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hey what's up guys mkbhd here with Google's Nexus 10 it's a flagship super high-resolution Android tablet of course it's made by Samsung and sold by Google and this review video I'll try to give you a couple of things that you might want to know about this tablet if you're considering buying it and basically what differentiates it from other tablets that I've already reviewed the first differentiation is on the outside the design and the build and this is an interesting combination of specs on this tablet on the outside you have a hardened plastic build that feels pretty good in the hand it's pretty lightweight about 600 grams and it feels great especially because of the awesome tacky material on the back it really surprised me in the unboxing that I did and I definitely still love it even though it is a super fingerprint magnet I still love it it's a super simple design really with the pogo pins down at the bottom the volume and power buttons up top and the overall slightly curved design in order to fit well in two hands and landscape mode and has these awesome front-facing triple-channel speakers these are great for media consumption which we'll get to in a second and you can't even really cover them all with your hands because there's such large speakers something also that's weird about the volume buttons is when you go from landscape to portrait mode the volume buttons are backwards so the top brings volume down and the bottom brings volume up so that's something you'll have to get used to a little quirky at the top of the back here is a removable panel with magnets underneath for a future Smart Cover like accessory that hopefully Google will start selling in the Play Store very soon there's also a 5 megapixel camera and flash in the middle which actually takes some pretty decent shots but then again why would you take pictures with the tablet anyway below that is a 9000 milliamp hour battery which easily lasted me days on end with medium use it did take a little extra time to charge because it's such a big battery but it was worth it and you got about 5 hours of screen on time the next thing you should know about this tablet is the internals this guy is rocking an Exynos 5 dual core CPU with the Mallee T 604 GPU 2 gigabytes of RAM and up to 32 gigabytes of sealed storage bench marks indicate that this is a mid-range device with solid power basically but these benchmarks don't exactly translate well into real life performance speaking of performance this thing flies and that's because of the next thing that differentiates this tablet from others is that it is indeed a nexus it's running stock pure Android 4.2 jelly bean so the tablet layout for Android has changed so now you get those same back home and multitasking software buttons down at the bottom that you get on phones I don't know if I like this more or less than the older honeycomb layout but I can see why they changed it another change is the split pulldown trays so the one on the left is for your regular notifications and the one on the right is your quick settings so you get all sorts of settings controls and this works particularly well for me on a tablet because I am constantly adjusting things like screen brightness toggling Wi-Fi on and off turning autorotation on and off and more but you can even toggle multiple user accounts from here so it's all just a swipe down away and it's pretty useful to me also as usual I'll reference you guys to my video linked down below in the description below the like button on this video in which I cover everything that is new in Android 4.2 jelly bean the next unique thing you need to know about this tablet is easily the most important it is that this is a 2560 by 1600 IPS display my gosh this thing handles the best-looking mobile display out there now it takes a couple of things to make such a display a good experience not only does it have to be a good quality display but you need the content to take advantage of it you need the apps games movies videos software fonts icons you need so many things to be optimized for such a high res display content optimization that's what we'll call it and content optimization is what's missing on this tableau right now first of all there aren't a whole lot of apps that are optimized for Android tablets to begin with so when you open them they have the telltale signs of a phone icon and they run the phone app in landscape mode and on top of that there are very few apps that are optimized to take full advantage of this high density 300 PPI display so there will be apps that work perfectly on this tablet layout but you'll be able to see where certain developers use lower resolution icons or didn't update their graphics fully so you'll be able to see pixelization in some apps that being said the apps and games that do work and are optimized for tablets and are optimized for this display look phenomenal especially with text you'll see text in something like Google Books or Google Play magazines they are the most impressive parts of when you're looking at things are optimized for this display also high resolution images really stand out and pop this isn't an AMOLED display so the contrast ratios aren't quite as high as some of the other tablets like the Galaxy Note 10.1 but I'd honestly rather have this IPS display for immediate consumption than any other that exists right now Android itself is optimized Google apps are optimized the keyboard is optimized and you'll notice that super crisp text pretty much everywhere through Android menus and graphics all of them are high-quality so that's the first thing as optimized and but just you and you're buying a new tablet like this you're pretty much waiting on in the ecosystem to catch up to it Gaming can be a phenomenal experience but you'll be waiting on games to play that actually look phenomenal because they were all built you know originally for 1280 by 720 displays the games I found that are fully optimized for the Nexus 10 seriously having me holding on to this tablet and keeping it for the future of what this experience will be like and Google is doing their fair share and encouraging developers and people like that to update their apps their icons their graphics etc to look great on a display like this that being said right now it's really hit or miss simply because this display is so far ahead of its time either way the Nexus 10 is in stock right now as as soon as I'm doing this narration right now it is in stock in a Play Store so don't even waste your time check it out the link is below this video for G Nexus 10 might be the dream but there is only a Wi-Fi only model this guy for now to wrap it all up this is an excellent tablet for an excellent price just enough ahead of its time for it to become its biggest weakness for now if you guys have any questions or anything you want to know about this guy feel free to leave that in the comments section below where you can see me answering them and if you want to see more videos like this go ahead and subscribe that's it that's the Nexus 10 thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the very next video face you