You nexus 7 ?... I do your eyes...
And so it came to pass, a nondescript bubble envelope was signed for on delivery and opening it revealed my first Android tablet. With extensive experience of opening elegantly boxed and fragrenced joojoos,iOS and Windows 8 tablets I launched straight into opening the box. but as if to mock my lack of Android experience the nexus 7 did not want to come out and play :
Happily I got there in the end and this is being typed using the official blogger app , which appears to be far better suited to the nexus 7 than the scaled up phone version on the new iPad. In fact the iPad was designated to filming duty, so I am using Android and iOS to create this post before adding the finishing touches using a Windows 8 tablet. My desktop has most verily been retired, holding the nexus is a joy compared to heavier larger and extremely hotter rivals. Typing and speaking this in portrait is super fast and I am not even looking down at the keyboard as the text is corrected on the fly by the blogger app.
The text entry is amazingly accurate, better than iOS and more accurate than the release preview Windows 8. Correction on the fly is also far cooler than the iOS equivalent which throws up a suggestion underneath your mistyped word always at the wrong time!
The form factor is really what makes this a joy to use, the blogger app just looks perfect in portrait on a 7 inch display, sorry Steve you were wrong the text is razor sharp, reads just the right length across the screen, i.e. exactly the same length as the keyboard which sits beneath and with which I am practically touch typing on my first go and hey if you want just speak and the words will be typed for you. I do miss the Windows 8 hand writing recognition though speed of typing on the jellybean nexus 7 more than makes up for that.. but we will tackle Windows 8 on the nexus 7 in part 2 of my review..
The iPad is great but currently has had one app that I crave placed in purgatory since the first gen iPad. Unlike Apple ,Google have allowed the release of this app, which of course is onlive. You may ask yourself if a tablet with just 2.4ghz N wifi can handle onlive, when over on PCs and laptops you really need wired or 5ghz to keep your cloud gaming session going. Well the answer is it works and here is some proof. Me playing LA Noire over 13 minutes or so without a single drop in connect ion or lag. The video will also show you ,multi tasking , fast switching between apps and a surprise for me that Sarien.net works through the Chrome browser.
I also installed flash 11 apk ( yes I know) and it works with the Firefox beta, no rooting required and I also used some of my £15 allowance to splash out on Splashtop HD to stream PC games and more importantly Windows 8. On Android Splashtop has yet to hit version 2 but owners of the HD and first version will get an automatic upgrade when it releases.
The heat is none....oh ee wu ho ...the heat is...none!
I have been using the nexus 7 all day and this device goes nowhere near the egg frying temperature of my new iPad , the red hot Al case of which has the added benefit of autoclaving my hands and throws in the odd static shock to wake me up when I am nodding off ... In fact the only heat I detected over the two days I have used it is from my own hand holding it , this coming from the sun melting heat of the Tosh Libretto or the static shock and heat of the iPad is awesome and probably has something to do with the fact that putting a rubber back on your tablet gives said tablet neither the propensity to conduct heat nor to statically shock you from time to time...
More testing to follow, these are just my first impressions the knee jerk in gut first satiating acts for cravings of a long term iPad owner, feeling the the need the need for Flash, playing full cloud games ( onlive ) and checking out what Windows 8 Pro will be like on a 7 inch 384 gram Tegra 3 12 core GPU tablet ..
The Google nexus 7 is a winner, costing less than some cases and accessories for your iPad .Even if you have an iPad and Windows 8 tablets the Google Nexus 7 will find its own place on your tablet life, because the light weight ,development community and unique 7 inch high res form factor make it unique. Android is alive and kicking and the only valid reason for you not owning one right now is that they are out of stock.
With established players in the tablet space, in your tablet space, the time for platform rivalry is over. In writing this article I used an iOS device the new iPad to film, take pictures and upload that data to apps which are universal across iOS, Android and Windows 8 or even at a browser level. I used an Android device the nexus 7 to check up on my uploads to youtube and Google plus and to type most of this entry, I then used a Windows 8 tablet to finish the whole thing off, suddenly I have 3 times the screen real estate and real multicore parallel hardware and software computing multitasking power far more than I used to have with my leviathan desktop whose monitor is cooking my face as I type this ... Synergy, grown up attitudes in sharing apps across platforms, is what separates and elevates the computer industry from the console games industry which is rapidly failing.
The cloud and cross platform, cross browser and cross OS applications are the enablers and they thought it would be java ? Today we use Mac software on PCs, Windows 8 tablets , Google apps on iOS devices and every body benefits not least you and me. So the arrival of the nexus 7 is not just another chapter in the tablet war it is actually the point where all these devices, the software and hardware that drives them start to work together and change the way we work and play ...and what better way to illustrate this than to check out Windows 8 on the Google nexus 7 ..which will form part 2 of my review...
Coming right up after I solve this pesky murder case....
The iPad is great but currently has had one app that I crave placed in purgatory since the first gen iPad. Unlike Apple ,Google have allowed the release of this app, which of course is onlive. You may ask yourself if a tablet with just 2.4ghz N wifi can handle onlive, when over on PCs and laptops you really need wired or 5ghz to keep your cloud gaming session going. Well the answer is it works and here is some proof. Me playing LA Noire over 13 minutes or so without a single drop in connect ion or lag. The video will also show you ,multi tasking , fast switching between apps and a surprise for me that Sarien.net works through the Chrome browser.
I also installed flash 11 apk ( yes I know) and it works with the Firefox beta, no rooting required and I also used some of my £15 allowance to splash out on Splashtop HD to stream PC games and more importantly Windows 8. On Android Splashtop has yet to hit version 2 but owners of the HD and first version will get an automatic upgrade when it releases.
The heat is none....oh ee wu ho ...the heat is...none!
I have been using the nexus 7 all day and this device goes nowhere near the egg frying temperature of my new iPad , the red hot Al case of which has the added benefit of autoclaving my hands and throws in the odd static shock to wake me up when I am nodding off ... In fact the only heat I detected over the two days I have used it is from my own hand holding it , this coming from the sun melting heat of the Tosh Libretto or the static shock and heat of the iPad is awesome and probably has something to do with the fact that putting a rubber back on your tablet gives said tablet neither the propensity to conduct heat nor to statically shock you from time to time...
More testing to follow, these are just my first impressions the knee jerk in gut first satiating acts for cravings of a long term iPad owner, feeling the the need the need for Flash, playing full cloud games ( onlive ) and checking out what Windows 8 Pro will be like on a 7 inch 384 gram Tegra 3 12 core GPU tablet ..
The Google nexus 7 is a winner, costing less than some cases and accessories for your iPad .Even if you have an iPad and Windows 8 tablets the Google Nexus 7 will find its own place on your tablet life, because the light weight ,development community and unique 7 inch high res form factor make it unique. Android is alive and kicking and the only valid reason for you not owning one right now is that they are out of stock.
With established players in the tablet space, in your tablet space, the time for platform rivalry is over. In writing this article I used an iOS device the new iPad to film, take pictures and upload that data to apps which are universal across iOS, Android and Windows 8 or even at a browser level. I used an Android device the nexus 7 to check up on my uploads to youtube and Google plus and to type most of this entry, I then used a Windows 8 tablet to finish the whole thing off, suddenly I have 3 times the screen real estate and real multicore parallel hardware and software computing multitasking power far more than I used to have with my leviathan desktop whose monitor is cooking my face as I type this ... Synergy, grown up attitudes in sharing apps across platforms, is what separates and elevates the computer industry from the console games industry which is rapidly failing.
The cloud and cross platform, cross browser and cross OS applications are the enablers and they thought it would be java ? Today we use Mac software on PCs, Windows 8 tablets , Google apps on iOS devices and every body benefits not least you and me. So the arrival of the nexus 7 is not just another chapter in the tablet war it is actually the point where all these devices, the software and hardware that drives them start to work together and change the way we work and play ...and what better way to illustrate this than to check out Windows 8 on the Google nexus 7 ..which will form part 2 of my review...
Coming right up after I solve this pesky murder case....
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