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what is going on tech addicts you are watching Jays two cents and today we are going to take an in-depth look at the google nexus 7 7 inch tablet this is the brand new 2013 HD model so let's get started now before we get started let me go ahead and be brutally honest and tell you the main reason why I bought this tablet to begin with I own an iPad 4 we've got an iPad one for my daughter my wife's got a kindle fire and i'm just usually not a very big tablet person i don't understand for the most part why people would like tablets especially when our smartphones can do everything that a tablet can but the reason why i got this to be perfectly honest was because I wanted to hook it up to my camera rig right here which is part of my CES coverage equipment it's going to go on a arm an articulating arm and it's going to you know basically it's going to attach kind of like this right here so this is going to be my field monitor for my camera rig and the reason why I picked up a tablet for that it's because it for the most part it is much much cheaper to pick up an HD tablet than it is to get an HD 7 inch monitor for your you know your field use on a rig like this so i decided i would go ahead and give the tablet a shot and i got the the software hooked up to it and it's absolutely amazing it is really really cool what you can do with it but before i started messing around with the camera I of course had to mess around with the tablet and I found myself laying their way into the night just playing with Android because even though I I do have a galaxy samsung s3 I don't really use it too much this is a company issued phone I don't like carrying two phones so I tend to carry my personal phone everywhere I go and this tends to sit at home most of the time in fact I think right now might even be might even be dead let's see now turned on but anyway but guys we're going to go ahead and take a look at the nexus 7 the 2013 HD model it's the second-generation Nexus 7 tablet and I went ahead and went with the Nexus because it is stock and man the phone booth oh wait for the verizon tone but this is a second-generation Nexus 7 tablet it's made by asus it's a 16 gigabyte model it's a Wi-Fi only and it is an HD screen let's go ahead and take a closer look at this device that's compared its size wise to my iphone 5 and my galaxy s3 so you can see just how small the 7 inch tablet really is but yet giving you what feels like this huge viewable base it's going to take a look at that up close and personal run the b-roll hey guys let's go ahead and talk about specs on this bad boy this thing is sporting a quad-core Snapdragon s4 processor it's got a 1920 x 1200 megapixel camera or that's a huge camera at 1200 1920 x 1200 screen 323 pixels per inch it's got a 1.5 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon s4 pro as already mentioned two gigabytes of RAM this is a 16 gigabyte storage model Wi-Fi only and a 3950 milliamp battery that is probably beating out some specs on your PC's depending on what you've got it definitely beats out some specs on the work pcs at my office which is probably just sad to say and when it comes to battery life this thing is sitting at about eighty nine percent battery right now and I've already been using it for a solid hour now taking a look at the back of the tablet here um there's one thing I don't really like about this tablet and I'm just going to go ahead and point out right now I'm not a fan of the way that the power button I don't know just the feel of it it feels kind of hard to push at times it's it's not that big of a deal i guess that's just a personal preference of mine but when it comes to physical buttons this is it there is the power button and you have your rocker switch right here for your volume then you've got a microphone input right there that's what that little hole is you've got your camera right here on the back i don't recall exactly what the megapixel rating is of this i will put it up on the screen probably post processing you've got a nice nexus logo here you've got the Asus logo right there and then you've got your speakers right here and your micro USB charger plug right there on the front of the screen there's really nothing to it there are no physical buttons you have your front facing camera right here and as well as your proximity sensor and you've got your soft keys now the DSLR is just not going to be able to pick this up as sharp as I masti in it so you're just going to have to kind of take my word for it so when it comes to screen resolution this guy here is pack in 1920 x 1200 that's a 323 pixel per day or 323 pixels per inch in this little screen that's more resolution than my 27 inch desktop monitor as in this 7-inch packets you can imagine just how sharp it is your eyes are not going to be able to pick up a single pixel like no matter how hard I look at this I cannot see any pixels in this whatsoever they just put in retrospect the nexus 7 compared to the Galaxy Note 8 the Galaxy Note has a 1280 by 800 and 189 pixels per inch so when it comes to pixel density you're definitely getting it now one of the things I never liked about Android in the past and I did own Android for two years before I ever owned a single I device is the fact that I felt that the scrolling on it was always a little bit quirky like kind of choppy or jittery the first thing I'm noticing here is just like the newer Android devices I mean the the processor on this is so powerful that it is just I mean look how smooth this Scrolls I mean it's probably not getting justice on this on the camera pick up here but it is just as smooth as you could possibly ask for I mean this is just this is beyond smooth it definitely feels like the kind of device that you would probably use on a day-to-day basis I've been sitting for hours one of the things that really surprised me about this tablet is the fact that i am not a huge tablet user and i found it very comfortable to hold this and sit on the couch or sit on the toilet or wherever you may be sitting maybe you're if you're sitting on your brother's head or something I don't know I found it very comfortable to hold I mean one-handed it's it's as you can see right here it is very very easy it's comfortable the problem i have with the ipad is the ipad is just too big especially if you're you know you're looking at the 10 inch model and even the iPad Mini is just way overpriced I mean this 16 gigabyte models coming in at 229 US dollars for 229 dollars the amount of power you get in this is just insane and of course you get all of the support of the google play store you got the kindle store I mean you've got so much going on here and let's go ahead and load up some humber get hunk Hummer Hummer games that's a whole different kind of video guys a whole different kind of videos let's go ahead and take a look here and see how the video plays this is the first time i played a video on this so it has not a pre-rendered it looks like it played SD a standard def here I'm not sure it's going to switch on us but either way sound quality on this is really good the speakers are a little bit small you know they are on the back maybe that you can see the camera the mic hello but we are playing some Hunger Games here I don't want to get in trouble so let's go ahead and fast-forward here a little bit and see we got see how fast it can seek I think the camera doesn't pick it up as sharp as it is in real life I mean with that kind of pixel density you can just imagine how sharp it actually is let's go ahead and go home here so let's see what our how fast can this thing load up various apps i don't know let's go ahead and load up a no vine see that popped right up the ebay app i mean you can see this thing is just very snappy i don't have anything any of the other pages though let's go ahead and do a google search how do i get to walmart because i'm a cheap bastard you know hey look at that it found a walmart right there what is the cruising speed of a laden swallow and there's a google search this is actually very snappy this is zach this feels faster than Cirie how many kilograms is one pound at that what is the euro to US dollar conversion rate for u.s. dollars Wow okay how long does it take to swim across the Atlantic Ocean I think it does a google search for things that doesn't know so I've never really used any of the google talk stuff the google speak remember what it's called this stuff was all in beta the last time i had an android device I let's see here tell me a joke and it brings up joke so it's not quite as intuitive a serie when it comes to you no funny stuff but it definitely is a navigate me to the nearest walmart that's right it brings up the most recent one there when was Disneyland opened how many people visit Disneyland each year there you go brings up ascom ask nah ascom again people different site different site entirely my god okay Pandora here let's go ahead and see it we've got how fast is it open up and streams from pinned or I don't want to register all right let's screw that of course you've got your task manager you know what Android device wouldn't have a task manager on there okay so let's go ahead and check out a game on here a zombie world is a free game i downloaded off the Play Store it's one of the things I like about Android is there is a lot of indie developers out there making games for the Android device and they're not nearly as expensive as iOS games sometimes okay was it easy because i'm a noob what if we got here an easy come on zombies you a gig in here this a visit Irene will get the zombies who use Dombey bring out the big bomb what the bomb being at the bomb Oh screw you stupid zombies all right so as you can see that was nice and smooth I mean you see how fast that loaded up but you know as I mentioned one of the reasons why I got this specifically was because I wanted to be able to control my DSLR with it and that that's exactly what I can do with this app right here called DSLR controller now let's go ahead and talk about whether or not this device is worth your 229 dollars there are a lot of tablets out there I mean you've got the galaxy tab 3 that's out you've got the note you've got the nexus here the nexus 7 2 f HD 2013 don't confuse it with the first gen x as the first gen does not have a rear facing camera like this one does right here I had initially bought or I originally had bought the Nexus tab too because it was a hundred and sixty nine dollars but I went ahead and I pulled you guys on Twitter and asked if he felt that I had made a good choice many of you said that you felt that I should return it and get the nexus 7 and when I compare the specs and the price difference of 60 bucks it definitely was worth it to go with the nexus 7 now I don't have any direct comparison of this with the tab to the galaxy tab 2 because I never opened the galaxy tab 2 didn't have a rear facing camera it had a low resolution screen versus this I think this was definitely a no brainer so if you're looking for a strong tablet that's not going to break the bank has great battery life has a great screen it's fast as you can see gaming on it is it's certainly easy I mean everything you do want here is just super snappy I mean it is just so fast I have absolutely no complaints what ever with this device the touch on it is pretty good as long as your fingers aren't really oily when the screen starts to get dirty the touch on it gets a little bit finicky it's not too bad I just I had to reboot it earlier because I had been running it for so long I think it had a memory leak and the screen wasn't responding as much but a reboot fixed all that but if you've been around Android long and if you know reboots are definitely necessary sometimes it does not have a removable battery so there is no expand with expanded battery options but all in all for 229 dollars I feel that this tablet is just as good if not better than the iPad Mini which would be lysates rival in the same form factor the 7-inch screen for half the price it's really getting difficult to it honestly it's really getting difficult to have any sort of justification to have an apple product when the pricing of this is what it is I mean this is half the cost of a 16 gigabyte ipad mini Wi-Fi only I don't know why you wouldn't want to go with something like this for that kind of price definitely going to improve this device as AJ's by I've never done anything like that i'm not going to start doing ratings on products but this is certainly a JS x because i bought it i'm going to keep it and as i mentioned earlier you guys are going to see it attached to this rig getting all kinds of excess or excess extra use especially when it comes to CES and almost knock myself out with this thing okay guys I'm gonna get on out of here make sure you're following on Twitter I do a lot of fun stuff up there go to the Facebook page all the 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