Is there a way in the play store, similar to ITunes where I can just search for Tablet applications? Also, what is your favorite tablet optimized application?
Try tablified market HD from the play store
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Try tablified market HD from the play store
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These days, a screen resolution of 800 x 480 is considered pretty pathetic for a smartphone. The Samsung Glaxy S3 has a screen resolution of 1280x720, just a smidgen below our 1280x800. Given these facts, the whole "tablet optimized applications" worry is something of a red herring, IHMO. We are no longer dealing with apps that were written for 480x320 screens and stretched to fill a tablet. We're, by and large, talking about apps that are written to adjust to phones with screens as large as 5.5" (for the Galaxy Note) and resolutions that would have seemed generous on 17" monitors not too many years ago.
While this may be true, tablets have more physical space. Resolution is one thing, but tablet optimized apps take advantage of the size of a larger screen to get more done. Take just the gmail app. If you just stuck the phone app on the tablet, it would be horrible.
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One of the primary uses for the Nexus 7 will be as an eReader. To that end I was wondering if anyone conform whether the android Kindle app is compatible with the Nexus 7.
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One of the primary uses for the Nexus 7 will be as an eReader. To that end I was wondering if anyone conform whether the android Kindle app is compatible with the Nexus 7.
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No reason it wouldn't be, along with the B&N Nook app, Kobo, etc., etc.
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One of the primary uses for the Nexus 7 will be as an eReader. To that end I was wondering if anyone conform whether the android Kindle app is compatible with the Nexus 7.
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You should definitely be able to use the Kindle app, as well as the Amazon AppStore, and the Amazon MP3 store.
I assumed as much I just wanted to be 100% sure as that's where all my books are ;-)
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Kindle app on Nexus 7 and an actual Kindle side-by-side would be a nice comparison, if anyone can comment on that.
I could have tonight. I forgot to do it tho.
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Kindle app on Nexus 7 and an actual Kindle side-by-side would be a nice comparison, if anyone can comment on that.
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I've tried both, the nexus is hands down a better experience, its smoother and the screen is much nicer
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Kindle app on Nexus 7 and an actual Kindle side-by-side would be a nice comparison, if anyone can comment on that.
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The best kindle experience is available not on kindle fire rather it is available on Kindle iPad app. The interactive magazines on kindle store does not appear so interactive on kindle fire however the same magazine is very interactive on kindle iPad app. This is kind of surprising but true and I know because I have both. Also the iPad screen has better aspect ratio in order to fit the magazine fully in the screen whereas on kindle fire it does not fully fit the screen because of 16:9 aspect ratio and same is the case with Nexus 7. You can read magazines without much zoom on iPad as compared to any 16:9 screen ratio table which includes not only the 7 inch but the 10 inch tablets as well. I use to own Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I know how good the magazines used to look on iPad as compared to Tab 10.1.
Don't worry though I myself have order Nexus 7 for myself but I won't be using it for reading though. I wanted a 7 inch Tegra 3 tablet for gaming so thats what I am going to do on it. I hope that games would be compatible with 4.1 soon. The biggest problem with Android Eco System i.e. app compatibility on multiple devices.
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The best kindle experience is available not on kindle fire rather it is available on Kindle iPad app. The interactive magazines on kindle store does not appear so interactive on kindle fire however the same magazine is very interactive on kindle iPad app.
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That might be true for magazines, but for ebooks I've found a 7" in portrait to be ablout perfect. It just about equals a single paperback page, and is very easy to old for longer periods of time. Text on my iPad is excellent, but it gets heavy after awhile and I don't like the Kindle 2-page format in landscape. And the iPad is positively ungainly in portrait.
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Play Books apps is nicer than the Kindle Android app, but, I think I'll do my book shopping on the Kindle store because it's very easy to strip DRM and share with others in my household. I haven't been able to find a solution to make Play Books DRM free/share with others I'd share a physical book with otherwise.
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Play Books apps is nicer than the Kindle Android app, but, I think I'll do my book shopping on the Kindle store because it's very easy to strip DRM and share with others in my household. I haven't been able to find a solution to make Play Books DRM free/share with others I'd share a physical book with otherwise.
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I agree that play books has a better ui, but I keep both on it as I use the kindle app to side load the books I already own, if I don't find a book on the play store for a great deal I also tend to buy them on kindle since its multiplatform.
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That might be true for magazines, but for ebooks I've found a 7" in portrait to be ablout perfect. It just about equals a single paperback page, and is very easy to old for longer periods of time. Text on my iPad is excellent, but it gets heavy after awhile and I don't like the Kindle 2-page format in landscape. And the iPad is positively ungainly in portrait.
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Yes that's what I said in my post as well that books are ok with 7 inch tablet but magazines are not so exciting. For books 7 inch is ideal size. Kindle magazines for Android Kindle are most not interactive although same magazine when downloaded on iPad is interactive. It is kind of strange because the Kindle app for iPad is also made by Amazon and why would amazon make a better app for iPad as compared to Kindle fire. It confuses me. The Kindle for Android is same as for fire.
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Can anyone provide screenshots of the same book/page on the Nexus 7 and a Kindle e-ink device. Just wondering if I'm going to still want an e-ink device for reading in addition to my N7.
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Can anyone provide screenshots of the same book/page on the Nexus 7 and a Kindle e-ink device. Just wondering if I'm going to still want an e-ink device for reading in addition to my N7.
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I'll be keeping my Kindle as the e-ink display is just a lot easier on the eyes for reading as well as the battery life being superb.
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Yes that's what I said in my post as well that books are ok with 7 inch tablet but magazines are not so exciting. For books 7 inch is ideal size. Kindle magazines for Android Kindle are most not interactive although same magazine when downloaded on iPad is interactive. It is kind of strange because the Kindle app for iPad is also made by Amazon and why would amazon make a better app for iPad as compared to Kindle fire. It confuses me. The Kindle for Android is same as for fire.
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Sorry, missed that in your post. I'll note that I've decided that a good combination is a new iPad for a 10" device and a Nexus 7 for a 7" device. Best of both worlds, really.
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Can anyone provide screenshots of the same book/page on the Nexus 7 and a Kindle e-ink device. Just wondering if I'm going to still want an e-ink device for reading in addition to my N7
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e-ink is really nice for brightly lit environments. battery life is much better. and they they weigh a lot less. but they make really crappy general-purpose tablets
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e-ink is really nice for brightly lit environments. battery life is much better. and they they weigh a lot less. but they make really crappy general-purpose tablets
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Sure. I actually have both, because I live in SoCal and so no tablet is going to work everywhere I want to read.
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The wife has a kindle and a flyer. If I had to choose one I would pick a tablet because its so much more versatile but eink readers are very good at the one thing they are for. Synchronization between both kindle and the app makes it quite convenient to have both too.
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The margins in the Kindle app on Android are still too large for my tastes. They are much smaller on the Fire proper. So there is a difference between Kindle app and Kindle device.
I'm currently using Aldiko for sideloaded epubs. I'm hoping Google Books will allow sideloading in the near future as I find it a better user experience than Aldiko.
I've tried the vast majority of other readers, and so far haven't found anything better.
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The margins in the Kindle app on Android are still too large for my tastes. They are much smaller on the Fire proper. So there is a difference between Kindle app and Kindle device.
I'm currently using Aldiko for sideloaded epubs. I'm hoping Google Books will allow sideloading in the near future as I find it a better user experience than Aldiko.
I've tried the vast majority of other readers, and so far haven't found anything better.
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The Nook android app allows sideloading of epubs. It's very nice as far as the user interface.
What apps are optimized for the Nexus 7?
Looking through the Play Store and searching Nexus 7, many of the apps aren't optimized for this tablet.
I was hoping I could elicit your help and perhaps we could create a list here.
What no recommendations...?
What kinda apps are you looking for? Games, News app, note?
Any that are optimized for the Nexus 7.
When you get on the Play Store, most of the apps are designed for phones.
I think we need a good list of apps that are for the 7 inch form factor of the Nexus 7.
Astrid Tasks
DataSync
Google Drive
EverNote (not amazing, but decent)
Notes for ICS with Tasks sync
Apps are the key to the ultimate success of the Android OS and ultimately the Nexus 7.
Thanks for starting our list!
I'm hoping more of you will add your input.
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Google play books and magazines
Currents
Chrome is gorgeous
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Xda app - after running this for awhile, I realize that uses an inordinate amount of battery life. Nearly as much battery as google play music has used in 2 hours of playing music well just being a backrub after. Are there any fixes or is this a known issue?
Supergnes works great both portrait/landscape although I prefer nesoid and snesoid emulators..
Talkatone paired with Google voice
Camera launcher for nexus 7
Stickmount
Rotation locker ( long press choice, widget is broke)
Google earth and Sky map work great in 7"
Kindle app does *not* take advantage of all the real estate.. lots of screen wasted in 1 and 2 panel.
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Interested to know any apps optimized for nexus 7 as well. Just got this tablet today so I'm just installing apps that were good on my HTC sensation.
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Nexus 7 optimized apps
Time to add more apps to this list!
Please post your recommendations.
Dead trigger
Drive
Giant little war game
Flip board ( perfect size to read)
Comic rack free ( walking dead comics all stored on Google drive)
Comixology
box (check them out often sometimes they give away 50gb sales. I got during one. )
Temple run is perfect on this beast.
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Stock:
Google play books and magazines
Currents
Chrome is gorgeous
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Xda app - after running this for awhile, I realize that uses an inordinate amount of battery life. Nearly as much battery as google play music has used in 2 hours of playing music well just being a backrub after. Are there any fixes or is this a known issue?
Supergnes works great both portrait/landscape although I prefer nesoid and snesoid emulators..
Talkatone paired with Google voice
Camera launcher for nexus 7
Stickmount
Rotation locker ( long press choice, widget is broke)
Google earth and Sky map work great in 7"
Kindle app does *not* take advantage of all the real estate.. lots of screen wasted in 1 and 2 panel.
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I want to second the fact that the xda app drinks major juice.
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Hey. I'm new here Thought i'd see if you guys could answer a question for me.
I was wondering if anyone knew exactly what the resolution of videos playing in the nexus 10 youtube app are? I haven't actually got my nexus yet, but I imagine it's the same as my S3, where the player only has a "SD" and "HD" option.
Is the HD just equivilent to 720p? Or will it choose the highest possible resolution for the video? I'm asking this because watching youtube videos in 1080p would be really nice
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I am curious too since it does not lt you select.
Pretty sure it's 720p on the app for HD.
I'll do a test when I get home later.
I've been wondering that too
Youtube app will render videos to Hd720p. If you want full 1080p you'll have to use the browser.
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That's annoying Would be nice if google could update the app for tablets so we can view 1080p videos without having to use the browser.
Google should update the app and give you the option because the browser page is not good in my opinion slow laggy and hard to use with a touch screen.
Why make a Google product and then hinder it with low quality video stream. Honestly its one thing that annoys me with with his tablet how soft videos look from the YouTube app. It does not do this amazing tablet justice , lucky I have nice images to look at lol
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Yup, 720p only.
Your right! I did not know that. Google does own youtube since 2005 from what I read.
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isn't youtube owned by google?
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Its not Google that needs to update, it's YouTube. Google isnt responsible for apps not made by them.
Youtube just needs to start jumping on the band wagon and start supporting higher res streaming.
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If google says jump, youtube says how high. They are their subsidiary.
With the Nexus 10 and its supreme display resolution I guess we can expect an update to the YouTube app pretty soon. I expect a 1080p option.
Yes, 1600p would be nice but don't forget at this resolution/bitrate many people won't be able to stream it anymore, at least not in an acceptable time frame.
True will eat data like crazy.
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True will eat data like crazy.
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4G data?
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4G data?
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How many people are tethering often enough to worry about that? I have a first batch Nexus 10, and I've always just used it on Wi-Fi.
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isn't youtube owned by google?
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Yes.
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How many people are tethering often enough to worry about that? I have a first batch Nexus 10, and I've always just used it on Wi-Fi.
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It was a sarcastic question hence the face. Thanks for joining in on the conversation.
Nexus 10 doesn't come with radio for data hence me asking as if his Nexus 10 did.
I hope this explanation clears things up for you so you aren't confused by sarcasm.
Yeah it would be nice if they updated the app, but I suppose 720p isn't too bad on a 10 inch screen anyway.
Youtube only supports up to 2048x1536 at the moment anyway. Hopfully 1600p youtube will come eventually
Youtube 720p looks surprisingly good on the N10 to me. If they add a 1080p option I definitely hope 720p is still selectable.
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Well, let me answer with some numbers:
I have a really high quality video on my N10 (the Timescape Trailer), it's 1440p and 33.5 mbit/sec worth of data.
Even with high compression a 1600p video would be like 10-20 mbit/sec or around 40 mbit/sec in very high quality.
Been wondering about this. Let's say I'm deciding between the Nexus 10 and the transformer infinity. Would 1080p video (or any video for that matter) look better on this 2560x1600 screen or the 1920x1080 screen of the infinity?
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Been wondering about this. Let's say I'm deciding between the Nexus 10 and the transformer infinity. Would 1080p video (or any video for that matter) look better on this 2560x1600 screen or the 1920x1080 screen of the infinity?
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If it's only about 1080p, it would look better depending on the technology implemented on each screen, how the colours balance work and etc... Not because of the resolution, since we are talking about 1080p, and both of them support it.
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If it's only about 1080p, it would look better depending on the technology implemented on each screen, how the colours balance work and etc... Not because of the resolution, since we are talking about 1080p, and both of them support it.
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The issue here is because any video would need to be upscaled on the Nexus 10. If viewed at the video's original resolution, it would not fill the Nexus 10's screen. I'm just wondering how it would look here.
Well of course that depends on the resolution that the video playback is formatted in. If you have a video equal to the Nexus 10 resolution than it will look better on the Nexus than any other device. Its all relative.
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Been wondering about this. Let's say I'm deciding between the Nexus 10 and the transformer infinity. Would 1080p video (or any video for that matter) look better on this 2560x1600 screen or the 1920x1080 screen of the infinity?
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That 1080p video will always look better on a 1080p screen. Putting a 1080p video on a 1600p screen will cause upscaling that will always be inferior native outputting.
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That 1080p video will always look better on a 1080p screen. Putting a 1080p video on a 1600p screen will cause upscaling that will always be inferior native outputting.
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Indeed. I'm finding 720p high bitrate videos look great on the Nexus 10 perhaps better than 1080p. Likely because 2560x1600 is a multiple of 1280x720.
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Indeed. I'm finding 720p high bitrate videos look great on the Nexus 10 perhaps better than 1080p. Likely because 2560x1600 is a multiple of 1280x720.
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Yeah. Stretching a 720p video would just be substituted into 4 pixels. It makes sense.
I thought the infinity was 1920 x 1200.
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I thought the infinity was 1920 x 1200.
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Same difference really.
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I thought the infinity was 1920 x 1200.
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looking fantastic
1080p movies look absolutely phenomenal..now I just need wallpapers that are as crisp and pop just like the clarity of my movies
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TimeScapes
xx DrOiD ERiS xx said:
1080p movies look absolutely phenomenal..now I just need wallpapers that are as crisp and pop just like the clarity of my movies
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Search for TimeScapes 4k 2560p and you can download the trailer. It plays smoothly and looks amazing on the Nexus 10.
Raw video from the 5D MKIII has a slight stutter but after it's processed it looks fantastic.
1080p movies look absolutely phenomenal
As long as the Quality (ability of producing right saturated and bright colors) & Resolution of the screen is greater then the image then it is fine. If the image details or resolution is greater than the screen then it is a waste of memory for that data. So 1080p video would look the same for any screen which has equal or greater resolution than 1080p. But if you play a 1080p video on a 720p screen thats a waste of quality and Megabytes.
So comparing a 1080p video on 1080p and 1600p screen (considering they have the same pysical size which is 10" in this case) would not make any difference on quality side. The difference should be revealed by comparing the color saturation, refresh rate, pixel arrengement, gap between pixels, reflection of the screen glass etc. Basicly the general screen quality and technology.
Does anyone know if Sketchbook pro/mobile will be updated to allow artists to take full advantage of the increased resolution?
It would kinda suck if we're stuck with the same restrictions that were on the 1080 Note 3 now on the QHD screen :-/
Maybe not right away.. However, you can bet that there will be an update for it. As sketchbook does have an app specifically for the Note series.
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ok good news:
The Sketchbook app for Galaxy will be updated for QHD:
https://twitter.com/senectus/status/516579663095689216
I'd assume its the same version found in the Note 2014. I have one and it handles 2500*1600 just fine! If I had to wager a guess, well get the special "Sketchbook for Galaxy" tailored for the higher resolution!
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