(September 19, 2012 at 7:19 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Kindle fire looks good.
I have a Blackberry playbook which is amazing but not android so has a limited App market.
I looked at the Kindle Fire, and for what it is, it's a nice piece of tech at a good price. However, it's limited to Amazon's own walled garden and cannot use Google's app market (Google Play). That was a deal killer for me. (Some day it may get rooted and be capable, who knows.)
The Nexus 7 is faster (quad core Tegra 3 FTW), ships with Android 4.1 (and will get upgrades first as a Google flagship product), and is not much more expensive.
After playing with the Nexus for a couple of days, I'm impressed. As one reviewer said "It's not just a nice $200 tablet, it's a nice tablet, period". (I paid $250 for the 16GB version)
It does have a few drawbacks: storage is not upgradeable(*), it has no HDMI output (not an issue for me), and the current version is WiFi only (also a non-issue for me). I don't know how available they are outside of the USA to date.
(*) lack of upgradeable storage isn't much of an issue, IMO. Your entire music library can be stored in the cloud (as long as it has no DRM) and persisted selectively to the tablet. The same goes for ebooks, emagazines, and video from Google Play. You effectively only need to store such data temporarily while you're off-network, so 8/16 GB is plenty (for me at least).
