Congratulations Nexus7

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:44 am

Looks like he finally got that tablet he always wanted!

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:20 am

That's funny!!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:49 pm

Tempting. In many ways I like my Android phone better than my wife's iPad for casual browsing.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:15 pm

The only drawback I see to this tablet is the lack of a microSD slot for expanding your memory for media (although it has a USB port), which with a cheap dongle adapter and a thumb drive can achieve the same thing but sorta killing the whole tablet look & feel with that USB drive hanging like a rat tail. Also a rear facing camera would have sealed the deal for me. None the less for 199 this is an awesome tablet. I think I will try to hold off just a bit more with my ASUS Transformer TF-101 until something else comes out that I like. I think this will kill Amazon's Kindle Fire soon enough.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:21 pm

Heck of a deal there.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:51 am

I do like that tablets have actually become a truly portable computing solution. I remember when the first tablet PCs by HP & Toshiba came out, they were pretty much a joke in my eyes.. But with the advent of the iPad it just busted the market wide open. I like seeing these things. When I build a house, I'm planning on mounting tablets in various rooms for home automation and multimedia uses..

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:19 am

At 200 dollars that's allot cheaper then real home automation panels. And will probably work better then the real things.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:58 am

Pugsley wrote:At 200 dollars that's allot cheaper then real home automation panels. And will probably work better then the real things.

Yes, that is what I was thinking as well.. The fun part will be learning how to build a control board for all of it. I know it can be done, I'm just not sure if I have the skill set needed to do it. But I'm sure there are switches/outlets out there that you can buy that will interface with a piece of software over wireless to control the house..

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:31 am

Not quite prime time yet, but there's some options out there:

http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/contro ... ople-power

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/11/ligh ... ead-simpl/

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:40 am

Interesting reads.. Hopefully in the next couple of years this tech will become even more available/less expensive..