The holidays are approaching fast, and it’s time to start picking up some gifts: for friends, family, even yourself. But when you’re picking out what to go with, it’s sometimes wise to stay away from the absolute best. Sometimes you just want the best value—something that’s worth every shiny, hard-earned penny. More »
News Corporation’s iPad-exclusive digital newspaper, The Daily, may have went the way of the dodo, but UK-based The Times seems to be staying alive with a new offer that will hopefully get more paying subscribers on board. The newspaper is offering a 32GB version of the Nexus 7 for only £50 if you buy 18 months worth of a £4-per-week subscription.
The subscription will get you access to the full site, as well as the mobile apps, but you can also bump up your subscription to include the physical newspapers if you want. The subscription alone would cost you £300, but if it’s worth getting a Nexus 7 for 75% off, we don’t see what the problem is, especially if you actually plan on using the subscription and getting all your money’s worth.
The Times, which is one of the only major UK newspapers to keep its content behind a paywall, offers three different types of subscriptions. The Digital Pack is their basic plan at £4 per week, and it gives you access to the full site, as well as tablet and smartphone apps. The Classic Pack costs £6 per week, and that gives you physical copies of the paper, access to the full site, and access to the smartphone app. The Ultimate Pack costs £8 per week, and that comes with everything, including access to the tablet app.
If you were already planning on getting a subscription to The Times, we can’t think of a good enough reason not to take the deal and run while you still can. The Nexus 7 is one of the most popular Android tablets on the market right now, and for good reason. It comes packing with Jelly Bean, and a beautiful 7-inch display with a 720p resolution.
[via Android Community]
The Times offering subsidized Nexus 7 32GB for £50 with purchase of subscription is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Thinking about getting your hands the Nexus 7 tablet? The good news is that in an effort to reach out to a larger digital audience, British newspaper The Times is reportedly offering subscribers a heavily subsidized Nexus 7 32GB for 50 GBP. The standard retail price is 199 GBP, so 50 GBP sounds like a pretty good deal. The catch is that in order to qualify for this subsidized Nexus 7, customers would be required to subscribe to The Times over the course of 18 months which can either be paid upfront at 299 GBP, or they can opt to be charged on a monthly basis at 17.33 GBP a month. Subscribers will be able to gain access to The Times’ paywalled content, which at the same time allows them to access The Times on multiple platforms through the app. What this means is that even though you will be getting a Nexus 7 tablet out of this deal, if you prefer reading The Times on your iPad, your subscription will allow you to do so (meaning you won’t have to subscribe twice). It’s an interesting move and we wonder if this might be good enough to encourage more readers to subscribe to the digital versions of publications.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Toshiba Excite 10 SE Android Tablet, Android Kids Tablet Fuhu Nabi Jr Launched,
It’s an early Christmas at Ubergizmo, and we are joining forces with NVIDIA to give away five Nexus 7 tablets (16GB, WiFi). In our Nexus 7 Review, we called it the ‘best 7-inch tablet’, and 5 months after its arrival onto the scene, it remains a formidable value-proposition as it offers great hardware, a pure Android experience and quick access to the latest OS updates and features.
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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iPad mini Review, Google Nexus 10 Review,
Sometime early next month, ASUS will be launching a docking station for the Nexus 7. The device is the first of its kind, and is priced at 3,480 Yen, which is about $40USD. The pictures show the Nexus 7 being docked in landscape mode, with an audio port and micro USB port on the back of the unit.
The Nexus 7 docking station features a 3.5mm audio port on the back. Says the website, “It is necessary to connect the USB AC adapter [when using audio output] to power the docking station at all times.” The Nexus has to be running Android 4.2 in order to use the dock. The unit measures in at 219mm x 65mm x 30mm, and weighs about 280 grams.
This is the only Nexus 7 docking station available with an audio output feature. It appears to have been available for preorder at some point, with the product page stating both “Now accepting reservations” and “Reservation has ended.” There’s no definite date for when it will be released, with the website merely stating “Will be released in early December 2012.” Of course, that could be as early as next week, so you might be able to nab one before Christmas.
The Nexus 7 runs Android Jelly Bean, and brings with it a host of hardware that makes the price-to-power ratio excellent. Inside you’ll find an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The display is a cool 7-inches offering 1280 x 800 resolution. It has all the trimmings, including a gyroscope and accelerometer. You can check out our full review of the tablet here.
[via ASUS]
ASUS Nexus 7 docking station to arrive in December is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sick of propping your Nexus 7 up with books, backpacks and terrifying spider-stands? ASUS has something for you — an official charging cradle. This wedge shaped slab dock was leaked in an accessory presentation back in July, flaunting a Micro USB connector and 3.5mm audio jack — now it’s back, flaunting a ¥3,580 ($42) sticker price on the Japanese ASUS shop. There’s no word yet on international availability or official US prices, but the product page pegs the cradle for an early December ship date.
Source: ASUS
It’s no secret that there’s more hardware on the way from ASUS, it’s just a question of if it’s actually the $99 “Nexus” that’s been rumored since before the Google Nexus 7. What we’re seeing today is a set of benchmark results coming from GLbench which show a model by the name of ASUS ME172V, a model with specifications ever-so-slightly less fabulous than the Nexus 7. This model may well be a new iteration of the Nexus 7 which knocks down its innards this slight amount in order to sell the machine for half the price.
The results here tell just enough to get our rumors in order, starting with the name – and that code just allows us to pull up a keyword other than the “$99 Nexus” we’ve had thus far. We can also see that this unit is using a 400MHz Mali GPU, has a 1GHz CPU core – without mention of how many cores there are, of course, and a screen resolution of 1024×600 pixels.
In reality the much more likely situation is that ASUS is simply creating a low-cost 7-inch tablet for low release. This model will likely be sent across the earth to places where a much faster processor isn’t as necessary and where it’s much more important to have an extremely “low” price point. ASUS has seen significant success with the Nexus 7 at a low price point with deep connection to Google – no reason why they wouldn’t continue that trend across the planet.
This machine also has a microSD card slot – this essentially knocks it out of the running for a Nexus machine unless Google has a big change of heart on how a 7-inch Nexus should be accessible. The most likely situation here is that this is indeed an Android-running tablet from ASUS but that Google wont be using it as a Nexus – you’ll be seeing it on the market in a limited release outside the USA in the next several months.
[via Digital Reader]
$99 Nexus 7 impersonator appears in benchmarks: ASUS undercut on the way is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This morning, Google began rolling out the Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean update for the LG Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices. A few hours later, an update for the Nexus 7 joined into the mix, and now, finally, an update has also been pushed out for the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus. The update isn’t huge, and brings with it some minor changes and fixes.
The update brings with it several small fixes that are relatively minor in nature. Perhaps the most notorious change is that of adding the month of December back to the people app, something they forgot to include the first time around. Also fixed are some issues with Bluetooth and wireless Internet connectivity.
While it is a minor update, users are reporting massive speed improvements on their Nexus 7 devices over at Android Community. Presumably, those using one of the other Nexus devices will also see speed improvements. One user also reports that screen rotation seems faster, and that audio “choppiness” experienced when streaming music via Bluetooth has been reduced substantially.
The easiest way to get the update, obviously, is to wait for the over-the-air notification to arrive. If you’re feeling impatient, however, you can download the updates via the links below, or, perhaps a bit easier, you can manually check for updates via Settings. Have you updated your Nexus device? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Download: Android 4.2.1 for Nexus 7
Download: Android 4.2.1 for Galaxy Nexus
[via Android Community]
Nexus 7 and HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus get Android 4.2.1 update is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In two massively gigantic downloads out on the market right this second, the development team at Fatshark have teamed up with NVIDIA to bring on the console and PC Indiana Jones-like puzzle thriller Hamilton’s Great Adventure to Android. This game works only on devices packing an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor – that including, of course, the Google Nexus 7 tablet, your best pal! Here in Hamilton’s Great Adventure THD and Hamilton’s Great Adventure THD Expansion Pack you’ll get massive amounts of puzzles to whip your way through in full-on leather jacket and next-level graphics from all directions.
This game has 22 levels, 24 puzzles, and 2 worlds per pack. There are two packs – that’s two applications, the second relying on the first to work – each of them with their own set of 22 levels, 24 puzzles, and 2 worlds. Worlds include Jungle of Amazonas, Mountains of Himalaya, Ruins of Egypt, and the Lost continent of Maralidia, and you get your bird companion Sasha the whole way through. This game takes what the original PC and console iterations brought forth and makes a miraculous re-creation here for the mobile environment.
You’ll be working with our good grave-robbing buddy and his fine feathered friend through this lovely collection of levels AS him or the bird. For bird controls you’ll be using your tablet or smartphone’s entire bulk to fly upward or downward – it’s no easy task! Avoid flying too low into the dust – you’ll get lost!
A couple things you may want to look out for before tossing cash towards this two-part beast download of a game: you need 1GB of space on your device for each half of the game. This is no small requirement, especially if you’ve got an 8GB Nexus 7. You’ll also want to be sure you have the first part of the game before you buy the expansion, as the expansion does not work without the first part. You’ll also want to be aware that this game works ONLY on devices running an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor – if you don’t know if your device does, generally Google Play will tell you, but in this case it appears that it’s only after you’ve made the download that the game itself lets you know – be careful!
This game is intensely immersive, full to the max with mind-bogglingly difficult puzzles and high quality graphics you’ll be surprised your mobile device can work with. It would appear that Fatshark has a winner on their hands as far as gigantic Android games go – just so long as you’ve got the space and patience for it: you’re going to go nuts with puzzling levels of death from start to finish!
Hamilton’s Great Adventure THD Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google’s Nexus 7 3G is back in stock in the UK, with stocks of the 7-inch tablet finally restored after selling out shortly after the first listing went live. The ASUS-made slate – which is priced at £239 with 32GB of storage and an unlocked HSPA+ modem – currently ships in 3-5 days, according to Google’s Play store, as per the WiFi-only 16GB and 32GB versions.
The most expensive Nexus 7, the HSPA+ model supports pentaband 3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz) for use across most of the European 3G networks, and comes without a SIM or data plan. Instead, buyers are left to shop for their own plan of choice, whether that be a cheap pay-as-you-go deal for intermittent use, or a more sizable bundle for heavier users.
While not quite as speedy to sell out as the Nexus 4 smartphone, Google’s limited supplies of the 3G variant of the Nexus 7 didn’t hold up to prolonged interest, and the slate has been unavailable for the past week or so. That’s in no small part because of its affordability: it’s £130 less than the cheapest iPad mini WiFi + Cellular, though Apple’s tablet does support 4G on select networks.
As for the Nexus 4, Google’s smartphone still has no estimated availability date for UK shoppers from the Play store. That leaves either patience or a comparatively expensive carrier deal the only two options.
Nexus 7 3G back on sale in UK is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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