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[RoadHazard]

I guess for me there's no time that I have a tablet but not a phone on me, and the phone's camera is better, and the phone also has my email setup

Yep. When would you ever have your tablet but not your phone? A tablet can never fully replace a phone (because, well, it isn't a phone), so I don't see when you would ever only bring your tablet along with you.

 

[SimleuqiR]

THE GOOGLE NEXUS 7 is already in hot water, as Nokia claims that the tablet infringes some of its patents.

Kill it with Fire!!

It's believed that the patents in question have to do with the IEEE 802.11 WiFi standard, and Nokia told us that neither Google nor Asus have sought to license the technologies.
A Nokia spokesperson told The INQUIRER, "Nokia has more than 40 licensees, mainly for its standards essential patent portfolio, including most of the mobile device manufacturers. Neither Google nor Asus is licensed under our patent portfolio.

 

[Cheebo]

Everybody loves a good patent war.

 

[kehs]

Yep. When would you ever have your tablet but not your phone? A tablet can never fully replace a phone (because, well, it isn't a phone), so I don't see when you would ever only bring your tablet along with you.

I guess for me there's no time that I have a tablet but not a phone on me, and the phone's camera is better, and the phone also has my email setup

I tend to leave my phone at my desk when I head to over to look at inventory stuff, where the tablet is at.

THE GOOGLE NEXUS 7 is already in hot water, as Nokia claims that the tablet infringes some of its patents.

Kill it with Fire!!

So did they just notice Asus makes tablets? I'm pretty sure their wif chips are the same as the rest of the transformer line and is probably licensed through Qualcomm. Unless they're trying to pull what Moto did to Apple with their lawsuit.

 

[derder]

If that's true and it turns out that it doesn't get released before the subsidized Kindle Fire 2, I'm going to feel bad, man.

 

[Marty Chinn]

I tend to leave my phone at my desk when I head to over to look at inventory stuff, where the tablet is at.

Do most people do this though? I figure most people would keep their phone on them, especially if they know they might need to use it.

 

[Somnid]

If that's true and it turns out that it doesn't get released before the subsidized Kindle Fire 2, I'm going to feel bad, man.

If they can get an injunction it would still take many months. Google can sell it in the mean time.

 

[JonnyBrad]

If they can get an injunction it would still take many months. Google can sell it in the mean time.

It's a FRAND standard patent so there won't be any injunctions.

 

[kehs]

Do most people do this though? I figure most people would keep their phone on them, especially if they know they might need to use it.

Probably not.

 

[adroit]

my 2 cents

iOS - anyone over 35-40 yr old

Ha ha ha. NO.

 

[dwebo]

gizmodo review, in which they drop and crack their screen
http://gizmodo.com/5922882/google-nexus-7-tablet-review-the-new-best-way-to-spend-200-bucks

Also, it's unfortunate that it isn't Gorilla Glass. Our review unit took an unfortunate spill off of a table and landed face down. The screen cracked and it stopped responding to touch. To be fair, it was a pretty hard fall, but you may want to drop $20 on the protective case.

 

[Raistlin]

So did they just notice Asus makes tablets? I'm pretty sure their wif chips are the same as the rest of the transformer line and is probably licensed through Qualcomm. Unless they're trying to pull what Moto did to Apple with their lawsuit.

Until now, there was no reason to notice Asus. This is pretty typical.

 

[renitou]

gizmodo review, in which they drop and crack their screen
http://gizmodo.com/5922882/google-nexus-7-tablet-review-the-new-best-way-to-spend-200-bucks

Isn't it advertised as using Corning glass? Gorilla Glass isn't a guarantee against screen shattering when you're dumb or unlucky enough for the right tumble.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

It looks great in the gizmodo video. Me wants it now.

 

[BFIB]

It looks great in the gizmodo video. Me wants it now.

I thought you ordered already?

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I thought you ordered already?

I did, I meant I literally want it now lol.

 

[Jayayess1190]

Google's Patrick Brady tells us how the Nexus 7 went from 'start to finish in four months'

 

[Cartman86]

Isn't it advertised as using Corning glass? Gorilla Glass isn't a guarantee against screen shattering when you're dumb or unlucky enough for the right tumble.

I've seen conflicting reports, but my impression is that "Scratch-resistant Corning glass" which is what the Play store says it has is NOT Gorilla Glass. You're not going to scratch it, but dropping it might be a problem. I'll probably be getting some sort of journal style case like people use for Kindles.

 

[SimleuqiR]

Google's Patrick Brady tells us how the Nexus 7 went from 'start to finish in four months'

. Google set aside an entire building just for the development and ASUS shipped in upwards of 30 engineers to work there for the duration, many of whom looked on proudly from the seats at this year's Google I/O keynote.

Holy hell.

 

[Brera]

Not a jizz fan but that review has resold me on it.

Day Zero! GF uses an iPad 3, love it but I prefer my iPhone. 7" should be a good compromise.

Big is not always better! 1280x800 is enough to compensate for me!

Love it! At £159 it's disposable!

 

[DagsJT]

Hmm Sky Go not even working properly on ICS, so it'll be years before they bother with Jellybean. Bit of a negative in thinking of buying an Android tablet for me.

 

[saltywalrus]

Steve Ballmer in 2010: "If with the application base, with the tools that we have, with the user understanding and momentum and everything going on, we can't compete with...whatever the weird collection of Android machines is going to look like, shame on us."

Simply amazing how that guy gets every prediction wrong. By the time Surface comes out, Google will have sold millions of these.

 

[Salaadin]

2 questions:

Is there any word on Amazon selling these? I want one but have a nice amount of Amazon credit that Id like to use on it.

How are comic books on a 7 inch screen? I really want to get into comics again and want a tablet for that (amongst other things).

 

[Sean]

2 questions:

Is there any word on Amazon selling these? I want one but have a nice amount of Amazon credit that Id like to use on it.

Considering how mostly everyone is referring to the Nexus 7 as a Kindle Fire killer, I think it's highly unlikely Amazon would sell this. But you never know.

 

[Wolf23]

How do you think this would be as a PDF ereader?

I want to study for the MCAT and have a large volume of ExamKracker and Kaplan Material in PDF format.

Would this tablet be the best option for such a task?

I dont know much about eReaders nor Tablets.

 

[DarkFlow]

N7 is the best 7" tablet available. The only thing other tablets may have over it is the back camera and SD card.

Back cameras on tablets are dumb anyway. I always laugh when I see someone trying to take pictures with a huge iPad.

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

I guess for me there's no time that I have a tablet but not a phone on me, and the phone's camera is better, and the phone also has my email setup

Same here. I have email, facebook, twitter, picassa, paypal, ebay, windows live, etc, etc, etc, right there on my phone. And I never have to dump photos off to a PC or anything anymore. I just select the photo I just took and press Send To DropBox.

Same thing with internet, no need for me to purchase yet another data plan for a tablet when I can just select 3G wifi hotstop on my phone.

That's just me though.

I've seen conflicting reports, but my impression is that "Scratch-resistant Corning glass" which is what the Play store says it has is NOT Gorilla Glass. You're not going to scratch it, but dropping it might be a problem. I'll probably be getting some sort of journal style case like people use for Kindles.

I'm pretty sure it's simply a hardened glass. It doesn't meet Gorilla 1 or 2 specs but, it's still going to be more resistant to scratches than standard glass.
I'm assuming it's like the glass on my htc doubleshot which doesn't have a screen protector on it and has never scratched.

or

It could be one of the other types of display glasses they sell such as Lotus Glass, Willow Glass, or Eagle with some form of coating on it.

 

[Absinthe]

Handles it like a champ. It even loaded that huge page with the doom 3 gif! Does anyone know how to tab on this thing?

This is good to hear.

So, being an iOS user so far (no jalibreak), how suitable will the N7 be for all the emulator goodness you can't get on legit iOS?

I see people saying their andriod device is perfect for this but do they require an SD card for example?

If you're looking for Super NES emulation, check out SuperGNES on the Android store. Definitely the best SNES emu on Android IMO.

 

[reKon]

This is good to hear.



If you're looking for Super NES emulation, check out SuperGNES on the Android store. Definitely the best SNES emu on Android IMO.

I thought that snesoid or snes9x was

 

[njean777]

will be getting this, decided I would stick with iOS for my phone, and use this for reading and browsing. Plus will get the best of both worlds.

 

[Absinthe]

I thought that snesoid or snes9x was

Pretty sure snes9x got pulled but snesoid is still there. I do know that the SuperGNES guys pay attention to the community and continually update their app. They were quick to respond to any questions I had about devices and such.

 

[SteveWD40]

If you're looking for Super NES emulation, check out SuperGNES on the Android store. Definitely the best SNES emu on Android IMO.

Cool, so how does one use a pad with these things? bluetooth? will the Wiimote work?

Edit: also, best way to watch movies on this thing if you bought them on iTunes...?

 

[DagsJT]

Just ordered a 16GB model and iPad being collected on Thursday. Hopefully the N7 gets shipped sooner rather than later!

 

[kazinova]

Steve Ballmer in 2010: "If with the application base, with the tools that we have, with the user understanding and momentum and everything going on, we can't compete with...whatever the weird collection of Android machines is going to look like, shame on us."

Simply amazing how that guy gets every prediction wrong. By the time Surface comes out, Google will have sold millions of these.

Not sure your statement and the quote really work together there. But that's okay, fanboyism looks good on you! ;P

 

[mil6es]

Ok so I just relised that you can't buy magazines in the UK play store, what the hell google???

 

[giga]

How do you think this would be as a PDF ereader?

I want to study for the MCAT and have a large volume of ExamKracker and Kaplan Material in PDF format.

Would this tablet be the best option for such a task?

I dont know much about eReaders nor Tablets.

A 10" tablet would be more suited for reading a lot of fixed layout documents like PDFs. It fits an entire 8x10 document vertically.

On a 7", you could try putting it in horizontal mode, but you get very little content on the display that way so you'd be constantly scrolling because this is 16:10.

 

[TxdoHawk]

Ok so I just relised that you can't buy magazines in the UK play store, what the hell google???

Magazines only just launched last week on the Play store, and specifically timed to the I/O hoopla...my guess is that they threw up everything they had the rights to and plan on working out the rest. But yeah, I have to imagine UK magazines can't be far behind.

Somebody dropped nearly 2k on an I/O Nexus 7, lol. Lots of Q's on Ebay now too...looking at demand for those, I'd say Google isn't going to be too happy with sales when those launch. Completed auctions show that people aren't even paying the full $300 for them (most auctions seem to end in the $220-260 range).

 

[The Faceless Master]

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-7-Teardown/9623/1

 

[BFIB]

I subscribe to Wired and to Xbox Magazine on my Kindle Fire, hopefully those can transfer over to the new Nexus.

 

[massoluk]

This tablet is not even in the running for me anymore. No SD card expansion and it turned out the USB storage device is not natively supported.

 

[dwebo]

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-7-Teardown/9623/1

Initially, the Nexus 7 was criticized for its lack of HDMI output. However, the included micro USB-to-HDMI cable solves that problem.

wat

 

[kehs]

wat

edit: They confused the micro to usb cabe for a micro to hdmi cable.

=(

 

[DagsJT]

I didn't realise so many people were that bothered about SD storage. Are people away from their PC that long that they can't afford to update their tablet once a while?

 

[BFIB]

I didn't realise so many people were that bothered about SD storage. Are people away from their PC that long that they can't afford to update their tablet once a while?

For those who travel a lot, I can see their point. But for me, I mostly use my tablet for couch browsing, reading, and comic/magazine reading.

 

[fluffydelusions]

I didn't realise so many people were that bothered about SD storage. Are people away from their PC that long that they can't afford to update their tablet once a while?

I would mention you can use something like Google Drive or Dropbox...that is 10gb right there but something to note is that this is a wifi only device so you can't access it everywhere unless of course you tether it to another device.

 

[th3dude]

Magazines only just launched last week on the Play store, and specifically timed to the I/O hoopla...my guess is that they threw up everything they had the rights to and plan on working out the rest. But yeah, I have to imagine UK magazines can't be far behind.

Somebody dropped nearly 2k on an I/O Nexus 7, lol. Lots of Q's on Ebay now too...looking at demand for those, I'd say Google isn't going to be too happy with sales when those launch. Completed auctions show that people aren't even paying the full $300 for them (most auctions seem to end in the $220-260 range).

edit: wooooops, you're talking about the Q. My bad!!

 

[dwebo]

edit: They confused the micro to usb cabe for a micro to hdmi cable.

=(

http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/6qI1EPOQ6nW3wbhL.huge

that cable clearly says hdmi on it though, and it could just be the angle/indent shadow making it look more like a usb male end than hdmi

edit: oh you probably mean they confused it and used the wrong stock image. yeah, you're probably right

 

[FlyingTeacup]

I didn't realise so many people were that bothered about SD storage. Are people away from their PC that long that they can't afford to update their tablet once a while?

16GB is plenty for me. I guess if you want to play videos, you would want more. But I don't think I would to watch movies on a 7', unless i'm flying.

The thing with android, root/custom-rom would open up most possibilities.

there's already 1click root tool for it.

 

[Dunlop]

After almost clicking the checkout button about 30 times since the IO, I just can't justify the purchase when I have a Android smartphone and a Touchpad with ICS

...So I bought a new AV receiver instead

I'm sure I'll cave by xmas once there is a device in the same price range with HDMI out

 

[kehs]

http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/6qI1EPOQ6nW3wbhL.huge

that cable clearly says hdmi on it though, and it could just be the angle/indent shadow making it look more like a usb male end than hdmi

Hmm, you're right.

Maybe they accidentally got a cable that was meant to go on one of the demo devices that has hdmi out.

Hope they changed their mind though, would be a nice little plus.