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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the tablet that the entire internets are

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excited about this is the Nexus 7 from Google and ASUS it's a joint project you

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can see The Branding is sort of clever there's a picture of a tablet which also

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happens to be sort of in the shape of a seven which corresponds to the diagonal

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size of the screen it is a 7-in tablet includes a Tegra 3 processor running at

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1.3 GHz remember that's four high power

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cores plus one low power core for that particular processor and a powerful GPU

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it comes in 8 gig or 16 gig models and

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there's a few things here that we should probably talk about really quick so it's

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completely ready for Jelly Bean which is Android 4.1 which includes a lot of UI

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tweaks as well as a few other cool things so Nexus 7 runs the latest

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version of Android comes with all the Google apps you love check Gmail brows

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at the web with chrome so the browser that we found on pre editions of Android

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is going to be gone and with it flash support so we're going to be using

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Chrome on our tablets from now on watch videos from YouTube and chat face to

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face so it has a front-facing camera only no rear-facing camera it is a 1.2

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megapixel camera and honestly at the price points that these tablets are

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coming in at some sacrifices did have to be made so it's $1.99 for an 8 gig and

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about $2.49 remember these are USD prices so your mileage may vary um $249

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for a 16 gig there are no higher capacity versions of available at this

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time and that is the only difference between the two capacities is just the

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capacity so Google Play is their well what they've upated the market branding

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too so there's a lot of different stuff in there now including songs books

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movies and as well as apps and games full-fledge Android tablet powerful quad

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core processor front face vvor 7 in HD so that's an IPS that is an IPS display

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which means you're going to get a very decent viewing angle and what's cool

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about it is the fact that it is full HD so it is 1280 by 800 which means you can

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watch 720p video in full screen and it

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will be full resolution on this particular tablet and the other really

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cool thing about that is because of the fact that it is in a 7in form factor it

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has extremely high pixel density which you know if you have used a retina

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display from Apple you're going to be familiar with already is much less

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fatiguing on the eyes and makes text look just infinitely better I've

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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

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impressed love the screen love the responsiveness love the accuracy so it's

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got a 10-point multi-touch which is about as much as any sort of normal

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person would need not that I'm saying that if you have six fingers on each

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hand that's a problem it's just that um you know you might want to use only 10

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of them at a given time when you're working on a tablet um you know what

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moving right along uh let's have a look at the physicality of the unit so

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there's a USB port here and what's cool about this is it supports USB on the go

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which means that it can not only act as a in device mode but also in host mode

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so if you were to plug a keyboard for example into it then it can it can you

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can use that okay it will act as the the tablet will act as a host instead of the

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other way around so you can actually pair it with the keyboard and use a

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keyboard on the device which is very very cool there's your headphone jack

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which is pretty standard moving right along not a whole lot not a whole lot

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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

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your volume rocker the back is very nice I'm actually not a big fan of metal

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backs on tablets because they tend to get grimy looking uh they tend to get

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stained very easily they're heavier they're just they're cold or they're too

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hot they're just not that comfortable so this is a rubberized backing which has a

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bit of a grippy texture to it that's very very nice now I loved the

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Blackberry playbook for a couple of reasons it was super Snappy great as a

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little web browsing device and I thought the form factor was just perfect so as

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you guys can probably imagine the Nexus 7 definitely floats my boat in much the

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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

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guide uh charging whoops charging cable as well as a charger so not a huge

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accessory package by any stretch of the imagination so let's get logged in here

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and let's have a look at some of the differences this is one of my

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favorite tablet benchmarks for a couple of reasons because it just seems to to

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absolutely destroy every tablet and other mobile device that I have ever had

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the pleasure of encountering so here I've got my other two favorite tablets

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uh the iPad 2 I don't have an iPad 3 unfortunately I wish I could uh talk

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about that one a little bit and then I've also got a Galaxy Tab 10.1 so this

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is running the older honeycomb version

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of Android so give me 2 seconds and I'm going to get this page loaded up so the

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screen doesn't have quite the Vibrance that uh oh sorry this one actually has

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flash on it so the video is even been trying to play it doesn't have quite the

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Vibrance of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and not

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quite the brightness of the iPad too but it's very very passable and it's a

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smaller screen anyway so um actually

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that doesn't really make a difference at all okay this is something that just

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absolutely tanks the performance of every mobile

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browser that I've had the displeasure of using trying to view YouTube comments

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which as you guys can imagine is something that I do try to do on tablet

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so I want you guys to just have a quick look at what the fluidity is like so yes

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the UI on the Nexus 7 is absolutely

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gorgeous and amazing and so smooth and

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looks like it decided to do this a slightly different way for me here give

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me a sec guys oops so this is cool they

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have uh with the Chrome and YouTube app integration that they've done here this

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is this is absolutely awesome so instead of clicking on this and having it open

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in Chrome it actually opens in the YouTube app which is so much smoother

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compared to trying to navigate in Chrome for things like reading comments and

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seeing related videos and seeing the information all you do is rotate it and

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it goes ahead and puts it in I'm just going to turn that down a little bit

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there we go goes ahead and puts it in uh video viewing mode for you rotation is

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pretty smooth however for the sake of showing you guys what I think of the

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performance here this is cool too when you're clicking on something small it's

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really neat it pops it up for you so you can make sure you click the right thing

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so we're going to go ahead and view the comments of that video in much the same

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way that we're looking at them on the other tablets so I'll show you guys how

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this tanks the performance of pretty much every tablet ever and I quite can't

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quite figure out why but the Nexus 7 does better than so the iPad in spite of

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its normal smoothness you can see legs quite a bit behind when I'm trying to

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browse comments and just has sort of glitches and the loading same thing with

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older Android tablets you can see it's very very glitchy trying to browse this

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for whatever reason uh it doesn't help when there are tons of comments on the

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video and this particular one has a few thousand comments so you can see it's

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actually not as bad as I've come to expect from Android tablets it's closer

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to the experience you have with the iPad 2 but with some of the UI tweaks that

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they've made I would never have to use this kind of an interface for it anyway

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which is very very refreshing tagra games run obviously

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better on the Nexus 7 you can see the older Tegra 2 is chopping up a little

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bit just watching this spaceship hover around and demolitioning whereas here

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I'm just going to brace myself so you can uh see the smoothness compared to

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the Galaxy Tab 10.1 well you'll have to take my word for it cuz apparently you

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can't see that at all and uh the lighting in here is absolutely terrible

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but whatever okay so we're going to do that play play the graphics also look

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better just due to the higher pixel density so you can see lots of aliasing

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and garbage on this one whereas here the line Looks a Lot smoother uh it's not

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because it's running at higher res it's just the uh the higher pixel density

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that's all yeah it looks so much sharper and

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runs way smoother you can see it start to chug as it tries to zoom in on the

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city here that is absolutely uh absolutely

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outstanding I mean none of this should really come as a surprise given that it

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is a Tegra 3 processor and that is better than a Tegra 2 but just the

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fluidity is uh is very very nice there's a few other tweaks that I really really

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like already about uh about the Nexus 7

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so one of them is the quick access to settings as well as the quick access

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here to your rotation lock um little

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things like that that make me really happy touchcreen is very very accurate

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and moving around Within the I mean it's

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just so lightning fast and smooth that

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it's just makes everything else look like a joke um that we've seen in the

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past let's just go back let's go back to

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home oh let's load up the NVIDIA glow ball demo cuz who doesn't love the glow

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ball demo I haven't actually seen it in

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person before because this is the first time I've had access to a uh to a Tegra

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3 Tablet cool I don't know how to use it

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or anything oh you tilt it okay I guess that makes sense we glow ball okay this

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is sort of less fun than I thought it was going to be boom you knock things

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over with physics okay sorry I'm done now so I think that pretty much wraps it

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up I don't know how much else there is for me to say about it other than um so

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far I'm really impressed it basically is everything that it sounds like it is

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it's a Tegra 3 tablet at a $1.99 price point for the 8

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gig version you don't get any SD expansion so that's maybe one thing that

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some people won like about it oh yeah there's a speaker on the back right under the ASUS logo that bar right there

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uh so yeah it's a it's a it's a it's a 199 Tegra 3 tablet that has a very nice

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screen good form factor great build quality and I'm overall very impressed

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and is my camera really not focusing like this entire

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time oh it's just the contrast okay well the screen looks a lot better than it

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does in my pathetic camera so I'm sorry for that but thank you for checking out

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