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Googles Nexus 7 tablet discussion, reviews

Sorry to be a pain.... I have been re reading the thread, got to page 15, I'm just setting my bubs one up and am looking for a messenger app that she can text her mates' Nexus' on. Whatsapp is ace on our phones but there doesnt seem to be one in the play store for tablets. Any recommendations? Also, for any must have apps that would be great. I'd rather get trusted advice here than mr faceless bobo on the web
 
firky said:
Replying on my Nexus 7 just to rub it in :D
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Mrs still hasn't gone to bed so I can play with her toy :rolleyes:

I'm OK gadget-wise though; I like keyboards on things that aren't phones and I'm putting in an order for a macbook pro retina for work next week :)
 
Thanks Firk... I'll stick it on tomorrow. Just been doing updates and I've left it running and come to bed. She's not old enough for fb etc yet so needing something simple and safe.
 
I'm having a play with this now and it is a thing of beauty :cool:

I can acquire Mrs Mapped's fav TV/Films in most formats and put them on there for her. What's the best format for vids on the nexus? Also what's the best media/video player app?
 
Mapped said:
Nexus and macbook don't seem to like each other :(
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Google do a program for copying stuff between Nexus and OSX machines. It's called something like Android File Transfer and is free, but it's pretty shite. It stopped working for me a few updates ago.


The problem is that OSX doesn't support some file transfer protocol that other operating systems do.

You're better off sticking with wifi transfers (airdroid, WiFi File Transfer, etc)
 
I've had an unexpected side effect
Last months electric bill came to £13.92 .... (its dropping ...in winter !)

The biggest electrical consumer over time in my gaff is my desktop (kettles on only very occasionally , my cooker hot water and central heating is gas , came to £4.07)
It normally tools around 425w for hours on end , But my nexus uses next to nothing on charge , and nothing in use . Its led to a 25% reduction in my electrical bill per month .

bit obvious really , but it didn't click
 
I'm glad you mentioned that. For a number of reasons I wont whitter on about right now it doesnt get a lot of attention at the moment, but its quite possible that we will find ourselves in a a situation down the road where people will suddenly have new reasons to appreciate the era of low-powered computing we have found ourselves in.
 
Tankus said:
I've had an unexpected side effect
Last months electric bill came to £13.92 .... (its dropping ...in winter !)

The biggest electrical consumer over time in my gaff is my desktop (kettles on only very occasionally , my cooker hot water and central heating is gas , came to £4.07)
It normally tools around 425w for hours on end , But my nexus uses next to nothing on charge , and nothing in use . Its led to a 25% reduction in my electrical bill per month .

bit obvious really , but it didn't click
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I have a 1000W PSU and I don't want to know what it costs me to run 24/7 (I never turn it off and it is setup to autoboot should it close down).
 
about £3 per day on my tariff 24/7 (12.54p per kwh) at 1kwh

I've got a psu of 650w and 2 X 22" monitors .....the whole lot only uses 425w....... or up to 500w if the graphics card is maxed out ... Its unlikely your comp is running on the limit
 
Mapped said:
Mrs still hasn't gone to bed so I can play with her toy :rolleyes:

I'm OK gadget-wise though; I like keyboards on things that aren't phones and I'm putting in an order for a macbook pro retina for work next week :)
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usb2go cable, and keyboard that bad-boy up :D
 
Tankus said:
about £3 per day on my tariff 24/7 (12.54p per kwh) at 1kwh

I've got a psu of 650w and 2 X 22" monitors .....the whole lot only uses 425w....... or up to 500w if the graphics card is maxed out ... Its unlikely your comp is running on the limit
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Two 27" hd monitors as well, here.

Anyway this has given me food for thought as my pc is a monster. As a matter of fact it is turned off now, thanks to you!
 
Right. I'm a bit confused. On my samsung galaxy I can see a 'my files' folder with the internal file structure in it. I can't find this anywhere on the nexus. Does it exist? If it does how can i get at it?
 
Use astro file manager app. Free from Google play

Top line will be your files

You can then add drop box, and all that cloudy stuff to it...... Well good

I was looking at cutting my fuel bills......firkey.....I went around my house with a smart meter, to see how much things were costing...... Stand bys and bulbs rather surprised me, how much I was throwing away over a year......!
Often didn't turn my comp off either, or my NAS drive...... Shocker

could pay for another foreign holiday

Ah well
 
I am not convinced that mine is charging properly. Seems slow to fully charge if just left charging without use but that is not the main issue. If I am using it to run one or two (not that battery hungry) apps like ForumRunner and Gmail while plugged in the battery is still running (slowly) down :hmm:

Brightness is turned down as low as possible but is using 81% of the battery if that matters?
 
Its not unusual that the screen would account for the majority of battery drain, so I dont see anything wrong with the 81% figure.

As for the charging, is this with the power adaptor that came with it or with a usb connection to a computer?
 
elbows said:
Its not unusual that the screen would account for the majority of battery drain, so I dont see anything wrong with the 81% figure.

As for the charging, is this with the power adaptor that came with it or with a usb connection to a computer?
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Standard charger (but HTC not the Nexus one) plugged into the mains. Would they be different?
 
madamv said:
Sorry to be a pain.... I have been re reading the thread, got to page 15, I'm just setting my bubs one up and am looking for a messenger app that she can text her mates' Nexus' on. Whatsapp is ace on our phones but there doesnt seem to be one in the play store for tablets. Any recommendations? Also, for any must have apps that would be great. I'd rather get trusted advice here than mr faceless bobo on the web
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You can get whatsapp running on tablets but it's a bit of a ballache. There's a full guide here.
 
I didn't use that method, but I had whatsapp working on my tablet (Asus Transformer) this time last year. I think I had to copy the contacts file from my phone onto the tablet then keep airplane mode on while installing the apk or something?! It was quite some time ago, and one of the updates killed it anyway.
 
elbows said:
Might be. The proper Asus charger appears to output 2W, if yours is less than that then charging will be slower I guess.
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This is the charger I got with the HTC Desire HD. Maybe I need to find the proper charger.
 
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