After the success of the Nexus smartphone series, again kicked off with the launch of Google Android 7 inch tablet manufactured by Asus, the Nexus 7. As a reference the first Android tablet with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, this tablet has a key specification that quite well, for example as follows:
Chip Tegra 3 quad-core 1.2GHz with Nvidia ULP GeForce GPU
1.3 megapixel front camera
HSDPA, NFC, Wi-Fi a / b / g / n, GPS, compass, Bluetooth
LCD touch screen 7 inch IPS 1280 x 800 pixels (216 ppi)
1GB of RAM
Size 198.5 x 120 x 10.5 mm,
Weight 347 grams
Lithium Ion battery with a capacity of 4325 mAh
Since the tablet is positioned as the tablet is quite affordable when you see spec above, then there are some features that Google's Nexus 7, for example, the rear camera and card slot for storage expansion. This tablet to cost Rp 32GB 3G version. 3499,000.
Design and Body
Of physical impressions and design, with black color tablet looks pretty standard, with the build quality and feel as well as material that is also normal. But seen from the back of this tablet looks fairly unique, with a textured plastic material, with writing nexus logo which signifies that this Android tablet output directly from Google. In the side coated silver bezel design that could be considered sweeten this tablet. This tablet is ergonomically comfortable grip using either one-handed or two-handed, because the textured plastic on the back soft, especially designed curved to follow the curvature of the hand. A rather unfortunate is the frame around the screen which seemed very wide, making 7 inch screen so it looks smaller. The textured plastic material is also easily attached to sweat or dirt on your hands.
On the front there is only screen and front camera only. While the side to use with a touch of silvery plastic, the rear part of a textured plastic material with Nexus logo and the loudspeaker, can not be opened, so that the battery is not removeable. To the SIM card slot is on the left (assuming a tablet with a screen positioned portrait) is entered by way of plugging the injector SIM (like the Apple product). On the right there is the lock / power and volume, while at the bottom there is a 3.5mm audio jack and micro USB port.
Screen
The screen is pretty good, especially on a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, a resolution that was previously used on the 10.1-inch tablet (like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Note 10.1, is now relegated to the 7-inch tablet. Now 216 ppi pixel density, compared sail 7-inch Android tablet that 170 mostly ppi (1024x600 pixels) as well as with the Apple iPad Mini (1024x768 pixels, 7.9 inches, 162 ppi) resolution must be very clear in tablet Nexus 7 more delicious. For color and mediocre screen quality, not a wah Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0-and Apple iPad Mini, although keep in mind both of these tablets cost quite far adrift with Nexus 7. Though somewhat reflective, but the contrast and viewing angle is quite good, certainly better than the 7-inch tablet wah kind Memopad Asus, Acer B1, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 , which in terms of price is cheaper than the Nexus 7.
Interface
Using Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2, actually not too many changes from Android 4.1. Standard interface of Google is quite simple, not a lot of various features and special effects, but at least with this tablet you enjoy the latest Android version, likely next 2 tablet version of Android is still being supported by Google. Speaking of performance, this tablet a good performance, not surprisingly, thanks to a combination of the use of the hardware is quite capable and Project Butter Jelly Bean on it's own that enable high performance. make way interface with 60 fps framerate. We tried it myself when sliding the screen, look at the photos and others no lag happens.
Examples of simplicity suppose the lockscreen, which only displays hours. But of these lockscreen widgets you can add a Calendar, Clock digital, email, Gmail and posts from Google+. Swipe the screen just to the left of the lockscreen. If your broom to the right, if the tablet is supposed to have a built-in camera app, you will be directly to the camera, such as the LG Nexus 4 (and the Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.2), but because there is no built-in camera app shortcut is missing. For access to Google Now is still present but split with padlock lockscreen, this time appearing at the bottom. In addition to standard lockscreen, lockscreen still other models equipped with a security module pattern, pin, password and Face Unlock.
Homescreen consists of 5 home screens are arranged horizontally, can not be added or subtracted. You can add widgets and shortcuts to access it, and use a live wallpaper or regular wallpaper. Google Search widget always appear on each page Home. Each icon can collect into a folder, while the size can be changed for the widget, but the widget depending on whether or not to support the feature. At the bottom of the screen there are icons Mail (folder), Chrome, Google+, Menus, Youtube, Music and PlayStore the structure and composition can change at will with other applications except Access Menu. Then at the very bottom of the screen icon replacements are present 3 physical buttons namely Back, Home and Task Switcher.
As has become a tradition of the ICS, the main menu there are 2 main sections namely Apps and Widgets, except that there are shortcuts to access Google Play Store on the right above. The menu is arranged horizontally per page, 5x5 arrangement application icons per page. The composition of applications has been fixed alphabetically and can not be changed as you like. Notification bar is a little different, there are now two bars at the top left of the bar there is access to the Quick Toggle style phones Samsung and LG, which is access to the brightness, Settings, WiFi, Emergency Calls, battery indicator, airplane mode and Bluetooth. But unfortunately after click one of the Quick Toggle you brought to the corresponding menu in the Settings section, not as quick toggle on LG and Samsung phones are more practical. There is information owner, however, you must first log on Google+. While the only bar on the right is the standard Android notification bar.
For no brightness settings, wallpaper, auto rotate, sleep, font size, and wireless lights display notifications. The latest is that a kind of feature Daydream Screen Saver, you can display the clock, BeanFlinger, Color, Google Currents, Photo Frame, and Photo Table all by first making arrangements. To Daydream can be directly activated, or set to turn on when you plug the phone into the Dock or download the mobile phone charging.
Contacts, Messaging, Text Input
Although the tablet that we reviewed a Nexus 7 3G and mobile versions, but can not be used for phone calls or SMS. Contacts menu (People) still exist, of course, you can restore or synchronize with your Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and others. Contacts can be imported or exported from storage. Regarding the appearance was typical tablet, the list in the left column and fill in the right contacts. For new contacts, some additional fields that can be selected is the ringtone, IM, Email, Postal, Organization, Notes, Nickname, Website and Internet Call.
Do not have SMS, meaning all messages in Nexus 7 using email and instant messaging. There Gmail which has many similar features as the desktop version. You also can use other email client, using the Email application. While available for Instant Messaging and Google Talk is Google Messenger, besides of course you can add third-party applications such as Google PlayStore Line, WhatsApp, IM and so on.
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Keyboard and text input method that is used in the Nexus 7 is Google voice typing and Android Keyboard with features like auto capitalization, vibrate, sound, popup, show key setting, auto correct, suggestion. Voice feature to type in Indonesian fast enough and useful (of course you should use the standard language), as well as having some kind of security settings block offensive words, and safe to use voice search to search. Typing through its own QWERTY keyboard is quite comfortable and can be carried out accurately and quickly in portrait or landscape conditions, but we'd prefer portrait.
Camera
Despite having a 1.3 Mp front camera, but the Nexus 7 does not have a built-in camera app. Therefore we download apps Camera Launcher for Nexus 7 developer made Modaco to test the results of this tablet camera. The interface is exactly the Nexus interface 4, but setting it up a little more and certainly nothing Sphere feature. Its features are just setting the brightness, White Balance, location and resolution. For video recording feature any location, Time Lapse, and White Balance settings. When recording video you can touch the screen to shoot. The absence of a rear camera is a weakness. Yes, it is rather odd to take pictures with big-sized tablet. But at least, if there is an urgent need (for example photographing documents), the rear camera has a macro mode it is easier for you.
Camera
Photo viewer and video are integrated on the Nexus 7 is still using the same characteristics as before, it looks very ordinary, with a black background. Photos and videos can diliat by albums, locations, times, people and tags. Albums can be synchronized with your Google account, can be made to appear offline so that it does not require internet connection to enjoy it. Photos can be shared to social networking and messaging, can also be rotated, dicrop, used as wallpaper and view detailed info. Android 4.2 is now the default editing features similar to Instagram, there is a kind of punch filters, vintage, bleach, etc., can be added to frame the image, and in-edit the brightness, contrast, vibrance, sharpness and others.
Video player still does not have its own dedicated app. Video formats that can be played is very limited, format. Mov and. Avi unreadable, while. Mp4 reads smoothly until resolution of 1080p. Format. Mkv nothing there that is not legible, the reading was a little less smooth playback. Video settings are minimal and practically does not exist, there's only a video timeline and the option to share it. We recommend you lovers of mobile video to install third party applications such as Mobo, MX Player and the like. Using MX Player application, format avi, mkv and mov legible relatively smoothly at 720p resolution, of course, using software decoding feature in the application.
Music Player
In the Nexus device, music player default is Google Play Music. The interface is not crowded, in line with the most views on the tablet's Android 4.2. Although it looks simple, but its features are sufficient. There is a queue feature, shuffle, thumbs up and added last, shared songs by playlist, recent, artist, albums, songs, genres. Equalizer can be activated, in addition there is a bass boost booster FX and 3d effect. Equaliser there own innate rock, pop, classic, and so on. In addition, of course you can also create their own equalizer settings. The sound quality of the loudspeaker loud, does not ngebass, but also not too hoarse. Certainly, other tablets such as the sound output Note 8.0, Padfone 2, Note 10.1, the Tablet S is better, considering the Nexus 7 cheaper price so it is only natural. Sound output when using the headset is quite normal, balance, not too ngebass but also treblenya nothing special.
Connectivity
GSM / HSDPA
Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n
Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP
MicroUSB
NFC
GPS with A-GPS support
Web Browser
Google in the tablet eliminates the Android browser used and only rely on Chrome as the default browser application. Performance is quite capable. Tabs can be opened seemingly unlimited, up to 100 more tabs can still be added. Other advantages, you can sign-in and sync with the Chrome browser on your desktop. Its features are complete, among others: incognito mode, bookmarks, find, request desktop. Standard-setting arrangements, there are privacy settings, cookies, javascript, block pop ups, Google's location, as well as a separate arrangement for a particular website. Accessibility to existing arrangements and force scaling text zooming enabled.
Benchmarking results:
Quadrant Standard: 3784 points
AnTuTu: 12030 points
NenaMark 2:
Multitouch Tester:
Battery Durability
Equipped with 4325 mAh battery capacity, the performance of the tablet is fairly standard. Within 43 minutes it takes to review, correct battery indicator decreased 10 percent, so the use of approximately 430 minutes continuously can alias 7 hours more. While browsing using Chrome runs 14 percent within 60 minutes. Screen brightness level of about 20 percent (instead of auto mode), then the internet using WiFi only, GSM is not active.
Conclusion
In the price range of Rp. 3-4 million tablet competitor is arguably the only Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. If you view the features provided by the Nexus 7, you could say this Asus tablet is more interesting, with more capable hardware and Android version of the update readiness always come first, not to mention the screens used in the Nexus 7 is better than the Samsung tablet. Indeed minimal features, but for you who want to use a smaller size tablet with good performance good general performance, browsing, playing games and so on, this tablet is arguably the best compared to other 7-inch tablet.
Excess
Good performance
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
Android fastest updates
The screen is sharp and crisp than the tablet in its class
Shortage
Front camera is only just
There is no micro SD slot
Can not be used as a WiFi hotspot
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