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[Discuss] Google's Nexus 7



On 07/09/2012 10:12 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/9/2012 3:25 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
>> Anyone planning to buy the Google's Nexus 7 tablet?
>
> Not I.  Tablets and I don't get along, in the sense that fingerprints on
> displays make me want to destroy.
>
> It'll be interesting to see if Google can do the impossible.

Thus, the big winner of the last years, the smart-phone.

Just about the same form-factor of the palm, with the variety of uses of 
a tablet. Granted that it's the one thing you'll take with you anywhere, 
along with your wallet (and pretty soon it'll be *the* wallet).
The tablet, most of times, feels like a fifth wheel. (Unless
one is a big time media/content viewer, I'm not) .
I wish the Tech world would have stopped trying to re-invent the wheel -
with "just-the-best-size-tablet" and move on to other hardware 
breakthroughs.
(And on a same note for the adjacent discussion on this list), the great
devices are all here, or on their way, we just need the unregulated 
airwaves to actually use them.



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