Right there with you, but I decided to go ahead with the Mediapad M3. Who knows if/when another nexus tablet actually releases. It arrived yesterday. The size is right and build is good. I don't care for the UI, but I'm giving it a shot for a while before putting Action Launcher on it. Along with the micro-USB it does not fast charge either, which is also dissapointing, but through pretty steady use since yesterday, the battery has held up well and overnight it only dropped 1% with wifi, bluetoth and gps enabled and while receiving many notifications. Fingers crossed this works out for me, or Google surprises us with a Nexus 7 refresh(I'll sell this one and go back to Nexus if that happens, just because I am all about the (RIP)Nexus...)