Google Nexus 7 Review : Features that inspire awe
Google Nexus 7 features Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, amazing user interface, a great body and awesome looks. Read this Google Nexus 7 review to find out more specifications, details and pros and cons of Google Nexus 7. See what's under the bonnet!
Google Nexus 7 features a buttery smooth user interface, quad core processor, 1280×800 resolution IPS display (higher than both the tablets of Amazon and Barnes & Noble) — thing that you could have hardly imagined to have in a $199 tablet. Amazon's Kindle Fire also comes in $199, but it definitely lacks the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean empowered, amazingly smooth user interface. Sounds cool? Keep reading this Google Nexus 7 review to find out more about its specifications like body, operating system, processor, camera, connectivity and so on.Google Nexus 7: Specifications you were waiting for!
Before Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the previous versions of Android like Ice Cream Sandwich or Honeycomb had a big thorn in the flesh. They were often slower and less smooth user interface in comparison to Apple iOS. Some tablet users, therefore, often preferred Apple iPad 3 to Asus Transformer Prime, the latter using Android 3.2 Honeycomb. With Nexus 7, Google seems to have hit the bull's eye; now wonder Casey Johnston has referred to Google Nexus 7 as the Holy Grail of tablets. So far, Google's hardware partners like Asus did not have a great business. Google Nexus 7 reviews, however, forecast that Asus, the hardware partner of Google to make Nexus 7, has good fortunes ahead! Anyway, it's time to leave talking poetically and peep into the mundane details of the Google Nexus 7 specifications. Let's begin!The Body of Google Nexus 7: Light, classy, & comfortable to carry
Nevertheless, the body of Google Nexus 7 has its drawbacks too. The keyboard of Google Nexus 7, in the landscape mode, does not split like that of iPads to come closer to the user's fingers. While Google should work on improving this shortcoming, typing in Nexus 7 landscape is definitely not much enjoyable. For the portrait mode, however, there is no problem. Also, I do not like the dimple backside of Google Nexus 7; it might be an aesthetic choice but simply it doesn't look great for me. Choices differ, though. Anyway, the dimply back of Nexus 7 can be great to hide soiling resulting from unclean fingers at times.The screen and display of Google Nexus 7 are its main strengths
Google Nexus 7 comes with a 7" screen size and a 1280×800 IPS display, and at a base price of $200 you shouldn't expect more, I think! Even if you are friend of the person owning the tablet and looking straight at it, you won't have a problem reading the text in the screen. The screen is quite evenly lit, and within a 30–40° angle from either side, the display of Google Nexus 7 is as clear as the head-on view. There's a noticeable change in the color temperature, too. The previous tablets with earlier versions of Android like the Asus Transformer Prime sometimes rendered the color too warm or harsh, and this led many users to switch over to the Retina Display of Apple iPad 3. The color rendering in the Google Nexus 7 display is relatively cooler and the text looks crisp. If you go for a comparison between Google Nexus 7 and MacBook Pro, we do not see any significant difference in terms of screen, display, and color. If you compare Google Nexus 7 with Amazon Kindle Fire, you will find the smallest text display in Nexus 7 are smaller than that of Kindle Fire; if you have good eyes, you will have to turn the pages less frequently.Jelly Bean, the OS of Nexus 7, is already an industry buzz!
Google's new version of Android called the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has already created a buzz in the industry. It will incorporate greater and faster user interface, 60 frames per second animation speed, finger touch anticipation and Google Now — features that are expected to help Google Nexus 7 getting an upper hand over its competitors. With the VSync and Triple Buffering techniques, the Project Butter has really made the Jelly Bean an awe inspiring mobile operating system. Thus, apart from a keyboard lag, everything is blinking fast in the new Nexus 7. Check out what's new in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean that you will have as the operating system of Google Nexus 7.
Performance of Google Nexus 7: Nothing can be questioned about the performance of Google Nexus 7, especially when you would like to purchase a tablet as cheap as $199. Empowered with a 1.3 GHz Tegra 3 quad core processor, 1 GB RAM, and a 12 core NVIDIA GPU you cannot expect nothing more from a 7" tablet so moderately priced. Google Nexus 7 camera failed to meet expectations
Yes. In terms of camera, Google Nexus 7 was expected to better. Perhaps the software giants of Mountain View compared Google Nexus 7 to Amazon Kindle Fire only, as the latter has no camera at all. Google Nexus 7 comes with a 1.2 mega-pixel front camera, but even the camera of iPad 2 is quite better, leave alone iPad 3. If Google has to compete with Apple iPad Mini, they need to work on the camera of Google Nexus 7 which fails to meet expectations during video calls. Fortunately, there is a camera launcher for Google Nexus 7 in Google Play. It improves the situation, but still the Google Nexus 7 front camera quality is nothing extraordinary.Battery life? Google Nexus 7 is tough to beat!
If you want it straight, here is it — the battery life of Google Nexus 7 is excellent. Just excellent. It comes with a 4325 mAh battery, capable of 9 hours of high definition video playback, 10 hours of browsing the web or reading e-books, or 300 hours of stand by time. Google, however, did not clearly mention the settings to avail these results. However, while attempting a thorough Google Nexus 7 review, arstechnica.com did a wonderful experiment regarding the battery life of Google Nexus 7. They tried out various combinations putting WiFi on and off, brightness and volume higher and lower an so forth. In a nutshell, what they concluded is
Now, that's really impressive. Few days back when I told a friend about the buttery smoothness of Jelly Bean, improved user interface and 60 FPS animation speed, his instant reaction was — "Whoa! That's going to exhaust the battery quite fast for sure!". Today I called him up and said, man, Google has done a really robust job with the battery life of Google Nexus 7.
And why only the battery life? As you have clearly seen so far in this Google Nexus 7 review, Google has done a pretty robust job all through. Now let's quickly wrap this up by summarizing what we have observed so far.Conclusion: The pros and cons of Google Nexus 7 tablet
Advantages of Google Nexus 7
Disadvantages of Google Nexus 7
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