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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by audible hello internet and welcome back to another episode of ask the Buffalo the show where you can ask me Ashley discover any question you might have from the wide world of technology and sometimes beyond every tuesday we put up a call for questions on TechnoBuffalo calm you can leave your question in the post comments otherwise you can send them to me on Twitter anytime of the day or night at TechnoBuffalo or at Ashley asked Emma to make sure you use the hashtag ask the be so I can see it and usually on every show I answer between three and five questions so let's get answering this is ask the buff twitter user grieve Tom asked hi I'm looking for a small flagship tablet and I'm thinking either the nexus 7 or the LG G pad any recommendations ok Tom so this is a really tough question and I don't want to cop out by saying well these are both just fantastic devices and either when you go with is going to be great now that's true whichever one you go with would be pretty good but let's hash it out here let's figure out which one we think you should choose so you have the nexus 7 on one hand the second gen Nexus 7 is gorgeous it's thin it's lightweight it's seven inches you can throw it in a bag it's really easy to carry around obviously new updated screen you're gonna get the most recent version of Android as soon as it comes out pretty much you're gonna get KitKat almost right away with a nexus 7 and obviously running stock Android so you get to do all the things you've always wanted to do with the Nexus 7 I can't fault it there's some really great features on the Nexus 7 however I got to use the LG G pad over in Germany when I was there for Eva really nice I mean they've got some great software features they have the tray we're able to sort of swipe over and keep three apps sort of hidden off screen where you can bring them back on quickly and they're easy to use and they have some really neat software tweaks and features on the G pad so the thing is is you're getting all these great software features on the LG G pad but because of that you're probably not going to be getting the most recent version of android so 4.4 kitkat when it comes out in the next few weeks I should say the coming weeks we don't know when it is you get a G pad might be looking to the nexus going I wish I had gotten KitKat 4.4 and now I'm gonna be waiting while G pad so with that being said neck-and-neck race I think just the availability of the newest version of Android especially because it's imminent I'm gonna go with the Nexus 7 Josh asks hey Ashley with Apple now hosting its ipad event on tuesday when will we see an update to the nexus 10 from google what do you expect the nexus 10 second generation will bring to the tablet market well josh the second-generation Nexus 10 is definitely on Google slate I mean I think we all know it hopefully it will be coming with maybe even on the same day as the announcement for KitKat 4.4 so I think it will ship with kitkat 4.4 it's a really nice device the first gen I was a little bit of a skeptic at first I really loved the Nexus 7 has opposed to the nexus 10 4 1st gen but I think that this might be a really nice turnaround for Google in terms of making the design a little bit more streamlined a little less bubbly on the corners we may see more storage either internally or even with an expandable storage slot which obviously is really important to a lot of you guys out there one of the things that people did not like about the original Nexus 10 was no cellular no LTE hopefully at this point we'll see LTE on board for the next to 10 second gen and then obviously it's going to have better specs but at the end of the day I definitely think that 10-inch tablets in general on Android are all really kind of offering the same thing I think whatever you know magical thing that the 2nd gen Nexus 10 offers is going to be bundled in with KitKat and the one thing I would really love to see as if Google bundled the nexus 7 in the nexus 10 for the holidays with a free chromecast I think that's a great way to get people involved in the Google ecosystem in an inexpensive and fun way twitter user iOS James asks what are your thoughts on BBM's blatant disrespect of keeping followers informed game over BlackBerry's going through a lot right now let's all be real here they're going through a lot they've got some acquisition issues it's possible a bigger company might snap them up because right now they have the ability sort of shop around for a different buyer I'm so Fairfax may not even be buying them officially it could be someone else could be a bigger company honestly it could be that not even the BBM team knows what's going on and I know that that's a really scary thing obviously you want the people delivering your software to know what's happening in exactly and when you want a perfect roadmap that everything is going to come out on time but at the end of the day you know stuff happens and there's a different way to say that that's a four letter word that is even more appropriate but it's not appropriate for this show so I'm going to skip it but you know what I mean I mean stuff happens and sometimes you gotta just take a detour and figure things out I think that's what bbm is doing I think that's what the BBM team is doing I'm sure that if they could just wave a magic wand and release it to you guys they absolutely would but unfortunately right now things are a little bit in a state of flux over at blackberry so I don't blame them I don't think it's disrespectful I just think that uh you know F happens I gotta interrupt the show for just one second talk about our good friends at audible Oh head TechnoBuffalo is in Southern California do you know what that means traffic and you know what keeps me sane in traffic audible com they're the biggest audiobook site on the web with over a hundred thousand titles to choose from that's a 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