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Friday, January 4, 2013

Nexus 7 Review

In November my wife and I decided to purchase a tablet to shift some activities away from her decrepit laptop onto something a little faster and a little less maddening. We both use Android phones so the Nexus offered some obvious advantages over the Ipad, and I'd read a lot of positive things about Jelly Bean so I elected to go with the Nexus over the Kindle Fire. So far I've been very impressed, although to be fair my other data point is my Droid X. The Nexus operates incredibly smoothly, a regular (and valid) point brought up against Android is how clunky the interface is. Hesitation, lag delay ect... it's one thing that Apple has always had over the Android phones, and while I haven't spent a lot of time with Iphone/pad I can say the Jelly Bean (4.2) hasn't had any where near the issues that my Droid X has. Really the only time I've noticed any slow down is when switching between profiles (a feature that is fantastic BTW) Additionally I LOVE stock Jelly Bean on the Nexus, after using it for a month I started playing around with a co-workers SIII and it immediately began to infuriate me. I'm sure samsung added some features that I would love but all in all it struck me as subtraction by addition.

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