Will this one stop working after 3 months like the Nexus 7 I bought in January did?
Nexus 7
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Re: Nexus 7
#12This has been out for a few weeks now. Why is on the front page? Topic could be a bit more specific.
I'm not 100% sure either but I suspect it's more about Google taking their design to a new level. These kinds of effects have been seen elsewhere before but it's interesting to see Google implementing them for their own real product pages. It looks good.
I agree the design is great, but they are still having issues with @2x images in the dropdown menu with a >768px retina device. ;)
Re: Nexus 7
#13I dont know what tricks this page is doing but vertical scrolling is really choppy on that page.
That’s just Google emulating the real Android experience.
Re: Nexus 7
#14Re: Nexus 7
#15Will this one stop working after 3 months like the Nexus 7 I bought in January did?
The flash memory issue should be gone even in your old nexus 7 after upgrading to 4.3 (and waiting a few days).
Re: Nexus 7
#16I can't get past the video depicting a 12 year old boy listening to Spoon and watching The King's Speech. Have you ever met a 12 year old boy?
So this is google's crazy impression of what kids look like now. He can listen to 'adult' music/movies, but the guts of this tablet are _completely_ hidden.
When I, and probably much of this site was that age I was dicking around with Linux distros and trying to get nvidia binary drivers to work so I could play quake 3. Then there was that whole thing when I discovered shell scripts and python. There are cs learning apps for android, but nothing like opening up a bash shell in linux and getting the python interpreter and command prompt. Hopefully that kid has access to a real computer, and a bloody password on his account.
Re: Nexus 7
#17Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!
Amen. As an otherwise satisfied nexus 7 owner (first generation) a lighter and thinner model would be nice considering it is already a go-anywhere device for me.
But the inexplicable slowness as the device ages and memory use grows is a crappy reason to have to upgrade.
It's funny how quickly a market evolves and competition ratchets up. I can buy for $200 a device that gives me capabilities that cost an order of magnitude more 10 years ago, but I also still expect the cheaper device to have robust and long term performance capabilities.
I'll upgrade for "more, better features" but upgrading cause the old one kicked the bucket after a year is asking too much.
And given the market dynamics, even for $200, I'm not being unreasonable! Gotta love capitalism.
Re: Nexus 7
#18I can't get past the video depicting a 12 year old boy listening to Spoon and watching The King's Speech. Have you ever met a 12 year old boy?
Spoon was my favorite band when I was 12.
Re: Nexus 7
#19Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!
> Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!
I do not own any Nexus 7 devices but I do recall reading about issues related to degraded flash performance over time for the first generation devices.
I am wondering though how do you know for certain that the newer model device have this resolved ?
Re: Nexus 7
#20Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!
Amen. As an otherwise satisfied nexus 7 owner (first generation) a lighter and thinner model would be nice considering it is already a go-anywhere device for me. But the inexplicable slowness as the device ages and memory use grows is a crappy reason to have to upgrade. It's funny how quickly a market evolves and competition ratchets up. I can buy for $200 a device that gives me capabilities that cost an order of mag…
It's because the memory needed to have fstrim run on it regularly. In Android 4.3, this now happens daily. If you're running a device with an earlier version of Android, you can use LagFix (requires root): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon...