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welcome to iron box the tablet the entire Internet's are excited about this is the Nexus 7 from Google and Asus it's a joint project you can see the branding is sort of clever there's a picture of a tablet which also happens to be sort of in the shape of a seven which corresponds to the diagonal size of the screen it is a 7 inch tablet includes a Tegra 3 processor running at one point 3 gigahertz remember that's for high power cores plus one low power core for that particular processor and a powerful GPU it comes in 8 gig or 16 gig models and there's a few things here that we should probably talk about really quick so it's completely ready for jellybean which is Android 4.1 which includes a lot of UI tweaks as well as a few other cool things so Nexus 7 runs the latest version Mandarin comes with all the Google Apps you left check Gmail browse and the web with Chrome so the browser that we found on previous editions of Android is going to be gone and with it flash support so we're gonna be using Chrome on our tablets from now on watch videos from YouTube chat face to face so it has a front-facing camera only no rear facing camera it is a 1.2 megapixel camera and honestly at the price points that these tablets are coming in at some sacrifices did have to be made so it's $1.99 for an 8 gig and about 249 remember these are USD prices so your mileage may vary to 49 for a 16-game there are no higher capacity versions available at this time and that is the only difference between the two capacities is just the capacity so Google Play is there well what they've updated the market branding to so there's a lot of different stuff in there now including songs books movies and as well as apps and games full fledge on android have a powerful quad core processor from some different civilizations but so that's an IPS that is an IPS display which means you're going to get a very decent viewing angle and what's cool about it is the fact that it is full HD so it is 1280 by 800 which means you can watch 720p video in full screen and it will be full resolution on this particular tablet and the other really cool thing about that is because of the fact that it is in a 7 inch form factor it has extremely high pixel density which you know if you have used a Retina display from Apple you're gonna be familiar with already is much less fatiguing on the eyes and makes text look just infinitely better I've actually I've taken it out already prior to the unboxing and I played around with it a little bit and I'm very very impressed love the screen love the responsiveness love the accuracy so it's got a 10-point multi-touch which is about as much as any sort of normal person would need not that I'm saying that if you have six fingers on each hand that's a problem it's just that you know you might want to use only ten of them at a given time when you're you know what moving right along let's have a look at the physicality of the unit so there's a USB port here and what's cool about this is it supports USB on-the-go which means that it can not only act as a in device mode but also in a host mode so if you were to plug a keyboard for example into it then it can it can you can use that okay it will act as the the tablet will act as a host instead of the other way around so you can actually pair it with the keyboard and use a keyboard on the device which is very very cool there's your headphone jack which is pretty standard moving right along not a whole lot not a whole lot there's a light sensor on it somewhere out there it is as well as the front-facing camera there's your power there's your volume rocker the back is very nice I'm actually not a big fan of metal backs on tablets because it they tend to get grimy looking they tend to get stained very easily they're heavier they're just they're cold or they're too hot they're just not that comfortable so this is a rubberized backing which has a bit of a grippy texture to it that's very very nice now I loved the blackberry playbook for a couple of reasons it was super snappy great as a little web browsing device and I thought the form factor was just perfect so as you guys can probably imagine the Nexus 7 definitely floats my boat in much the same way I just want to have a quick look at what's included so you got your warranty card as well as a Quick Start Guide charging books charging cable as well as a charger so not a huge accessory package by any stretch of the imagination so let's get logged in here and let's have a look at some of the differences this is one of my favorite tablet benchmarks for a couple of reasons because it just seems to absolutely destroy every tablet another mobile device that I have ever had the pleasure of encountering so here I've got my other two favorite tablets the iPad 2 I don't have an iPad 3 unfortunately I wish I could talk about that one a little bit and then I've also got a Galaxy Tab 10.1 so this is running the older honeycomb version of Android so give me two seconds and I'm gonna get this page loaded up so the screen doesn't have quite the vibrance that sorry this one actually has flash on it so the videos even trying to play it doesn't have quite the vibrance of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and not quite the brightness of the iPad 2 but it's very very passable and it's a smaller screen anyway so actually that doesn't really make a difference at all okay this is something that just absolutely tanks the performance of every mobile browser that I've had the displeasure of using trying to view YouTube comments which as you guys can imagine is something that I do try to do on a tablet so I want you guys to just have a quick look at what the fluidity is like so yes the UI on the Nexus 7 is absolutely gorgeous and amazing and so smooth and it looks like it decided to do this a slightly different way from me here give me a sec guys so this is cool they have with the Chrome and YouTube app integration that they've done here this is this is absolutely awesome so instead of clicking on this and having it open in Chrome it actually opens in the YouTube app which is so much smoother compared to trying to navigate in Chrome for things like reading comments and seeing related videos and seeing the information all you do is rotate it and it goes ahead and puts it in and I'm just gonna turn that down a little bit there we go goes ahead and puts it in video viewing mode for you rotations pretty smooth however for the sake of showing you guys what I think of the performance here this is cool too when you're clicking on something small it's really neat it pops it up for you so you can make sure you click the right thing so we're going to go ahead and view the comments of that video in much the same way that we're looking at them on the other tablets so I'll show you guys how this tanks the performance of pretty much every tablet ever and I quite can't quite figure out why but the Nexus 7 does better then so the iPad in spite of its normal smoothness you can see legs quite a bit behind when I'm trying to browse comments and just has sort of glitches and the loading same thing with older Android tablets you can see it's very very glitchy trying to browse this for whatever reason it doesn't help when there are tons of comments on the video and this particular one has a few thousand comments so you can see it's actually not as bad as I've come to expect from Android tablets it's closer to the experience you have with the iPad 2 but with some of the UI tweaks that they've made I would never have to use this kind of an interface for it anyway which is very very refreshing quebra games run obviously better on the Nexus 7 you can see the older Tegra 2 is chopping up a little bit just watching this spaceship hover around and demolition Inc whereas here I'm just going to brace myself so you can see this movement compared to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 well you'll have to take my word for it because apparently you can't see that at all and the lighting in here is absolutely terrible but whatever okay so we're gonna do that play play the graphics also look better just due to the higher pixel density so you can see lots of aliasing and garbage on this one whereas here the line looks a lot smoother it's not because it's running a high res it's just the higher pixel density that's all yeah it looks so much sharper and runs way smoother you can see it start to chug as it tries to zoom in on the city here that is absolutely absolutely outstanding I mean none of this should really come as a surprise given that it is a Tegra 3 processor and that is better than a Tegra 2 but just the fluidity is is very very nice there's a few other tweaks that I really really liked already about about the Nexus 7 so one of them is the quick access to settings as well as the quick access here to your rotation lock little things like that that make me really happy touch screen is very very accurate and move within the I mean it's just so lightning fast and smooth that it just makes everything else look like a joke not we've seen in the past let's just go back let's go back to home oh let's load up the Nvidia globe all demo because who doesn't love the global demo I haven't actually seen it in person before because this is the first time I'd had access to a to a Tegra 3 tablet cool I don't know how to use it or anything oh you tilt it okay I guess that makes sense we glow okay this is sort of less fun than I thought it was gonna be boom you know things over with physics okay sorry I'm done now so I think that pretty much wraps it up I don't know how much else there is for me to say about it other than so far I'm really impressed it basically is everything that it sounds like it is it's a Tegra 3 tablet at a $1.99 price point for the 8 gig version you don't get any SD expansion so that's maybe one thing that some people don't like about oh yeah there's a speaker on the back right under the Asus logo that bar right there so yeah it's a it's a it's a knight it's a $1.99 Tegra 3 tablet that has a very nice screen good form factor great build quality and I'm overall very impressed and it's my camera really not focusing like this entire time oh it's just the contrast ok well the screen looks a lot better than it does in my pathetic camera so I'm sorry for that but thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Nexus 7 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and don't forget to subscribe to my MCI XCOM channel as well or to the NCIX kalam channel as well where i'll be doing a full proper rundown of this new tablet and the new OS that goes with