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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-toughest-challenger-ipad-030300780.html


After reading about the Nexus 7, I am looking forward to this coming out. I have never been a tablet user because of the high priced tablets or the tablets that are lower priced and don't really offer as much.

I am definitely going to wait for reviews to come out first, but I am hoping this will be really good since it looks as if it has a lot of what the ipad has to offer but at a much lower price.

I personally love my kindle
i hate HATE apple
there products always break on me, and there customer service has always been rude to me

The Kindle Fire and the new google tablet are definitely challenging the iPad. I'm typing from my iPad right now lol.

Until Apple finds some way to accuse them of patent infringement...

OH THE IRONY!!!!!!

anyway.... The Kindle Fire looks good.... But the battery life always made me look for something Else. My brother loves it, but he said if he could've got a tablet with a longer battery life he would've.


They are good at that aren't they...

Millions tablets pop on the market, I doubt one will ever beat the iPad. It's like Call of Duty, it's name is 50% of the attraction.

The issue still remains, no one can make a tablet as user friendly, large, and usable as the iPad.

Sure, the Kindle Fire may be giving the iPad a run for it's money, but it's definitely not user friendly, and way too small to be a usable tablet.
However, I do not know much about the Nexus 7. I'm guessing that's it's got great features (Adobe Flash, anyone?) but it's still not large enough to compete with an iPad. The iPad in itself is famous for being an iPad, but it's 10 inch display really sells people. 7 inch tablets like the Kindle Fire or Nexus 7 can't really compete with the iPad. People want big tablets, that's what a tablet is for!

It seems to me that the only tablet that truly gives the iPad a run for it's money is the Le Pan II. It covers pretty much all the bases against the iPad, I'm not really sure why it's not a huge thing.

I don't think there's any problem actually making a 10" tablet...I think what they're doing is trying to penetrate the ~$200 price bracket that the Kindle Fire has demonstrated there's a market for. Aside from some a small disadvantage in the color-reproduction department the Nexus 7 blows the Fire completely out of the water. Not only are the specs better, but it runs AOSP Android 4.1, which is probably the most desirable non-iOS mobile OS at the moment. One of the problems with the Fire is that it runs a pretty locked-down version of Android. They could have just as easily made it a 10" tablet, but they wouldn't be able to sell it for $200. All of the reviews I've read for the Nexus 7 have been positively glowing...that is, if you're in the market for a smaller tablet. Maybe there will be a Nexus 10 around the corner.

That said, I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't have an SD card slot. It's a deal-breaker for me...I need more than 16GB of storage.

http://www.empowernetwork.com/sandor/files/2012/07/Apple-Ipad-fridge-banned-s.jpg

Love my Kindle Fire. Does everything I need in a tablet, and my iPhone can do the rest.

I honestly don't see what the fuss is about. Tablets are nothing more than overpriced Chinese paperweights.

Paperweights with tons of convenient apps and fun games. Plus it's an easily portable device to watch movies on. You can rent and stream movies on the go, use Netflix, etc. all on a much larger screen than a phone.

my kindle fire allows me to read and play odd games
my phone cant do that

There's absolutely no comparison between the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire. The Kindle fire is worse in every single imaginable point. The Kindle fire also isn't a challenge for Apple at all. If anything, the Kindle fire has helped Apple due to people being disappointed in how bad it is and so they get an iPad. Spec for spec, the Nexus 7 gives the iPad a run for its money while being significantly cheaper. Shame they didn't come out with a 10'' version or I'd consider it.

That said, The Asus Transformer line is still what I'm eyeing. The TF700 is supposed to be released some time this month, and I'll probably snag it some time in the fall or winter.


Did you know that iOS apps crash more frequently than Android apps? Apple just freezes the device or makes it look like you never launched it rather than admit there's a problem (which would allow the end-user to look for a solution online). If that's what makes something user-friendly, I want no part of it.

The iPad is actually 9.7 inches, and a horrible 4:3 resolution. It's not 10 inches nor is it wide screen, so watching videos on it is lacking. I want no part of that either. As for devices that compete with it: Asus's line of tablets have been amazing. Got my mother the original transformer and looking to get the TF700 for myself.

I dunno why you even brought the le pan into the picture: horrible hardware and brought the worst aspects of the iPad into the Android tablet market. It's the posterchild of cheap iPad knockoffs.

The nexus tablet is not an iPad killer, neither is the Kindle Fire. The Nexus tablet is a Kindle Fire killer. Also since DEFRON said everything I wanted to say while I was typing this ninja'd

Well the Nexus 7 got good reviews but it isn't as cheap as they said it would be. Although looking at the good reviews, I don't see how they it is really all that great.

http://reviews.cnet.com/google-nexus-7/

Once again I am disappointed with tablets.

Isn't as cheap as they said it would be? Obviously not if you're foolish enough to use cnet for price or fact-checking:

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb

You also get $25 in store credit and a free movie, making it really cheaper than $200. The 16 GB model (the ones that stores are mostly selling) is $250, which was known to be the price since announcement.

If you want a thorough and good review: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/

CNET svcks.

Not sure what you're trying to say here. I think a verb or two are missing.

Reminds me of http://i.imgur.com/hnWme.png, lol.

"I've seen starships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser gate..."

Oh that's Nexus 6, my bad!

Did you know that after MS announced tablet PCs, Apple started developing a Mac OS X tablet PC running on the Pentium M processor? They're now calling it the "iPad prototype" even though it's obviously R&D work to combat the tablet PC, holding absolutely no similarity to the iPad whatsoever.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/ipad-prototype/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/the-original-ipad-was-gigantic

It never made it out of R&D because the tablet PC was a big flop (and for good reason: those things svcked). Apple's now using their reality distortion field to claim it was an early iPad when anyone with half a brain can tell it isn't.

I don't get out much, so a tablet is useless to me. And if I am out I'm doing something and don't want to be bothered. Same with cell phones, don't use one. Almost everyone else has one, so it's just easier for me to be a bum and find someone with a phone or a pay phone to call someone.