Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: Google Nexus 7 5
A brand spanking new Google Nexus 7 arrived in the office today. I told the person who brought it to go ahead and mess with it and try it out- so the first thing I did was a factory reset and then it updated to Android 4.2 Very nice. So I've been messing with it a couple hours and here are my very first impressions.
It feels heavy for it's size. I guess they want to get as much batter packed in there as possible. Google says it weighs 340 grams and it probably feels heavy in part because I'm used to holding two devices in my hand - my kindle which is 170 grams and my phone which is 133 grams. I still think the kindle is unparalleled for reading black and white text.
The lack of a camera on the back is a bit of a bummer - just a front facing camera. People taking pictures with tablets look stupid - but it could still be handy and this wouldn't be as bad as doing it with a bit 10 or 11 inch tablet. Though I'm even more concerned about the lack of expandable storage. That's probably the biggest reason I wouldn't buy one for myself. (This one is for testing out some things we hope to do on college campuses with our staff using the Nexus 7)
It's not too wide to hold with one hand. Any interaction requires two. The screen is a bit glossy and fingerprints show up really well - this is something that needs to be figured out because it looks horrible. The display itself is pretty sweet and the sound is not bad either. I just watch a short film, La bÃsqueda via a streaming app and it was pretty much awesome. I've also played a couple games including Steam Birds which was very smooth and looked great.
There is a new thing in the interface - app folders. Basically I can take app icons and "stack" them. It becomes 1 icon, that when touched opens up a little window with all the other app icons in it. Sweet. With a decent in car mount and a good gps app that doesn't require data - this would be an amazing in car gps/computer system. I may try it out when we go to Slovenia over winter break. My Garmin has been acting up and I don't want to replace it. I want to find a good android based solution. But google maps wont work because it requires data and shortly after I leave home, I leave Hungary and then I'm roaming. Which on a completely unrelated note is totally ridiculous - there should be EU data plans.
That's mostly it so far. I'll post more as I use it more.
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I could probably get you a 10 and mail it to you - it just would be a matter of my finding someone traveling here from the U.S. I have friends who go back and forth pretty often. But I'm guessing it would be a month or two before I got it. Let me know what you think. And we'd have to work out a way to move the money - I don't have a bank account here - all my finances are in the U.S.
Right now the nexus 7 is causing me to pull my hair out. I wrote the JE above from work. When I got home I found that it has r
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Two things to check: DHCP then DNS. In that order. I don't know enough about Google hardware, but I must assume you can find out whether the network addresses have been set correctly. Please verify. If so, try to connect t
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There is this known issue [google.com] but switching to a static ip address didn't seem to correct the issue.
I've started to wonder if it is DNS related. I use DNS servers that run some of my traffic through proxy for geographically blocked content. It doesn't present any problems with my computers but I wonder if there is something about the setup that android doesn't like. I'll try switching to the google dns servers tonight and see what I get.
If that's the case I'm not sure what I'll do. I may just get a second route