Re: Jelly Bean & Nexus Tablet at Google I/O 2012 on June 27 This device is low end in the android market. Tegra 3 cpu power is very solid, but the gpu gets smashed by ipad 2's. Forget about even comparing it to the new ipad's. I'm not saying the tegra 3 sucks, but apple Ax soc's are superior in comparison. Like the kindle fire, it's 7 inches, no rear camera, no micro sd slot, 8GB internal storage, but then thrown into the mix is bluetooth, gps, gyroscope, magnetometer, and nfc. good stuff for $200 considering the only two 7" tablets in that range is the kindle fire and nook tablet 8GB.
Re: Jelly Bean & Nexus Tablet at Google I/O 2012 on June 27 True about the Tegra GPU. I was talking more about the screen resolution. The iPad 2 is only 1024x768. 1280x800 IPS is very nice for the price. No rear camera is not a deal breaker. Tablets are awkward and cumbersome for taking photos, unlike phones. I think people mostly use the front cameras on them for video chatting and that's about it. Mostly I just hope this sets a trend for pricing. I think there's a massive untapped market for tablets, but they just aren't cheap enough at the moment. Get them down to $200 or less with decent quality and I think a ton of people will buy them. Just look at how the HP Touchpad flew off the shelves during the fire sale, and that wasn't even a particularly good tablet.
Re: Jelly Bean & Nexus Tablet at Google I/O 2012 on June 27 Indeed. Google is pricing their mobile devices perfectly right now. The Galaxy Nexus just dropped to $349 from their store now too. The one thing for them to set a trend in pricing is for them to really move these things. The Kindle Fire was able to sell well since they sold it online as well as having retail presence too. Google hasn't made that move yet. But I just read a blurb that Andy Rubin said this may change with the Nexus 7 tablet soon. I guess they're serious about this.
Re: Jelly Bean & Nexus Tablet at Google I/O 2012 on June 27 That's seriously cheap for a high end unlocked phone. My contract with AT&T is about to expire and I was considering the Galaxy S3, but I might do an unlocked Nexus instead and just stay month to month. I'm pretty sure I could keep my unlimited data with a Galaxy Nexus, whereas I think I lose it with the Galaxy S3. I'm also not a big fan of Touchwiz, and Galaxy Nexus has stock Android instead.
It's said that the Nexus 7 was built for Google within 4 months and sold at cost. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/28/3122811/nexus-7-manufacturing-cost-design-time
I was going to say. There's no way they're turning a profit on them. Sure enough they're being sold at cost.
I've been comparing Google Now on the Galaxy Nexus to Siri on the 4S. Google Now does better at answering random junk you might search for on the Internet. It's fast and usually has a good answer. By comparison Siri doesn't do nearly as well with finding answers on the web but it does well with locations and personal calendar stuff. Both are still kind of gimmicky though. I'm not sure if there is a time that I would ever need to use them.
Google is apparently having issues keeping up with demand for the Nexus 7 tablet, especially the 16GB version: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Nexus-7-GameStop-Staples-Sold-Out,news-15961.html
Could you be any more of a dudebro? Google gives you space for 30,000 songs (equivalent to about 90 to 120GB) on their servers for cloud streaming with play music. Most Google stuff is going cloud based, which is why no one gives a crap about storage space on Android stuff. It's why even the 8GB version of the Nexus 7 is selling.
I agree with armadeadn to an extent. The problem with what google is trying here is that the Nexus 7 is a tablet device with only wifi. The cloud services are great if you're always on a data connection, but that's limited with the Nexus 7. On top of that, USB OTG usage with storage devices isn't supported by stock. But this is solved by rooting the device and using Stickmount by chainfire. That was the saving grace for the nexus 7 for some people.
16gb would be nowhere near enough for me. I've just got an iPad 3 and after syncing everything, I'm already using 45gb.
You need to sort through your gay porn collection. Most of that 45GB is probably stuff you already watched.
Because you use one device. Of course you could use 2 devices at a time, but that's not really how people prefer to use things. You'd rather drain the battery of a non-essential device (tablet) than your phone.
I'm not sure what you mean by music box. A portable stereo? Boom box? It seems like a pretty generic term, unless it's a particular device called a music box.
I'd also assume iOS is full of bloat taking up close to 20gigs on it's own plus I think iPad storage is partitioned where you can really only use a small percentage of it, most of it is for apps, itunes and OS. Just word from the grapevine though, I never had an ipad myself.