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2StepSteve · 11 Mar 2013 at 16:02

Halfmad said:
I have a Nexus 7 32Gb with 3G, did buy the 32G wifi only but sold it on MM and upgraded to 3G and use it with Samba mobile so there's no cost of the 3G Works out brilliantly.

Exactly what I'm doing. This is my first 3G tablet, it works so well. Love it!

oli356 · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:42

Never heard of Samba mobile. Sounds quite interesting.

Yaka · 11 Mar 2013 at 22:31

any draw backs to it?

2StepSteve · 11 Mar 2013 at 23:40

No drawbacks what so ever, I've been using it since late last year. They offer 3MB of data for every advert that you watch, find that you can get up to 100MB per day. They have cracked down on how easy it is to rack up data though, there was a time where you could open multiple tabs and easily reach a large amount of data in a very short space of time. For web browsing only it is a very good way of having effectively a free mobile plan. Open a few adverts every day (whack them on mute of course

) and you're good to go!

Obviously going on to youtube with it will quickly rape the data that you have worked to earn but for plain web browsing, it's great!

oli356 · 12 Mar 2013 at 18:35

So my tablet arrived this morning...

The box.

and the Nexus 7:

Good show.. DOA

Yaka · 12 Mar 2013 at 23:28

bad luck mate,

anything I don't mind · 14 Mar 2013 at 15:46

What do you think of the case VEOX Black Ultra Slim Full Body Smart Case Cover for The Google Nexus 7 ? £20 on amazon.

Anyone tried the anti-glare screen protectors? are they any good ?

liamcrane · 17 Mar 2013 at 20:10

I cant make up my mind between this and the ipad mini! I have loads of good streaming apps on my iphone to stream media from my microline server but im not to up with the android apps and if there are any good streaming ones out there. I really like the price of this compared to the mini but just cant make up me bloody mind

dbmzk1 · 17 Mar 2013 at 20:44

groen said:
What do you think of the case VEOX Black Ultra Slim Full Body Smart Case Cover for The Google Nexus 7 ? £20 on amazon.

Anyone tried the anti-glare screen protectors? are they any good ?

Looks really nice, but £20 for a case is very expensive! I've just got a cheap gel type one for round the house which was about £2 and a Mofred flip type case for when I'm out which was about £7 when I got it but £13 now! These days I don't have it in any case as it's nicer to hold!

Don't have any screen protection on it - don't think there's any need as it doesn't get into places your phone gets, ie pocket etc.

Yaka · 17 Mar 2013 at 20:56

liamcrane said:
I cant make up my mind between this and the ipad mini! I have loads of good streaming apps on my iphone to stream media from my microline server but im not to up with the android apps and if there are any good streaming ones out there. I really like the price of this compared to the mini but just cant make up me bloody mind

nexus 7 root and install xbmc

i have ai phone as well and a ipad but the nexus is very good device dont regret choosing it over the ipad mini

oli356 · 17 Mar 2013 at 20:58

At least Apple have good CS

dbmzk1 · 17 Mar 2013 at 21:47

oli356 said:
At least Apple have good CS

So do Asus

oli356 · 17 Mar 2013 at 22:25

But Google don't

dbmzk1 · 17 Mar 2013 at 22:32

oli356 said:
But Google don't

Irrelevant as it's made by Asus, so you go to them if there are any issues with it. Their turn around time is usually less than 2 weeks, support rarely gets better than that

JAMAL · 18 Mar 2013 at 09:41

What's the best rom for this thing? I was looking at paranoid or smooth romantic.

MOOGLEYS · 18 Mar 2013 at 09:44

Does anyone know if any of the downloadable keyboards are safe or not ? I'm fed up with the stock keyboard and the lack of cursors but there seems to be a lot of warnings about 3rd party keyboards using key loggers.

Is this correct or am I being a bit paranoid.

Deep · 18 Mar 2013 at 10:17

MOOGLEYS said:
Does anyone know if any of the downloadable keyboards are safe or not ? I'm fed up with the stock keyboard and the lack of cursors but there seems to be a lot of warnings about 3rd party keyboards using key loggers.

Is this correct or am I being a bit paranoid.

With a lot search around in forums and people will say which keyboards they prefer. As long as you stick with popular choices I'm sure you'll be ok

I like Swiftkey Flow but I also have a love for Smart Keyboard Pro (they haven't updated it in a while)

lamboman · 18 Mar 2013 at 10:21

liamcrane said:
I cant make up my mind between this and the ipad mini! I have loads of good streaming apps on my iphone to stream media from my microline server but im not to up with the android apps and if there are any good streaming ones out there. I really like the price of this compared to the mini but just cant make up me bloody mind

None. Both may refreshed very soon, the Nexus probably with a similar display size to the iPad mini.

anything I don't mind · 18 Mar 2013 at 11:01

I am going to wait until i hear about a 4g capable android device similar to nexus 7, then try to sell my wifi only one on ebay.

Is there any legal issues with selling a rooted device? I am wondering if due to it being rooted some noob might pay extra for a rooted device. What do you think of the chances?

I just bought a 64gb microsd and a usb to go cable as well for music.

anything I don't mind · 18 Mar 2013 at 15:00

Anyone know how to disable google from syncing everything and disable google account but retain the ability to use google play. ie only allow the google account to work with some google services?

Another thing that realy annoys me is that the location services is either on or off. There should be an application specific location services option. I want to use location services for maps, but not for everything else i do. Typical google.

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