wind_steaker
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I've spent perhaps £10 on my Android phone in the last year and a lot of that was on 10p games during the sale. I did buy a nice music player and podcatcher but... that's about it. I'm not sure what you'd really need to buy.
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Nexus 7 |OT| Google's $199 7-inch tablet by Asus
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I've spent perhaps £10 on my Android phone in the last year and a lot of that was on 10p games during the sale. I did buy a nice music player and podcatcher but... that's about it. I'm not sure what you'd really need to buy.
Kung Fu Jedi
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It is tough to know. It really depends on your needs. I have an iPad and purchase apps and games on a regular basis, although a lot of them are free. I also buy books, television shows, rent movies and so on. Not often, but regularly.
You have to ask yourself how often you plan to do those things. If you're just buying it to surf the web, do email and so on, then you probably won't spend much cash. But if it's going to be a media consumption device for magazines, movies, books, music etc., you can end up spending a good amount of dough. We can't tell you what your habits are going to be however.
fluffydelusions
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Some of those XDA members have a tag next to their name that denotes they are a verified developer just FYI.
fluffydelusions
Member
I don't really keep track. I've been using Android since the g1 which was 2007 iirc.
tard pack it is
I can hear Cheebs tear hitting the floor.
fluffydelusions
Member
So custom roms and kernels to the rescue I suppose
Or, or, they are going to open up the functionality through an accessory (dock). :-/
fluffydelusions
Member
Nexus 7 OS tour by jon4lakers if anyone is interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWnI8p5MYs&feature=g-all-u
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWnI8p5MYs&feature=g-all-u
You can't add USB mass storage in a dock if the host doesn't support it.
fluffydelusions
Member
The memopad or something?
They can with an OTA though.
How come none of these video review dive into the applications people are going to be using so we can see the layouts?
I haven't seen any video with anything but the Store/Chrome/Launcher.
fluffydelusions
Member
Can is the keyword but they won't otherwise they would have shipped it with support. It's not that big a deal since all Nexus devices are easily rooted and you can change kernels, roms etc if you really want. That is the beauty of the nexus line. I mean Google even said they encourage hackability at io
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but would there be a way to transfer my music from my MacBook to the Nexus? That would make this thing perfect.
Battersea Power Station
Member
Install Google Music Uploader on your MacBook:
https://play.google.com/music/listen#manager_pl
When setting it up there's an option for importing your iTunes library.
Power on Nexus, open up Music, boom -- your collection is there.
True. =(
VindictiveGnome
Member
Does Gamestop take the Transformer dock as a trade-in? The dock new is half the price of a Nexus 7. I might have to sell or trade it in.
My post was in jest. I don't think they want you to use any external storage AT ALL.
Me thinks that the rumored 10" tablet will be like the Surface and come with 5.0.
Yeah that seems clear. And when combined with little internal storage and the feature-set of Nexus Q ... it's obvious what they're trying to do.
Not sure what you mean? Be like Surface how?
Huh?
fluffydelusions
Member
I'd just call them and see.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Awesome. I think I'm gonna order one of these then.
Edit : Can I choose what songs transfer over, or does it sync the whole library? There's only 8 gigs...
Music streams everything unless you explicitly pin them for offline use.
Seeing the Q, and how much attention to detail they put into that device. That's what I mean. That they will come out with their own Nexus Tablet (10"), design a dock for it, and try to make you replace your home PC with it.
The Full Blown Android desktop experience, with multiple windows running at the same time, etc. Obviously, Chrome OS does some of this - but they need to inject some of these ideas on to the more popular platform.
Great info. Thanks (I had been wondering the same thing).
VindictiveGnome
Member
I bought the keyboard dock for my Transformer for $100. I could sell it for near that and have half the funds to buy a Nexus 7.
Will do. Thanks.
Im definitely interested in this as my first tablet, butI keep hearing about a lack of apps which is a bit worrisome. Does Android have a decent alternative to iMovie on ios for something like light video editing? I'm definitely interested in more than consuming magazines and video on this thing, and I'm wondering how far behind it will be from the iPad right out of the gate for that kind of stuff.
The difference I see though is that Google is making a bigger push towards their own services services based on what features and I/O they are and aren't including with these products. Granted we'll be able to get around these sort of things, but that's not really the case for J6P. Obviously they have every right to do this, but it's just not the 'Google way' based on the past.
Then again, we really should have known this was coming. Google isn't a charity, and really shouldn't have been expected to give a free ride forever. Obviously at some point they were going to move in a direction that better monetizes that platform. If you aren't going to charge for the OS, you're going to attempt to ramp up revenue in some other way.
Lol sorry ... somehow I read that backwards and thought you meant the keyboard was $400
fluffydelusions
Member
There is a storefront you can look at online to see if it has the apps you require:
https://play.google.com/store
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Wait, I don't want it to stream it, I want it on the device itself. I want to listen to it on the bus and other places without wifi. Is that not possible?
Yes, by pinning what you want, or just moving them over via usb/wifi.
Battersea Power Station
Member
Yes, you can just long tap a playlist, album, or song, and choose to make it available offline.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Sweeeeet. Thanks for answering my questions! Definitely gonna get one of these.
I don't think this is the kind of tablet you want to use for that, considering the small screen and low storage space.
BFIB
Member
It's $349 right now on the Google store I think... Don't know if that's close enough for you though.
I put my Playbook up for sale earlier today (so I can get money for the N7) and it's a complete fucking headache. People calling to ask me to lower the price with reasons like "Usually when people put thinsg up on Kijiji and someone wants to buy it earlier, you give discounts, like... $140."
GTFO.
I've had potential buyers texting me to tell me that OBO is being "unethical", "but it comes with a case, so I'll buy it." Are you fucking kidding me?!
Some people man...
EDIT: Sorry for venting.
GTFO.
I've had potential buyers texting me to tell me that OBO is being "unethical", "but it comes with a case, so I'll buy it." Are you fucking kidding me?!
Some people man...
EDIT: Sorry for venting.
Same. Amazon screwed the pooch in the UK / EU with the massive Fire delay, if they have any sense we will get the fire2 when the US does but right now the N7 can clean up in this massive market hungry for solid, cheap tablets.
Pretty sure Flash works. It does on my Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexus. Adobe is just not going to support it anymore. And they will remove it from the store in August. Which doesn't really matter either because you can just side load it.
Oh, I see. Is Flash really shitty on Android?