Google Nexus 7 tablet announced

zamicro said:
How did you shipped it? Or do you ship via a friend in the US?
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Family member that lives there is kind enough to bring one for me. (Belated birthday present sees me walking around like this :D now.) Only thing I'm wondering is whether I'll be able to make use of the $25 included :-/
 
I see one of the cost cutters on this device was no SD card slot. The second is that the use of OTG memory devices was deliberately excluded from the OS, even though OTG supports keyboards and mice.

It certainly looks like you will want to root it on day one if you want to use it for anything requiring large amounts of data.


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BigAl-sa said:
I see one of the cost cutters on this device was no SD card slot. The second is that the use of OTG memory devices was deliberately excluded from the OS, even though OTG supports keyboards and mice.
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This may be a dealbreaker for me, I may go for the Samsung 7.7 P6800/P6810 instead (even at double the price).

I believe that the P6800 works with 64GB microSDXC, which means that it can support 80GB of memory.
 
Lots of hardware complaints all over the net, specifically concerning the screen. Too early to tell actually how widespread it really is I suppose - statistically within acceptable parameters or cost cutting repercussions?
 
undesign said:
Lots of hardware complaints all over the net, specifically concerning the screen. Too early to tell actually how widespread it really is I suppose - statistically within acceptable parameters or cost cutting repercussions?
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Its an Asus product, they always f up on screen fitting.

Redoing it fixes the problem, and 9 times out of 10 the screws where not tight enough..... yeah I know its crap but at least you can a fix it or b swap it out.
 
VeNGeNCe said:
To answer my own question from the last page about warranties: Asus devices have a worldwide warranty so importing it shouldn't be a problem. They have two repair centers in Cape Town.
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Yeah I can vouch for that, I bought my Transformer TF201 at end of December last year from the US, I have been very happy with it since, build quality is good, I would even go as far as to say, its on par with the ipad in build quality. Anyways, about 2 months ago I unlocked my bootloader with the Asus tool and tried a few roms, but then decided to try update to a new version of a stock blob image - my stupid mistake, it bricked my device - by whipping the bootloader. So instead of sending it back to the Asus US, I just logged a case with Asus SA (third party company - Letmefixit picked it up) and got my tablet back two + half weeks later and working like a charm (+ back to stock - locked bootloader). Decided to just keep in stock + rooted since.

Regarding the Nexus 7, I decided to buy the wife one as a b-day present, bought it from ebay for $250 from someone that had bought 2 in the US, free delivery to my MyUs forwarding address and shipped it with a couple of other goodies to SA last week. Shipping and Tax's with the other goods worked out quite reasonable. The tax was about R750 and shipping about R1400, but bearing in mind I was also shipping a heavy cisco switch, so that accounted for most of the shipping cost.

The Nexus 7 is a great device, very fast and smooth and I like the extra features they've thrown into JB. I got my wife the 16GB, plus a usb otg adapter for extra storage if needs be and so far my wife loves it. I can't wait for the Transformer prime to get Jelly bean too :)
 
KaMoS said:
Unfortunately the customs and shipping cost to bring it in is quite high. Also, I believe Takealot is the only retailer that's stocking it ATM.
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High shipping cost I can understand (we are far away from everywhere else)
But high customs cost? That's just legislation protecting the high cost of everything else here
 
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