Sunday, March 08
Missed One
I've been lamenting the passing of the Nexus 7. Google had a great small tablet, and even a modest update could have brought it renewed life; instead they dropped it completely.
It even looks pretty.
I've been lamenting the passing of the Nexus 7. Google had a great small tablet, and even a modest update could have brought it renewed life; instead they dropped it completely.
I have three of them - the original 2012 model, which was good for the price and the time, and two of the 2013 version, which is a great device.
I have two because one of them had a loose USB connector, and when I accidentally let the battery run flat I couldn't get it to take a charge. I ordered a new one and also a Qi charging pad, and I eventually got the original working again, though it took some messing around and a factory reset.
There haven't been any announcements of nice 7" tablets recently... But Huawei did just announce a 7" phone - the Mediapad X2. With the exact same 1920x1200 IPS screen as the Nexus 7, but with upgraded everything else.
It has an octacore CPU with 4 x 2GHz A57 fast cores and 4 x 1.5GHz A53 low-power cores - so basically the same as the Sony tablet below; comes in two models with either 2GB RAM and 16GB flash (not enough) or 3GB RAM and 32GB flash (adequate); micro SD up to 128GB; dual SIM slots; 13Mpx rear and 5Mpx front cameras; and a 5000 mAh battery, 25% bigger than the Nexus 7's.
Still, it's lighter than the Nexus 7 - 239g vs. 299g for the LTE Nexus 7, and smaller - 183.5 x 103.9 x 7.3 mm vs. 200 ×114 ×8.65mm. When reading on my Nexus 7 I can curl my hand around it and use the volume control on the right side to flip pages, but it's about as large a device as I could do that with (which is one reason why I'm reluctant to replace it with an 8" model). The Mediapad has the same button layout, but it's a good bit lighter and narrower, so it would work even better.
Update: It's being reported as a phone, because it can make phone calls, but Huawei list it as a tablet. There's no reason why a small tablet with LTE shouldn't also work as a phone, and this one does.
The specs list 24 days of standby time. I had to read that three times before I realised that no, that's not awful, it says days. Though I just pulled my Xperia Z Ultra out of my notebook bag where it had been sitting (powered on) for two weeks, and it still had a 30% charge, so it's not extraordinary either.
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