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Googles Nexus 7 tablet discussion, reviews

Yeah, I want to kind of use it as a central point for everything. I'd really like to use it as a portable word processor but I'm not sure I would. The news stuff is good, I like the idea of downloading a paper to read on the train, but I've already got a Kindle to read books with, and when I'm at home I've got a laptop to surf / play MUCH better games than are available on Android (and with a lot less restrictions too.) I quite like the music player thing but I'm not sure that's enough to justify keeping it, maybe I should just dig out my old mp3 player.

I dunno, I feel like I'm trying to justify it to myself when I actually don't need it at all. It is a nice gadget though and if I had lots of money then I'd definitely probably keep it.
 
I use mine mainly for streaming google music at work so as not to slow down my work pc, apart from that I use it to read my news feeds using flipboard.
I read pdf mags on it and stream the odd tv show to it from my NAS box. I'll be watching a stream of the Liverpool game in a minute using the sopcast app.
 
It's no laptop replacement, but it's just so much quicker to get online with, no waiting for it to boot or whatever. Ideal for quickly looking people up on imdb or checking what's on telly or whatever.
 
oh. There's a sopcast app. Now THAT is interesting.

And a couple of you have mentioned flipboard now, I'll give that a go.

What's a NAS box?
 
Hmmm... I've been having more of a play. I really like the web browsing and I've found an app to update my blog - not sure how useful that will be but it's well 2013. Bit torrent is running well. How do you avoid viruses and stuff?
 
contadino said:
Hey, can you let us know if it does sort it, cos I'm holding off getting a receiver until it's sorted? Ta.
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The 4.2.2 update does indeed seem to have sorted the bluetooth streaming issue. Yay.
 
firky said:
Anyone bothered with a dock yet? I am still using my case as a dock-like-contraption.
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I registered with the Asus shop for them to email me when the docks are in stock but I haven't heard from them yet. Doesn't look like I'm likely to get one any time soon.
 
splendidsquirrel 18 minutes ago
I wish that was how I was named!
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What, by two parents who can't communicate with each other unless it's via a Google device? Fuck off.
 
Well my nexus 7 has developed problem. It wont charge. Tried factory reset, changing charger etc. Nothing works. I've contacted ebuyer. I purchased it august last year. Can ebuyer refuse to help? Can they claim it is too late or that I need to go to Google/Asus direct??
 
thriller said:
Well my nexus 7 has developed problem. It wont charge. Tried factory reset, changing charger etc. Nothing works. I've contacted ebuyer. I purchased it august last year. Can ebuyer refuse to help? Can they claim it is too late or that I need to go to Google/Asus direct??
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Mine was doing that for a bit, I left it for a couple of days and it started working. A friends was doing the same and they bought a 3rd party charger and they say that cured it.
 
thriller said:
Well my nexus 7 has developed problem. It wont charge. Tried factory reset, changing charger etc. Nothing works. I've contacted ebuyer. I purchased it august last year. Can ebuyer refuse to help? Can they claim it is too late or that I need to go to Google/Asus direct??
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They ought to just replace it IMO.
 
Firky said:
Mine was doing that for a bit, I left it for a couple of days and it started working. A friends was doing the same and they bought a 3rd party charger and they say that cured it.
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I took it to my brothers place and tried various chargers.Nowt happened. Ordered one from ebay so if that arrives by tomorrow or thursday, I'll close the ebuyer return ticket I opened.
 
Ebuyer told me to contact asus first to get a fault number. I called asus who insisted I need to provide a serial number. As I threw the packaging away and forgot to register my nexus with asus when I first purchased it, I didn't have the number. a week or so later i realised the number might be on the inside of the back cover so opened it up and bingo! called them back and got it picked up from work on Monday. They will repair it and return. I forgot to include the original ebuyer sale of purchase print out-so let's hope they don't delay the repair. Miss the damn thing. Had to do a factory reset so all my games and e-books have been wiped out.
 
well got it back from asus today. now charging fine. good to have it back, but cant see me using it much.
 
my screen cracked whilst putting it in the case. Im looking at 90 pounds to get it sorted. Also the touch screen is shite, it keeps scrolling half way down the page at the slightest touch.
 
thriller said:
well got it back from asus today. now charging fine. good to have it back, but cant see me using it much.
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I don't use mine as much as I did since I bought a MBA - it's now largely used for recipes and recording my blood pressure. Still like it, just prefer a keyboard.
 
thriller said:
what's mba?
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Macbook Air, the laptop of tossers :cool:

New-Macbook-Air-5.jpg
 
Fairly strong rumours of a new version coming, quite possibly in connection with a Google event on the 24th.
 
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