Googles Nexus 7 tablet discussion, reviews

[Sunray]

This looks really nice, certainly a good competitor to the iPad.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/25/3115825/nexus-7-training-document-leak

What makes it great is the price which if its as good as expected it will finally take tablets to the price point they get really interesting. $199 for the 8Gb model.

I have yet to be able to justify an iPad over decent net book or even a cheap laptop which runs anything I like with a keyboard. If anyone has had a go on the Macbook Air 11" then wow, that is a far superior solution to a tablet albeit double the price.

 

[mack]

Anyone following the Google I/O ?

Lots of stuff leaking all over the place at the moment..

http://live.theverge.com/google-io-2012-live-blog-day-one/

 

[mack]

 

[skyscraper101]

I am. And this could be a very interesting tablet. $199 is a very competitive price.

Early leaked photos:

Speculative specs via gizmodo australia:

Google’s going to announce a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. According to the leak, it’s built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB.

 

[skyscraper101]

I hope that all this bezel around the sides becomes a thing of the past sooner rather than later.. it's well ugly.

 

[elbows]

Should be an official video stream here v.soon:

https://developers.google.com/events/io/

 

[skyscraper101]

It's on a holding screen at the moment. Come on already.

 

[elbows]

I hope that all this bezel around the sides becomes a thing of the past sooner rather than later.. it's well ugly.

Only if humans suddenly stop having thumbs.

 

[skyscraper101]

Oh... wait.. It's started.

 

[elbows]

Its on, and its like a crap rave so far

 

[elbows]

Viewing parties around the world? lol if Apple did then editor would melt.

 

[skyscraper101]

I'm having a viewing party all by myself. Cheers.

 

[Crispy]

I hope that all this bezel around the sides becomes a thing of the past sooner rather than later.. it's well ugly.

It's practical and essential. Going nowhere.

 

[skyscraper101]

I hope the galaxy nexus is the first to get Jelly Bean.

 

[elbows]

See this is why I sometimes bitch about Google, they are finally sorting out to the smoothness of the UI via project Butters contribution to Jelly Bean - should have done that in version 1, not 4.1. Never mind, at least they are getting there now.

 

[skyscraper101]

I think part of the problem was getting to a stage where Android dictates the state of play to the hardware manufacturers, not the other way round. They're firmly in the position now.

 

[elbows]

I think part of the problem was getting to a stage where Android dictates the state of play to the hardware manufacturers, not the other way round. They're firmly in the position now.

A fair point to a certain extent, although not the whole story.

Anyway Im enjoying the fact this is a proper developer keynotes, complete with geek humour.

 

[elbows]

Speech to text without needing an internet connection, good.

 

[skyscraper101]

Voice typing cool, but remains to be seen if its any good.

I hope we don't all have to say 'period' at the end of each sentence

 

[skyscraper101]

This guy is a nervy and annoying speaker.

 

[skyscraper101]

Swipe away photos. Good.

 

[wtfftw]

I like how he's saying swipe rather than toss now. You'd have to be pretty kinky to be into tossing off widgets.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

No way would they call something a Nexus 7 without it being an intentional Blade Runner reference.

 

[skyscraper101]

Android beam is all well and good, but how useful is it, really.

 

[skyscraper101]

Siri-esque search. Sick.

 

[skyscraper101]

Google will tell you when the next bus or train will arrive?

Unless that's based on GPS tracking on each vehicle - it's about as useful as those countdown timers at London bus stops, or a timetable. Both largely inaccurate when traffic or other delays factor in. I've got an app in LA which uses GPS to tell me when the next bus is. And its awesome. But I can't see that working in London until GPS is put in the vehicles and enabled for developers to utilise the data.

 

[elbows]

I need to like live in a city and have a life or something in order to make good use of this tech.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yeah..

"tell me where the nearest starbucks is"
"that will be 30 miles away"
"oh"

 

[elbows]

Why is the Google Play man wearing a Saddam Hussein t-shirt?

 

[maldwyn]

Who's the geezer on his teeshirt?