Google Nexus 7 tablet announced

cerebus said:
Ok. It's going to be much faster, better built, prettier and the software will be better. Is that 'user experiencey' enough for you?
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It does look like it will be better built. I don't know about the software though. The Kindle OS is pretty decent
 
Elimentals said:
I gave up when he mentioned Amazon integration, esp seeing that Nexus 7 will be able access Amazon store + Play store, but Amazon tablets only have access to Amazon Store.
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Android and Apple devices can't access all the Amazon services. And the integration into the OS vs the specific apps on Android and iOS is much better.

And I suspect the market will agree
 
JStrike said:
Android and Apple devices can't access all the Amazon services. And the integration into the OS vs the specific apps on Android and iOS is much better.
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HUH? like?

I can get movies/music/books and Applications, what else do I need?
 
Seeing as I have to use a proxy to access the play store to see the Nexus 7, I assume that we'll have to [gray] import it there'll be no warranty for us South Africans?

Also, a bit off topic but I see the Galaxy Nexus is just under R3000 now... :drool:
 
JStrike said:
It does look like it will be better built. I don't know about the software though. The Kindle OS is pretty decent
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Kindle OS is horrible. We have a Kindle Fire, it sat practically unused by my wife until I flashed it to stock 4.0. The hardware is pretty decent and it's a nice enough tablet once it's running pure ICS, but for the same price I'll take the Nexus7 hands down. I'm even considering swapping out my iPad2 for one.

Also, a bit off topic but I see the Galaxy Nexus is just under R3000 now... :drool:
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Where?
 
The real question is, can it fool the Voight-Kampff test? The Nexus 6 could.
 
One blogger's take -

Most of my Android experience is on the Kindle Fire, which paired ****ty hardware with ****ty custom software to reach a bargain-basement price. The Nexus 7 seems to have combined mid-grade hardware with much better (and much newer) software for the same $200 price. It’s clearly a showcase of the best software experience and features that Google has to offer in Android today.
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http://www.marco.org/2012/06/27/nexus-7
 
cerebus said:
Kindle OS is horrible. We have a Kindle Fire, it sat practically unused by my wife until I flashed it to stock 4.0. The hardware is pretty decent and it's a nice enough tablet once it's running pure ICS, but for the same price I'll take the Nexus7 hands down. I'm even considering swapping out my iPad2 for one.


Where?
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I don't think you represent most people though. The Kindle Fire is our biggest tablet platform to target (Other than the iPad obviously). People seem to be using it in semi-large numbers.

Not that I'm the biggest fan of Fire OS (I incorrectly referred to it as Kindle OS earlier). But is certainly well focused
 
JStrike said:
I don't think you represent most people though. The Kindle Fire is our biggest tablet platform to target (Other than the iPad obviously). People seem to be using it in semi-large numbers.
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I can guarantee that my wife DOES represent most people. But don't you think that the success of the Kindle has a lot to do with the price being so low compared to other similarly specced tablets at the time? It's certainly the reason we got it.

Not that I'm the biggest fan of Fire OS (I incorrectly referred to it as Kindle OS earlier). But is certainly well focused
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It's completely abysmal and the reviews/user opinions back me up on this. Once you've run stock ICS on it you can't go back.
 
cerebus said:
I can guarantee that my wife DOES represent most people. But don't you think that the success of the Kindle has a lot to do with the price being so low compared to other similarly specced tablets at the time? It's certainly the reason we got it.



It's completely abysmal and the reviews/user opinions back me up on this. Once you've run stock ICS on it you can't go back.
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Sure, price has been a large factor in that. But I suspect the use case of these cheap tablets, the focus is on content consumption and the Fire OS does that excellently.
I don't like the ICS UI, and actually prefer the Fire OS UI. But that is just a matter of taste :)
 
But even if all you want is the Kindle ecosystem, there just aren't many things that the KF does that you can't do equally well on any other tablet. The Nexus is faster and has a better screen, and offers all those services and apps outside of Amazon - not to mention all the Gapps package without having to make monstrous hacks to get it to just work. It's Android without all the things that make Android attractive - customisability, the full apps store, Google services etc.
 
cerebus said:
But even if all you want is the Kindle ecosystem, there just aren't many things that the KF does that you can't do equally well on any other tablet. The Nexus is faster and has a better screen, and offers all those services and apps outside of Amazon - not to mention all the Gapps package without having to make monstrous hacks to get it to just work. It's Android without all the things that make Android attractive - customisability, the full apps store, Google services etc.
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The individual apps don't offer the integrated approach of the Fire OS.
And it is not Android. They forked the Android OS back at version 2.2 (If I remember correctly. It might have been 2.3). It is only now related in the same way that the various BSD OS's and Mac OS X are related
 
Each Google I/O attendee gets free Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus Q

One of the first people to get the Google Nexus 7 tablet are the developers and attendees at the Google I/O conference, which is currently taking place in San Francisco.

It’s a sweet déjà vu from a year before, when Google gave away free 32GB Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung Nexus S and Samsung Chromebook to each attending developer. Now the company is doing it again, but this time with its own, freshly announced Nexus 7 tablet, a brand new Galaxy Nexus and the innovative Nexus Q.

All 6000 developers and attendees will receive the aforementioned gadgets. This is the Google way of showing their gratitude to the hard-working Android developers.

What’s even better is that some of the gifted Nexus Q and Nexus 7 units will inevitably find their way to eBay in the next few days, so you might get a chance to get them before the public launch.
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