Post by Sunlis »

meritt wrote: post #218
mtgx wrote: post #77

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And with that crazy resolution.

Why is it we have amazing 16:10 2560-by-1600 in a 10" tablet but commonplace laptops (13-15") rarely surpass 1680x1050 or even worse 1366x768? Sometimes, on high-end models, you can pay an extra $200 to "upgrade" to 1920x1080 (I'll leave my rant about 16:10 vs. 16:9 for another time). Technology is so ridiculous at times.

Apple's Retina displays (in the new Macbook Pros) have very high resolutions. The latest Macbook Pros have either 2560x1600 or 2880x1800 native resolution, depending on when you bought it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5266

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