Introducing Nexus 7 = google android tablet

GrumPy

Will be heading to collect my pre-order from LIffey Valley at lunch. Thanks Declan! *Can't concentrate on work, delicious gadget awaits*

TheDoc

Couldnt make my way into HMV today.

anyone pop their head in to see if they are on sale in there?

Mimikyu

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BrookieD

I might just get one of these to go with it. http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Wi-Drive-Portable-WID-32GBZ/dp/B00576APEI/

Might look at a Nexus 7 for the kid for xmas.....

TheDoc

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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Cheers,

My Laser got frauded there last week so my accounts been locked, and was hoping it would unlock today but if release from HMV isnt till Monday that probably wont be a bad thing, other then missing out on the week to mess around.

TheDoc

BrookieD wrote: »

I might just get one of these to go with it. http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Wi-Drive-Portable-WID-32GBZ/dp/B00576APEI/

Might look at a Nexus 7 for the kid for xmas.....

Have portable HD's been confirmed to work without rooting?

I'm definitly never rooting again, after I swore I'd never again after the HTC Desire, I said ****it I'll try on the Samsung GS2, now my battery lasts less then 3 hours.

So definitly not even gonna consider rooting this

belmulletman

TheDoc wrote: »

Have portable HD's been confirmed to work without rooting?

I'm definitly never rooting again, after I swore I'd never again after the HTC Desire, I said ****it I'll try on the Samsung GS2, now my battery lasts less then 3 hours.

So definitly not even gonna consider rooting this

That one is wifi. So no need to root. Just an app that will allow you to read the contents of the drive. Can connect it to several devices on the same network! It's a pretty slick solution actually.

balkieb2002

For that to work though you would still need an active wifi connection right?

I'll be definitely rooting my device (never had any issues including my GSII) and will just use a usb stick if I need extra space.

Lots of postive reports from people who went down that route.

micks_address

TheDoc wrote: »

Couldnt make my way into HMV today.

anyone pop their head in to see if they are on sale in there?

Phoned Grafton Street not in stock today but they more confident about Monday now. I'd buy elsewhere only I want to use the store credit I have there

belmulletman

balkieb2002 wrote: »

For that to work though you would still need an active wifi connection right?

I'll be definitely rooting my device (never had any issues including my GSII) and will just use a usb stick if I need extra space.

Lots of postive reports from people who went down that route.

Where would you get the Micro USB to USB Host cable? I don't think I've ever seen one of those.

irishgeo

belmulletman wrote: »

Where would you get the Micro USB to USB Host cable? I don't think I've ever seen one of those.

http://www.amazon.com/Micro-USB-OTG-2-0-Adapter/dp/B005QX7KYU/ref=pd_cp_pc_1

balkieb2002

belmulletman wrote: »

Where would you get the Micro USB to USB Host cable? I don't think I've ever seen one of those.

I had bought this one to test out something else http://www.dabs.ie/products/c2g-cablestogo-1m-usb-2-0-a-male-to-micro-usb-b-male-cable-801T.html?q=otg&src=16 as I was getting something else off them (its a male usb though I already had the other connection required - just not the mini usb)

GrumPy

GrumPy wrote: »

Will be heading to collect my pre-order from LIffey Valley at lunch. Thanks Declan! *Can't concentrate on work, delicious gadget awaits*

Literally couldn't wait. Just back from Liffey Valley. Thanks Declan, was in and out in 3 minutes!

dulpit

Jealous, jealous, jealous...

Can people make short video reviews or unboxing or something?

TheDoc

micks_address wrote: »

Phoned Grafton Street not in stock today but they more confident about Monday now. I'd buy elsewhere only I want to use the store credit I have there

Good man yourself.

I'll hold of so, no impeeding rush.

Although wanted to suprise the misses with my old Xoom to give to her, might just give it to her anyway to build up the brownie points for the weekend

dulpit

TheDoc wrote: »

Have portable HD's been confirmed to work without rooting?

I'm definitly never rooting again, after I swore I'd never again after the HTC Desire, I said ****it I'll try on the Samsung GS2, now my battery lasts less then 3 hours.

So definitly not even gonna consider rooting this

Rooting shouldn't affect your battery life though, should it?

A dodgy ROM might, but generally a good ROM will give you better battery, not worse...

Bacchus

dulpit wrote: »

Can people make short video reviews or unboxing or something?

Unboxing the thing is not fun. Having unboxed an iPad recently (not mine), there is something to be said for Apple making the user experience easy and fluid from the start. Unboxing the Nexus is an exercise in patience as you try not to destroy the box to get at the thing

Very impressed with the Nexus itself with the few minutes I've got to play with it. Jelly Bean is great, very smooth, very cool.

BrookieD

Bacchus wrote: »

Unboxing the thing is not fun. Having unboxed an iPad recently (not mine), there is something to be said for Apple making the user experience easy and fluid from the start. Unboxing the Nexus is an exercise in patience as you try not to destroy the box to get at the thing

Very impressed with the Nexus itself with the few minutes I've got to play with it. Jelly Bean is great, very smooth, very cool.

Unboxing was real easy. no idea what the complaints were about to be honest. Box has a sleeve, removed, sharp knife to cut the security tape, top of box slips off Nexus 7 shining in all its untouched clean glory.....

TheDoc

dulpit wrote: »

Rooting shouldn't affect your battery life though, should it?

A dodgy ROM might, but generally a good ROM will give you better battery, not worse...

Actually not sure it was rooted, I used ODIN to get ICS stock rom for S2 since its not appearing as an update for me when others getting it.

Battery life being drained to bits, its an official ROM like, not rooted. Giving it another lash now.

Bacchus

BrookieD wrote: »

Unboxing was real easy. no idea what the complaints were about to be honest. Box has a sleeve, removed, sharp knife to cut the security tape, top of box slips off Nexus 7 shining in all its untouched clean glory.....

When you compare to Apple, no it's not. The sleeve is way to tight around the box and is tricky to get a grip of to pull it off. The two pieces of tape are pain, why should I need to go get a knife to open this (again, when you compare to the ease of how Apple do it). With no knife to hand, I had to use my keys to hack away at the tape. After that though it's plain sailing

balkieb2002

TheDoc wrote: »

Actually not sure it was rooted, I used ODIN to get ICS stock rom for S2 since its not appearing as an update for me when others getting it.

Battery life being drained to bits, its an official ROM like, not rooted. Giving it another lash now.

That's very strange.

My S2 is rooted (using ODIN if I rememeber correctly) on stock Vodafone ICS and while my battery isn't great it will still last the day or longer (i also use the free version of Easy Battery Saver).

That's why I have no worries with doing it on my N7 (over the weekend hopefully) especially since I won't be using any custom roms for a while. I want to see what stock Jelly Bean is like first anyway.

johnmcdnl

yiz are all bastards with your Nexuses - I have to wait for the courier who probably won't be coming until tomorrow joys of living miles from any form of real computer store

anyways for those of ye that have got it - money well spent??? haven't seen to many complaints so far so taking all is good.. no one has gotten any of the defective models that people have mentioned I take??

GrumPy

johnmcdnl wrote: »

yiz are all bastards with your Nexuses - I have to wait for the courier who probably won't be coming until tomorrow

U jelly bean bro? :P

balkieb2002

johnmcdnl wrote: »

yiz are all bastards with your Nexuses - I have to wait for the courier who probably won't be coming until tomorrow joys of living miles from any form of real computer store

I'm in same boat as you... every now and again I refresh the order tracking page on the Currys website to see if it's gone yet. I'd better have this for the weekend

Cyrus

are tesco selling it?

Mimikyu

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chris85

Cyrus wrote: »

are tesco selling it?

Was thinking the same. They are in the UK. If some is passing a tesco would be great to know.

TheDoc

balkieb2002 wrote: »

That's very strange.

My S2 is rooted (using ODIN if I rememeber correctly) on stock Vodafone ICS and while my battery isn't great it will still last the day or longer (i also use the free version of Easy Battery Saver).

That's why I have no worries with doing it on my N7 (over the weekend hopefully) especially since I won't be using any custom roms for a while. I want to see what stock Jelly Bean is like first anyway.

From my understanding ODIN isnt rooting, its actually the same **** Samsung use to load ROMs onto phones. According to XDA anyway.

I'm going through the process again, although now ODIN wont recognise my poxy phone, pain in the hole all this ****.

From now on, just buying Google phones, buying other manafacturers has been nothing but a pain when it comes to updates

Cyrus

TheDoc wrote: »

From my understanding ODIN isnt rooting, its actually the same **** Samsung use to load ROMs onto phones. According to XDA anyway.

I'm going through the process again, although now ODIN wont recognise my poxy phone, pain in the hole all this ****.

From now on, just buying Google phones, buying other manafacturers has been nothing but a pain when it comes to updates

is it in download mode

TheDoc

Cyrus wrote: »

is it in download mode

Yeah, just going to run through reinstalling drivers again with kies and see if that picks up an upgrade.

I know to make sure kies services are off before running odin so will do all that jazz again.

So whats people impressions of the Nexus 7 who got to pick it up.

Wonder if there is many left in stores, might spin out to Airside tonight and see