*** The Official Google Nexus 7 Thread ***

Mine flickers as well. I was thinking of exchanging it but it seems a common problem. Reading books at night is impossible on this tablet.
 
Hey,

Is there anywhere other than the Play store to pick up a Nexus 7 3G? Shipping charges are a bit of a killer... I thought Three were getting them?

Cheers,

Su
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Mine flickers as well. I was thinking of exchanging it but it seems a common problem. Reading books at night is impossible on this tablet.
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I just find it distracting when I'm on forums/net. It only started 2 updates ago I think, or that's when I started noticing it anyhow.
 
koooowweeee said:
can you not wifi tether?
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I can, but my 7 is always connected to my phone over BT anyway (Tablet Talk is awesome). You can also enable BT tethering just from the tablet, no need to get the phone out.

Buckster said:
I can't tether :(

Iphone and blocked on Tesco :(
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I don't think a tethered Nexus 7 would be detected using the methods most networks use.
 
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^^ unfortunately (unless you know otherwise)

on Iphone and IOS it can be completely disabled in the OS itself

IE I have no option to even enable tethering on my Iphone 4 on Tesco :( a pity as I have 2gb data allowance a month
 
Does the Nexus 7 still have terrible colours? Over on XDA developers they seem to say that the newer batches are better (nobody says fixed) but looking at this thread it seems like the UK is still getting a lot of faults. It seems like the US hasn't even had many screen flickering problems for months as well?

I dropped hints that I wanted a Nexus 7 for Christmas and two days later saw a black Kindle box in the kitchen so I'm pretty sure all that was heard was "£160 tablet" and due to Amazon's better marketing I'm going to end up with a Kindle Fire HD.

One of the reasons I want a 7" tablet is for 7" web design and the KFHD was my second choice due to the better screen. It seems like they're also now very close to loading custom ROMs on to it and so proper Jelly Bean might be available by Xmas.

Basically I'm worried that I'm going to have to be a douche and return a gifted KFHD for a Nexus 7 and then look stupid as I go through RMAs trying to get a decent quality N7 (I have bad enough luck with Apple and any monitor manufacturer). I'm not too fussed about gaming performance since frankly the best touch games are usually 2D or word games, and gaming releases on Android suck compared to iOS anyway. But if I'm stuck with the Amazon OS or even crappy general performance with a custom ROM then I'd really rather have the N7.
 
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The colours are a bit washed compared to my HTC Flyer. It is still a bright vibrant display and I seem to only get the flicker at low backlight levels on auto. Disabling the Auto it seems ok.
 
benjo said:
My dad just sold his TF300T on ebay for £320. Not quite sure why people are paying so much for them still :confused:
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It's the keyboard package which is keeping it's resell price high. Glad I got shot of mine last month. Internet browsing performance was an embarrassment.

How's the browsing performance with the Nexus 7?
 
My display is fine, it has nice contrast and decent blacks. That said, colour accuracy is horrendous compared to my Dell U2311H. Whites are over saturated and have a very obvious warm tone to them. If you go to the lagom LCD monitor test website you can see that everything is totally out of whack. In the white saturation and black level tests I can barely make out about 5 or 4 of the shades. Also the gradients have very obvious banding.

I'm ok with this as it's adequate for watching video casually, but a little disappointed as it's supposed to be an IPS panel.
 
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surely if it was correctable in software they would have done it by now ? or is the Android OS too generic ?

I too was disappointed in the Nexus 7 screen (although better than the Mini)

conversely our Ipad 3 is better than my Dell 2407
 
Buckster said:
surely if it was correctable in software they would have done it by now ? or is the Android OS too generic ?
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I think it's more that the majority of people don't notice and don't care. It's not like many people even calibrate their TVs or monitors. Pretty much any time you hear someone describe a display as "bright and vibrant" it's actually uncalibrated.

Funny thing is, in my experience cheapo Asus monitors are actually pretty well calibrated out of the box and a Spyder makes minimal difference compared to some much more expensive monitors.

And I just realised that the Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire 2nd generation (which was £99 this week) also come in the black box. I hope it's not a 2G I saw, but a Paperwhite could be nice.
 
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