Comments on: Asus Nexus 7 tablet

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:47:00 +0000

Because no one actually uses Android tablets for day to day stuff. It is the unspoken sadness. (I have an iPad 3 and an Asus Transformer and it is pretty clear why this is true too.)

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:24:00 +0000

My cat said that, but I know why. Why did you? :)

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:23:00 +0000

The specs show WiFi and Bluetooth, which doesn’t mean to me GSM/CDMA. Not exactly the go-anywhere device, say, the Xoom is. I wonder why they didn’t include a rear-facing camera? I’d have thought they were like cupholders: you had to have one.

By: wrybread

wrybread — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Not all Flash is, only badly written Flash. And Flash has come a long way with Flex.

And this device sounds like it has plenty of CPU and GPU so it really shouldn’t be an issue.

And HTML5 still isn’t able to deliver a complete app experience (feel free to point me to an exception), while Flash is. So they could release some guidelines or starter code to have some sort of “web-based app experience” or whatever they want to call it.

Dunno. Something. As it is, I don’t see any reason on the planet to get this thing over an iPad, except to save a couple of bucks.

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Meh.

By: scatterfingers

scatterfingers — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Flash is a slow burning bundle of pain to use on a mobile device. I don’t blame Google for trying not to emphasise slow burning bundles of pain.

By: Steve Mayne

Steve Mayne — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:49:00 +0000

You can pre-order one on the Play store now! I might just have done just that….

“The Nexus Effect” as my wallet likes to call it.

By: wrybread

wrybread — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:41:00 +0000

Those tech specs are pretty glaringly missing any mention of connectivity…

And why aren’t they making a big deal out of the things this can do that the iPad can’t? It can play Flash animations, right? Can’t they make a big deal out of that, even if it isn’t?

They’re really not doing a very good job, yet at least, of giving people a reason to buy this over an iPad other than price.

By: PlutoniumX

PlutoniumX — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:36:00 +0000

I think Nexus 7 because it has a 7 inch screen and looks to be the response to the Kindle Fire.

Damn, on submit, what Steve Mayne said.

By: Steve Mayne

Steve Mayne — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:32:00 +0000

The 7 is presumably a reference to its 7 inches of screenage.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000

I still use my Nexus One… interesting that they’re jumping right to 7 here. I guess it’s the best they can do to sound cool without using Nexus-6. Maybe they’re reserving that name for if they ever come up with a device that’s actually revolutionarily good.

Of course, one can speculate that Deckard and Rachel are actually more advanced replicants than the Nexus-6 models and thus themselves are Nexus-7 models, so maybe they are making a clever reference with the tablet’s model number ;) (though I do suspect that the tablet’s lifespan is four years or less…)

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:53:00 +0000

No.

Edit: I see the mods deleted a snarky comment. Never mind. It’s amazing how you just can’t post about gadgets without instant sneering!

By: scatterfingers

scatterfingers — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:45:00 +0000

It’s not an Apple product, so I was expecting something snarky.

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:40:00 +0000

wait… wasn’t there a snarky comment here previously? i wanted to read the well considered refutation of its snarkiousness. nuts, now i’ll never learn how to answer such untoward attacks upon our tender sensibilities.