Tag Archive: review

Jan 01 2013

Trial of the Nexus 7: Early Impressions

My lovely daughter, taken with the Nexus 7's fairly crummy front-facing (and only) camera.

As 2012 rolls into 2013, I’m beginning a trial of a Nexus 7 tablet as a potential replacement* for my beloved iPad 3. Long wishing for a smaller iPad, but not satisfied by the sub-standard resolution on the iPad mini, I’m trying out the Nexus 7 to see if the form factor (packaging a sufficiently-strong …

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Nov 06 2012

iPhone 5 and its Trade-offs

Look, the iPhone 5 is great. All the things you’ve read about it already being light, fast, with a richer-looking display, all that’s true, so let’s take that as a given. But there are real trade-offs. And I don’t mean like the iPad mini’s display. That’s not a trade-off (“swallow” the lower resolution display to …

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