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Monday, July 23, 2012

HDS wants a Nexus 7 tablet


Butter on toast, but butter on Jelly Bean?

Google has now come out with the Nexus 7 inch tablet and along with that a new version of Android. One of the things I like about iOS devices is how smooth it feels and Android just never seemed to feel the same. I currently use a Samsung Infuse phone and it wasn't until rooting it that it seemed to feel a little better. Every now and then it still feels a little jerky. The latest version of Android, code named Jelly Bean, is suppose to be a lot smoother than previous versions. This is thanks to a project called "Butter". I'm sure it also helps to have some good stuff under the hood. Here are some of the specs:

  • 7" 1280x800 Corning® glass display
  • 4325 mAh battery good for 9-10 hours
  • NVIDIA® Tegra 3 quad-core processor
  • 12-core graphics processor
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 1.2MP front-facing camera
  • 8 or 16 GB internal storage

Not bad

It does only feature the front-facing camera which I'm ok with really, that's why I have a point-and-shoot camera. The one thing that is a bit of a let down is that there is no microSD slot. So you are either stuck with 8GB or 16GB. From what I understand the operating system alone, takes almost 4GB! It's no surprise that as I write this that the 16GB version is no longer offered direct from Google due to the high demand. I know this was to keep the cost low, but maybe they could have come out with only an 8GB version but offer a microSD slot? Still at $199 and $249 for what you do get is still very impressive. Maybe I should have named this one "HDS wants a 16GB Nexus 7 tablet"

Comments

I haven't seen this in person but my nephew has one so maybe I'll have a chance to see if it smoother. How about those of you reading this? You have a Nexus 7 or do you have a Galaxy Nexus phone that has been updated to Jelly Bean? Is it really as smooth as butter? I like butter, so I would be willing to put it on Jelly Bean if it's better. Let me know.

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