7" Galay Tab or 16 GB Nexus 7?

[BostonDan2]

I'm trying to make the same choice, and while I like the specs of the Nexus 7, I don't have the time or patience to keep exchanging devices until I get a good one, and even if i do get a "good" one, then i would worry that the glue is going to come undone on the left hand side of the screen. Im not gaming or doing anything intensive, so for me, the quad core is not a big advantage. My use will be for browsing, email, calendar, and occasionally reading news articles. If you have a Microcenter near you, they have the Samsung galaxy tab 2 7 on sale for 199. I'm still undecided and waiting to see if the situation improves for the Nexus 7. I also had the Asus Transformer Prime, returned it, and the situation never improved IMHO. Good luck with whatever you decide.

 

[GMoney749]

I just sold my Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to get Nexus. Definitely get the Nexus 7.

Along with the obvious, the Galaxy was laggy in comparison, and did stuff like completely screw up your Picasa galleries. It would turn every single Google+ post into a separate album instead of putting them all into the Posts album. Stupid TouchWiz.

And if you put it into Airplane Mode, the email program would continue to try to collect from all of your accounts and then pop up a warning message every 30 seconds (over top of whatever you are doing) telling you it can't contact the server. Only way to stop it was to reset the device.

The proprietary charging cable was a PITA too.

And I doubt it will see JB any time soon if at all.

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[gpdaddy95]

The wife has a Galaxy Tab 7. My Nexus 7 arrives on Wednesday. I chose the Nexus because it will always get the latest OS updates that Samsung won't. Additionally, once rooted, the Nexus 7 can use a thumb drive as an external drive to hold movies, music, etc. I don't need a rear-facing camera, (I've got a smartphone) and I really don't anticipate listening to music without headphones through any tablet. So while both tablets are nice, the Nexus fit my needs better than the Samsung and vice versa for the wife.

 

[Roberts3000]

Go for the Nexus 7. I bought a galaxy tab 2 7.0. Had to return it, touchwiz was terrible.
Plus the galaxy only has 8GB of storage. That left about 4.59GB for apps and it would not let you move apps to SD card. So the SD cards can only be used for media storage. This started with honeycomb. Many people have different opinions of why this is. I think it is because Google doesn't what to use Microsoft's FAT file system on Nexus devices. Any device that uses or supports SD card has to pay a microsoft licensing fee. This is just a a guess, I don't know.

If you want to load a ton of movies and music and can live with touchwiz, buy the galaxy tab.

If you want to load a bunch of games and apps get the 16GB Nexus.

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