This morning I woke up to an email telling me that my Nexus7 that I had ordered 3 weeks ago was… “out for delivery”.
I couldn’t contain my excitement. I sat patiently waiting by my door. Finally 11 o’clock rolls around and there is a knock. I’m handed a brown parcel and hand over the obligatory signature. I close the door behind me and carefully place the box on the desk. I contemplate teasing myself and seeing how long I can hold out before opening it. That lasted about 20 seconds!!!!
In fact… this video says it all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xijcwbg8CGQ
I’m not gonna bore you with how awesome it is (and it is awesome). I will however point out a few obvious foibles with it though (not that they would have ever stopped me from buying it).
- No way to expand storage
- Lack of Flash (may not seem important, but until everyone else catches up there is loads of content I cant use i.e. BBC iPlayer)
- A number of apps (games specifically) that I have run on my phone are not yet supported
- Google Now feels a little clunky at times and struggles with some of the regional British accents
- MTP doesn’t appear to work out of the box with my Linux OS (I’m sure this will be remedied soon)
- No obvious way to directly access the front facing camera (easily remedied with an app from MoDaCo)