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Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets
TheBoat writes In with news that not even a hurricane can keep the Google product announcements away. "Surprise, surprise. It looks like Hurricane Sandy can't hold Google down, as the company has just gone ahead and unveiled the Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet even though its press conference was canceled. Nexus 4 specs include a 4.7-inch True HD IPS Plus display with 1,280 x 768-pixel resolution, an 8-megapixel camera, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM and Android 4.2. The phone starts at a shockingly affordable $299 without any contract or subsidies, and it will launch in the United States on November 3rd. The Samsung-built Nexus 10 tablet sports a 2,560 x 1,600-pixel display with a pixel density of 300 PPI, a dual-core 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos chipset, 2GB of RAM, NFC and a 5-megapixel camera. Pricing starts at $399 with 16GB of storage and tops out at $499 for the 32GB model, and both will launch on November 3rd alongside the Nexus 4. Both devices will be available through the Google Play store."
negative. HD == 720p, which is ~1280x720px.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television
1/2 the price of an iphone. win.
... when ad revenue is your source of income and you don't have to show a profit or price your products with a markup like the competition.
Media. Audiobooks in my case.
Under that criteria, i could label the power button a 'gaping security hole'
Good-bye
You mean that gaping security hole that still requires the user to confirm their desire to install things after they've been shown a fine-grained list of permissions that said things require?
Unlike Apple, other phone manufacturers don't believe that locking you in a padded room with children's safety scissors is an acceptable practice.
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
I think the real reason to not have an SD card would be that that Google is subtly trying to push consumers into the cloud. Flash drives don't make them extra money. But Google Drives do.
John
How many people carrying around a Nexus 10 won't have a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone in their pockets?
If the tablet always has connectivity when it's near your phone, why would you want to pay your carrier $30/mo (or whatever) for the privilege of having separate connectivity?
"Hook, Line and Sinker". Look it up.
The real reason for the lack of an SD slot is this: "Pricing starts at $399 with 16GB of storage and tops out at $499 for the 32GB model"
When was it again that 16 GB of flash cost $100?
--frank[at]unternet.org
Why I would want to buy a smartphone when my 7" and 10" tablets ARE MY PHONES?
Samsung understood that in their Galaxy Tab series by adding GSM radio to 3G models in first place.
I have 7" model and it replaced my Lumia smartphone. I have now a tablet and smartphone in one nifty 7" form. 72GB storage and I don't need to worry about battery in heavy use for 3-4 days. I is such a solid package that any smartphone doesn't even come a close.
And for GSM Voice calls, I have a bluetooth dongle as I keep tablet in my pocket (fits to all pockets perfectly, if not wearing a swim suit!) and when at home, I can still hold tablet on my ear in old fashion way or enable speaker to make normal conference call, or use 3.5mm hands-free if so.
41 day standby, about 8.5-9 hours video continues 720 videoplay at full screen brightness and talk times 2G = about 30 hours and 3G about 20 hours.
I must say, Galaxy Tab 2 7" 3G is coming pretty boring device because it isn't anymore fight or thinking when I need to recharge it, where is my laptop/tablet/smartphone or anything else.
Even this is written with my tablet. I use "thumb keyboard" from playstore and it gives me very fast typing speeds what is nearly same as avarage typer does.
Oh, just to fuck your mind. I pay unlimited data speed and amount 2 euros a month. I get max speed what carriers networks (not just my carrier network but my contract allows me to swap to any carrier in my country, now 5, network if having better signal there) what is HSPA+ now because I have 3G device. If place my SIM to 4G device, I get max 4G speed.
I rarely get lower than HSDPA speeds, minimal being around 7MBits but typica is between 12-18 MBits down and 5-7Mbits up. So downloading something over 2 megabytes per second isn't "WHOA" but just normal.
And all that just for 2 euros a month.... 2 year contract what ends in 18 months.