Friday, July 20, 2012

Google's Nexus 7

I've just purchased a Google Nexus 7 tablet and I'm very impressed. My wife wanted a Kindle but the prices for the better versions are well over £100. So the Nexus 7 tablet at £160 seemed to be a better buy as it offered a larger 7" colour screen with high resolution, touch screen, internet access for web surfing, email, etc. and the latest version of Android with voice input and a camera.

When it arrived it seemed an impressive, well-made device that was easy to use. I only bought the 8Gb version and quickly loaded Dropbox to give me shared cloud access to other files, documents, photos, etc. I couldn't get Photo Gallery to swap the screen orientation automatically, then the electronic manual mentioned to orientation lock in the notification swipe area and this 'fixed' this problem. Interestingly this is not available in the 'Settings' section.

It is a really great device and I'm sure will get a lot of use when we travel and at home. This is another nail in Microsoft's coffin as who needs Windows when you can do almost everything you want for on a tablet device which costs less than the typical retail price of Windows software.