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Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks
MojoKid writes "Google's second gen Nexus 7 tablet is a worthy successor to the original, boasting an improved design both internally and externally. It's thinner and lighter, has a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC, 2GB of RAM, a higher resolution 1920X1200 display and it's running the latest Android 4.3 Jelly Bean release. The display alone was a nice upgrade in a 7-inch slate that retails for well under $300. However, it turns out the new Nexus 7 is also one of the fastest tablets out there right now, with benchmark numbers that best some of the top tablets on the market, especially in graphics and gaming. From a price/performance standpoint, Google's second generation Nexus 7 seems to be the tablet to beat right now."
I better buy one quick then
My benchmark: WPM cut in half. Reason: I had to switch back to the on-screen keyboard because just as changes to Bluetooth in Android 4.2 broke support for the Wii Remote, changes to Bluetooth in Android 4.3 broke several popular Bluetooth keyboards, including the ZAGGkeys Flex that I happen to own (source).
I picked one up when I found them in stock at my local $big_box_electronics_retailer. I already have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, which was a cool device when I picked it up.
This thing, however, is a whole other universe. The UI is snappy and responsive and fast. Fastest I've ever seen on any Android device. No lag, no jitter, no stuttering while scrolling. The display is amazing. Everything is sharp. Colors are well defined and look "deep". It packs as many pixels as my 1080p HDTV in to a 7 inch display. (And people say we're not ready for 4k HDTV. Pfff)
Android 4.3 really ups the game. All of my google services migrated over just by logging in. Most of my apps came too, but some bugged. (I suspect they were not compatible)
I liked my galaxy tab. Nice, small, flexible tablet with lots of geeky stuff to do but I had to root it to get rid of the crapware Samsung shovles on to it. That's what I like most about this new nexus. It's a clean out of box experience loaded with core apps that really have a high quality experience. (You know, the Google apps services you're probably going to use regardless. That's really the big appeal here. Don't fool yourself)
Yeah, it's like an ipad in that regard.
No open source driver, you can keep your hardware!
It certain does not excel on the battery life metric.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/07/1930208/aosp-maintainer-quits
I was going to buy it... now I won't
If you give a rat's ass about open software, you'd pass up this device which was the cause for the lead of AOSP to quit in disgust, and sign up for the Edge on Indiegogo which promises to be completely unlocked.
No Replaceable Battery
No ROM possible.
Just plain NO.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
No matter how thin it is, no matter how fast it is, no matter how well the display can be, it is still a tablet
Perhaps some might be oooh and aaah over yet-another-tablet, not me
What I am looking for - especially from tech firms such as Google - is something totally new, something that is revolutionary, not evolutionary
Nowadays all the new smartphone and tablet offerings sound much like new cars - ooooh, model 2014 Buick is so much better than the ones in 2013, with shiny wheels, with more comfy seats, more safety features, it gonna be great, really ?
A 2014 Buick (or Chrysler or Toyota) is a car, just like a 2013 Buick (or Chrysler or Toyota). There's nothing revolutionary anymore in cars, and unfortunately, nor for the smartphones / tablets
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Not interested.
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Think of all the marketing data that will drift up a US network.
Your face, your friends faces, your family faces, video clips, locations, times, what you pass on the way to work, what you do on weekends..parties..hobbies
No more taking the card out.
They want "the NSA cloud" to become the new normal.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Until Google realizes that storage expansion is a MANDATORY feature of media consumption devices (Used on planes, road trips, and many other places where Internet access is unavailable), no Nexus device is a creditable replacement for anything. The Asus MemoPad HD7, which is the non-bullshit OEM version of the N7 G2, while slower, is a much better device solely for the reason that it has a microSD slot. No microSD slot = no sale.
I will agree with you on that, if the nexus 7 2nd gen had a micro sd slot it would be the greatest tablet ever at this moment and no other tablets would even compare.
Google/Asus hit it out the ballpark with the 2nd gen nexus 7. They do make 1 piece OTG adapters though if you don't want to use an OTG cable
here is a 1 piece OTG adapter: http://amzn.com/B00BFYH11Q
it's 1 piece, gives you full usb access to add external drives, you can also use xbox 360 or ps3 controllers to play many games, the FPS is kinda fun now with my xbox controller.
but I do wish they would have added a sdcard slot, but I can deal with the OTG cable when I need to copy over stuff or whatnot.
most time though I don't need it since I can use ES File Manager and access all my shared hard drives on the lan and stream/copy files over and even install apk files over the lan. And use remote desktop apps to remote control my desktops and such so while I do miss the sdcard slot, it's not that big of a deal anymore since apps give you access to shared drives on lan, or otg cable or 1 piece otg adapters give you access to external usb devices.
you can also plug in a 1 piece micro sdcard to usb adapter if you wanted, but it's still good.
it is a nice piece of hardware, and im not really a fanboi, it's my first android device. my only other mobile device had been a newegg acer 400 dollar laptop bought 3 years ago and an old ipod touch 3rd gen.
but this new nexus 7 2nd gen is crazy and im kicking myself in the ass for not trying android sooner, it's sooooo much better than iOS on my ipod touch.
No toys for me until the student loan is paid off and my retirement is properly funded.
But without tools, you can't work to fund your retirement. When exactly does a toy become a tool?
The only writable file system for removable media that works with stock Windows XP is FAT, on the modern form of which Microsoft holds patents that won't expire until the end of 2016. These patents have been upheld in both Germany and the United States. Windows Vista adds UDF as another possibility, but the SD Card Association has instead adopted Microsoft's newly patented exFAT for 64 GB and larger cards, and people will expect to be able to eject their exFAT-formatted SDXC cards from a computer and insert them into a mobile device. The easiest way to avoid having to pay Microsoft for a FAT license is not to include a means for external storage on a device in the first place.
Why is the benchmark comparing with iPad 3? Why not iPad 4 and iPad mini?
iPad 4 has :
Geekbench of around 1780 (vs. iPad 3 at 756).
Sunspider at 834.7 (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6472/ipad-4-late-2012-review/4)
Compared to the iPad 3, has a 10% higher OpenGL fill rate. Almost 50% higher OpenGL triangle performance. Double the Egypt FPS. (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6472/ipad-4-late-2012-review/4)
It seems like the iPad 4 would beat the Nexus 7 (2013) in everything, so why did they omit it from the benchmarks? Is this a conspiracy or bad journalism?
The iPad mini seems to have performance equivalent to iPad 3.