Learned'd VIII: Less Bewbs, Same Nonsense

[MinisterofDOOM]

I love my Kindle Touch. I haven't been using it much lately (no time to read), but I want to get back at it. Way, way better than a tablet for book reading.

I have a Nook Touch and love it as well. The size is PERFECT...it fits in my pocket but the screen is still big enough to be useful. The weight is also PERFECT...my hand does not get tired holding it, but it still feels solidly built. The screen is beautiful...I set text to the smallest setting and even my tech-jaded eyes have to look closely for a reduction in sharpness. And the battery life is phenomenal. My only complaint is that the otherwise-great touchscreen GUI makes selecting from your own library unnecessarily difficulty in exchange for trying to sell you more stuff from the Nook store.

Sure, it has the Tegra 3, but It has less ram than the higher end devices

It's been pretty well demonstrated that 1GB of RAM is plenty for any Android device. My HTC One S eats everything possible you could throw at it alive, with 1GB total RAM but 685 available for use. That's where the N7 stands. Anything beyond 1GB is just adding cost. Google's design was very, very well thought-out, and that includes crap like no rear-facing camera and enough-but-not-excessive onboard memory.

Plus it comes with a phone OS, not the tablet OS, which means its a slightly bigger GNex. It's a not a bad choice, especially for the cost, because you couldn't get better specs for that kind of money. It just seems like a waste if you're already a smartphone user.

There IS no "phone OS" or " Tablet OS" with Android anymore. . Honeycomb proved that approach didn't work. Jellybean is Jellybean is Jellybean, regardless of device type. HC sucked balls. You can easily switch tot he landscape orientation on the N7 (or ANYTHING Android, including the Galaxy Nexus, by doing a very simple pixel density hack (effectively telling Android you have a larger screen than you do and causing it to reformat the GUI accordingly) if you prefer it that way. I don't, especially with smaller-screen devices. On a 10'' tablet, it makes a little more sense. But not on a 7''.

For me, the appeal is more screen while still being pocketable (like my Nook Color), extended battery life (due to the larger size allowing for bigger batteries), and the fact that using it for media and gaming doesn't take battery life away from calling and texting on my phone.

[Kompresshun]

Well I just made myself look like an idiot anyways - almost every current Android tablet is running 1GB of RAM anyways. I've had no issues from my GNex either with 1GB. Although it runs MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better with Jellybean vs ICS. It's unbelievably smooth and fast with JB, not that it was a slouch with ICS either.

I'm aware that there are no more separate OS's. What I meant was the layout - I don't want phone, I want the tablet density. I don't prefer it on my phone, but on anything larger I would. Personal preference again though.

The pricing point gives you an amazing bang for your buck with the N7. My main issue is though - I don't need pocketabilty from a tablet. That's what my phone is for. I need something I can pick up at home and browse the web, along with basic functions I don't do on my phone. That also applies to when i'm going out of town, or going to a gathering somewhere - a 10" tablet keeps me from needing my laptop for anything.

[MinisterofDOOM]

My main issue is though - I don't need pocketabilty from a tablet. That's what my phone is for. I need something I can pick up at home and browse the web, along with basic functions I don't do on my phone. That also applies to when i'm going out of town, or going to a gathering somewhere - a 10" tablet keeps me from needing my laptop for anything.

I'm exactly the opposite. I have no use for a device I can't put in my pocket. I've been using PDAs of various formats since before the word "smartphone" was ever imagined, and that was always the appeal. I don't want anything bigger. I even have a hard time with laptops, since the only ones worth owning have terrible battery life and are PORTABLE rather than mobile (you can take them somewhere easily but then you need to find a desk and plug them in, you don't really use them on-the-go). I'm a guy: I do not carry a purse or a messenger bag or any of that s***. I have pockets in my pants. For carrying things. For me 7'' is the sweet spot. Bit screen, small form.

My biggest complaint with the iPad from day one was that I have ABSOLUTELY NO PRACTICAL USE for a device that size unless it has an X64 processor and powerful graphics processor inside and runs a desktop OS. You can watch youtube on anything. If I'm going to lug something around it needs to do everything my PC can.

And my PC can do a lot.

[sx moneypit]

[IBCoupe]

I concur.

[Hijacker]

MOD, you'll need these pants if you want to carry a tablet



I eschewed a backpack for a while in college and just carried my books in the back pocket.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yeah that's pretty much not gonna happen.

[AppleBonker]

I remember when jncos were popular. Or, more accurately, at the height of their popularity.

[nissangirl74]

Anybody still awake?

[IBCoupe]

Hot and muggy again, dammit.

[Hijacker]

Coffee...

[frapjap]

I still have 2 pairs of Jncos in really good condition. A quick Ebay look says they're worth something!
Maybe I'll ski in them once this year to be silly.

[snwbrdr435]

Well, I went to fit my new to me track plastics last night, come to find out that I need a different fairing stay and windscreen DOH.

[Hijacker]

Even coffee isn't working today. I'm tired as all get out.

But now I'm off to go measure suspension points from the Z32 FSM and S13 FSM.

[RobPaulson]

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I'm exactly the opposite. I have no use for a device I can't put in my pocket. I've been using PDAs of various formats since before the word "smartphone" was ever imagined, and that was always the appeal. I don't want anything bigger. I even have a hard time with laptops, since the only ones worth owning have terrible battery life and are PORTABLE rather than mobile (you can take them somewhere easily but then you need to find a desk and plug them in, you don't really use them on-the-go). I'm a guy: I do not carry a purse or a messenger bag or any of that s***. I have pockets in my pants. For carrying things. For me 7'' is the sweet spot. Bit screen, small form.

picked up a nexus7 a couple weeks ago. While i lack the time to use it most of the time, it is ideal size for a tablet (I actually bought it primarily for an ereader but really fell in love with reading news etc on it as well). I take notes in meetings with it and its more convenient than my ultrabook(ASUS ux31) for surfing while im on the couch.

[AppleBonker]

Damnit, Gerry. Quit making me want one more...

Did you root it? Or are you leaving it stock? I only ask because I finally rooted my GNex and I'm loving all of the crap I can now tweak/change (in addition to being happy that I'm now running JB on my phone - Google Now is pretty sick).

[nissangirl74]

Sup guys! First Day of school for the kids: Yay! I have to go buy books. Boo!

[RobPaulson]

Sup guys! First Day of school for the kids: Yay! I have to go buy books. Boo!

whoa seriously? like their first day of classes start today? is that normal to start this early in august? they must get out wicked early...

[nissangirl74]

Their last day of school is May 23rd. Way different than when i was in school. They start earlier, get out earlier, and have LOTS more time off than I ever did.

[Marenta]

School doesn't start here until after Labor day, and then they don't get off until around the 15th of June. I miss starting early August and getting out late May. Just enough time off to have fun, but not enough time off to be so bored you became brain-dead.

[nissangirl74]

They had 73 days (they reminded me last night). We had so much stuff we wanted to do that we never got around to. It goes SO FAST.

[Hijacker]

I can't wait to start school to give me something to do.

[Marenta]

I wish I were in school for something I want to do, instead of something that just checks a box.

[nissangirl74]

I love what I am doing. Some days I wish I could just be a professional student and someone would pay me to go to school.

[Razi]

Learning is fun!

[nissangirl74]

I'm so excited to go back, I can hardly sit still. I have my books now, so that makes it that much worse. I may start reading them since the kids are in school and I'll have some free time on my hands.

[Razi]

Yay books!
Our 12th grade English teacher let us pick books from a list and we'd have to read em and do a group presentations, it was a lot of fun.
I missed sitting down and reading a novel so I picked one up from Barnes and Nobel a week ago.

Today our power went out so I just sat down and read. The heat sucked though. D:

Well, I'm off to sleep.
Bye Becky!

[TurboSauce]

I tried reading books for fun.. but I guess i'm too spoiled with technology, I can read an entire series on the computer, but couldn't read the same thing in paperback. Somehow my attention gets drawn away from the book.

anyways it's 3am
so.. bye.

[nissangirl74]

Night Razi!

[frapjap]

Buenos dias. Wheres teh Ben?