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Nexus 7 Hands-On Reviews

Ill be buying one for my daughter, and possibly for my wife.

They hit the sweet spot! Perfect price, for a fully functional android tablet.

I really hope they do take a major bite out of Apples graph, competition spurs innovation.
 
rsarno said:
Ill be buying one for my daughter, and possibly for my wife.

They hit the sweet spot! Perfect price, for a fully functional android tablet.

I really hope they do take a major bite out of Apples graph, competition spurs innovation.
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For wives and most kids a good buy, but their blatant effort to push cloud usage via no sd slot will hurt sales. It will sell great, but not as many if had a slot. They are savvy, so probably expect revenue through cloud stuff.....
 
SlashGear

What you’ve got here is a fun machine. Google worked with ASUS and NVIDIA here to bring on a media beast like no other, offered at a price that, sold exclusively through the Google Play store online (for now), is almost undeniable. Even those who want a tablet just to fiddle with should and probably will be considering this device first in the near future – unless they want an iPad.


The Guardian

The Nexus 7 is impressive, though: a valuable addition to the tablet market. Google's challenge now is to put some real welly behind getting the device into people's hands, securing more innovative, high-quality apps for its store, and ensuring that its music, films, TV shows, e-books and magazine offering is good around the world, not just in the US.


AnandTech (Check the benchmarks)

Honestly I think ASUS and Google have really done an excellent job here with the Nexus 7. The combination of a quad core SoC, IPS panel, solid construction, and the latest version of Android all for such a killer price point pretty much make it hard to really find any faults. Sure, it'd be useful to have a full size USB host port, microSD slot (though no Nexus has shipped with one since Nexus S), 5 GHz WiFi (Nexus 7 is 2.4 GHz only), or cellular, but the tablet wouldn't be $199 anymore. I also really feel like the 7 inch diagonal form factor is an ideal one, and the Nexus 7 is quickly growing on me.
 
All sound good. Got one for myself. I'll end up buying my mother one for Xmas as well.
 
fatalysis said:
Here's another positive review, this time from Mashable
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The Nexus 7 is an excellent video player. After downloading Transformers, I had a hard time stealing myself away from it to write this review. The player is very responsive, and the download looked very good
 
Ubergizmo

A key component of a tablet is the display, and when manufacturers take the affordable route, usually they have a hard time to provide a decent display. The Nexus 7 features a 1280
 
Atmazzz said:
I hope the small size of the video on the Nexus 7 isn't like that in movies, etc.Looks like a half inch or more on each side still available.
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That video doesn't look like it's the right aspect ratio for the screen, whereas it's the perfect aspect ratio for the iPad, so I wouldn't say it's a fair indicator. (EDIT: Yeah, I did my best to straighten out the image of the N7 and look at the size of the video. It came out almost exactly as a 4:3 image, the aspect ratio of the iPad, rather than the 16:10 of the N7)

For example, you can see that the youtube app here has the opposite problem, with black bars at the top and bottom, since youtube is in 16:9.

Presumably any 1280x800 encoded video will fill the screen exactly. It looks like the home/app/search buttons are hidden during video, otherwise you'd have to encode to a slightly smaller vertical resolution.
 
New from Business Insider. They liked it but,

Should You Buy It?

 Yes, but there are a few caveats here.

First of all, if you can afford the extra $200 or $300 for an iPad 2 or third-generation iPad, you should buy that instead. The iPad is still the best tablet on the market.

Also, if great apps matter to you, then you should know you're not going to get the best selection on the Nexus 7. Most apps on the Nexus 7 are just blown-up smartphone versions, making them look pretty awkward on the larger screen. The Nexus 7 is only good for watching video, reading books or magazines, and surfing the web. That's it.
 
I think the point BI misses here is that is what the device is intended for: Streaming content, web browsing and books.

If that is mostly what a person is going to do, the N7 is a no-brainer. Even for apps, a 16gb iPad or N7 are the same storage. As far as app hungry types, Neither is a good option.

Nope, I have an iPad 3, but if forced to choose between the two, I would take an N7 for $250 rather than a $500 iPad 3 16gb any day. You can buy two N7's for the SAME price.

My TF300 has the same resolution with a 10" display and looks sweet, so a 7" IPS at same res should look great.
 
Are there any poor reviews around? I often find that they are more useful. If you can read a bad review and think 'meh' then you've got a device that you will enjoy.
 
I don't remember seeing any bad reviews other than complaining about no sd card mostly. All the ones I have seen on Google are listed.

I guess Google could be Blackballing the bad ones. :D
 
Added new in-depth review from Android Police.

Here at Android Police, we look at the benchmark as one of those occasionally useful tools for certain scenarios, and rarely as good overall indicators of performance. However, they're a widely requested feature in our reviews (who doesn't like seeing something you bought beat something somebody else bought at numbers?), so I'm going to provide you a few.
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I'm getting conflicting stories about the screen's brightness and color but that's about it. Oh and that image impression that was showing up on some I/O models (People are calling it ghosting).
 
Added new review.

Android Central (July 6)
The Nexus name means one thing to some of us -- wide-open, balls-to-the-wall-hacking. The Nexus 7 is no different. Unlock the boot loader with a single command, then have your way with the system, flashing any image your heart desires. It's not yet widely available, but we already have a custom recovery and developers are champing at the bit for the day they can order one. Development and custom ROMS are going to explode on the Nexus 7. It's going to be a ton of fun.
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