Here's my very quick, nitpicking Nexus 7 review (had mine delivered last Wednesday):
- It's a tiny tiny bit too heavy to hold comfortably. It feels like just a few grams would make the difference.
- The battery life is fantastic. I've used it for hours and hours and it's still on 80-90%.
- Android 4.1 is fast and efficient. I don't notice any difference in speed or usability from an iPad 2.
- The screen has an incredible resolution. Some text is slightly too small to read comfortably.
- (Not that it matters at all but ...) the box it came in was as hard to open as many people have said.
- I bought GTA III with part of the "free" £15 credit and it's a piece of crap. I haven't even managed to play the game yet because it keeps crashing while downloading half a gig of data files. So I'll be finding out how well refunds work in the Google Play store.
i am not sure why everyone is feeling that it is hard to open the box. there were 2 tapes on the box, which I cut with my room keys and everything was fine, it wasn't hard. Is it just me that feels everyone is just too idiotic when it comes to opening boxes?
There was also a sleeve which I had to attack with scissors to get it off. As I said, it doesn't matter because you only open the box the one time. But there is a noticable difference between this and Apple hardware which really concentrates on the "[getting it] out of the box experience".
It seems fairly obvious there are two different types of box or a bad batch of boxes or whatever. Clearly I'm not an idiot and I did try to slide the box out of the sleeve, but that was impossible and I had to cut the sleeve open with scissors.
Myself and my wife had absolutely no problem sliding it out of it's sleeve and then slicing the 2 tabs with a knife and lifting the top off.
Only thing i can think of, is maybe there was a defective batch of boxes that were slightly too tight? The complaints I had been reading for days definitely confused me once I got it and opened it with ease.
A more likely explanation is that that the paper expands at slightly different rates. People who had no trouble, like you and me, received the package after it sat in a hot UPS truck all day. The sleeve was slightly larger than the box due to heat expansion.
he cut open a tape with a knife. if you have nails, you can take off the tape with it, but I bite my nails, so I had to use my keys, and it's easier to do it with cut tape along a crevice anyway.
I was surprised about this too. I was expecting a fight after seeing countless unboxing videos featuring people that simply couldn't open it without shredding it with scissors. I cut the two pieces of tape with a knife, and then held the top part of the box and the bottom just slid out.
- It's a tiny tiny bit too heavy to hold comfortably. It feels like just a few grams would make the difference.
- The battery life is fantastic. I've used it for hours and hours and it's still on 80-90%.
- Android 4.1 is fast and efficient. I don't notice any difference in speed or usability from an iPad 2.
- The screen has an incredible resolution. Some text is slightly too small to read comfortably.
- (Not that it matters at all but ...) the box it came in was as hard to open as many people have said.
- I bought GTA III with part of the "free" £15 credit and it's a piece of crap. I haven't even managed to play the game yet because it keeps crashing while downloading half a gig of data files. So I'll be finding out how well refunds work in the Google Play store.
Overall: well worth the money.