Back in June, Google launched the Nexus 7 tablet. It was as fast as a lot of high-end tablets, and it alone bulk $200. It was a aloft hit. But not everybody is awash on the seven-inch anatomy agency yet. Which is why the Nexus 10 is actuality to abduct your hearts.
NOTE: At the time of our testing, the tablet's software was actual about finished, but it was not yet final. This agency that the after-effects are accountable to change with continued testing. The accomplished body will be pushed to accessories afore they go on sale. We will amend with any changes.
Why It Matters
As mentioned in our Nexus 4 buzz review, it's a Nexus. Not alone is it the latest adaptation of Android, it is pure Android. No third affair UI's gumming things up. It's absolute from the source. The Nexus 4 is the aboriginal accessory to get Android 4.2 (still alleged Jelly Bean), forth ancillary the Nexus 4 phone. Google broke Samsung to accomplish the hardware, and it may just be the nicest bit of adaptable kit the aggregation has anytime produced.
Using It
The aboriginal affair you'll apprehension is just how ablaze and abundantly aciculate the awning is. Again you'll aces it up and it just feels cool thin. At 8.9mm it's a abounding bisected millimeter thinner than the accepted bearing iPad, admitting it isn't actually as attenuate as some others (such as the Asus Transformer Infinity). It feels acutely solid and well-built. The aback console is a harder artificial that has been rubberized in a actually absorbing way. It's actual smooth, but actual grippy at the aforementioned time.
In mural approach two long, attenuate speakers face you from either ancillary of the screen. They pump out a agitating bulk of sound. Music was appealing bright even at abounding volume, and if arena the bold Dead Trigger, abounding aggregate was in actuality too loud. You don't generally accept that botheration in a tablet, and it's a acceptable one. It aswell has NFC and a 5MP rear-facing camera, two appearance you aren't acceptable to use on a tablet, but whatever.
Android 4.2 is agitating on this thing. In fact, it's even clearer what a big footfall it is on the Nexus 10 than it is on the Nexus 4. One affair that Android has lacked in the accomplished is bendability and flow. It is now abundant added streamlined, intuitive, and it actually takes advantage of the added awning absolute estate. For instance, rather than bundling settings and notifications calm in a chaotic mess, they've been separated. Swipe down from the top-left of the awning and it brings down the notification panel. Swipe down from the top-right, and it brings down the quick settings. It's a attenuate change, but there are a lot of attenuate changes, and they add up.
Not all aspects of 4.2 were reside yet in the adaptation we tested. By the time it launches it will accept abutment for altered profiles. So, if your book lives in your active room, you and your accomplice (or roommates, or kids) can accept abstracted profiles. Got a acquaintance in from out of town? You can just set up a bedfellow contour so he can analysis his email but he can't amend your Facebook cachet for you (jerk). It's a nice affection (we've apparent it on added tablets), but we haven't activated it yet.
You can get a "smart cover" for it, which will accord it some awning protection, but frankly, it's rather ugly, it doesn't break bankrupt actual well, and it's not actually that smart. It's ambiguous as a stand. You may wish to delay to see if third affair companies architecture something better.
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The screen! The awning the awning the screen. It is artlessly gorgeous. At 10 inches and 300ppi it's bigger and far college resolution than the new retina iPads. 2560 x 1600 agency added than 4 actor pixels. That is actually insane. 1080p video looks agitating on it. I slapped some top resolution photos on there and they are astonishingly clear. Add the accomplished speakers to the blueprint and this accessory is analgesic for watching videos and arena games. Actual immersive.
As I mentioned in our Nexus 4 review, the new Gallery app is wonderful, and it's even bigger on a tablet. It's still simple to use for artlessly examination photos, but if you wish you can dive in acutely deep, tweaking your photos with pro-level features.
Project Butter is animate and well. Scrolling about the arrangement is actual fast and actual smooth. It's a actually adorable user experience. Google Now is accepting abundant added advantageous now that it can cull amalgamation tracking info, flights, hotels, and restaurant anxiety anon out of your Gmail (should you accept to acquiesce it). The articulation ascribe and speech-to-text access is still additional to none.
We got accomplished array activity admitting actual abundant use and accepting the awning maxed out at abounding brightness. The book aswell has a micro HDMI port, which makes alive video to an HDTV actual easy.
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Again, this software was not yet final. That said something was amiss with the radio on my device. It had aloft problems blockage affiliated to my Wi-Fi router, and if it did, downloads came through at 1/5th the acceleration of the computer next to it. I approved it on a friend's arrangement and couldn't get it to affix at all. I batten to Google about it, and its rep told me, "it sounds like a botheration we've abandoned and will be anchored with the OTA that will be pushed with the customer barrage on 11/13." Here's hoping. At the aforementioned time, Gizmodo Editor-In-Chief Joe Brown had aught problems with radio connectivity on his home network, with speeds according to or beyond his MacBook Pro. It's accessible that abundance was a dud. We'll be accomplishing added testing and will address back, but this was calmly the tablet's better flaw.
Second better flaw? While the 1.7GHz dual-core Exynos 5 processor is added than able for a lot of tasks, if it gets down to abundant cartoon loads, things alpha accepting choppy. For example, if arena Dead Trigger (I adulation that game!) you can accept the akin of cartoon detail. If it was set to Low, the Nexus 10 had no problems at all, and the bold still looks actually good. But if you about-face it to Top to see all of the flourishes, al of a sudden things alpha accepting actually inclement and agitated if there are assorted affective altar on the screen. Meanwhile the Nexus 7 (which has a the 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3) had the cartoon angry to Ultra High, and it didn't absence a beat-though, to be fair, it has far beneath pixels to push. Generally speaking, added cores equals added alongside processing, which is what graphically accelerated amateur need. Seems like a absence here, abnormally if Samsung is putting quad-core Exynos processors in the Galaxy Note II. If you're not a hardcore gamer, however, you will not apprehension or care. And again, this may advance with the software update.
You apprehend this altercation a lot, "There just aren't abundant tablet-optimized Android apps." While I anticipate we can cautiously say there are added than enough, it's absolutely accurate that the iPad has added tablet-optimized apps accessible for it. Some apps are just not set to scale, abrogation a rather ridiculous-looking arena (see above). Also, this book could accept been a photographer's best friend, alms an instant, "retina" superior attending at his or her photos, and a able way to accomplish some quick edits and allotment shots (via Gallery). Which is why the abridgement of an SD agenda aperture is a shame.
Should I Buy It?
If the radio affair I accomplished was a fluke, again actual probably. For watching videos, browsing the web, examination images, and accidental gaming, this is artlessly the best book out there, and at $400, it's a acceptable accord cheaper than the iPad. That said, gaming fanatics may wish to bead the added banknote on a ten-incher with a quad-core processor, or cede awning admeasurement and get the Nexus 7, which has the Tegra 3 and will be adapted to Android 4.2 in the weeks to appear (and alone costs $200).
For now, back Joe didn't accept any radio problems, we're traveling to accord the book the account of the agnosticism and accord it four stars. It's a actual comfortable book at an acutely aggressive price. It's like the Nexus 7 has a adherent big brother. Whether that adornment is account an added $200 is up to you. We can accurately say that it's the best full-sized Android book acquaintance we've had, and it apparently edges advanced of the Nexus 7 as well.
The Nexus 10 will be accessible November 13th, at Google Play. The 16GB archetypal will be $400, and the 32GB archetypal will be $500. We'll be afterlight already the software is final, and brilliant appraisement is accountable to change.
Nexus 10 Specs
• Network: Wi-Fi
• OS: Android 4.2
• CPU: 1.7-GHz dual-core Exynos processor
• Screen: 10-inch 2560 x 1600 WQXGA, HD PLS (300 PPI)
• RAM: 2GB
• Storage: 16GB or 32GB
• Camera: 5MP rear / 1.3MP foreground
• Battery: 9000 mAh Li-Po
• Price: $400/16GB, $500/32GB
• Giz Rank: 4.0 stars
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