My new Nexus 7: First Impressions(review)

Yesterday I received a new Google Nexus 7 (2012). I toyed around with it for a while personalising it, and adding functions to it.

Camera

I was surprised to find that Google had not given the Nexus 7 a camera shortcut. They obviously thought it wasn't that important. There a re several apps on the play store that can access the camera, so it was okay. The Nexus holds a 1.2 megapixel camera (the same front facing camera as an iPad). It's not a Nokia Lumia 1020, which has a very impressive 41 megapixel camera, but it gets the job done - the pictures weren't actually that bad.

Another thing I was surprised about, is that there is no rear facing camera, - perfect for taking selfies;) but you wouldn't be able to take great pictures of something in front of you. (Unless you wanted a picture with it, of course.)

Screen and Size

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The Nexus 7 has a 7" screen and the whole device is 12cm wide - it would easily fit in adults hand. The thickness of it equates to 1.45cm and is roughly 20cm tall. It weighs 340g which is less than an iPad air which weighs in at 478g.

The display comes out as 323ppi(pixels per image). That's less than a Galaxy S5's ppi (432ppi). This doesn't mean it has a bad screen, it actually looks quite nice.

Software

The Nexus comes installed with Android Jelly Bean 4.2 but I updated it to Android Jelly Bean 4.3.2. The software runs clean and smoothly and I haven't had any freezes(yet)and nothing takes ages to load.

Hardware

As I said before, It only has a 1.2mp front facing camera. There is quite a bit of space between the actual screen and the end of the device(bezel). The was actually a good call by Google and Asus because if the screen were to reach out to the edge, it would have to be taller, taking away the hand friendliness of it. 

Battery Life

The nexus possesses a 4,325 mAH battery which can provide over 10 hours of battery life. If your not getting the most out of your battery life, then you should go into settings>battery and check what's using up all your battery.

Storage

The nexus is fixed with a storage limit of 32gb so cannot extend the storage with a micro SD card.

Overall Conclusion

If you are looking for a tablet, I would have to say this is one of the best. From £199 it's more than half the price of an iPad and less than an iPad mini. If you don't like the look of android or the keyboard or anything like that, there are plenty of overlays on the play store that can make it look like other software systems.