I'd been hearing July anyway, so this is fine by me. $199US should still come in under $300NZ, and I want a 7-inch not a 10-inch, so I hope that Goggle can put out the Fire with this one.
Google's 7in tablet stalled for last-minute tweaks
Google fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Chocolate Factory’s much-hyped 7in tablet are going to have to wait a little longer after reports suggested it wouldn’t hit the stores until July. Taiwanese news site Digitimes got the tip from “sources from the upstream supply chain”, who said shipments of the first 600,000 …
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Friday 25th May 2012 14:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
What idiot would buy a Fire right now?
The rubbish Amazon marketplace, chock full of old versions of a very small subset of Android apps, and only allowing you to run what Amazon deems will be profitable and not a conflict of their business.
No thanks. Closed ecosystems suck.
Wait for the proper deal. Hey you can even install the Kindle app on the Google tablet... And the Kobo one, and the B&N one, and Google Books....
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Friday 25th May 2012 06:57 GMT ChrisInAStrangeLand
The confusion of Samsung and HTC leaving their customers for dead after purchase? The Nexus line of phones and tablets is trying to address that confusion.
Buying a Nexus means that the vendor is providing both first party support, and source code and packages of drivers for all of their hardware and custom software so that should they mysteriously have "delays" the community can provide it for them. No more laggy touchwiz binaries made built by work experience kid, no more promises of "in January we'll update your galaxy note to ICS, it'll have a 'premium pack' and everything." Nexus means yes the new version is available and everything works.
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Friday 25th May 2012 20:30 GMT Chet Mannly
"The confusion of Samsung and HTC leaving their customers for dead after purchase? "
What are you on about?
Galaxy s 1 was upgraded to Gingerbread, and I'm posting this on a galaxy s2 running ICS.
The nexus will get upgrades a few weeks faster, but you are being way over the top with the 'left for dead' bit.
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Friday 25th May 2012 08:32 GMT Robot
I think you confused Acer with Asus
Asus consistently ranks high in reliability rankings, Acer sometimes ranks low. I think you got them mixed up (their names sound almost alike). In the past year I bought a lot of Acer items (notebook, monitor, S200 phone) mainly because of the low price (and they are still good so far). Asus, on the other hand, is not a low-cost manufacturer, though not high-cost either.
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Friday 25th May 2012 10:56 GMT Version 1.0
I'll buy one
I just bought the 7 inch Samsung tablet and while it's a lovely piece of kit - removing all the crap applications before I could use it was a pain. I've got a Nexus S phone (unlocked without vendor crap installed) and I have to say that using a phone without all the vendor crap loaded onto it is a wonderful experience.
So yes, I'll buy one ... maybe even two. 7in is a good size, particularly on a plane - hell, even the wife likes my 7inches ... (she's reading 50 shades of gray via the Kindle app in the tablet at school)...
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Friday 25th May 2012 20:58 GMT sam tapsell
Re: I'll buy one
Apples gift to the world is devices without vendor crap. The phone companies had to loosen their grip and try to compete after the success of the first iPhone, which has opened up the market. I think without iPhone, the phone companies would still be strangling all innovation and trying to push us into their crap portals all the time. Apple is helping the phone companies be the dumb pipes they truly are, which helps android users too.
Apples mistake now is being servants to content providers, which is what killed sony from the digital music era. So, thank you apple, but loosen up please and let me run XBMC on my appleTV so i can use it as a frontend for mythtv. OK?
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Friday 25th May 2012 11:31 GMT h3
Asus
Asus are the only motherboard manufacturer I have found where I have bricked a motherboard just by changing one setting. (type of sleep from S1 to S3). There was no way to get it out.
I could have sent it back but I kind of thought it was partly my fault as it was documented on the net.
It did really annoy me though.
(Mothers computer that I manage (Only one I still do other than mine but fair is fair she has done far more for me than vice versa)). £125 motherboard - was told to just get another one by tomorrow and it doesn't matter just leave it.
Gigabyte on the other hand have fixed any bios problems I have had really well. (APIC/HPET problems for Linux) I did work out what wrong first though.
Dunno about Asus laptops (I use Thinkpads like the keyboards)
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Friday 25th May 2012 11:35 GMT HFoster
Nice
I just got on the Nexus train this year with my purchase of the Galaxy Nexus. I'm probably due for a tablet upgrade (my first generation Galaxy Tab is still going strong, but ICS seems to be a myth where it's concerned), so a Nexus class tablet sounds brilliant. And it'll cost (hopefully) a lot less than my Galaxy Tab did brand new and unlocked.