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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocket now com google finally did it they made a nexus tablet and you know what this better be good let's unbox it and you know I say it better be good because every Android tablet that I've tried with the exception of the transformer and transformer prime has been horrible it's been laggy it's been slow the app situation for android tablets is just not good and there's just not a compelling tablet experience yet for Android as I said except for the transformer transformer prime so Google putting the Nexus brand on the tablet must mean that it's good at least we hope that does so we're going to unbox us now and this is the tablet that came from google i/o so it's the white one with 8 gigabytes and I don't know if you if you're if you can see this but they actually made a seven with the sort of silhouette of the Nexus 7 I didn't really realize that until someone pointed it out to me but it's kind of a cool touch and I hope that you agree so what's cool about this tablet well two big things in my mind one speed and fluidity it's got jelly bean on it and we've already showed you Android jelly bean on the Galaxy Nexus and we really like what we see it's it's super fast and fluid there's just something about it that makes it just respond so well to your touches and number two this tablet is thin and light we're going to compare it to the Galaxy Tab 7.7 which was one of the thinnest lightest tablets of all time the 7-inch form factor is just super sweet for people that want something that is actually comfortable to hold a lot of those 10 inch tablets out there I know I'm talking a lot here a lot of those 10 inch tablets out there are cumbersome to hold even the iPad when we did after the buzz with the new iPad that's something that we said the ipad is thick and heavy when you're trying to read a book on it or a magazine or newspaper it's just it's it's a pain it's not comfortable it doesn't really give you that experience of lightness and of comfort and so with the Nexus 7 we might actually get that experience because it's so thin and so light or at least that is what people are saying so let's take this out of Z and it's really tight here there we go and I really don't care about the accessories to be honest yeah this is light and I'm really curious to see if it's light compared to Galaxy Tab 7.7 which is still running honeycomb making it useless because it's so laggy it'll be upgraded to ice cream sandwich in the summer thanks Samsung come on guys so let's see if it is heavier it's tough to tell here but definitely actually I'd say the Nexus 7 is lighter but definitely thicker let's get this plastic wrap off that's no fun and those of you watching this at home that have pre-ordered the nexus 7 might be a little disappointed that you don't get the white version but you know what guys this white cover is just that it's a backing it's a cover when you get your black Nexus 7 from the pre-order I'm going to bet you that there's gonna be a lot of third party sites that will sell this white backing or at least you can paint it or there will be once with different decals or colors but this is just a backing so it's not like it goes all around the device you have to disassemble it this is just a simple backing and darn this is nice i love the dimples here this has a rubbery texture and it just feels good in the hand definitely not slippy slippery but definitely a little bit thick actually and i'm surprised by that if you look next to the 7.7 you can definitely see what I'm talking about it is it is probably thirty percent thicker but a little bit lighter so that kind of makes up for it so a few things of note here we're actually turn it on while we talk about it here now this has a Tegra 3 chip and I'm really skeptical about the Tegra 3 chip because on the one x on the acer iconia a 700 the linux third not that what X the Tegra 3 just doesn't perform that well it does a great job of gaming don't get me wrong but in terms of fluidity of the operating system it just hasn't impressed me and hopefully hopefully since this is a Nexus device it's going to be good enough plus the combination of jelly bean should have a winning combination so let's just look at the hardware kind of get a chance to get some first impressions here just that flat piece of glass on the front I never really large lens therefore the front facing camera thank goodness they didn't put a rear-facing camera on the Nexus so that would have just increased the price made of thicker and no one uses the rear-facing camera on a tablet anyway looks like that pretty very predominant speaker grill this is made by asus of course asus is doing an awesome job with tablet it seems as i mentioned the transformer transfer primer to the best android tablets or the only best android tablets we've got the the power button over there in the upper right corner kind of samsung style and then we've got the volume rocker got a microphone here this will be fun to use skype on this we've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the bottom and the micro SD micro USB on the bottom really liking this white I got it I got to say really dig it really nice so let's turn on the screen and welcome okay that's exciting select Wi-Fi I'm gonna get this hooked up I'll be right back okay and we're back and i plugged in my google ID so it's starting to pull some content based on movie recommendations this tablet is all about content it shows some some magazines that i've recently looked at you know in a lot of ways this tablet is made for two kinds of people when it's made for what we call the grammy group people that want things just to work that's easy to use that's simple i could give this to my mom and I feel like she'd have a pretty good experience on it she'd read some books she'd watch look at some magazines watch some videos of the other group of people that this is intended for is the power user which is very interesting because usually you don't get the granny group and the power user to get happy from the same device reason I say that this is good for the power user because it's a Nexus device it's going to be fast and just moving around i can tell you that it's pretty darn fast we're going to have more tests later but also it's going to be easy to unlock there's gonna be a lot of great development work on this tablet and so we're really going to see this tablet shine so the 199 dollar price point for the eight gigabyte model on the 249 price point for the 16gb model is just super sweet just want to go into the web browser and poke around for a few minutes while we while we film the rest of this video accept and continue sure sign in and of course chrome sink is pretty cool so we're gonna go to pocketnow.com and one thing that i have to say is that 7-inch tablets are very conducive to portrait typing and that's really important because a lot of tablets are very difficult to type on especially when you're in the landscape keyboard it's just it's huge and you can't use your fingers but here on the Nexus 7 it's the perfect size to type in portrait even if you have small hands like me so this will be great for emailing great for inputting text alright so here we are screen looks very nice by the way it's not amazing that's 1280 x 800 so that gives it a dpi of like 214 as a comparison the transformer prime tf700 the one with the higher res screen is around 230 and then the ipad 3 is 260 so so there's definitely a difference there but you know they had to keep the price down somehow so we're trying to go in a landscape hello maybe landscape lock is on with to check for that let's flick down the page very smooth just like we saw on the Galaxy Nexus web browsing performance is very good and you know the the animation for the multitask UI is gone it's just there there really aren't any apps open actually let's open a couple of things just kind of try to overwhelm it I guess just open up a ton of apps and none of these are in memory right now so they're just kind of like you know loading slowly and we'll open a book the nexus 7 guidebook look at this pretty page animation okay let's go to the multitask you I so no animation anymore boom it just pops right open it's a lot faster than it used to be so a lot of cool stuff with this tablet lot of cool stuff that we're going to do and talk about in future videos this might be the best tablet that has ever come to Android in fact it probably is just by virtue of the price being so low packing a quad-core CPU with a gig of ram pretty nice screen by the way let's see can you see pixels on the focus can you see pixels yeah I can but you know you hold a tablet not right up to your face that you would have phone so that doesn't matter as much anyway a lot of talking but this tablet is really cool very excited about it and we're gonna have a lot more coming up on it so if you like this video please give us a 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