07-18-2012 at 08:35 AM
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Wow, what a bunch of asshats they have working at google, they should have garunteed the pre-order people theirs before they shipped everything off to retail stores. If I see this tablet in an electronic store imma gonna cancel my order, didn't even think of that tariff.. I got charged like 40-50$ on a thinkgeek order of ~300$ on top of shipping and taxes.. :/
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yup i got the same email with the "it will ship in 1-2 weeks" and then i sent them ANOTHER very angry email. I'm sure we'll get compensation... if not, NTS never order from play store again...
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Also it was funny, everyones raving about the Jelly Bean's smoothness with zero lag. And i watched an unboxing on youtube last night, and they guys is all "as you can see its incredible smooth, the transitions are flawless *opens app... lag* with the exception of thatright there it is incredibly smooth"
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Link? Im curious, since all ive heard about JB is project butter as well
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lolZ I've been using it on my nexus ever since it came out right after googleIO, and its fine, there are a few hiccups if you try and swipe the screens too fast, but other than that, its A LOT better than ICS. you won't be disappointed if its your first android system, but if you were on ICS or earlier, you'll definitely notice a drastic improvement. the visual overhaul from 2.3 is nice too. 
imo i really like the notification overhaul and Google Now. Probably my two favourite add ons from ICS. Updates baseball/soccer (two sports i follow) in real time, with every inning or goal, WHILE the game is going on, so i never need to look it up on yahoo or something while on the road or out. AND it tells you the next game date and who they're playing, and if you want to buy tickets just hit the button that says buy tickets. very useful for sports fanatics. Google Now is actually pretty amazing, tells me when to leave for work or events to be early, and tells me the best route based on traffic... and don't worry weather is also there. 
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I should mention there are a lot of defects going around. A pretty common one that even mine has is this thing where the left hand side of the screen bulges up over time.
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O_O maybe i'm glad mine is coming in 1-2 weeks after all, hopefully they'll have ironed out that kink in the more recently made 16gb version. err i'm kind of curious though as to what you mean by "bulges up". do you have a pic you could show us? |
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07-18-2012 at 08:56 AM
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Thats unfortunate that something like that would happen. I wouldve guessed that people were going to order this device like crazy. As long as its cosmetic Ill live with it too.
ALSO! It arrived in Ohio ten minutes ago!!
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07-18-2012 at 09:01 AM
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Thats unfortunate that something like that would happen. I wouldve guessed that people were going to order this device like crazy. As long as its cosmetic Ill live with it too.
ALSO! It arrived in Ohio ten minutes ago!!
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there's none cosmetic defects too. I've been following this thread for a couple days. might be interesting to check for the stuff. Theres over 35 pages, but if you go to around 32-35 it pretty much sums up all the problems.
- dead pixels
- light leakage
- bezel creek
- left side bulge
- left side lifting up
if i get the latter, i'll probably just follow ifixit's guide and do it myself. Too much hassle to send it in.
it is only 200-250! what do you really expect!! |
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07-18-2012 at 09:16 AM
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well i didnt expect this :(
EDIT: even if mine has all of the problem you listed, i should be able to use it for all the things i wanted it for right?
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07-18-2012 at 09:26 AM
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well i didnt expect this :(
EDIT: even if mine has all of the problem you listed, i should be able to use it for all the things i wanted it for right?
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yeah.. but depending on your light bleed, it may bother you or it may not. and i know a dead pixel would bother me. but thats just me! |
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07-18-2012 at 10:05 AM
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Owell I guess
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07-18-2012 at 01:16 PM
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Hey guys, the screen bulge issue thing looks like it has a user doable fix!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...hp?t=1781 237
I'm gonna try this when I get home  .
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07-18-2012 at 01:43 PM
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ah, just beat me to the punch! i was about to post the same article. oh well. |
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07-18-2012 at 01:52 PM
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Do you guys know a good app for cleaning up the "hard drive" ? like defragmenting on a computer? Im sure with all my installs and uninstalls im losing space to misorganization on my precious 250mb. I tried an app called "Memory Booster" and it seemed to just allow me to stop running processes.
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07-18-2012 at 01:53 PM
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Do you guys know a good app for cleaning up the "hard drive" ? like defragmenting on a computer? Im sure with all my installs and uninstalls im losing space to misorganization on my precious 250mb. I tried an app called "Memory Booster" and it seemed to just allow me to stop running processes.
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CCleaner does a pretty decent job at most of those things.
EDIT: Oh wait, you meant for Android :/. I usually just reformat or uninstall things I don't need.
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07-18-2012 at 03:11 PM
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CCleaner does a pretty decent job at most of those things.
EDIT: Oh wait, you meant for Android :/. I usually just reformat or uninstall things I don't need.
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Do you guys know a good app for cleaning up the "hard drive" ? like defragmenting on a computer? Im sure with all my installs and uninstalls im losing space to misorganization on my precious 250mb. I tried an app called "Memory Booster" and it seemed to just allow me to stop running processes.
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yup same... i'm never on a rom enough to fill up my internal with apps. |
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07-19-2012 at 12:03 AM
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Anyone got suggestions for good apps for this thing? I haven't really explored apps that thoroughly because of my limited internal memory on my phone..
(both paid and unpaid)
I know the first thing I'll have on there is a task killer, but apart from that... angry birds, some sort of tower defence, graphing app, reference things, dictionary.... |
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07-19-2012 at 12:40 AM
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False alarm... the fix only works for a little while and then the screen bulges up again: (.
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07-19-2012 at 12:59 AM
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Do you guys know a good app for cleaning up the "hard drive" ? like defragmenting on a computer? Im sure with all my installs and uninstalls im losing space to misorganization on my precious 250mb. I tried an app called "Memory Booster" and it seemed to just allow me to stop running processes.
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1. Never, EVER defrag flash drives like USB or SD cards or phone memory or SSDs.
2. Android doesn't even allow apps to do something like defrag.
3. Please don't stop running processes on Android unless they're not responding. Free RAM is wasted RAM. The OS manages processes efficiently enough.
You're welcome.
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07-19-2012 at 07:15 AM
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Anyone got suggestions for good apps for this thing? I haven't really explored apps that thoroughly because of my limited internal memory on my phone..
(both paid and unpaid)
I know the first thing I'll have on there is a task killer, but apart from that... angry birds, some sort of tower defence, graphing app, reference things, dictionary.... |
Read what Afzal said and don't get a task killer. On the Android OS, it does more harm than good. |
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