Google Nexus 7 tablet hands-on review (Video)

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Consumer Technology Editor Matt Warman shows what Google's latest tablet offering can do compared to the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle.



£159 8GB; £199 16GB

When Google announced that it was making its own tablet, many quite rightly observed that few of the company’s previous products had been the greatest successes in the mass market. While 2008’s G1 handset, in the distant past, delighted some geeks, it was hardly a device to challenge the iPhone. For the search giant to take on the mighty Apple iPad was, at least, ambitious.



In fact this is a tablet that is ruthlessly functional – its screen is excellent (1280x800 is passable HD), its battery life an implausible nine hours that kept me entertained from London to San Francisco, its speed powered by an advanced quad-core processor that seems at 1.3GHz to respond more intuitively than ever to the touch of an impatient user’s fingers. These are not qualities previously associated with Google’s devices, but now they are simply what make the device good enough to demand serious attention in a sea of other Android tablets.

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Anyone planning on buying one?

 

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I've never wanted a tablet before, but this changes things. If I could find a reason to justify having it, I'd buy one.