An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7 • Hacker News Board

Re: An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

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Post by notatoad » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 12:05 AM UTC

simonh wrote: post #31

cageface wrote: post #2

I have to give Siegler credit for actually posting an objective review of an Android device. No matter which side you favor in the tablet wars I think you have to agree that we're better off as hackers and consumers in a market with real competition. Rather than picking sides we should be happy that Apple and Google are pushing each other to improve their hardware and software at a rate we rarely see in consumer elec…

I always wonder when I read a comment like this. Is 'objective' a proxy for 'positive'? Is the implication that his negative reviews of previous Android tablets were not objective? Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Sorry for picking on you particularly but the word Objective is a very loaded one.

I can't speak for the parent but I would definitely say that much of Seigler's previous coverage of android has not been objective. He has long been an unapologetic apple fanboy, looking for negatives about android to pick on and ignoring obvious flaws in apple products.

Re: An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

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Post by grecy » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 1:30 AM UTC

I hope the experience using it is nothing like the unboxing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3...

Re: An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

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Post by gareim » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:40 AM UTC

ShellfishMeme wrote: post #68

r00fus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PDFs with images - ie, technical manuals or papers - still don't see it for a 7" screen. Reflow don't help much here.

The Nexus 7 has the same resolution that most 10" tablets have now, so why would you need reflow? Shouldn't everything look the same as on the current 10" tablets, just sharper? It might be because my eyes are still young, but I prefer smaller screens with a high pixel density to larger screens with a lower pixel density.

Even though it's sharper, that does almost nothing if the text is too small to read comfortably.. Cramming a PDF into a 7 inch screen is not going to work as well as on a 10 inch screen.

Re: An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

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Post by Tyrannosaurs » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 9:14 AM UTC

jessriedel wrote: post #120

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uPad on the iPad works pretty well for me for this though having tried a few different apps I quickly became aware that individual workflows and requirements vary massively for the seemingly simple requirement "taking notes on pdfs". http://www.appsafari.com/notes/16761/upad/

Have you used a tablet with a native stylus? I have heard that the iPad's capacitive screen doesn't handle this so well.

I've got a cosmonaut stylus which I'm pretty happy with on the iPad.

Broadly speaking I don't like a the idea of a tablet with a stylus as it would be better for a small number of use cases but worse for a far larger number.

The screen doesn't handle detail brilliantly for handwriting but uPad gets round this by giving you a larger writing area which it then shrinks onto the actual document. Basically you write an inch high and it crunches it down to about 40% of that. It works pretty well, though I'd still use the keyboard for significant text input - it's completely workable once you get used to it.