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Nexus 7, Made for Google Play
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Specs on the device page say a 216 ppi, am I missing something or did you mean to make your cutoff closer to the iPad at 250ppi?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?
Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.
What are you talking about? This is a 7" $199 tablet we're talking about. And besides, the talking head on stage mentioned JB is coming to the Xoom in the next month or two.
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#64Just ordered the 16gb version. I'm not much of an android guy, but for that price and the fact that it's pure android (not manufacturer customized shit) and it's running the newest OS update...meh, why not.
I just did too. I hope that I don't regret this decision like I did the Kindle Fire. It seems that $200 is my price point for impulse-buying tablets. If Microsoft can manage to get their Surface out for $200, I guess I'll have to get one of those, too.
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#65Looks like even Google is afraid to directly take on the 800lb. gorilla that is the 10" iPad at the $500 price point. Xoom, Touchpad, Playbook(7") and countless others seem to have bit the dust trying. HTC and LG have even temporarily quit the tablet market to stem the bleeding. Wonder if ASUS is seeing volume on its Transformer line. Also, does anyone know how the Galaxy Tab is doing? Even Kindle Fire's sales are sl…
"Even Kindle Fire's sales are slowing" You have any evidence to back this up? Seems like just the opposite is happening: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/26/kindle-fire/
The article says
"According to a recent report from Pacific Crest Securities, a Portland, Oregon-based investment bank, orders for components used in Amazon's standard e-readers have fallen 75% from the bank's previous expectations."
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has nothing to do with numbers versus names. It has to do with the knowledge that, if I buy an iOS device today, I know I'll get the next couple of OS releases. The is absolutely not the case with Android (unless you want to deal with rooting your device). I don't think anybody would care about buying a device with a slightly out-of-date OS if they knew updates would be coming.
Nexus branded devices do get the OS updates in a timely manner. It's part of the Google Nexus experience. This is actually one of the reasons Google keeps putting out devices...to keep their OEMs honest and moving forward. It isn't working as well as I'd like (my HTC Sensation 4G which I bought on short notice to replace my Nexus One, which broke while I was traveling, still doesn't have ICS, despite having HTC assur…
cough Nexus One cough
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Specs say 216ppi? "7” 1280x800 HD display (216 ppi)" The Retina iPad is 264ppi.
1280x800 on 7" is a very high resolution, it will make everything look tiny. I think what parent was referring to is that the OS doesn't scale the text and UI elements, like the new iPad does. The new iPad has a 2048x1536 screen, but the UI looks like it's 1024x768, it's simply twice as sharp.
I have very bad eyesight, looking at the tiny UI in the screenshots on Google's tablet page made me cringe. I wouldn't be able to work with a tablet like that. I had the same problem with the MacBook Air 11", which has a resolution of 1366x768.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has nothing to do with numbers versus names. It has to do with the knowledge that, if I buy an iOS device today, I know I'll get the next couple of OS releases. The is absolutely not the case with Android (unless you want to deal with rooting your device). I don't think anybody would care about buying a device with a slightly out-of-date OS if they knew updates would be coming.
Nexus branded devices do get the OS updates in a timely manner. It's part of the Google Nexus experience. This is actually one of the reasons Google keeps putting out devices...to keep their OEMs honest and moving forward. It isn't working as well as I'd like (my HTC Sensation 4G which I bought on short notice to replace my Nexus One, which broke while I was traveling, still doesn't have ICS, despite having HTC assur…
They could, well... gosh, I dunno, perhaps put licensing restrictions on the use of the Android name/logo, such that by referencing your device as an Android, you commit to a certain minimum level of upgrades/support for devices, vs just cranking them out with 0 upgrade path.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think google can compete with the ipad. The ipad is priced competitively, and the question every similar tablet has to answer is why on earth would I pay as much for this as I would for an ipad? There doesn't appear to be any good answers. The android tablet manufacturers don't appear to able to compete on price with a similar hardware quality. edit: I meant compete directly. Obviously they can make something…
The Google tablet is half the price of an iPad. If that's not competing on price, I don't know what is.
It's half the price, but also smaller and lower specced. So it's not going after the iPad head to head.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think google can compete with the ipad. The ipad is priced competitively, and the question every similar tablet has to answer is why on earth would I pay as much for this as I would for an ipad? There doesn't appear to be any good answers. The android tablet manufacturers don't appear to able to compete on price with a similar hardware quality. edit: I meant compete directly. Obviously they can make something…
The Google tablet is half the price of an iPad. If that's not competing on price, I don't know what is.
It's also 3" smaller, shorter battery life, much lower resolution, and maxes out at 16GB of storage.
I suspect Google has priced this very competitively (low margins) specifically to compete with iPad by offering something half the price.
If they'd put out a device with comparable features in screen, battery, and storage it would have had to be priced so close to the iPad that the question "why not just have an iPad?" would still remain.
This is pitched aggressively against the iPad as a (good) inferior product at an amazing price point.