craigxcraig
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Thanks guys - I wanted to get her the 16gb then saw the 1gb ram and got a little confused. And I thought mum was it illiterate 
Googles Nexus 7 tablet discussion, reviews
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craigxcraig
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Just had a phone call from my nephew - mums nexus has arrived and he is very jealous that nan has such a cool piece of kit - he's not yet let her use it
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hiraethified
This one does the job - and it turns the tablet on/off as you open/close it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Google-Nexus-Tablet-Case-integrated/dp/B008GEBFQK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Google-Nexus-Tablet-Case-integrated/dp/B008GEBFQK
scifisam
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Perfect, TY. Carbon fibre was what I was thinking of but coukdn't remember the exact term. Delivery's aaages away, but I have a soft Paralympics case for her in the meantime - she just can't take it out of the house till the new case is here.
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hiraethified
Does it do the turn on/off thing?I got a Dodo case. Makes it look like a book, which is nice.
magneze
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Yep
magneze
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http://www.dodocase.com/products/hardcover-for-nexus-7
MobileFun sell it in the UK and probably other people too.
MobileFun sell it in the UK and probably other people too.
FaradayCaged
I like pancakes, do you like pancakes?
I'm looking for a case aswell , I l really like the look of this one(link below) but its more of a pouch than a case... the price confuses me a little as they do very similar cases for other 7'' tablets for half the price and I wonder whether all of the 7'' cases are actually the same....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Biz-E-Bee-T...DLQ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346864806&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Biz-E-Bee-T...DLQ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346864806&sr=8-1
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
Those look nice. Assume you can unstick the tablet from the adhesive easily enough?
skyscraper101
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A 3G version would be awesome.. especially if you get a Data only giffgaff sim (£5/month iirc), it wouldn't break the bank if mobile tableting is your thing and you don't want to keep tethering. I could see map/car functionality being much more useful in that circumstance.
I have that case, it's not carbon fibre (just woven to look liek it) but it's perfectly durable. I wouldn't say it the most robust though, it is about 3mm thick.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
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hiraethified
Mind you, tethering does only take a few seconds on an Android phone once you've done it once.
magneze
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Yep I've pulled it off to reposition already. Seems pretty firm when stuck though.
souljacker
innit
Anyone filled up the memory yet? According to the register, it fucks 'em up if you fill it too full.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/nexus_7/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/nexus_7/
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hiraethified
I haven't, but I rather like the sensible tone of that article.
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hiraethified
Tracks is ace!Has anyone used Google Tracks? It's quite good fun, more accurate than the GPS tracker I tried years ago. Tells you your elevation and everything
elbows
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Why that article writer thinks its safe to say most users wont fill up most of their storage at some point is beyond me. If it were only an obscure fraction of users who will do so then why would so many buy the 16GB version rather than the 8GB in the first place? He's talking about 16GB as if its 1.6TB or something, talking about entire music collections and DVD collections. Silly.
Not yet but I don't have any movies, mp3s or anyhing installed. Just a dozen apps or so.
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hiraethified
I bought the 16GB version. I'm unlikely to fill it up, just like I'm nowhere near filling up the capacity of my S3 phone after well over a year.
elbows
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Well Im not trying to claim that 95% of users will fill their devices, and the popularity of tv, movie & music streaming services helps. But I still think that article is well underplaying the issue,especially when he goes into detail about scenarios. Yes users with substantial music collections are used to only carrying around a fraction of their traditional file-based music libraries around on devices that have flash-memory devices. But even a fraction can often fill many GB's. And although Android isnt exactly stacked with hundreds of really huge apps & games, it still doesnt take all that many games of a certain type to really start eating into the GBs.
At least he does balance his view with someones comments pointing out that actual useable storage if this performance bug is taken into consideration is only around 9-10GB. Thats an amount of storage I would expect a significant percentage of users to use at some point, maybe not a majority but enough of a percentage that they ought to do something about the issue at some point.
At least the device does not have a HD video camera that people will be shooting lots of footage with, as then I'd be suggesting far more strongly that more users will run into this issue.
At least he does balance his view with someones comments pointing out that actual useable storage if this performance bug is taken into consideration is only around 9-10GB. Thats an amount of storage I would expect a significant percentage of users to use at some point, maybe not a majority but enough of a percentage that they ought to do something about the issue at some point.
At least the device does not have a HD video camera that people will be shooting lots of footage with, as then I'd be suggesting far more strongly that more users will run into this issue.
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elbows
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If thats true and my points are wrong as a result, then I find it curious. Mostly because there has been no shortage of cynicism about the cloud and streaming, at least on this forum. We often tend to suggest that users are not quite as far along this cloud revolution as the likes of Google pretend, and indeed that a whole class of users are quite proud to stick to the 'old fashioned' way of doing things. And it wasnt very long ago that we were pointing at Google being surprised by the level of 16GB Nexus 7 sales as evidence that we were right and that much of Googles strategy and marketing of their services is out of whack with how a lot of people still want to use these devices. And for years we had the oft-repeated suggestion that the lack of removable storage on iOS devices was a limitation many were not prepared to live with. Now suddenly this reality has been turned on its head and I'm supposed to accept without raising an eyebrow the idea that an android tablet with the same storage limitations as an ipad is more than good enough, that 16GB is a vast amount of space that wont be filled by many. Well Im prepared to accept this, with a chuckle, if its true, but I'm fascinated as to how its suddenly come to this point when for so many years there was so much resistance to reaching this destination. I suspect there is more going on to enable people to reach this point - maybe its the price of the device, or its size making it less resemble something we expect to be laptop-equivalent. Or people have slowly been training themselves to this way of thinking after owning a smartphone for years, and with cloud services gradually getting better or people thinking about adding NAS to their home network if they dont like the cloud much.
Dont get me wrong, I have no objection if we have reached that point. And it makes sense given that the 7 inch tablet seems well suited to carrying in the users mind the expectation that the device is really 'the internet in their hand without squinting too much'. But if the response to the storage 'bug' story really is a demonstration that we've reached this point, I think its worthy of drawing attention to the fact.
Yeah I'm always near a wifi or fast 3g connection.
You'll have a job filling it up without a decent amount of bandwidth at your disposal, dumbass.
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