Google Android Event - 29th October

Apparently. Although I wonder if it's in there as an option... whilst using the phone UI makes sense on the Nexus 7, on a 10 inch tablet it's a bit of a waste of space IMO.
 
reflux said:
Apparently. Although I wonder if it's in there as an option... whilst using the phone UI makes sense on the Nexus 7, on a 10 inch tablet it's a bit of a waste of space IMO.
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Yeah seems massively wasteful to me, wonder why they're going down this route?
 
Only reason I can think is to simplify the user experience across platforms. Much like Apple with the iPhone/iPad. Either way I'm sure it'll be fairly easy to mod tablet UI back in.
 
Mekrel said:
It's rubbish, proof is in the pudding. It lacks horsepower and it shows on majority of games not designed for Tegra, hence why Gameloft disables visual effects in their games when run on Tegra3 devices.

It also causes fragmentation in several ways, with games coming out specifically for it and in some instances, THD games being left behind when their standard counterparts get updated. Fruit Ninja is a perfect example, the standard version is more up to date than the THD one...

A chip designed for gaming by a company who's primary business is GPUs... I expected more. I know it's a cheap SoC but it found its way into premium products such as the HTC One X and Asus Transformer range
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Did you really expect more from nVidia? This is the exact thing they do with the desktop products. Lock people in using software gimmicks that don't actually need their specific hardware to run.

The same way Tegra GPUs aren't required to run tegra games. Hence chainfire 3D.
 
spoffle said:
As said in another thread, the bezel looks bigger because of the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
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Those bars are clearly grey vs the bezel - you can see where the bezel begins and ends, so it's not that.

They're either grey due to photography effect or they're grey because it's not a AMOLED screen, either way, they're not making the bezel look bigger at all.
 
Mekrel said:
Those bars are clearly grey vs the bezel - you can see where the bezel begins and ends, so it's not that.

They're either grey due to photography effect or they're grey because it's not a AMOLED screen, either way, they're not making the bezel look bigger at all.
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Better image in the spoiler for seeing bezel size, it certainly isn't an unacceptably large bezel.

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Some interesting new features coming in 4.2

-Photo Sphere panorama photos
-Gesture typing on the keyboard
-Lockscreen improvements, including widget support and the ability to swipe directly to camera
-Expandable notifications with that let you take actions directly
-Message zooming in Gmail with the ability to reflow text automatically
-Daydream screensavers
-Accessibility improvements: triple-tap to magnify the entire screen, pan and zoom with two fingers. Speech output and Gesture Mode navigation for blind users.
-Miracast support for wireless display sharing
-Google Now can use Gmail as a data source for new cards, including improved flight tracker, hotel and restaurant reservations, movie and music recommendations. Photo Spot card recommends interesting places to take photos based on your location.
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Proper widget support on the lock screen is nice and Google's take on Swype built in are personal favourites. Miracast support also interesting as it seems it will be industry wide in TV's in the near future according to Verge.
 
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