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0 pointshalostatue12y ago0 comments

My Nexus 7 is sitting in its dock, as it has been for the last six weeks except for maybe a few minutes a week.

I bought one of the original 16GB Nexus 7s; the battery life sucks; the responsiveness made my iPhone 3GS running iOS 5 look good. I commonly tell those who ask that the Nexus 7 is one of the worst technology purchases I’ve made in the last ten years (the worst before that would have been the Compaq iPaq in 2001; it didn’t even run Linux very well, although that ran better than WinCE at the time). I use my iPhone in preference to the Nexus 7 for just about everything. I bought a Kobo mini for $50 because the Nexus 7 wasn’t even a good epub reader, and that’s having tried four or five different ebook readers on the Nexus 7.

This is anecdotal, but I am not sure whether I’ll ever buy another Android product—regardless of manufacturer—and I say that despite feeling the need to stay on top of available technology from a friend/family recommendation perspective. (That, and I do like gadgets, but I'm much less willing to put up with crap these days.)

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psbp12y ago· 2 in thread

I don't have the original, it's the 2013. I've heard 4.3 fixes the lag issues with the original. Battery life lasts more than a day for me, and it only has noticeable responsiveness problems when I quickly scroll down web pages.

halostatueOP12y ago

My Nexus is horribly laggy on a lot of things (and if I ever have more than one tab open in Chrome, the tablet is damned near unusable), even with 4.3; the battery life for me is measured in hours.

For me, it’s a little worse because the software is still so far behind in terms of availability and usability—there’s so very little that the Nexus does better than my iPhone 4 that I don’t want to use it.

psbp12y ago

You might have a bad unit. Mine is just iteration 2 and I have none of these problems. It's pretty quick.

slindz12y ago

I just got the Nexus 7 LTE (2013), and I can already feel the dust collecting on my retina iPad, and to a lesser degree, my iPhone 4.

For me, the extra responsiveness makes all the difference. It feels like any extra battery life I'm gaining with the iPad is spent waiting for it to do things.

This is my first Android device, in a home full of Apple products.

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