Go on then.... Who's gonna....

Chunkford · June 28, 2012, 07:29:22 PM

Who's tempted by the Nexus 7 or am I going to be stoned to death for say this here?

I must say the price is tempting! very tempting...

I, Brian · June 28, 2012, 07:45:54 PM

The price is very tempting - aiming to tackle the Kindle Fire head on.

Only thing is, it's only a 7" screen. So it'll feel about half the size of a normal tablet like the iPad or Galaxy.

In which case, it's half the price for half the tablet, which doesn't feel so cheap - just something small to muck around with.

hungrygoose · June 28, 2012, 08:50:22 PM

Being android it will probably only get updated software for the next 6 months. And 7inch screen is too small imo

Brad · June 29, 2012, 12:35:00 PM

If it has a widescreen aspect ratio then it is more about watching video than reading. 4:3 aspect works better for reading and Apple knew what they were doing with that on the iPad so did HP on the Touchpad.

Chunkford · June 29, 2012, 12:41:16 PM

I'm sure most people wont know that and the price is what they're really looking

bill · July 02, 2012, 08:24:53 AM

I'm quite tempted at that price. Is it on sale anywhere outside the US yet?

Chunkford · July 02, 2012, 09:30:40 AM

Na, not yet. It's planned for mid July in the UK.

Rooftop · July 02, 2012, 10:25:50 AM

I like my android devices, particularly the nexus ones - the overall UX on my nexus 1 is still better than what Samsung and HTC have managed to do several releases later. I just can't see the point in the N7.

Like most tablets it is just a device of consumption - a front end for the app/media store behind it. One of my gripes with many Apple products is that they sacrifice the usefulness of the device in order to maximise store revenues. It looks like Amazon & now Google are realising just how profitable that is and following suit. In the Nexus 7 promo videos they don't even try to hide the fact that it is effectively them asking you to buy a till for their store.

Looks great. Very clever, yada yada. I'd quite like to have a play with one. I just can't see any point in owning one.

They won't market it properly anyway, so it'll die a death. Google are still under the naive belief that you just need to make a good thing to sell it. They could invent a car that ran on air and not be able to sell it alongside an Apple iCar that got 5 mpg and self-destructed after 20k miles if that was backed by Apple design and marketing.