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Too late to buy a nexus 7 ?

i know the nexus 7 only came out in june but do you think its to late to buy one because im thinking of grabing one tomorrow or should i wait till the next one comes out :/ ? any input would be appriciated

I would get one now, after all it hasn't been out for long. I would buy one now and enjoy what there is to offer at the present, if you keep waiting for the next piece of hardware you'll never enjoy and appreciate the current technology, and you can always sell it when the "next Nexus 7" is released.
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Fuzone said:
I would get one now, after all it hasn't been out for long. I would buy one now and enjoy what there is to offer at the present, if you keep waiting for the next piece of hardware you'll never enjoy and appreciate the current technology, and you can always sell it when the "next Nexus 7" is released.
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This.
Jump on in, bro!
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The N7 is an excellent 7" tablet IMO. I'm extremely happy with it, and so is my gf's son who got one for his birthday.

I just picked one up about 2 weeks ago and I have zero regrets. It's a beast that handles anything I throw at it.
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The only question to ask is Do you get 32gb or the 16gb.. Or WiFi or 3g if available where you are.
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I went 16GB wifi because I have a 32 GB phone if I need it. However, Gamestop had a $50 off deal and there was only one 16GB available. Might need to go 32 regardless. Good buy though, I just got mine a couple days ago. I don't need a huge tablet, I wanted more of a reader and this blows the Kindle away.

Rider797 said:
I just picked one up about 2 weeks ago and I have zero regrets. It's a beast that handles anything I throw at it.
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WOW . Can you tell me how you got it to do the dishes and wash your delicate's . Mine Does not Like water..
OP Get the tablet you will not regret . But i recommend getting the 32 gb.. Get the gsm one if you can not tether it to your phone. other wise the wifi would be fine.. its what i have .. DO NOT LOOK BACK OR WAIT. the next best thing is the Nexus line..

Thanks everyone for being so help full looks like I'm going to pick one up in a few hours
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Ryan Stampton said:
Thanks everyone for being so help full looks like I'm going to pick one up in a few hours
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You most definitely won't be sorry. I think if anything you were smart to wait since the 32gb was release and the 16 gb was dropped to $199.99.
A new nexus tablet probably won't come out at least for another 7 months anyway. Just enjoy the hell out of it.
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I think you should go for a Wifi version if you already have a phone.
Since the next-gen Nexus is no way to come out soon, and new version changes nothing in performance but has 3g and more storage capacity, and the price of nexus 7 16gb wifi dropped. I think Nexus 7 16gb is the optimized choice atm.

Ryan Stampton said:
Thanks everyone for being so help full looks like I'm going to pick one up in a few hours
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I've had several devices, a few tablets. This device is flawless. I love it. I'm a little late to the party as well, but it doesn't matter, this device is awesome. Good luck and enjoy.
Anyone on the fence should jump, they WILL NOT be sorry
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I bought the 32gb model less than month and I'm loving it. Come just the Nexus 7 bandwagon!
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bustinstugots24 said:
You most definitely won't be sorry. I think if anything you were smart to wait since the 32gb was release and the 16 gb was dropped to $199.99.
A new nexus tablet probably won't come out at least for another 7 months anyway. Just enjoy the hell out of it.
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Wont Believe what happened paid for a 16gb version and they gave my a 32GB one so happy only cost me $244 (In Australia)

Is the 8gb model faster?

So far I have used about 8 nexus 4's ( I keep ordering replacements to keep them ). And I don't know how to test this but all the 8gb just feel quite a bit faster.
Anyone else feel the same, also I tried stock and then rooted to cm10.1 mako all the same way.
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Fataldesain said:
So far I have used about 8 nexus 4's ( I keep ordering replacements to keep them ). And I don't know how to test this but all the 8gb just feel quite a bit faster.
Anyone else feel the same, also I tried stock and then rooted to cm10.1 mako all the same way.
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I think that you might be feeling the placebo effect.
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I know if there was a difference it could not be major but maybe storage is a different make or something. I want to find out what is the best test that could determine this.
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You keep ordering replacements to keep them?? What are you doing with all that nexus 4? You only have 4 pockets
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And people wonder why they are still waiting. I'm no stick up the @$$ but 8 come on dude I can see 1 or 2 but its obvious you are just buying them to jack up the price at the expense of others who need their device or really need an RMA.
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DowntownJeffBrown said:
And people wonder why they are still waiting. I'm no stick up the @$$ but 8 come on dude I can see 1 or 2 but its obvious you are just buying them to jack up the price at the expense of others who need their device or really need an RMA.
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This.
OP, read:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=douchebag.
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Yes I'm the bad guy because I have to lie to Google to get more to help people in need. Who cares what happens with phone it makes somebody happy. Blame Google not me I am just a guy trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents.
Anyway does anyone feel the 8gb is faster. Also just got a mercury slim case on amazon I have to say in white or black this is the best case hands down. I pretty much ordered every single one. Guess that makes me a douche because I gave a company money in exchange for a product.
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It sounds like you're suggesting the nand chip is faster in the 8gb. We would need people to do file storage benchmark to confirm your claim.
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I had a play with both model, and to me they felt the same...

The only way I can describe it is on the 16 once in a while it will lag for a second or two but on the 8gb I never get it.
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Fataldesain said:
Yes I'm the bad guy because I have to lie to Google to get more to help people in need. Who cares what happens with phone it makes somebody happy. Blame Google not me I am just a guy trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents.
Anyway does anyone feel the 8gb is faster. Also just got a mercury slim case on amazon I have to say in white or black this is the best case hands down. I pretty much ordered every single one. Guess that makes me a douche because I gave a company money in exchange for a product.
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ScooterG said:
This.
OP, read:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=douchebag.
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wow
You found a way to screw a system that was meant to help people, for your own gain. That's what makes you the d-bag.
Anyways, not certain of any correlation. As another guy said, it may just be the placebo effect.

Somehow I get a feeling this is some kind of strange trolling.
Like those messages about 21xC devices without sparkling back.
Here is why: the OP goes through his 4-th device (implying he is getting replacements) and somehow manages to get his 16gb replaced with 8gb. Which is somewhat strange and I suppose such an event would trigger a very different post.

draugaz said:
Somehow I get a feeling this is some kind of strange trolling.
Like those messages about 21xC devices without sparkling back.
Here is why: the OP goes through his 4-th device (implying he is getting replacements) and somehow manages to get his 16gb replaced with 8gb. Which is somewhat strange and I suppose such an event would trigger a very different post.
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No actually it would not seeing how much I can sell one for. And if you guys don't think a lot of people are doing this now you lying to yourself. There are a ton of nexus 4's on eBay for sale buy one now and sell yours when you get it maybe you even make a profit.
My nexus 4 and my girlfriends nexus were free and that was my goal. There is no excuse for not having a nexus 4 if you really wanted one. I'm so sure I somehow jammed the system all across the world. Sorry that life has not been fair to your pursuit for a nexus 4. I'm sure someone starving in a poor country could feel your pain, I mean what a tragedy. Maybe I should just call the police and turn myself in.
Then when you break your nexus 4 that is super fragile you will wonder why you even bothered.
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Fataldesain said:
No actually it would not seeing how much I can sell one for. And if you guys don't think a lot of people are doing this now you lying to yourself. There are a ton of nexus 4's on eBay for sale buy one now and sell yours when you get it maybe you even make a profit.
My nexus 4 and my girlfriends nexus were free and that was my goal. There is no excuse for not having a nexus 4 if you really wanted one. I'm so sure I somehow jammed the system all across the world. Sorry that life has not been fair to your pursuit for a nexus 4. I'm sure someone starving in a poor country could feel your pain, I mean what a tragedy. Maybe I should just call the police and turn myself in.
Then when you break your nexus 4 that is super fragile you will wonder why you even bothered.
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and the douche-baggery continues!!!!!! although now i'm thinking its more cheapness than douche-baggery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! trying to cash in at the expense of others...
& to the question of 8 vs 16 gig performance... figure that out yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you're not worth the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And somehow I worse than the guy that orders 1 nexus 4 and has it replaced 3 times because it has a "flaw". Knowing damn well this is a 300 dollar phone and expecting iPhone 5 quality. I mean does anyone remember all you guys who kept replacing your nexus 7.
All of this is driven by hype and I blame Google for not making more so you can get it in your hand and realize its not all that and your tears were not needed.
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kurt.gomez said:
and the douche-baggery continues!!!!!! although now i'm thinking its more cheapness than douche-baggery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! trying to cash in at the expense of others...
& to the question of 8 vs 16 gig performance... figure that out yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you're not worth the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well to be fair I also do the same to isheep a lot more. Mainly I think I do it for that money reason. Call me crazy but money is kinda freakin cool. Its like life support for a stripper.
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Mods close this thread...............yeah I did it again.
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Fataldesain said:
Well to be fair I also do the same to isheep a lot more. Mainly I think I do it for that money reason. Call me crazy but money is kinda freakin cool. Its like life support for a stripper.
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well... to each his own i guess...

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well... to each his own i guess...
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Well actually to be honest I didn't do them at all to sell. Kinda a long story but I ordered 4 and 1 replacement each. So its not like I ordered 1 and did this 7 times which technically can't be done due to time.
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Should I buy one?

I am thinking about buying the n4. I love my n7 but reading some of these forum's it seems quite a few people are unhappy with it. Oh what to do?
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joeZONE82 said:
I am thinking about buying the n4. I love my n7 but reading some of these forum's it seems quite a few people are unhappy with it. Oh what to do?
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Buy one.. This phone blows the n7 away
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I think people only post if there is a problem with the phone...
That why you only see post about people being unhappy with it..
Most of the time, people wouldn't post anything about the phone if it's working fine/happy with it..
But then you do get the occasionally positive/*this phone rocks* reviews :victory:
I end up selling my N7 after awhile I got my Nexus 4... cause is such pain getting game saves around.. !

Getting mine today :good: First things to do: unlock it, flash recovery and SU and off course Franco kernel. Had it before and liked the phone, the only bad thing about this phone is the camera quality and the washed out colors out of the box.

capcanuck said:
Buy one.. This phone blows the n7 away
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No it doesnt. Lol
I have both and I love them!
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Right on, I need a phone and not just any phone..had the s3 unlocked rooted, loved it. Sold it lol. Was thinking about note 2 but don't really care for the gimmicks and the price! Kinda new at whats what for tech but refuse Togo back to ifoam or bb. Android rules. Caught wind of the n4 on n7 forums n dig the specs, just need to make sure ppl that have it love it. Reading a few negative threads I had to ask cuz it looks like a badass phone.
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joeZONE82 said:
Right on, I need a phone and not just any phone..had the s3 unlocked rooted, loved it. Sold it lol. Was thinking about note 2 but don't really care for the gimmicks and the price! Kinda new at whats what for tech but refuse Togo back to ifoam or bb. Android rules. Caught wind of the n4 on n7 forums n dig the specs, just need to make sure ppl that have it love it. Reading a few negative threads I had to ask cuz it looks like a badass phone.
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You will not regret buying this phone, and a custom kernel should increase batterylife quite a lot. And you can set the colors to your own liking

As far as reports of problems go, there are just as many in the Nexus 7 forums. People with issues are simply more vocal.
I for one am finding this phone to be a perfect companion to my Nexus 7 and it's also as near to a flawless specimen as I could have hoped.
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Okay I been reading up more on this phone and I can't find a good reason not to get it. Price is great specs are solid and the support and development are going to be off the charts. I'd like to know what case to get, I have been using otter box on past phones but wanna try something different.
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joeZONE82 said:
Okay I been reading up more on this phone and I can't find a good reason not to get it. Price is great specs are solid and the support and development are going to be off the charts. I'd like to know what case to get, I have been using otter box on past phones but wanna try something different.
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To be fair, most of the people in this forum are nexus 4 fanatics, so our opinions may be a bit biased
That being said, this phone is AWESOME.
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joeZONE82 said:
Okay I been reading up more on this phone and I can't find a good reason not to get it. Price is great specs are solid and the support and development are going to be off the charts. I'd like to know what case to get, I have been using otter box on past phones but wanna try something different.
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I would honestly suggest a soft gel/rubber case.. Hard cases ruined my hox, too much pressure to get them on, ended up breaking some ribbon on the board, so the screen won't turn on unless the housing is partially removed.. Which is how I have to use this phone until I fix it or order a nexus 4 if its not fixable for free/really cheap.
The only thing I'm losing is LTE. Which I don't use/rarely use as it is

You should if you can get it for $350 at Play Store. I'm happy with it, very good price for a good phone. If you can live with no LTE, non removable battery, no external SD card, somewhat low/tinny speaker output volume and just average camera quality you'll be happy with it.

I would buy it again. The price is unbeatable. If you can live with the lack of OTG (Which may be fixed eventually) and camera quality then you'll love it. I think the washed out colours thing is due to peoples love for very saturated screens. As I said in another thread, take a photo of something, look at it on the screen, if it's brightly covered in bloom, then it's over saturated. Just because the Nexus 4 is less saturated doesn't mean it's washed out.

All right just ordered it from Google. Can't wait! 388.00 total but that's cheap compared to the other ones I've had bought. Not to worried about the camera I have a camera for that. I'm still not sure on what case but thinking gel case something that won't scratch it n can clean up n not bulky. I don't know what plan to go with being in northern Mn there's not too many options.
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I have been driving myself nuts with this question. I have a note 2 now that I love but I am also thinking about getting a nexus so I can have something to play around with mods and getting into developing. I have At&t so swapping the simple won't be a problem.
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Well I got mine about a month ago and I love it. Even more so than my s3. Not worried about lte cuz it's not around here anyway and it does lack storage but I been using drop box. I haven't rooted it yet tho I am fine with it the way it is. No issues with it at all. Beautiful phone with great features and price. They got it right with this one. Love it.
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joeZONE82 said:
Well I got mine about a month ago and I love it. Even more so than my s3. Not worried about lte cuz it's not around here anyway and it does lack storage but I been using drop box. I haven't rooted it yet tho I am fine with it the way it is. No issues with it at all. Beautiful phone with great features and price. They got it right with this one. Love it.
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You can still have LTE just flash older radio when or if it comes to your area.
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Noooooooo
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If you can live with a phone that has 3 hours of screen time, meaning that you don´t go from 8am to 8pm, meaning that you have to do 2 full charges every day, go for it
i´m returning mine

I recently got it and I absolutely love it.
Things to consider though:
1. no SD CARD, got the 16GB version and im still struggling with space.
2. battery life is below average, I'm coming from a Motorola defy which had much better battery life.

My girl loves me.

Came home from work and was surprised with one of these lol. Awesome.
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How many hints did you have to drop.
I'm just lucky that my wife let me keep mine. Once I should her I made her own profile she was OK with the purchase.
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Why do you need your wife's approval?
I can assure you that she spends more money on bags, make up, shoes, getting her hair done etc etc than your Nexus 7
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Lol I made sure to buy two, ah but loves this stuff too.
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Hana yeah I bought two as well.
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MISSDIVA said:
Why do you need your wife's approval?
I can assure you that she spends more money on bags, make up, shoes, getting her hair done etc etc than your Nexus 7
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Well when I told her she said "I thought we were getting an ipad"
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She knew I wanted one, since our 3 year old just broke my old nexus 7 about two weeks ago lol, Shes not into any of this stuff, she loves her iPhone, which is fine by me, works for her. But she knows I love all these things lol, She saw the google io/brunch with me, so she knew i was going to get one eventually. She beat me to it and im happy.

my gf works for the Samsung booth at best buy. brought home chromecast drive for me. she's like I his one cause people are going nuts for them. I told her you don't buy Google stuff just for what it does out of the box but what it does after a trip to the xda forums lol

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Well when I told her she said "I thought we were getting an ipad"
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oh god.

My wife is pi$$ed at me. Not sure why, I've been saying I'm going to buy a Nexus 7 once the new ones came out. I even told her when I left Saturday night that I was going to Best Buy to get the Nexus. I think I may have even arranged the sale of my ipad mini. Maybe she's just j-ing.

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Came home from work and was surprised with one of these lol. Awesome.
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She got me one too.. This is awkward.

She's a great woman.
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My wife got me a n7 to! It's sticking out of my forehead!

My wife would probably mistaken the mini for the new nexus 7. Good thing I dont inform her about my technology wants. If I did, we would have a home full of icraps
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I don't know why girls always like the i-stuff lol

Awesome. What's her name?
...and number?
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macaumen said:
I don't know why girls always like the i-stuff lol
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Because its more simple for them
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Damn. This is what I would have ended up with if my wife went to get a nexus for me

I already ended up with one of those.
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Well what's almost as good is when your wife is supportive of you taking a 50 mile drive to pick up one of the only 32gb models available in my area at best buy. Before we got married, like a month into the relationship, my wife bought me an Xbox 360 with second controller and a couple of games. This was years ago but I still get surprised with nice beer purchases and a couple of instances of her "peer pressuring" me into buying various guns for myself because "you deserve it."
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I have had the luckiest weekend with the new nexus 7's

So most of you really won't give a hoot but I got the new nexus 7 the Friday that it released, really liked it but after a week or so I started feeling a little underwhelmed so I put on ad on craigslist, knowing that the 32gb was in demand I decided to try push my luck and see if I could get a good smart phone in a trade with as little cash as possible.... Well Friday morning I traded the Nexus 7 and $60 for an unopened black mist 32gb galaxy S4, it was a no brained not to do, anyways yesterday I started looking at tablets again as I was missing my N7, I was trying like crazy to get stores to match office max's 20% offer but couldn't, I was gonna just buy the one 16gb that one of the store s had but I decided against and I would wait for a 32gb in a few weeks...
Well this morning I look on Craigslist again out of interest seeing if their was any decent tablets on for reasonable money, i looked in the computer section and their was a nexus 7 just listed, all it said was nexus 7 32gb for $150.... I get there expecting the 1st gen, I was gonna offer him $120 for it, out he walks of his house....its only a 2nd gen brand new sealed never touched.... I just got a brand new 32gb N7 FHD for $150!!! I didn't even make him an offer, I just took it in excitement... I am a lucky lucky guy this weekend!
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Lol I'd check the serial with the police before you attempt to ever resell
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Already did that, not stolen, he said it was bought for him and he had his car towed yesterday so needed the cash to get it out, I just got luxky
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Nice!
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I had the worst weekend with the Nexus 7... two exchanges and two duds.
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aimfire72 said:
I had the worst weekend with the Nexus 7... two exchanges and two duds.
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I feel for you

Awesome, I lucked out and got the last one at office max with the 20% discount on Friday. Lol I think the cashier wanted it for himself the way he was holding on to it. Nice chain of events for you, better go buy a lottery ticket too
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You got lucky with office max, they have no idea when they will get them back, the while company has run out of inventory and Google will not give them a restock date, well done on getting the last one..... Good idea on the lottery ticket lol
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Oh wow sorry to hear that mate
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I went to best buy and the sign for the nexus said 99$ so I told them to get a manager. Basically I got a brand new 16 gig for 106$ with tax cause someone had the wrong sign out. Thanks Best Buy.
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Yeah I was bugging them for like five days and that coupon expired on Saturday. Told me Togo online and gave me the run around for awhile but persistence paid off.
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