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Turnquiet posted:Do we have a release date on the Nexus 7 yet? It is on sale locally, but I preordered. I haven't heard a word from Google. Am I an outlier, or is this just the way it is? I think Google said around Friday noonish that they'd have all preoder units shipped out in 3 days, but I haven't heard anything about mine at all yet so who really knows at this point. Kinda getting annoyed.
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Quandary posted:I think Google said around Friday noonish that they'd have all preoder units shipped out in 3 days, but I haven't heard anything about mine at all yet so who really knows at this point. Kinda getting annoyed. I just ordered the 16gb on July 10th, and UPS tracking says I'll have it tomorrow. I suppose there's some wackiness going on with their order fulfillment process. What the hell did you do to piss off Google?
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Final Blog Entry posted:I just ordered the 16gb on July 10th, and UPS tracking says I'll have it tomorrow. I suppose there's some wackiness going on with their order fulfillment process. What the hell did you do to piss off Google? I ordered mine on the 11th, so  . I figure I'll call them tomorrow if I still haven't heard anything. Has anyone else who pre-ordered had this problem?I know there was a moratorium on shipping talk, so I can remove this if requested but I think this falls outside of the bounds of "oh god my nexus is on my doorstep  "
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Jul 17, 2012 02:08
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Quandary posted:I think Google said around Friday noonish that they'd have all preoder units shipped out in 3 days, but I haven't heard anything about mine at all yet so who really knows at this point. Kinda getting annoyed. 3 business days. We aren't there yet.
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Jul 17, 2012 02:18
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So it sounds like the only place I might be able to walk in and out with a Nexus 7 is Gamestop and Sam's Clubs/Wal Mart?
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randyest posted:I am old and reasonably well-read and I have never heard that word (fobbed). I thought you made it up or mangled the spelling of something like that other guy, but it turns out I am just ignorant. Wow, thanks for the new word! Edit: And since people are talking about shipping dates again, Google posted this today: http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2667319&ctx=plusone quote:When will my preorder ship? Rohaq fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jul 17, 2012 |
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Jul 17, 2012 02:57
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Ah, thanks guys.
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We have no idea when it will actually be in stores though? I'd rather walk in and out with one than order it and have to wait.
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Jul 17, 2012 04:05
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General_Failure posted:With all the Nexus talk above, I do have my concerns that it'll have a short life in its position, being pushed aside by a wave of more fully featured tablets. They could have extended its appeal so much with just a couple of minor tweaks, but perhaps that was by design. Get it right first time and who would buy another one?  edit: oh, wait, you mean the Nexus 7, not the Ainol, oops (I figured you were talking about how the Ainol corrupts SD cards and so probably didn't license a proper SDIO stack and instead used some SPI work-around approach.) But isn't $2500/year approximately $0 for a company like google? Maybe the marginal cost to include the SD hole is more than one would assume? Boy this stuff sure is complicated I'm glad you're here G_F to help us understand! As an aside / follow up to your previous posts, did you ever decide which of you or your lady enjoys the Ainol the most? I'm thinking about giving my wife the Ainol but she really likes Peggle and Bejeweled and games like that, and I hear that those have some issues on the Ainol ellf. Have you tried those at all?
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Daric posted:We have no idea when it will actually be in stores though? I'd rather walk in and out with one than order it and have to wait. Most of the preorders have been shipped; mine is coming tomorrow. My friend's, who ordered early last week, has been charged, but not shipped as of tonight. It's been in stores since Friday or this weekend. You'll have to call around to see whether or not they have them in stock.
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Jesus Christ, could we please stop with N7 shipping bullshit and making fun of General_Failure for knowing something about a hardware platform?
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Jul 17, 2012 04:56
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I just wanted to post that I called the Nexus Helpline (or whatever it is called) and I was informed that if you ordered a case with your Nexus 7, that they should be going out Tuesday (today technically in my timezone). I guess the whole holdup was the case itself, but yeah.
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Jul 17, 2012 06:14
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Make fun, whatever. I don't care. I'm a big boy. Back from the trip and the first field test of the Chinese special. It was playing video for perhaps 3.5 hours. barely made a dent in the battery and Wi-Fi was left on the whole time. I connected it to the car stereo and just had the back speakers running for the passengers watching it. it's serving its purpose. No complaints. As a bonus I picked up a Mini to normal HDMI adapter and an HDMI to DVI one. Among other things it means I can plug it into the TV or the monitor for the desktop to make a fair assessment of what the HDMI support is like using equally cheap Chinese adapters.
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Jul 17, 2012 09:00
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I thought they were just not going to put SD cards in Nexus devices anymore. Something about how it unifies storage which makes everything easier/more elegant. I remember them saying that about the Galaxy Nexus so I wasn't surprised when I heard the Nexus 7 would follow.
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Jul 17, 2012 09:23
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Hikaki posted:I thought they were just not going to put SD cards in Nexus devices anymore. Something about how it unifies storage which makes everything easier/more elegant. I remember them saying that about the Galaxy Nexus so I wasn't surprised when I heard the Nexus 7 would follow. Well it would fill a niche for certain consumers, no doubt. I won't deny though I like having removable storage. there is one thing that occurred to me. Suppose for whatever reason something goes awry with an update. How do you recover from that? Does it have the equivalent of whatever that ROM backup is that some PCs have? Or perhaps a working USB stack to allow re-flashing from a PC? Just a genuine question. Besides custom ROMs or whatever I've had to reflash once after an update caused a phone to get stuck in an infinite boot loop that nothing else could solve. How do the Nexus and other such things deal with this scenario?
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Jul 17, 2012 09:38
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I've been using my 16gb Galaxy S for over 2 years and I still have 5gb left on it, so I'm hoping 16gb will be enough for the tablet, though I imagine I'll be watching more videos and playing bigger games on it. Pre-ordered mine the day after it was announced and I haven't heard a thing.
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Jul 17, 2012 09:49
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Staples all over the place have them in stock. I went to one last night and just bought it. Just check their website for stores stock. It helps that no one shops at staples.
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Jul 17, 2012 11:57
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potentiometer posted:Not exactly sure if i've seen the tablet layout in landscape unless you mean what i'm seeing now. When I switch to landscape in Nova Prime the search bar turns into a magnifying glass icon on the left side of the screen and the dock moves to the right side in a vertical format, the rest of the screen icons, folders, ect just stretchs out. I tried to get a couple screen shots up but imgur won't play nice with me. Thanks, that sounds like how Nova displays on a phone in landscape rather than the tablet layout. I wonder if the dev will find a way to use the tablet layout since I'd rather not actually change the DPI and have to deal with Play Store compatibility issues.
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Jul 17, 2012 12:28
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So I tried out the HDMI on the Elf II. Doesn’t seem to support dual mode but it does thankfully do the swirly circle pointer for navigation. Plays video fine even at 1080. Was silly enough to try playing a couple of games like that and they worked fine too in HD, besides not having the position of the buttons on the display etc. Shame about the lack of dual display, but I couldn't see myself plugging it into a TV for touch screen gaming anyway so no big loss to me. That seems as pointless as a Wii-U.
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Jul 17, 2012 13:10
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You guys that already have your Nexus 7's, are you experiencing the issue where the sides are coming apart? http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus7/comments/wkyg5/the_left_side_of_the_screen_isnt_fully_stuck_to/
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Jul 17, 2012 13:29
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IT Guy posted:You guys that already have your Nexus 7's, are you experiencing the issue where the sides are coming apart? That's awful. I was expecting that it had a really high quality build. Please correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it meant to have that Gorilla Glass stuff? If so then how are people applying enough force to re-adhere / pop back the screen? either way that's a pretty serious issue.
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General_Failure posted:That's awful. I was expecting that it had a really high quality build. Please correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it meant to have that Gorilla Glass stuff? If so then how are people applying enough force to re-adhere / pop back the screen? either way that's a pretty serious issue. You were expecting a high quality build from Asus of all companies? Your Ainol Elf is probably made better.
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golgo13sf posted:You were expecting a high quality build from Asus of all companies? Well... it's built better than those lovely old 1.6 tablets for sure but beyond that I couldn't say. My eee701 was very well built... except they had to underclock them from the factory and CPU throttling didn't save power because of a board design issue, and the last motherboard in the PC was ...terrible. O.K. fair enough. I concede. But seriously it's a flagship item of sorts. I was expecting issues like the inexplicable ability to realise that the GPS was shielded by the case in the Transformer. Not what's essentially a structural failure in the main item that makes a tablet what it is, especially with an armored coating over it. I hope they at least offer to do recalls for the affected people.
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General_Failure posted:
This flagship device was slapped together in 4 months what do you expect?
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Amazon just changed the delivery date of my Transformer Infinity from Aug 14th to July 19th (this Thursday). I guess this means they should be in stock at various places this week for anyone interested. Now back to your regularly scheduled Nexus 7 shipping discussion thread.
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Its been partialy talked about before but could someone with a nexus 7 confirm if usb OTG actually works or what needs to be done to get it to work? Really really want to be able to connect a flash drive for extra storage when mine arrives.
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Jul 17, 2012 14:35
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eric posted:This flagship device was slapped together in 4 months what do you expect? Mine is fine. Sorry.
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Mine too, although I would like to know when they are releasing the coloured smart cases because I do not trust my kids.
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Whooping Toff posted:Its been partialy talked about before but could someone with a nexus 7 confirm if usb OTG actually works or what needs to be done to get it to work? Really really want to be able to connect a flash drive for extra storage when mine arrives. It's not that difficult, you have to be rooted though. You can check out this xda thread for details on how people have gotten it to work.
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General_Failure posted:But seriously it's a flagship item of sorts.
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General_Failure posted:Well it would fill a niche for certain consumers, no doubt. I won't deny though I like having removable storage. If installing an OTA goes south and you were not technically adept enough to know or worry about flashing stuff off an SD card, well, I guess you call the 1-800 number and ask them. They'd probably just swap your device I guess. kitten smoothie fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Jul 17, 2012 |
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Mine is fine. Sorry. Are you already bored with it and planning to sell it?
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eric posted:Are you already bored with it and planning to sell it? Actually: 1) I cancelled my first preorder for an 8GB 2) I made a second order for a 16GB 3) I happened upon on in a Staples last night and bought it 4) I'm selling my pre-order to a guy I work with
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Actually: Is it currently fitting YOUR needs?
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I got my N7 for a GPS, particularly off road, I can't wait to test it out in the mountains this weekend. It should be delivered at my office in the next hour or two.  If it works out well I'll probably hit up the local fry's or staples to get 1-2 more. For a few years I was using a General Dynamics laptop with a satellite receiver running cached google earth and delorme. It's great, but I need to run it through vehicle power and the thing weighs a ton:   Then I replaced that with an Ipad 2 3G model, not that I needed the 3G but the dumb ipads have the GPS radio/receiver chips only on the 3G models. On that I run motionX GPS with cached topographical maps...  I threw a gumdrop 2 case on the ipad and had that thing bounce around on rocks and sand and it still works great. So It'll be interesting to see how the Nexus 7 stacks up for acquisition time, reception in a hard top and soft top vehicle, and various mapping software, and see how well the screen performs in daylight. I'll probably start off by running GPS tools to start. That being said I hope there's a few options for rugged cases for the nexus 7, the price point is perfect for a good off road gps setup.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Staples all over the place have them in stock. I went to one last night and just bought it. Just check their website for stores stock. It helps that no one shops at staples. Staples is also cool because they frequently have x% or $x when you spend $y amount coupons that work on tablets.
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eric posted:Is it currently fitting YOUR needs? My knees are suited.
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First impressions, this is different. I've owned a Xoom for a year and a half now and when I ordered this I thought "This will be a faster, more portable version of a thing I've been using for awhile. I may be more inclined to use it in portrait mode due to the form factor, but otherwise it won't differ a ton." That couldn't be further from the truth. It just feels so RIGHT in portrait. The DPI renders full websites perfectly readable zoomed out at this size and most are formatted such that 800 width works great. It's very natural to hold one handed in portrait and typing with two thumbs is about perfect for the size and balance of the device. I would venture to say that I'll probably only use it in landscape when playing games that run in landscape. This is in direct opposition to the Xoom that feels natural in landscape and just feels really odd in portrait. But that means it almost always requires two hands. I'll be interested to do an even more in depth comparison between using the two devices once my Xoom gets JB.
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eric posted:This flagship device was slapped together in 4 months what do you expect? No it wasn't.
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Geared Hub posted:So It'll be interesting to see how the Nexus 7 stacks up for acquisition time, reception in a hard top and soft top vehicle, and various mapping software, and see how well the screen performs in daylight. Definitely check out Google's My Tracks for mapping your trips. I use it for bike rides and it's really awesome.
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