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Would an 8"tablet still have a 16:9 screen? The Nexus 7 is awesome but I feel like it would have been a much better device with a 16:10 or 4:3
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May 2, 2014 20:02
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Both Nexus 7s are 16:10, so is the Nexus 10.
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May 2, 2014 20:06
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Maker Of Shoes posted:The 2013 7 isn't really in need of a refresh. I'd buy one new again in a heartbeat. It's a drat good tablet even almost a year after the fact. I just replaced my 2012 and I have to agree. New sizes sound cool though.
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May 2, 2014 20:26
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Hadlock posted:Would an 8"tablet still have a 16:9 screen? The Nexus 7 is awesome but I feel like it would have been a much better device with a 16:10 or 4:3 I genuinely like iOS and there are a lot of benefits to owning an iPad over an Android tablet, primarily that the app ecosystem is a lot more mature. But 4:3 is just a horrible screen size for any kind of visual media consumption. Watching a film on a full size iPad and a N7 gives you a pretty similar usable screen size, for example.
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May 2, 2014 20:56
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Tunga posted:Urgh, no, 4:3 devices are disgustingly unusable. But for anything apart from watching films they're great. Although admittedly that may be a matter of preference, I even dislike wide-screen monitors because I want more height then width!
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May 2, 2014 21:12
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Sri.Theo posted:But for anything apart from watching films they're great. Although admittedly that may be a matter of preference, I even dislike wide-screen monitors because I want more height then width! Certainy a matter of preference but I just find the iPad size to be clumsy and unwieldy. I can turn my N7 and N10 either way and it is the perfect ratio for watching or reading.
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May 2, 2014 21:34
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The iPad aspect still works best for everything that isn't video (and really who watches video on a tablet anyway?) I think the problem with the N7 is landscape is the combination of on-screen button bar and the notification bar takes up way too much space. If you subtract that area then what is left is somewhere around 16:9. Not sure how this is better than the old 3.0/4.0 tablet layout - at least there was only one bar to deal with then
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May 2, 2014 23:52
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Those bars both go away when you do anything that you would reasonably do in landscape (videos, games), at which point the screen is the perfect ratio.
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May 3, 2014 00:06
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The latest version of android lets any app developer make their app full screen.
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May 3, 2014 00:12
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Tunga posted:Those bars both go away when you do anything that you would reasonably do in landscape (videos, games), at which point the screen is the perfect ratio. Cojawfee posted:The latest version of android lets any app developer make their app full screen. I tend to use Chrome in landscape as the screen is just too small to comfortably read desktop websites in portrait. Regardless of whether apps can go full screen most don't (Chrome in particular)
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May 3, 2014 01:10
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Cojawfee posted:The latest version of android lets any app developer make their app full screen. Cool, so 8.5% of devices can access this feature!
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May 3, 2014 01:58
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Endless Mike posted:Cool, so 8.5% of devices can access this feature!
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May 3, 2014 01:59
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Anyone having issues with Android OS on the Nexus 7 2013? It ended up being awake for 2 days straight and killed the battery pretty quickly. Not sure how to fix it since 4.4.x rendered Better Battery Stats pretty much useless.
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May 4, 2014 15:37
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Tunga posted:100% of the Android tablets being discussed in the conversation can access this feature. He's just being cranky and pedantic, I think he's referring to the breakdown of KitKat users. e: http://androidandme.com/2014/05/news/android-4-4-kitkat-grows-to-8-5-percent-in-latest-platform-distribution-stats/ u fink u hard Percy fucked around with this message at 16:09 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 16:07
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ThermoPhysical posted:Anyone having issues with Android OS on the Nexus 7 2013? It ended up being awake for 2 days straight and killed the battery pretty quickly. Not sure how to fix it since 4.4.x rendered Better Battery Stats pretty much useless. Yes I am. Took it off the charger this morning and now it's at 88% with barely any use and over three hours of awake time from Android OS.
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May 4, 2014 20:16
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Daimo posted:He's just being cranky and pedantic, I think he's referring to the breakdown of KitKat users.
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May 5, 2014 00:20
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Yes I am. Took it off the charger this morning and now it's at 88% with barely any use and over three hours of awake time from Android OS. Did a reboot and it looks like things are okay now...not sure how long it'll last. 
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May 5, 2014 04:01
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dissss posted:The iPad aspect still works best for everything that isn't video (and really who watches video on a tablet anyway?)
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May 5, 2014 04:46
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Syrinxx posted:Reading comics in full page is a hell of a lot better in 16:10 than on iPad. I'd rather read on a 9.7" iPad screen than a 7" Android tablet worth getting screen.
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May 5, 2014 14:27
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If the rumors are true that HTC is designing the next Nexus tablet, then all they need to do is toss the same speakers as the HTC one in that thing and I'll buy it instantly. It is sad that my phone has better sound than my tablet, and I have to make the design of watching something on my phone for better sound or on my tablet for the bigger screen.
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May 5, 2014 16:02
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Rusty Kettle posted:If the rumors are true that HTC is designing the next Nexus tablet, then all they need to do is toss the same speakers as the HTC one in that thing and I'll buy it instantly. It is sad that my phone has better sound than my tablet, and I have to make the design of watching something on my phone for better sound or on my tablet for the bigger screen. Out of interest where do you watch movies on your phone but don't use headphones?
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May 5, 2014 16:09
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Man I havn't followed the Android tablet market at all since selling my gen 1 Nexus 7, but is this worth a poo poo at all? http://www.woot.com/offers/16gb-memo-pad-7-tablet-w-case?ref=cnt_wp_6_12
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May 6, 2014 05:03
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Not really. 1ghz processor and 1GB of RAM is not worth it.
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May 6, 2014 05:05
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DemonMage posted:Not really. 1ghz processor and 1GB of RAM is not worth it. Anything worth getting around 100-150? Still Nexus 7?
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May 6, 2014 05:17
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Only Nexus Seven
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May 6, 2014 05:43
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E2M2 posted:Anything worth getting around 100-150? Still Nexus 7? You can get a refurb 2013 32GB N7 for $169. I'd buy that over a 2-year-old refurb on Woot. http://www.androidcentral.com/refurbished-nexus-7-2013-just-169-ebay
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May 6, 2014 05:44
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Sri.Theo posted:Out of interest where do you watch movies on your phone but don't use headphones? Mostly in bed at night. My wife and I like to go to bed relatively early and watch Netflix and movies/tv from a laptop hosting Plex and SABnzbd. It is a lot cheaper/easier than buying a second tv and trying to make it work in our relatively small bedroom. Also, whenever I want to watch stuff but am not in the living room, like if I want to watch half an episode of Archer in the morning during breakfast. In other words, any time I am watching a video in a private place where headphones are unnecessary, which is most of the places I watch videos.
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May 6, 2014 18:18
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Are there any good 10 inch tablets that are 300ish or less? The wife has decided she wants to sell her laptop and get an android tablet, since her use has been pretty casual and she loves her android phone.
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May 6, 2014 22:50
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Doghouse posted:Are there any good 10 inch tablets that are 300ish or less? The wife has decided she wants to sell her laptop and get an android tablet, since her use has been pretty casual and she loves her android phone. If you don't mind buying used, I'm actually thinking about selling my Nexus 10 32gb. It works great, I just haven't touched it much since I got a Surface Pro.
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May 7, 2014 01:11
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There's a possibility of an 8.9" HTC Nexus tablet coming, codename "Flounder". http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...and-android-tv/
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May 9, 2014 16:37
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ThermoPhysical posted:There's a possibility of an 8.9" HTC Nexus tablet coming, codename "Flounder". Dunno how I feel about this. I have a N7 2013 I like it, but I'd not be opposed to getting a slightly larger one, I just hope there's really nice cases for it. All the cases for Nexus devices aren't very good. By good I mean I want the Apple iPad Smart Cover exactly as is for the Nexus.
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May 9, 2014 17:15
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Dunno how I feel about this. I have a N7 2013 I like it, but I'd not be opposed to getting a slightly larger one, I just hope there's really nice cases for it. All the cases for Nexus devices aren't very good. By good I mean I want the Apple iPad Smart Cover exactly as is for the Nexus. Looks like the device may have a Tegra since "Flounder" and "Tegra" are on the same line in the AOSP changelog. That may change your mind about it.
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May 9, 2014 17:19
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ThermoPhysical posted:Looks like the device may have a Tegra since "Flounder" and "Tegra" are on the same line in the AOSP changelog. That may change your mind about it. Tegra is bad, right?
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May 9, 2014 17:22
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Tegra is bad, right? Tegra 2 and 3 didn't seem too popular. People around here seem to hate them compared to the Snapdragons at least.
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May 9, 2014 17:25
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ThermoPhysical posted:Tegra 2 and 3 didn't seem too popular. People around here seem to hate them compared to the Snapdragons at least. The 2012 Nexus 7 had a Tegra 3 in it and it was fine. There were "issues" with Tegra 2, especially on phones. I may be mistaken, but I think most Tegra 2 devices didn't see anything past gingerbread.
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May 9, 2014 18:30
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Athenry posted:I may be mistaken, but I think most Tegra 2 devices didn't see anything past gingerbread. If I remember correctly, it wasn't entirely the manufacturers' faults. NVIDIA stopped supporting it and never released the support code. Texas Instruments did the same thing with the Galaxy Nexus.
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May 9, 2014 18:40
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goku chewbacca posted:If I remember correctly, it wasn't entirely the manufacturers' faults. NVIDIA stopped supporting it and never released the support code. Texas Instruments did the same thing with the Galaxy Nexus. It seems OMAP support in some manner is alive and well considering Kit Kat is running on Glass and it's the exact same CPU as the Galaxy Nexus.
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May 9, 2014 18:48
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Tegra is bad, right? Tegra 3 was a breath of fresh air after the 2 was genuinely awful. The Tegra 4 is incredible, my Shield hasn't broken a sweat on anything I've thrown its way.
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May 10, 2014 00:41
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So my 2013 N7 (unrooted) decided to turn off at some point last night. Upon turning it on, it never gets past the google logo. It will boot into fastboot and my laptop sees it but a command to wipe cache failed. Failing flash memory and time to RMA, or am I just reading too much into it?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Tegra 2 and 3 didn't seem too popular. People around here seem to hate them compared to the Snapdragons at least. The Tegra 4 is actually a really good chip.
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