Google's Nexus 7" tablet

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I am so glad I held off. For 200$ you get a full Tegra 3, 720P IPS 400nit panel, small, 9 hours of battery life, and just a very good quality tablet. Everything you need, nothing you don't Google is going to sell a ton of these things.
 
Google revealed its long-rumoured device — a 7-inch Nexus tablet running Android's newest operating system flavour, 4.1 Jelly Bean, that's awesome...
 
Yeah I'm actually quite excited about getting my hands on one too. its quite impressive how they managed to put it together at such a low price.
 
The hdmi port and msd slot would be nice but it isn't a deal breaker for me. I'm gonna buy one at the end of next month. I just need something bigger then my phone to browse on
 
Preorded mine this morning. I am glad they dont have HDMI or MicroSD.. thats just money I dont have to spend to get two things I dont need.
 
tory said:
Preorded mine this morning. I am glad they dont have HDMI or MicroSD.. thats just money I dont have to spend to get two things I dont need.
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I hear ya, you can't beat it for $200
 
tory said:
Preorded mine this morning. I am glad they dont have HDMI or MicroSD.. thats just money I dont have to spend to get two things I dont need.
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I wish they gave you a choice, microsd version for like $20 more or something reasonable. I would bite very quickly.
 
osrk said:
I wish they gave you a choice, microsd version for like $20 more or something reasonable. I would bite very quickly.
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+1! They are missing out, if you ask me. While I would like this, I want a microSD! It's one of the reasons to go Android.
 
osrk said:
I wish they gave you a choice, microsd version for like $20 more or something reasonable. I would bite very quickly.
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I agree there should be a choice. But you have to remember google is not making any money off this tablet. They are selling them both pretty much at Cost and any profits go to ASUS.

SO Without MicroSD slot it pushes people to get cloud service which is one of googles main sources of income.

It makes sense why they did not add it in but I agree there should be an option.

ALSO Not to mention the average consumer wont put a sd card in the device nor probably know how to do it.

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tory said:
ALSO Not to mention the average consumer wont put a sd card in the device nor probably know how to do it.
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I think the average Android buyer would want to put an SD card in the device.
 
I pre-ordered. I had a Galaxy tab 10.1 so I am used to not having hdmi or a sd slot. I think for the money this thing will be great. Would I like it, sure but not a deal breaker for how good the rest should be.
 
To those you have pre-ordered: Was there a ship date given? I'm going on travel soon and I don't want to risk a pre order and have it arrive while I'm not here.
 
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To those you have pre-ordered: Was there a ship date given? I'm going on travel soon and I don't want to risk a pre-order and have it around while I'm not here.
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No solid date, but they're also selling them in retail stores at the same time so you should be able to walk in and pick one up soon after.
 
Pre ordered one a few days ago. Surprised there really are no rumored dates for release on this thing.
 
Ahh the decisions. Contemplating getting one. Was planning on fixing a busted Dell mini9 but that would cost me around 100 bucks. So 100 bucks for an outdated net book or 200 for the latest tablet. I am thinking the nexus 7 is going to win out.
 
By far... I've got an old first-gen Atom Acer netbook that's still mostly usable thanks to the old X25-M SSD I stuck into it, but I only really use it for schoolwork (coding and stuff I can't do on Android). My Transformer (original) has completely supplanted it for travel and most other uses.

I really hope Google markets the hell out of the Nexus 7 and makes it available in other retail locations beyond Gamestop, it could be the big push Android tablets need and it'll finally drive prices down for mobile OS tablets to where they should be. $200 might be borderline but $300-450 should be where all these things exist, not $500+ (we've got Apple to thank for that...).

In any case, a fast ARM tablet definitely feels more useful for casual tasks than a netbook, and a nice IPS display is way more of a pleasure to read on than 99% of netbook displays... 'Course the netbook being x86 / Windows will always be more capable, just comes down to your needs.

I wish USB OTG / host mode wasn't disabled by default on the Nexus 7, nothing root access can't fix I'm sure but having that out of the box would've made up for the lack of microSD slot imo.
 
freakycody said:
Ahh the decisions. Contemplating getting one. Was planning on fixing a busted Dell mini9 but that would cost me around 100 bucks. So 100 bucks for an outdated net book or 200 for the latest tablet. I am thinking the nexus 7 is going to win out.
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Just be careful not to wait too long or pre-orders will be shut off. Read one story yesterday that the 8GB model was already shut off to further pre-orders in Canada, for example.
 
it now shows 3-4 weeks.... wonder if its for recent pre orders or it got pushed back.
 
Still says 2-3 weeks on both products in the UK. Also, a few major retailers are showing the 19th as the expected date.

I don't think demand would be low as we never got the kindle fire. :(
 
I'm hoping it got pushed back a bit, or maybe I'm in a queue so mine won't ship until I get back. I could not wait.
 
I am just ready for mine to ship! I was really contemplating getting a GNex and the Q too but I really have no use for a Q and a GNex I only want because of Jelly Beans
 
tory said:
I am just ready for mine to ship! I was really contemplating getting a GNex and the Q too but I really have no use for a Q and a GNex I only want because of Jelly Beans
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Wait for the Q to get to $99. It will go the way of Google TV. I paid $300 for that POS. Never again will I let G rip me off with some nonsense product. The Q is another POS (well, at $50 it might be a steal, but at $300 it is only for dumbasses).
 
Was going to pre-order on announcement day, said 3-4 weeks for ship, decided to wait )not due ot shipping times; just pre-ordered and it reads 2-3 weeks.

Picked up the 16GB version. $282 with tax and shipping...

Been wanting a tablet forever, couldn't bite into the iPad even though I wanted one, used an Asus Transformer for a bit at work, quite liked it...picked up a Kindle fire...didn't like it, sent it back...laptop is busted...and I am waiting for Surface - the N7 should work out nicely!
 
I'm running a rooted Nook with CM9 on it, I totally love it! But I think I will be replacing it with one of these in not to long, not sure if I'll go for the 8gig or the 16gig. I've got a GDrive account with 30gigs so I don't think the 8gig would hurt (but I wish they had put a MircoSD slot in it....).
 
I'd go 8GB if the dev community quickly figures out how to implement USB OTG host mode in custom kernels, otherwise I'd definitely opt for 16GB. 8GB is really 6GB for media, slap a couple movies and games on it and there's nearly no room for music.
 
Impulse said:
I'd go 8GB if the dev community quickly figures out how to implement USB OTG host mode in custom kernels, otherwise I'd definitely opt for 16GB. 8GB is really 6GB for media, slap a couple movies and games on it and there's nearly no room for music.
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I've got an iPod and all 300 gigs of my music is accessible to me via streaming as long as I have a wifi connection.

Honestly, the biggest data hog with my Nook and it's 16 gig SD card is comics but that's less of an issue now that I've gone Google Drive with 30 gigs of space.
 
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