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16GB Nexus 7 Sold Out On Google Play Store
hypnosec writes "Just days after it was officially made available on Google Play, Google's Nexus 7 16GB version has been sold out and is not available for order. Google's probable answer to Amazon's Kindle has been selling like hot cakes from day one, and was available with two different amounts on-board storage: 8GB and 16GB. Considering that people now-a-days want more space on their portable computing device, the 16GB version was selling more than its 8GB sibling. Another reason for the 16GB to outsell the 8GB variant is that the price difference between the two is just $50."
With flash memory so cheap, why would anyone release a tablet with less than 32GB? Our CAD stations have more RAM.
Because many people don't store information locally anymore. My tablet has 16GB, and I have a 16GB microSD. I used to keep a lot of local content, but these days I just have an sshfs mount to my home server for all my content. The only thing my local storage is for is installed applications, and a handful off items for when I'm offline. People are keeping information in 'the cloud' whether it's a personal implementation or a public service offering.
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if you have so much local storage, why would you need to use their cloud-services?
I think the challenge for this device was to bring the price down to $200. Which means reduced storage. It is easy enough now to use cloud drives/music to avoid the necessity of of having the bulk of your library local. This tablet can compete with the Kindle Fire as a result, and it will greatly increase the footprint of Android in the tablet space. When the leading product is literally three times the price or the the aging model is double the price for the same storage, it begins to look pretty good. If you need to have your entire catalog of files locally, then this may not be the device you want/need.
I was on the pre-order list and my 16GB would not charge. They still haven't sent a replacement. I guess I am screwed.
I guess the upside is that they may fix the screen issue... but since Asus has managed to show a lack of competence with some of these issues I am not holding my breath.
My tablet has 16GB, and I have a 16GB microSD.
The Nexus 7, on the other hand, has no microSD slot.
The only thing my local storage is for is installed applications, and a handful off items for when I'm offline.
Perhaps people buying the bigger capacities are offline more than you are. They don't want to spend hundreds of dollars a year on a mobile broadband plan for a tablet when they're already paying hundreds for Internet at home. And even if they do pay up, once someone streams a couple movies over cellular, that's all the Internet access the subscriber gets for the month.
No, it's because they can watch porn on it.
For me it was both.
Form factor of an eReader, power of an iPad, and half the price of an iPad.
I got a 16GB. I would have definitely bought a 32GB if it were available. I don't quite understand why they even produced an 8GB if it doesn't have an SD slot and doesn't have G4. If you drop a movie or two on it, you have no room left for your music, pictures, and other apps / data.
This thing would have been golden with an SD slot.
For anyone on the fence about buying one, do not hesitate, it's a fantastic device!
S.t.e.v.e.
It is easy enough now to use cloud drives/music to avoid the necessity of of having the bulk of your library local.
Not while you're out of range of a Wi-Fi AP that you're permitted to use. That happens more often for some people than for others. In fact, for some people, the only place they're sure to have Internet access on a tablet is at home.
I bought it for a few reasons. First of all, I have a Xoom so I already like Android tablets. I also have an iPad but that's beside the point. The Nexus 7 is very inexpensive, almost down to impulse buy for a first worlder with a job, I was led to believe and can now confirm it has an extremely responsive OS and UI, much better than the Kindle Fire, it has most of the add on hardware I was looking for like bluetooth, front facing camera, and GPS, and it is a Nexus directly supported by Google so I'm not worried about updates for the forseeable lifespan of the product. Almost forgot, the 7" size makes it a true mobile device whereas my Xoom and iPad are like baby laptops without the keyboard so not truly mobile in the sense of stick it in your pocket and go that the Nexus 7 is. After receiving and using this thing unless you just have a vested interest in not liking Android, you owe it to yourself to at least go into the store and take a good look at it.
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When a new consumer product/book/whatever hits the market, it's common to limit quantities of the first shipment so you can tell the world you "sold out" a few days later. The reason you do this is threefold:
1) Reminds consumers that product X is now available for sale
2) Get consumers to think that if they're interested, they need to buy now (e.g., rather than comparison shop)
3) Get consumers to think that the list price IS the price the product is selling for (e.g., don't look for discounts)
I have a Xoom with 32GB internal and an 8GB sdcard. I almost never bother putting movies or much music on it as it's just so convenient to stream. I only really want to watch a movie once especially if it isn't good enough to bother watching it on the TV in the living room so anything that hits my Xoom is in the watch it once and dispose of category anyway. Since I have flash, there are a plethora of places to get my fix on the internet and I have unlimited 4G on Verizon thanks to a grandfathered plan so I'm golden.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Not really. Google's products have always been popular in the right circles. The thing is, Google's previous physical products have been phones. The vast, vast, vast, majority of Americans buy their phones subsidized on contract, if the Google Nexus Phone X isn't there in the Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile or Sprint store, most people aren't going to buy it. Even among early adopters who look online they see $600 for a phone and can't justify paying that + contract price (and on contract is really the only way to keep a decent data plan today). They don't see a $600 phone when they buy the phone that costs them $50 on contract, they see a $50 phone. When you show them Google's phone, they see a very expensive piece of technology and understandably aren't buying it like crazy.
Tablets are different. Your average American isn't comparing the Google price to a substadized price, instead they are seeing you can buy a $200 tablet from Google, a $200 tablet from Amazon, a $400 high end Android tablet or a $500 low-end tablet from Apple.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Not if they wanted pure android.
Which is why I am getting one. I have a nook running CM7 and a nicer device in the form factor running real android is exactly what I have been waiting for.
I don't quite understand why they even produced an 8GB if it doesn't have an SD slot and doesn't have G4.
to promote tethering..
well, not really, it's to skimp on every possible buck and to promote googles cloud services.
and with no removable storage some circles within google can pretend it's secure. or will be. in future(tm). and by secure I mean "limit consumers access to media they just bought".
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It will not, CM has a list of what is safe to remove.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barebones
I just used titanium backup, but you could use any app that allows you to delete apks from system.
It will break compatibility only with apps that need cameras and microphones, which the NC lacks anyway.
They have a brain and knew that excluding MicroSD is smart.
It is slow and users will complain about their device being slow when they access it.
USB sticks are also slow, but it is very clear they are not part of the device to be left connected at all times.
You only need to hook up the usb stick to copy media back and forth nothing else.
If you drop a movie or two on it, you have no room left for your music, pictures, and other apps / data.
PROTIP: don't copy entire DVDs/BluRays to your device, encode to MKV at 720p to reduce a movie down to about 1GB. Also has the added benefit of stripping out all the pointless unskippable rubbish before the movie starts.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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This version of xbmc works very well on my Galaxy Nexus.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
I just fired up a 720P mkv (not sure the specific codecs in use) of the watchmen in VLC on the Nexus 7 and dropped nary a frame. This movie did drop frames on my Xoom but is perfectly smooth on the 7. I don't have any 1080P stuff to test.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
The real difference between the Nexus 7 and those other tablets is that the Nexus 7 is fast (quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3). Between that and the fact that, as a Google-branded device, it will actually get OS upgrades (unlike those other tablets), it's not only a better value now but it's also future-proof enough to justify paying for the extra 8GB.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
What Google should do is not play the Apple game. Offer a 32 gig device and ... there is no second step. Advertise that even if you don't use the storage, it's being made available because MEMORY IS CHEAP, the additional cost of memory is buried down in the noise, and Google doesn't feel the need to play that game.
I don't expect them to do that, but it would be interesting to see what happened if they did.
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