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New Tablet

hoop67 said:
Loads of great info.Thanks.Decided i'm going to go with an ipad.Now to find the best price;)
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I would also recommend a wireless external hard drive. No need to load movies onto the iPad just stream it through the hard drive. I use mine a lot while travelling... and at work. At home, I think up to five devices can stream through it using many different types of devices: smart TVs, phones, tablets. You name it
 
jp5 said:
Nexus is a great tablet, and does everything you'd want for less than the cost of the iPad
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My Mrs has decided she wants an easily portable tablet. So we are edging towards a Nexus 7 and I can't see why not. iPad - yes if you want to spend that bit more for the design or are an Apple person then you will always say iPad - but that doesn't help me much when it comes to discriminate between say an iPad2 and a NExus 7 - when my wife's head will not be turned by a brand and will; not spend £100 even £50 extra for an iPad without very good reasons. She is not too sure of her specific requirements - but wants it easily portable and will be mostly be using it for Email, browsing and streaming films - most of the time channelling films to a TV so not so much time watching on the tablet. And she does not do 'gaming' and won't be doing much if any 'Word' or 'Excel' type stuff. Laptops for that.

So please dear reader - tell me why I should not buy a Nexus 7
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
My Mrs has decided she wants an easily portable tablet. So we are edging towards a Nexus 7 and I can't see why not. iPad - yes if you want to spend that bit more for the design or are an Apple person then you will always say iPad - but that doesn't help me much when it comes to discriminate between say an iPad2 and a NExus 7 - when my wife's head will not be turned by a brand and will; not spend £100 even £50 extra for an iPad without very good reasons. She is not too sure of her specific requirements - but wants it easily portable and will be mostly be using it for Email, browsing and streaming films - most of the time channelling films to a TV so not so much time watching on the tablet. And she does not do 'gaming' and won't be doing much if any 'Word' or 'Excel' type stuff. Laptops for that.

So please dear reader - tell me why I should not buy a Nexus 7
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Have a Nexus 7 and couldnt put you off

Just one thing, if you are planning using it to watch films on TV unless you have a very modern TV be aware that you will need an adaptor as it doesnt have an HDMI out port
 
fundy said:
Have a Nexus 7 and couldnt put you off

Just one thing, if you are planning using it to watch films on TV unless you have a very modern TV be aware that you will need an adaptor as it doesnt have an HDMI out port
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yes - was made aware of the HDMI issue. Though was informed that you can buy an HDMI wireless adaptor that you can plug into the TV and the Nexus will talk to. The adaptor is powered by plugging it into a USB port on the TV, Or so the Ggogle guy explained. But yet to investigate and confirm further. He did say he had a cable that connected.

ps - this beastie

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nexus-Slimp...1393858535&sr=8-1&keywords=nexus+hdmi+adapter
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
yes - was made aware of the HDMI issue. Though was informed that you can buy an HDMI wireless adaptor that you can plug into the TV and the Nexus will talk to. The adaptor is powered by plugging it into a USB port on the TV, Or so the Ggogle guy explained. But yet to investigate and confirm further. He did say he had a cable that connected.
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There is definitely a wired adaptor you can get yes (a friend has one), obviously easier to do wireless if possible. The tablet has the software to be able to emit the signal, just a case of having the tv or an adaptor on the tv to receive yes
 
fundy said:
There is definitely a wired adaptor you can get yes (a friend has one), obviously easier to do wireless if possible. The tablet has the software to be able to emit the signal, just a case of having the tv or an adaptor on the tv to receive yes
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OK - so that's one 'no real issues' reply - good.

Waiting for Team iPad to pile in and tell my why I should buy an iPad - which will be useful. What am I missing if I buy a Nexus is not exactly telling me why I shouldn't buy a Nexus. If someone can tell me that the Nexus really falls down in some pretty basic stuff when compared with an iPad2 - then we'll probably buy an iPad2. But I can't see that it does.
 
Just be aware that Lovefilm / Amazon Prime does not run on a Nexus 7 nor does Sky's Now TV.

My worry about an ipad 2 is that Apple have stopped support and updates for the first ipad so the 2 may soon go the same way.
 
GB72 said:
Just be aware that Lovefilm / Amazon Prime does not run on a Nexus 7 nor does Sky's Now TV.

My worry about an ipad 2 is that Apple have stopped support and updates for the first ipad so the 2 may soon go the same way.
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OK - that's good to know. Don't see Lovefilm / Amazon Prime being an issue - but I'll check. Sky's Now TV. Hmmm. Would that cut out Sky Go? I'm not sure what Sky Now TV is but we use Sky Go and I think we'd want to be able to have Sky Go on board.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
OK - that's good to know. Don't see Lovefilm / Amazon Prime being an issue - but I'll check. Sky's Now TV. Hmmm. Would that cut out Sky Go? I'm not sure what Sky Now TV is but we use Sky Go and I think we'd want to be able to have Sky Go on board.
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Now TV is different to sky go. Basically a streaming version if sky movies for non sky customers. Not sure about sky go as do not have sky. Lovefilm only became an issue on more as my wife is an amazon prime subscriber and this is now included. Sadly will never appear on the nexus as it is direct competition to the kindle fire
 
Thanks both. Good news on Sky Go and good to understand context of Lovefilm constraint.

Next consideration (if we go Nexus route - tbc) would be 16GB or 32GB?

First consideration - does she need the extra 16GB?

Second consideration - she wants to buy it from John Lewis for the 2 yr warranty - and she trusts John Lewis whilst she has no feeling of trust with Amazon - not saying we have ever had any issue - just that she hasn't yet built up the consumer trust.

So JL will do the 16GB at £199 cf Amazon doing the 32GB at that price (£169 for 16GB). Is the additional one year warranty JL provide and the trust in the JL name worth £30-40
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Thanks both. Good news on Sky Go and good to understand context of Lovefilm constraint.

Next consideration (if we go Nexus route - tbc) would be 16GB or 32GB?

First consideration - does she need the extra 16GB?

Second consideration - she wants to buy it from John Lewis for the 2 yr warranty - and she trusts John Lewis whilst she has no feeling of trust with Amazon - not saying we have ever had any issue - just that she hasn't yet built up the consumer trust.

So JL will do the 16GB at £199 cf Amazon doing the 32GB at that price (£169 for 16GB). Is the additional one year warranty JL provide and the trust in the JL name worth £30-40
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Storage boils down to how she intends on using it. I have the 32Gb but would not have filled a 16GB one (be aweare that about 5Gb is used by the systems already on it).

If she wants to store lots of music/films pictures then would go for the 32Gb, if not the 16Gb will probably be plenty

Have no problems buying from Amazon, always worth buying from JL for extra warranty if similar price, but too big a gap here for me, would get from Amazon
 
Can I throw the Hudl into the ring??
Just over £100 from Tesco ( club card points/vouchers make it even cheaper)
Spec is not a million miles from the Nexus, a tad slower between pages but its not snail pace
Expandable via a memory card - Nexus isn't..

The Boy has a Nexus, I have a Hudl.....

In real terms there's little between them.... except nearly 100 quid!
 
fundy said:
Storage boils down to how she intends on using it. I have the 32Gb but would not have filled a 16GB one (be aweare that about 5Gb is used by the systems already on it).

If she wants to store lots of music/films pictures then would go for the 32Gb, if not the 16Gb will probably be plenty

Have no problems buying from Amazon, always worth buying from JL for extra warranty if similar price, but too big a gap here for me, would get from Amazon
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Good - I'm thinking 16GB is more than plenty for her uses. And if I can convince her that Nexus reliability is good (and I've not read anything negative about reliability) then 2yrs vs 1yrs isn't actually a critical buying factor - then we can get the 16GB plus HDMI adaptor plus case for cost of buying it from JL.

So come on team iPad2 - tell me why all of the above matters not a jot because an iPad2 is the answer - Mrs Hogan was going to buy an iPad2 until she started looking at, understanding and handling the Nexus 7.
 
Imurg said:
Can I throw the Hudl into the ring??
Just over £100 from Tesco ( club card points/vouchers make it even cheaper)
Spec is not a million miles from the Nexus, a tad slower between pages but its not snail pace
Expandable via a memory card - Nexus isn't..

The Boy has a Nexus, I have a Hudl.....

In real terms there's little between them.... except nearly 100 quid!
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It's in there and stirring things up. A possible issue is that it's Tesco and my Mrs detests Tesco :(
 
I have ipad2. would say they are great products, but if you dont use itunes or any other apple products, i would probably look at the nexus if i'm honest. especially as the ipad 2 is end of life really and wont see ios8 when its released. Ipad Air if you are buying an ipad or nothing for me.
 
Rooter said:
I have ipad2. would say they are great products, but if you dont use itunes or any other apple products, i would probably look at the nexus if i'm honest. especially as the ipad 2 is end of life really and wont see ios8 when its released. Ipad Air if you are buying an ipad or nothing for me.
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Thanksd @Rooter - she currently doesn't use itunes or anything Apple. I heard that iPad2 was reaching end of it's life. Will have a look at iPad Air as know nothing about it and how it compares with the Nexus. But again if it is simply a more expensive version of the Nexus but Apple and so optimised for Apple products then I can't see the point.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Thanksd @Rooter - she currently doesn't use itunes or anything Apple. I heard that iPad2 was reaching end of it's life. Will have a look at iPad Air as know nothing about it and how it compares with the Nexus. But again if it is simply a more expensive version of the Nexus but Apple and so optimised for Apple products then I can't see the point.
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Exactly, i think the nexus or similar is your best bet. the samsung units look nice, have you looked?
 
And so the Nexus 7 arrived late yesterday afternoon.

Unpacked it and it looked nice - no instructions whatsoever other than a scrap showing me where the ON switch was. So I switched it on. Nice big screen asking me to select my language and a big 'forward/next' arrow. So I select English (Scotland) and touch the arrow. Lot's of wireless access points appear in a list. So I select my Sky box insert WAP key and connect. It thinks for a second then tells me it is 'saved and secured' - excellent. However a moment later 'Authentication' problem' message appears against my Sky router. And it stops. And nothing. So now what do I do. Touch the return and it takes me to the Language Select screen. Nothing else available other than the big arrow. So to WiFI screen - select Sky etc. Nothing - what do do? I hadn't a clue. And nothing on the screen for me to do anything with or go anywhere.

Anyway - took it down to Currys/PC World and they checked it could connect - OK. So not the Nexus. Back home and my laptop to the Google support. Got to have a Google Account to ask a question. So set one up. Then back to Google Support. Nope - nothing to help that I could find. Any phone number? - nope - apparently you can't contact them. So I sent an Email (useful).

And then I decided to phone Sky. And I got a very friendly lad fro NI. And we did a few bits and pieces to the Sky Box and it was sorted.

But what a palaver. And no thanks to Google for their product support - if yo know bugger all.

But I love it :)


Pity it's not mine.
 
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