I’ve tested a lot of small tablets over the years, but the 2013 Nexus 7 is one of the few I genuinely wanted to love. It’s lighter, slimmer, and a clear step up from the original, and on paper it should have wiped the floor with the iPad mini and Kindle Fire HD. Instead, using […]
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Nexus 7 Revisited: The $200 Tablet That Cut Too Many Corners
Samsung was selling one of the cheapest dual-core Android phones at $350; Google and ASUS walked in with a quad-core 7-inch tablet for $199. On paper, the Nexus 7 looked like a blunt-force weapon aimed at every budget slate and maybe even the iPad. In practice, it’s a very fast, very focused device that also […]
Motorola XOOM Revisited: Honeycomb’s Ambitious, Flawed First Draft
Google’s first serious tablet push didn’t start with a Pixel Slate or a Galaxy Tab partnership. It started with Motorola, Honeycomb, and a 10.1‑inch slab called the XOOM that was supposed to be Android’s big-bang moment against the iPad. In theory, it had everything: dual‑core Tegra 2, a higher‑res display than Apple, expandable storage, HDMI […]