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Well I recently got a Pantech burst, hence my name. But now im looking for a tablet for personal use and school. Im also interested in the ASUS Eee pad and the nexus 7. Any tips on what to get/reasons to get the tab 2?
I have an gtab 2 10.1 and i have to say that its amazing. Its smooth, has a nice display, good music boxes for a tablet and the battery life is awesome. ( 28 h with intensive use of wifi games and some youtube vids.)
The only thing thats bad about this tablet is the camera, but i think... ITS A TABLET! NOT A CANON EOS!
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PantechBurstOwner said:
Well I recently got a Pantech burst, hence my name. But now im looking for a tablet for personal use and school. Im also interested in the ASUS Eee pad and the nexus 7. Any tips on what to get/reasons to get the tab 2?
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Be cautious when considering the Asus. I bought a new Transformer Prime 64GB, mainly because it seemed to be rated high and was cutting edge. It never worked right. Twice I had to send it to Texas for "repair", the first time when it was only a few days old. Asus has them locked and the unlocking app doesn't work for many, so there's no way to load CWM or a custom ROM. While just under the return window I sent mine back to Amazon for a refund and ordered the 10.1 Tab 2. It may not be cutting edge, but Samsung stuff is solid and there's a lot of support. You might also want to spend some time reading the threads here on XDA about the Asus before you decide. I wish I did. Just my two cents!
I had the 8gb nexus 7 and loved it but not enough storage for me. I have the Gtab 2 7.0 with a 32gb SD card and am very happy with my purchase. If storage isn't an issue for you I would go with the nexus 7.
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I had the 8gb nexus 7 and loved it but not enough storage for me. I have the Gtab 2 7.0 with a 32gb SD card and am very happy with my purchase. If storage isn't an issue for you I would go with the nexus 7.
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this.
as much as I like my tab 2, for most folk the 16gb nexus 7 is the better purchase.
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I had the 8gb nexus 7 and loved it but not enough storage for me. I have the Gtab 2 7.0 with a 32gb SD card and am very happy with my purchase. If storage isn't an issue for you I would go with the nexus 7.
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Agreed. I've gone through a couple phases with my Tab 2 7" thus far. I was initially a bit disappointed in it as the screen and performance weren't quite as crisp as my Galaxy S2 phone. But after more day-to-day use and comparing it with the hacked Nook Color I'd been using previously it's really started to grow on me and I quite like it now, especially given the price. But if I had to buy new right now I'd probably opt for a 16GB Nexus 7. The extra space provided by an external storage card on my Tab is largely useless as far as most apps are concerned.
PantechBurstOwner said:
Well I recently got a Pantech burst, hence my name. But now im looking for a tablet for personal use and school. Im also interested in the ASUS Eee pad and the nexus 7. Any tips on what to get/reasons to get the tab 2?
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I got the Tab2 because it shipped with ICS, has a back camera and expandable storage. No regrets. I am not in the US so I wouldn't have been able to access all the Google services. Tab2 was a bit less ($10) than the Nexus for me.
You should search. You would see the other five threads asking the same question.
No, don't buy one. Get an ipad.
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You should search. You would see the other five threads asking the same question.
No, don't buy one. Get an ipad.
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Ha good one. Like I would spend my money on an apple product. Also the nexus tablet is like Two weeks? Two days old. I doubt someone compared it to this but thanks for the negativity downer Dan!
I am very happy with my Tab 2, but in the end I think the i-pad is the better choice: many more tablet apps available.
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Like scottx said buy an IPad so you can support sue happy Apple. They need more money so they can block or delay us in getting new non-apple products.
Seriously, I would do a lot of research and find local stores that have various ones on display and take some time to play with them. This is a big purchase for some of us. I kind of rushed into it and am not sure I made the best decision even though I am happy with my Tab 2. I had a Toshiba Excite 10 and it was great also with the exception that there is still not a lot of developers making apps that are compatible or support the Tegra 3 processor. And the fact that there was a glitch in the camera (which is better than the Tab 2) that caused some issues.
Good luck in you search and decision.
Whatever you do.. get something over 8GB ,,,,,,
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I'd owned iPad 2 about a year but traded it for Galaxy Tab 2 (5100) so I have experience for both devices.
iPad is absolutely unusable without JailBreak. And you can not guarantee some smart guy will make a jailbreak for new iOs version.
But it is smooth and handy and sweet and yummy. And all girls are yours (if you own Ferrari as well).
SGT2 is scarcely usable with stock Samsung rom. It's sluggish and it lives its own life and doesn't care what exactly you want to get by poking your finger into the screen. Sometimes it may make an exception and mercifully respond to your wishes. May be such an impression comes after iPad since raw android users don't experience anything like that.
Yesterday with help of comrade Endoroid I managed to flash CyanogenMod 9 to my SGT2. And you know what - it is smooth almost like iPad now but you haven't to perform all those Voodoo dance to just put a file on it. So now I have all the mighty might of android swiss knife and smoothness of near of such of Ipad.
As a summary - I would recommend you this device if you can handle flashing a custom rom and don't bother about warranty.
Make your choice (c) John Kramer.
Got my GTab 2 since yesterday. It ran only 1 minute stock (to copy CM9 and gapps on flash) . Now I'm running CM 9 RC2 - CM10 4.1 is in progress by codeworkx. It's so smooth :fingers-crossed: ! Love it! Only thing is, that dock features like audio/hdmi over dock connector aren't supported yet.
I've read in many threads that the build quality of the Nexus 7 is not very good. Asus tried to build it so that it would be easy to tear down and replace parts, and in order to do that, they did not use any glue to hold in the screen. This may been nice for the repair department, but it sucks for the average user constantly getting a loose screen (eventually causing damage to the screen).
Thanks guys, im pretty sure im going to get the tab, and whats this about the nexus 7's screen coming loose. Any links to that??
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Thanks guys, im pretty sure im going to get the tab, and whats this about the nexus 7's screen coming loose. Any links to that??
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1781237
The problem is that there is no glue.
Check out this video on the teardown.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-7-Teardown/9623/1
Hmm.. and one more thing. It looks like the screen has yet another problem with "ghosting" images.
http://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-7-ghosting-issues-affect-some-displays-99349/
Oh and also it seems that Tegra 3 chips have a severe "flickering" problem with the display.
Gee.. that is like 3 separate problems directly related to the screen
There is a hardware problem that affects the flickering in the display. When the brightness level is turned down, the IPS panel is affected when the broadcom WiFi chip receives data. So, if you want to use the internet and turn down the brightness, you will get (from what other people say) severe flickering on the screen. Sounds annoying.
I got myself the galaxy tab 2 and overall well i will say for stock rom it does ok if you are doing light work (surfing,and music) although you do see the screen or tapping of screen lag when you are running more things. However overall rather stable for android os 4.0.3. i think there is an update to 4.0.4 but i guess i will stick with 4.0.3 a while longer before moving on to custom roms.
PantechBurstOwner said:
Well I recently got a Pantech burst, hence my name. But now im looking for a tablet for personal use and school. Im also interested in the ASUS Eee pad and the nexus 7. Any tips on what to get/reasons to get the tab 2?
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NO! Don't buy Galaxy Tab 2, I suggest you to buy an Asus Transformer Pad than Gtab 2 because some reasons:
1. It's cheaper
2. It's using NVIDIA Tegra 2 GPU (Transformer) which run graphics very smoothly than Gtab 2 which only powered by PowerVR
3. Asus Transformer's dock is very usable, your tab can transformed into a netbook
4. The dock could extend the battery of the tab up to 6-10 hours as I know
5. The widget and live wallpaper is pretty cool and awesome B)
6. Asus built in apps is very usable too
And the last...
7. It's have good specs for gaming
But I just suggest you and you've still consider which is the best for you
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You should install this rom,if you like stock roms. Very nice indeed. Remove the bloatware,install some sort of app that stop apps from starting on their own, and you will see a nice improvement.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765313
anyone going to switch to the newer acer devices? or the nexus 7? because tegra 3 is out and it seems very good, also might get the nexus although it would be missing external sd slot but that can be fixed if you root it, and the newer acer's seem to get hot but are getting fixed with software updates, what do you guys think? is it worth to upgrade to tegra 3? or wait for tegra 4 in 2013?
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anyone going to switch to the newer acer devices? or the nexus 7? because tegra 3 is out and it seems very good, also might get the nexus although it would be missing external sd slot but that can be fixed if you root it, and the newer acer's seem to get hot but are getting fixed with software updates, what do you guys think? is it worth to upgrade to tegra 3? or wait for tegra 4 in 2013?
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Already bought a 701. Still keeping the 501 though.
The hot processor is due to it being a high performance tablet. There's no way yet around this, but hopefully some newer updates will lower the temp down a little.
It all depends on 2 things.
a. Do you want it?
b. Do you have the cash?
If you answer yes to both, or yes to one, but unsure of the other, then go out and get it.
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Moscow Desire said:
Already bought a 701. Still keeping the 501 though.
The hot processor is due to it being a high performance tablet. There's no way yet around this, but hopefully some newer updates will lower the temp down a little.
It all depends on 2 things.
a. Do you want it?
b. Do you have the cash?
If you answer yes to both, or yes to one, but unsure of the other, then go out and get it.
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How is the 701 i was gonna pick one up but heard the interface was kinda clunky or laggy?
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How is the 701 i was gonna pick one up but heard the interface was kinda clunky or laggy?
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Well, the interface is ok. ICS. I really didn't get a good chance to play around, as it.... ahem.... bricked. (no comment, but you know me, testing a tweaked kernel. Seems the recovery author screwed the pooch on the recovery. Not only wasn;t tested because he doesn't own a 70x, but was based on the 510 recovery, which the author of course later found it, it bricks the tab when you restore Lesson learned. Well, should get it back hopefully in a week. About time I bricked a tab
I wrote an initial review in my rom thread.
Basically, the only complaint I had, was 2. Hot processor (supposedly an update has either been released, or promised by acer), and the screen sensitivity is in my opinion, not as sensitive as the 50x. Sometimes had to press a little harder. But I think both can be fixed with an update. It's a first release after all.
Overall, a good upgrade I think. But if you can get the 51x at a better price, and can sacrifice the HD display, you might be better off. But that display...... Daaaaaaamnnnnn.
EDIT. On a sidenote, the TF Prime also has Tegra3, and it also runs warmer than normal under load. And they don't have an HD Display. But if you OC the TF Prime, to 1.6 and give it a load, it runs hot. Mine, out of the box, was 1.4. Strange. But it never rebooted after 30-40 min of Shadowgun. But was pretty hot. 90c maybe. I would probably advise 30-40 min of solid HD game playing, then let it cool. It cools down really quick when you let it rest for a couple minutes.
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You know, being a techie with means, in a way I am very much tempted by Tegra 3s and all the new hardware, but I stop and ask myself, why? I don't play games on my 500, and I run reflexxx, so it does everything I want it too, and smoothly.
I think for me, personally, it's less of a question of whether I have the money or the desire, and more of do I have an actual need? I mean, Chrome, Perfect Viewer, and Moon+ don't exactly need much horse power. Perhaps if I sat down with a Tegra 3 workhorse I'd think differently, but short of putting on a T3 game and saying "oooh" for five minutes, I can't see any real benefit beyond a slightly better battery life.
I have to
The on off switch on my A500 totally broke off the board so I am out of luck there. My wife's still works for her though. I'll probably go for the Nexus but I'm not happy with no SD card slot
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The on off switch on my A500 totally broke off the board so I am out of luck there. My wife's still works for her though. I'll probably go for the Nexus but I'm not happy with no SD card slot
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Same thing happened to me but i soilder mine back on! WOOT WOOT
yeah the nexus doesnt have a slot but i found out that it supports otg so i can buy a 64gb flash drive for like $35 and i can have lots of movies and files right there with my nexus
Nexus 7 on its way
I have pre ordered nexus 7. Its been getting great reviews with of course the storage negative. But for me its ok 16 gb . im not big on movies . Will pass keep my a500 for using on the couch . Went to NEXUS 7 inch because of size will fit in my purse.. I still love my a500 thou.
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I have pre ordered nexus 7. Its been getting great reviews with of course the storage negative. But for me its ok 16 gb . im not big on movies . Will pass keep my a500 for using on the couch . Went to NEXUS 7 inch because of size will fit in my purse.. I still love my a500 thou.
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Would you recommend the nexus 7? And where did you order yours? I heard they are out of stock in a lot of places.
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I think that I'll hold out until the holidays before I even think about a new tablet. By then it should be well known which ones have good dev support, lots of ROMs, etc.
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I have pre ordered nexus 7. Its been getting great reviews with of course the storage negative. But for me its ok 16 gb . im not big on movies . Will pass keep my a500 for using on the couch . Went to NEXUS 7 inch because of size will fit in my purse.. I still love my a500 thou.
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Welcome back Erica. Good to see you. It's been a while.
I also saw that there might a kindle fire 2 in a ten inch version on Aug. 6th and the galaxy note 10.1 inch so I might wait till then and see If they start making nexus 7 in 32gb but I doubt it
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I bought my a500 last December when Target had them on a fire sale. I'll probably do something similar this coming holiday season. Truth be told, I'm incredibly satisfied with my Iconia, but I'm always interested in the next best thing, and Tegra 3 has the right mix of performance and price for my income.
I won't get a Nexus 7, however. No SDcard, no HDMI, and no USB host are all deal breakers for me. The Iconia has spoiled me in this regard.
I'm thinking about getting myself a Nexus 7 to go alongside my a500. You can never have too much tech.
I have had a a500 since about July 2011. I really like it and with ICS it got even better. I replaced my rooted Nook Color with it but for reading I find the a500 to be too heavy so I picked up a Nexus 7 last week. LOVE it! Super light and great for reading on and I haven't touched my a500 since. I do really like JB and the smoothness of Tegra 3 compared to the a500. I think I will still prefer the 10 in tablet for web browsing but for $199 the N7 just can't be beat. Can't believe I was recommending the Kindle fire to friends just a month ago.
Used a nexus 7 for a few days, passed it along to my parents. No hdmi, no card slot, that's a dealbreaker. I'm waiting to see an A700 in person, but the Nexus 7 will be a tough act to follow. I'm hoping Google will follow up with a Nexus 10 that fills in the gaps of the Nexus 7.
hopped on teh nexus 7, I have been wanting a smaller tablet, plus my step dad now has the a500 which helps while he is waiting for kemo, for some reason it takes like hours just to get into treament
No more tegra for me. Im waiting for an cheapass tab with an high quality screen and a nice resolution cause thats really the only thing I need and in my eyes mather these days. Since all cpus are strong enough for most of the tasks. For example; my Desire Z with an 800 mhz cpu can play all the latest games like gta, maxpayne, dead trigger just fine. It even runs xbmc with navi-x totally smooth. I can even say it handles the most important tasks like browsing and playing video much beter than my dual core crappy tablet, especiely video decoding. And since xda officially gave Nvidia the middlefinger I do the same.
EDIT: The desire even runs dead trigger with tegra 3 graphics tottaly smooth...
After the A501 I will never buy another Acer product and I recommend anybody that asks my opinion on the matter to stay away also..
I just picked up a Nexus 7 last week. Got tired of being behind for AOSP ROMs. Didn't realize about the lack of USB hosting or I might not have bought it. Having a slight screen issue so it might go back to Staples.
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I have 2 Nook Colors for my wife and I. Wanted to get one for my daughter for Christmas and missed the $59 deal. Today they have the Colors for $69 and the 8GB tablet for $79 (both refurbished). Does anyone on here have experience with both devices and can compare the pros and cons. I know the tablet is a little more locked down and the 8gb device is not as well supported as the 16gb. Is it still worth having the dual core of the tablet over the color? I don't mind running from SD as I did that for a year with the Color. Don't see any real performance increase now that I'm running of EMMC.
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I have 2 Nook Colors for my wife and I. Wanted to get one for my daughter for Christmas and missed the $59 deal. Today they have the Colors for $69 and the 8GB tablet for $79 (both refurbished). Does anyone on here have experience with both devices and can compare the pros and cons. I know the tablet is a little more locked down and the 8gb device is not as well supported as the 16gb. Is it still worth having the dual core of the tablet over the color? I don't mind running from SD as I did that for a year with the Color. Don't see any real performance increase now that I'm running of EMMC.
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I find the Nook Color more stable. The tablet is pretty much the same thing if your getting the 8G version. It just has a duel-core processor. Of you can get it for $79, then jump on it.
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I have 2 Nook Colors for my wife and I. Wanted to get one for my daughter for Christmas and missed the $59 deal. Today they have the Colors for $69 and the 8GB tablet for $79 (both refurbished). Does anyone on here have experience with both devices and can compare the pros and cons. I know the tablet is a little more locked down and the 8gb device is not as well supported as the 16gb. Is it still worth having the dual core of the tablet over the color? I don't mind running from SD as I did that for a year with the Color. Don't see any real performance increase now that I'm running of EMMC.
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I have both the Nook Color and the Nook Tablet (8GB). I do find the Tablet faster. I tried some of the CM ROMs early on it and was not impressed. I guess they are better now. But I rooted the stock and was very happy with that. Stock on the Tablet is Gingerbread and on the Color is still Froyo. I think that is why CM7 runs so much better on the Color than stock.
For $79, I recommend the Tablet and run rooted stock, very stable and fast.
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I have a few questions about the HD that I'd like some current users to answer, if they would.
8gb vs 16gb? I'll be using a 16gb SD card, so is the internal storage boost relevant to anything?
I'll be rooting and running cm10 or 10.1 off the bat. I currently have a nook color that has seen cm7 and now cm10 and it feels like I'm trying to run windows 7 on a system that had windows 95 right before it. How much lag is there? I watched a YouTube video of someone with cm10 on their HD and the boot animation was painful to watch, seemed like it was gonna have a heart attack. I don't want anything that's gonna lag like this nook color does.
Is there an over clock kernel out or is the boot loader locked?
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aeidian said:
I have a few questions about the HD that I'd like some current users to answer, if they would.
8gb vs 16gb? I'll be using a 16gb SD card, so is the internal storage boost relevant to anything?
I'll be rooting and running cm10 or 10.1 off the bat. I currently have a nook color that has seen cm7 and now cm10 and it feels like I'm trying to run windows 7 on a system that had windows 95 right before it. How much lag is there? I watched a YouTube video of someone with cm10 on their HD and the boot animation was painful to watch, seemed like it was gonna have a heart attack. I don't want anything that's gonna lag like this nook color does.
Is there an over clock kernel out or is the boot loader locked?
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Probably not a lot of difference on EMMC size since you will be running CM10, and you'll have a big SD card for that. CM10 is great on the HD+ though there are still a couple of features to be finished. But there are no overclocked kernels out, that's going to take awhile since B&N only recently released source.
The bootloader is locked, so the only option now is booting off the SD.
People have complained about lag on the HD+ primarily I suspect because the graphics writes are so big. Personally it seems faster than my Galaxy Nexus overclocked!
After getting to the store and holding a HD and an HD+ in my hands I decided to go with the HD+. They say the HD is the same screen as the color but it felt smaller. Probably the smaller frame of the device. It just didn't do it for me. After rebuffing 3 sales people and giving each a hard look, I went with the HD+. Its not as large as I thought it would be which is a plus for me. 7 felt right 10 was too bulky. This is acceptable. Man is it lightyears beyond the color in performance too. This baby flies compared to that dinosaur. I didn't realize it would be 1500 MHz stock, no reason to overclock as far as I'm concerned. So far I'm ecstatic about it. Now if I can find a slip on case I'll be good.
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Figured I would use the same thread as seeing how it pretains to the same thing expect will be upgrading from a Nook Tablet and wondering if others have done the same and if it is worth the upgrade over the older device.
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Figured I would use the same thread as seeing how it pretains to the same thing expect will be upgrading from a Nook Tablet and wondering if others have done the same and if it is worth the upgrade over the older device.
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I went nook color to nook HD+ and the difference is night and day. I believe the specs on the tablet were a smidge better than the color right? I bought the color because there didnt seem to be any development on the tablet at the time and I had to have a fully operational tablet. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you're going to run cm10 off sdcard.
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If I do deicde to upgrade it will more then likely be the Hook HD+ that I upgrade to as the 8.9" screen is inticing since the 7inch screen of the nook tablet os a little to small for me
I am posting in here because this is the tablet I currently have. Loved it accept the screen colors rather sucked. But it is getting a bit old and I am tired of how heavy it is.
Besides it will continue its life with another family member,
So I am looking at above 8 inch but still on a budget (Under $300?). Would like a hd screen as this screen is getting a bit rough to look at next to my galaxy note 3.
I may just end up getting a nexus 7. The reviews say that's the one to get and I do not like the ugly design of the Nexus 10. Really like the look of the Kindle HDX. However no play store and a locked down device means not tinkering .
Anyways what do you guys suggest? Any experience with and 8 inch tab or help convince me about the Nexus 7.
PS: I am on a Verizon account so lte may be a bonus.
Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks.
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I have the nexus 7 and quite like it. You might also consider either the Nook HD+ or Kindle HDX. N2A (nook to android) has boot roms for both devices that unlock them and boot a current version of Android. The current version is 4.4 Worth looking at, especially with the low prices on the Nook HD+ with B&N rethinking its tablet offerings.
I've used the N2A on one the earlier Nook color and had no problems with it.
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I am posting in here because this is the tablet I currently have. Loved it accept the screen colors rather sucked. But it is getting a bit old and I am tired of how heavy it is.
Besides it will continue its life with another family member,
So I am looking at above 8 inch but still on a budget (Under $300?). Would like a hd screen as this screen is getting a bit rough to look at next to my galaxy note 3.
I may just end up getting a nexus 7. The reviews say that's the one to get and I do not like the ugly design of the Nexus 10. Really like the look of the Kindle HDX. However no play store and a locked down device means not tinkering .
Anyways what do you guys suggest? Any experience with and 8 inch tab or help convince me about the Nexus 7.
PS: I am on a Verizon account so lte may be a bonus.
Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks.
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Ok. After a lot of consideration I ended up getting a Asus Transformer TF701. You can not beat it at $299! Great screen, runs a fairly bloat free vanilla version of Android.
Really like this tablet. Almost a shame it does not get the attention it deserves.
I think Asus would do better with it if they advertise. Plus I can get the keyboard docks later.
Thanks for the suggestions though.