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Gamestop is selling it now too
I dunno. If you are talking about the 8gb version I'd be able to carry my entire book collection no problem because the file sizes are so small. Music and podcasts would eat up that 8gb very, very fast. With apps on the device I'm not sure whether I'd be able to fit even a single movie on it even without any other media. What size file is a typical movie?
Light compression MP4 is about 700MB/hour of contentYou could DIVX up the same content for such a small screen and see minimal, if any, resolution drop at 200MB/hr. MKV is the best way to do 720p and runs about 1.7GB/hr, but that may be high and you certainly don't have to run the max bitrate for such a small screen.
You can't store your whole movie collection on the device, but loading one or two movies is no problem. They're typically 700 MB to 1.4 GB or so.I've got my entire book collection on DropBox, and my entire music collection on Google Music. I'll usually keep a few books on the device, whatever I'm reading at the time, but that takes hardly any space at all. If I want to listen to music without a wi-fi connection I'll use my phone.It's plenty easy to put a few TV shows or a movie on the 8 GB device.
That is interesting, and impressive. After reading your response I checked a couple of "TWIT Photo" episodes on my hard drive and sure enough they are just under an hour and depending on the quality you choose can be as small as 132mb in .mp4 format(640x368) which I would think still looks good on a 7" screen.I used to keep up with the codecs and quality trade-offs but with memory so cheap I haven't paid much attention the past several years.
I'm not really trying to rain on the parade of the Google Nexus Tablet. It's definitely the best value if you are purchasing a new tablet at the moment. For people that really, really put a lot of value in having the absolute latest version of Android out there(and there always seems to be a lot of hand-wringing about that for some reason) it will likely be the best value for a tablet well past the holidays. For someone in the market right now, since you lost your Fire recently, it makes perfect sense. Asus is a great hardware company and the partnership would suggest that the software side of things will run smoothly.I'm just disappointed that the device is worse than what was shown at CES almost 6 months ago(or 12 years ago in mobil-os years).
I was able to get one at Sam's on Saturday. Just had to give them the item number (793929) since no one had any idea what a "Nexus 7" is. So far I'm blown away, even after coming from a Transformer. Everything they say about the Project Butter improvements is true. It flies. The only negative is app selection but hopefully the success of this thing will encourage more development.
Nice to know. I like my transformer.
I liked mine too, but wanted something smaller for e-books. There's no need to ditch the Transformer if you're happy with it, particularly since Asus already confirmed it will receive Jelly Bean.
I'm not sure why that would be a problem either. Do you have them in the Kindle folder or in a different folder for books? If not in the Kindle folder, try that.I'm running Jelly Bean on my Kindle Fire so I have to use the Kindle app from the Play Store and I'm pretty sure I had to copy my mobi files into the Kindle folder to get them to read from there.'Maurile Tremblay said:
That mostly worked. I had all my books in my "Books" folder. By putting the .mobi files in my "kindle" folder, I still can't open them with the Kindle app by clicking on the books from within the file explorer. But if I open the Kindle app first, they do show up there and I can open them with the app. I guess I'll keep two folders for books.That means I can also delete the FB Reader and Cool Reader apps since between Kindle and Montano, I've got all formats covered. (I like the Kindle for mobi and prc, and Montano for epub and pdf.)
Ironic.
I thought so too.
Yeah, the 8gb model has 5.9gb available for storage (give or take, depending on how many apps you load). That's more than I need. Books are very small. If you have a ton of books, you can store all of them in a cloud, and just load the five or six that you'll be reading at any given time on the device. Pictures can all be stored in a cloud. So can office-suite-type docs. Only videos take up much room, and 5gb is more than five hours' worth. I don't envision needing to load more than that onto the device at any given time.'Jaysus said:
That's if you're not going to have a wi-fi connection.If you have a wi-fi connection, you can access whatever map you want that way. If you're not going to have a wi-fi connection, you need to download and save whatever map you want ahead of time.
It doesn't have cellular capability, so if you are traveling there is no way to update the map without a wifi connection (unless you can use your phone as a hot spot).
Rail> the other option is to get a 3rd party Navigation app that includes offline maps.
I think so. I am not generally an early tech adopter... but I jumped on this one.
Yes, there's nothing that beats it at this point. I'm still hoping that Asus makes it's own fully functional (microSD, HDMI) 7" at some point but I wouldn't expect it before Tegra 4 is released.
