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The Nexus 7 is an Android tablet computer co-developed by Google and Asus, the first tablet entry in the Nexus series. The Nexus 7 is a 7-inch tablet, primarily competing with similar devices such as the Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire and the Blackberry Playbook.
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Buy Nexus 7 online. The Nexus 7 will be shipped with the latest version of Android, 4.1, codenamed Jelly Bean. Additionally, it will ship with Chrome as its web browser.
Dashboard mounting is probably the best setup for most users, due to its simplicity. However, you’ll want the tablet as low on the dash as possible to keep it out of your field of view while driving. In a pinch, look for a windshield mounting arm that’s maybe a little longer than you think you need and try to hang the tablet below your sight line with a dashboard puck like I did with the Magellan GPS in the photo.
The benefit to using something like the Satechi Cup Holder Mount is that the tablet sits about as low as it possibly can, but there are a few tradeoffs. Extra-low mounting means that you’ll have to move your eyes (and maybe your head) farther to simply glance at a map. Additionally, depending on the position of your cup holders, the tablet could interfere with the operation of the shifter.
Now, it’s time for the fun part: picking your dashboard apps! Depending on your needs, there are apps for navigation, audio playback, and a number of other functions that could come in handy behind the wheel of a car.
The built-in Google Maps app seems like the obvious navigation choice thanks to its newfound ability to cache map data for offline use. However, it does have its drawbacks. For starters, you can only plan a trip while connected to the Internet. Once you’re under way, Google Maps can continue routing and even handle simple rerouting of missed turns, but you’ll need to be in range of a Wi-Fi hot spot at the beginning of every trip, somewhat limiting the usefulness of this app.
A premium navigation app like CoPilot GPS is probably your best bet for the Wi-Fi-only Nexus 7. This fully-featured GPS software features onboard route calculations and the ability to download local maps for your part of the world. You’ll need 1.3GB of space to download the full North American maps data, but I was able to specify the Southwest U.S., which includes my current home state ofCaliforniaand requires only 172.6MB of my Nexus 7’s 16GB of storage space.
The stock Google Play Music app will let you download your music library for local playback once you leave the warm glow of Wi-Fi connectivity and will probably be your first stop on the road to driving tunes.
Internet radio apps such as Spotify and Mog will also let you save music and playlists for offline use.
Rewind to Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS debacle. Best Buy and other retailers told the media that WebOS devices weren’t selling. And in some cases, HP pushed far too many devices out to retailers and distributors. In stark contrast, not much is known about Nexus 7 shipment levels — other than initial 16GB inventories are sold out.
Memo to Microsoft: Steal a page from Google and use conservative goals for your first Surface tablet shipments. Sell them out and alert the media… Then, more would-be buyers will come knocking on your door.
The Nexus 7 has only been in my hands for a few days, yet it has already changed my habits of using a tablet. That is the mark of a device that is a good fit for what I do. The 7-inch tablet is very comfortable to carry and use, and that is the big draw of the tablet from Google.
Although, there’s a slight exception to that statement though when it comes to apps in the Google Play Store. While phone apps do look more acceptable on the smaller screen than on 10-inch tablets, they still aren’t as compelling or immersive as the ones available for the iPad. As a whole, iPad apps are sleeker and take advantage of the large screen; apps like Twitter or Flipboard are good examples. (Google is hoping the Nexus tablet urges developers to start focusing more on tablet apps.)
The other logical product to compare Nexus 7 to is the Kindle Fire. The two black slates look a fair bit alike, but Fire is a tad shorter and noticeably heavier. From a hardware perspective though, Nexus 7 douses Fire.
It has features that the Fire is missing, including a camera, microphone, Bluetooth, GPS and NFC (near-field communications), which is wireless technology that works with the Android Beam feature as a way to share content with other devices. NFC will also handle mobile payments, although the Google Wallet app is not yet available for the device.
Nexus 7 also boasts a superior screen and more robust (Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core) processor than the Kindle. I was impressed by the gameplay and avid graphics on theTempleRungame.
The form saw its first measured success with the Kindle Fire, which cracked a few million unit sales in a single month during 2011’s holiday season. But the Fire’s reception then, and sales performance since, doesn’t suggest a raft of blissfully happy customers. While Amazon’s tablet has a couple of enthusiastic fans here at Ars, the guess in our review that it would “end up often as a gift from early tablet adopters to late ones” seemed to come true. You wouldn’t buy one for yourself, perhaps, but it was a good enough present for the technologically apathetic: Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Technologically Illiterate Sibling.
Enter stage right—well, more like stage from above, the God of Tablets bombing down in a skydiving suit wearing Google Glass—the Nexus 7. Google adopted the internals of Asus’s Memo 370 shown at CES in January, revamped the body, and bequeathed the device with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. All while maintaining a $199 base price point.
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