welcome to my unboxing and first look at the tablet that the entire internets are
excited about this is the Nexus 7 from Google and ASUS it's a joint project you
can see The Branding is sort of clever there's a picture of a tablet which also
happens to be sort of in the shape of a seven which corresponds to the diagonal
size of the screen it is a 7-in tablet includes a Tegra 3 processor running at
1.3 GHz remember that's four high power
cores plus one low power core for that particular processor and a powerful GPU
it comes in 8 gig or 16 gig models and
there's a few things here that we should probably talk about really quick so it's
completely ready for Jelly Bean which is Android 4.1 which includes a lot of UI
tweaks as well as a few other cool things so Nexus 7 runs the latest
version of Android comes with all the Google apps you love check Gmail brows
at the web with chrome so the browser that we found on pre editions of Android
is going to be gone and with it flash support so we're going to be using
Chrome on our tablets from now on watch videos from YouTube and chat face to
face so it has a front-facing camera only no rear-facing camera it is a 1.2
megapixel camera and honestly at the price points that these tablets are
coming in at some sacrifices did have to be made so it's $1.99 for an 8 gig and
about $2.49 remember these are USD prices so your mileage may vary um $249
for a 16 gig there are no higher capacity versions of available at this
time and that is the only difference between the two capacities is just the
capacity so Google Play is their well what they've upated the market branding
too so there's a lot of different stuff in there now including songs books
movies and as well as apps and games full-fledge Android tablet powerful quad
core processor front face vvor 7 in HD so that's an IPS that is an IPS display
which means you're going to get a very decent viewing angle and what's cool
about it is the fact that it is full HD so it is 1280 by 800 which means you can
watch 720p video in full screen and it
will be full resolution on this particular tablet and the other really
cool thing about that is because of the fact that it is in a 7in form factor it
has extremely high pixel density which you know if you have used a retina
display from Apple you're going to be familiar with already is much less
fatiguing on the eyes and makes text look just infinitely better I've
actually I've taken it out already prior to the unboxing and I've played around with the a little bit and I'm very very
impressed love the screen love the responsiveness love the accuracy so it's
got a 10-point multi-touch which is about as much as any sort of normal
person would need not that I'm saying that if you have six fingers on each
hand that's a problem it's just that um you know you might want to use only 10
of them at a given time when you're working on a tablet um you know what
moving right along uh let's have a look at the physicality of the unit so
there's a USB port here and what's cool about this is it supports USB on the go
which means that it can not only act as a in device mode but also in host mode
so if you were to plug a keyboard for example into it then it can it can you
can use that okay it will act as the the tablet will act as a host instead of the
other way around so you can actually pair it with the keyboard and use a
keyboard on the device which is very very cool there's your headphone jack
which is pretty standard moving right along not a whole lot not a whole lot
there's a light sensor on it somewhere ah there it is as well well as the front facing camera there's your power there's
your volume rocker the back is very nice I'm actually not a big fan of metal
backs on tablets because they tend to get grimy looking uh they tend to get
stained very easily they're heavier they're just they're cold or they're too
hot they're just not that comfortable so this is a rubberized backing which has a
bit of a grippy texture to it that's very very nice now I loved the
Blackberry playbook for a couple of reasons it was super Snappy great as a
little web browsing device and I thought the form factor was just perfect so as
you guys can probably imagine the Nexus 7 definitely floats my boat in much the
same way I just want to have a quick look at what's included so you got your warranty card as well as a quick start
guide uh charging whoops charging cable as well as a charger so not a huge
accessory package by any stretch of the imagination so let's get logged in here
and let's have a look at some of the differences this is one of my
favorite tablet benchmarks for a couple of reasons because it just seems to to
absolutely destroy every tablet and other mobile device that I have ever had
the pleasure of encountering so here I've got my other two favorite tablets
uh the iPad 2 I don't have an iPad 3 unfortunately I wish I could uh talk
about that one a little bit and then I've also got a Galaxy Tab 10.1 so this
is running the older honeycomb version
of Android so give me 2 seconds and I'm going to get this page loaded up so the
screen doesn't have quite the Vibrance that uh oh sorry this one actually has
flash on it so the video is even been trying to play it doesn't have quite the
Vibrance of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and not
quite the brightness of the iPad too but it's very very passable and it's a
smaller screen anyway so um actually
that doesn't really make a difference at all okay this is something that just
absolutely tanks the performance of every mobile
browser that I've had the displeasure of using trying to view YouTube comments
which as you guys can imagine is something that I do try to do on tablet
so I want you guys to just have a quick look at what the fluidity is like so yes
the UI on the Nexus 7 is absolutely
gorgeous and amazing and so smooth and
looks like it decided to do this a slightly different way for me here give
me a sec guys oops so this is cool they
have uh with the Chrome and YouTube app integration that they've done here this
is this is absolutely awesome so instead of clicking on this and having it open
in Chrome it actually opens in the YouTube app which is so much smoother
compared to trying to navigate in Chrome for things like reading comments and
seeing related videos and seeing the information all you do is rotate it and
it goes ahead and puts it in I'm just going to turn that down a little bit
there we go goes ahead and puts it in uh video viewing mode for you rotation is
pretty smooth however for the sake of showing you guys what I think of the
performance here this is cool too when you're clicking on something small it's
really neat it pops it up for you so you can make sure you click the right thing
so we're going to go ahead and view the comments of that video in much the same
way that we're looking at them on the other tablets so I'll show you guys how
this tanks the performance of pretty much every tablet ever and I quite can't
quite figure out why but the Nexus 7 does better than so the iPad in spite of
its normal smoothness you can see legs quite a bit behind when I'm trying to
browse comments and just has sort of glitches and the loading same thing with
older Android tablets you can see it's very very glitchy trying to browse this
for whatever reason uh it doesn't help when there are tons of comments on the
video and this particular one has a few thousand comments so you can see it's
actually not as bad as I've come to expect from Android tablets it's closer
to the experience you have with the iPad 2 but with some of the UI tweaks that
they've made I would never have to use this kind of an interface for it anyway
which is very very refreshing tagra games run obviously
better on the Nexus 7 you can see the older Tegra 2 is chopping up a little
bit just watching this spaceship hover around and demolitioning whereas here
I'm just going to brace myself so you can uh see the smoothness compared to
the Galaxy Tab 10.1 well you'll have to take my word for it cuz apparently you
can't see that at all and uh the lighting in here is absolutely terrible
but whatever okay so we're going to do that play play the graphics also look
better just due to the higher pixel density so you can see lots of aliasing
and garbage on this one whereas here the line Looks a Lot smoother uh it's not
because it's running at higher res it's just the uh the higher pixel density
that's all yeah it looks so much sharper and
runs way smoother you can see it start to chug as it tries to zoom in on the
city here that is absolutely uh absolutely
outstanding I mean none of this should really come as a surprise given that it
is a Tegra 3 processor and that is better than a Tegra 2 but just the
fluidity is uh is very very nice there's a few other tweaks that I really really
like already about uh about the Nexus 7
so one of them is the quick access to settings as well as the quick access
here to your rotation lock um little
things like that that make me really happy touchcreen is very very accurate
and moving around Within the I mean it's
just so lightning fast and smooth that
it's just makes everything else look like a joke um that we've seen in the
past let's just go back let's go back to
home oh let's load up the NVIDIA glow ball demo cuz who doesn't love the glow
ball demo I haven't actually seen it in
person before because this is the first time I've had access to a uh to a Tegra
3 Tablet cool I don't know how to use it
or anything oh you tilt it okay I guess that makes sense we glow ball okay this
is sort of less fun than I thought it was going to be boom you knock things
over with physics okay sorry I'm done now so I think that pretty much wraps it
up I don't know how much else there is for me to say about it other than um so
far I'm really impressed it basically is everything that it sounds like it is
it's a Tegra 3 tablet at a $1.99 price point for the 8
gig version you don't get any SD expansion so that's maybe one thing that
some people won like about it oh yeah there's a speaker on the back right under the ASUS logo that bar right there
uh so yeah it's a it's a it's a it's a 199 Tegra 3 tablet that has a very nice
screen good form factor great build quality and I'm overall very impressed
and is my camera really not focusing like this entire
time oh it's just the contrast okay well the screen looks a lot better than it
does in my pathetic camera so I'm sorry for that but thank you for checking out
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