Hands On With Google Nexus 7 Tablet - kendallaboul1956

Google's Nexus 7 tablet is happening display here at Google I/O, and I spent some time handling the gimmick to see how it compares with its Android competition. And the truth is, my first impression is that it seems to get a lot right, but it's not a complete, compromise-rid home plate run for Google. Present's wherefore.

What's Right

The display, symmetric in the ill-scented lighting of a trade in show floor, still looked good. The high pressure-closure 1280 aside 800 pixel display makes a huge difference compared with the current standard for 7-inch tablets–1024 by 600 pixels. I look up presumptuous to putting the Nexus 7 through its full paces with PCWorld's display prove images to see how it responds with my have commanding-solvent images. But the Nexus 7's higher resolution is clearly a nonnegative.

With its small size and rubberized back, the Nexus 7 can easily be held in one hand. — With its small size and rubberized back, the Nexus 7 buttocks easy be held in one hand.

I also liked the grippy, rubberized backwards that, coupled with the tablet's light, 0.75-Lebanese pound weight, makes it really easy to hold in one hand. That makes information technology conducive to reading or sharing content with friends.

In my limited usage, the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS made the building block feel zippy in world-wide navigation, but I still encountered moments of bumble as I switched among media.

What's Wrong

The first thing that jumped out to me was the want of a eradicable media card slot. With on-board storage limited to merely 8GB or 16GB, the want of an expansion slot is an unfortunate skip, and an abject compromise to attain a Price point. Amazon got (and deserved) a lot of critique for a similar want in its 8GB Raise Fervour. Even Barnes & Aristocratic's Nook Tablet has a microSD card one-armed bandit.

Also missing: A rear camera. Video recording confabulate is primal, but scanning QR codes, business cards or exclude codes are all useful and practical reasons a rear-facing television camera on a tablet remains a good matter. It's unpromising that Google and Asus had to compromise on these to get Google Nexus 7 out at the price they do.

What's Most Intriguing

The unused Google Play widgets for your depository library of reading material, as well A for what you're listening to, look useful. The new rocket launcher also looks utilizable; the Google demonstrators say you'll find out information technology on Humanoid 4.1 devices of a positive size up and definition (ie, portrait 7-inch tablets). These widgets are part of Play, though, and should become available to any pad that upgrades to Humanoid 4.1–whenever that may be.

I'll be back with more impressions formerly I get a Nexus 7 of my own to spend some quality time with, using my own content.