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up until now there was never a Nexus tablet there were Nexus phones but no tablet the Motorola Xoom for example was a 10 inch tablet running stock Android but it's not a nexus and the Asus Transformer has run a very close version of stock Android but not exactly and they're not nexuses so when Google announced a tablet they made a few very curious decisions behind the scenes and came up with this the Nexus 7 the a gigabyte Nexus 7 costs $200 you know what else costs $200 the 8 gigabyte iPod touch ok so that gives you a good idea of the bang for buck that you get out of the sky and that bang comes from a 1.3 gigahertz quad-core Tegra 3 chip and 1 gigabyte of RAM all behind the scenes powering Android 4.1 jelly bean now I'm not going to restate all of the reasons why Android 4.1 is so awesome but there's an annotation and a link below to my video covering all of the best new features of the operating system but most notably during my time with the device project butter as I spend more time with it I've actually noticed it's more Universal around the entire operating system than I first thought it was people always demonstrate it just by swiping around the launcher you know between home screens and through the app tray but it's even inside of apps too so scrolling through websites and chrome turning pages and books and navigating through apps the overall touch response everywhere just makes it seem super fast and that's going to keep the tablet feeling newer longer and I'm not even much of a gamer but even the games I played seem to perform better and at higher frame rates thanks to butter now the apps the apps are very important when talking about the Nexus 7 a lot of people will criticize it saying Android still lacks tablet apps which can be true but thanks to the smaller 7-inch display and the resolution it handles phone optimized apps just as well as it handles tablet optimized apps so it's kind of like a hybrid between the two and lets to get a peek into the best of both worlds now not all apps are compatible with Android 4.1 yet so if your favorite third-party app isn't compatible send an email to that developer and there are some pretty sweet new apps being updated to take advantage of the 7-inch screen so that's pretty cool one thing that's also different with the larger display since the seven-inch tablet is notifications and Google's created an interesting spin-off of the regular Android phones pulldown notifications the pulldown tray here doesn't take up the whole screen it's just in the center when you're in portrait mode and you get all that neat new stuff with expandable notifications that Google has baked into Android 4.1 some very useful stuff in here neat features and third-party apps can also take advantage of these expandable notifications but the neat thing is once you go into landscape it shifts over to the left-hand side so you can actually still kind of see what's going on in the background which is nice and you'll notice though that the Nexus 7 does go back to feeling like a large phone when it doesn't let you rotate the homescreen into landscape so like some of the bigger tablets out there they go straight to landscape but the Nexus 7 doesn't let you rotate the home to landscape mode just yet overall though if you're concerned about the seven inch form factor not feeling large enough to be different from your phone trust me it is for example after using the Galaxy s3 for about a month the current iPhone seemed like this I'm going from a 7-inch tablet back down to a four point eight inch phone it has a similar effect I still use the Nexus 7 as a one-handed device though but that may just because I have huge hands not really sure either way I mentioned at the beginning of the video that it's a two hundred dollar tablet and we've seen some pretty crappy $200 tablets in terms of build quality but this one is fine trust me to keep it thin like this it's sealed into one rigid design so you have to twist it really hard to get it to flex and this also means no expandable storage or replaceable battery but no worries about the battery the 4325 milliamp hour battery lasts plenty long easily a full two days of regular use there's no camera on the back of the Nexus 7 but let's face it it's a tablet you don't really need it but there is a front facing camera and plenty of apps in the Play Store that can take advantage of it the only gripe I have about the exterior was a placement of these buttons yes it's a one-handed device but that doesn't mean you have to put all the buttons on one side I found myself blindly reaching to turn the volume up on a YouTube video and I press the power button right next to it instead which turn the screen off so that's a little bit annoying but I would have liked to see the power and volume buttons a little bit further apart oh and that plastic back does help Wi-Fi reception it's almost always full strength Baus and a small touch is the elongated speaker on the back which makes it really difficult to block the whole thing accidentally and the display on the front while it isn't a Retina display or anything crazy like that it's 200 bucks it's more than 200 pixels per inch at 1280 by 720 and it looks damn impressive anyway now it's Wi-Fi only and this one happens to be a gigabytes and that's a bad combo if you're one of those people who's away from Wi-Fi all the time and wants to save stuff for offline use which is why I'm thinking go with the 16 gigabyte or there maybe something along the lines of a nexus 10 perhaps with a cellular radio somewhere in the near future so in the end is the nexus 7 a good product is it worth the $200 for this a gig version here Google spends about $200 to make it and then sells it for about $200 but they're trusting that you will spend enough time in the Google Play Store on this device to start giving Google more money and make it worth itself they even give you a $25 credit to the Google Play Store so once you go through that Google Play credit you run out of 25 bucks maybe a couple hours after you get it or a couple of days or a couple of months but once you finally run out of that free credit you're going to start spending money on apps books movies games TV shows and all kinds of things like that and that'll hopefully be giving Google a lot more money than when you originally purchase this tablet that's what they're banking on and that's why they made a nexus tablet for the Google Play Store all the ads you see for the Nexus are talking about the fact that this is built for the Google Play Store and that's exactly why they even give you a free copy of like I showed you the Transformers Dark of the Moon movie hoping that you'll enjoy the experience so much that you'll want to buy more movies in the Google Play Store and give Google more money overall though I was interested in what they were going to come up with for the first Nexus tablet because there was no Nexus tablet before this there was a Motorola Xoom which also happens to be stock but this is the first Nexus tablet and they decided to go with a 7 inch form factor and that sort of intrigued me but I turned out to like it a lot so what do you guys think if you enjoyed this video review feel free to give it a thumbs up and leave your thoughts in the comment section below and you can see I'm probably already answer in the comments down there so open conversation to talk about the Nexus 7 either way thanks for watching this video hope you enjoyed it and looking forward to the next one thank you for watching talk to you later you