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Question

Need help deciding which tablet to get :S

Aug 1, 2013 12:41AM PDT

Hey everyone, i really need help in deciding which tablet to buy. I currently own the old Nexus 7 and I'm not exactly thrilled with its performance. It's nearly a year old device now and in the beginning it worked wonderfully, than 4.2 update and just pure age i guess ruined the device. Comparing it to my iPhone 4s, even though much stronger on paper its outperformed by the iPhone in almost every way (why i love benchmarks). Now i'm thinking of getting a new Nexus 7, and iPad mini or even perhaps an iPad 4, which i used to own but had to sell it. I loved the iPad 4 completely and the only con i found was its relatively heavy weight. I'm afraid of getting the mini cause the screen is worse than my N7, afraid of getting the new N7 because from all my experience with nexus 7, GS3, iPhone 4s and iPad 4, iOS is a MUCH smoother and relatively faster OS and it has much better apps and i don't think that improved hardware is the key to solving this. So i would welcome any info from either owners of the mini or from anyone else cause i really can't decide :/

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I have that model here.
Aug 1, 2013 3:15AM PDT

And while it's only 5 to 6 months old it didn't change in performance since day zero.

-> Am I just a little too forgiving when I swipe an image and it's not absolutely smooth?

I get the feeling that newer users are expecting perfection.
Bob

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well...
Aug 1, 2013 3:23AM PDT

Well my iPhone is just as old as the nexus and it's performance and battery life and are just about the same they were, while the tablet on the other hand, that destroys the phone in benchmarks btw has lost about 20% of battery life and took a significant performance hit (4.3 remedied it to some extent). Also, not so much a new user, i've been using Android for 3 years and iOS for about a year Happy

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Sorry. Benchmarks?
Aug 1, 2013 3:40AM PDT

I find the units here (the office has a few so I can compare them) to not be something I benchmark often. That is, all seem to work well at what they do.

-> Battery life looks to be about 18 months if a person charged it daily. The Apple looks to fair a bit better so I think you meant battery time which is highly volatile. For example I agree with the next link.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Verizon-these-Android-apps-will-kill-your-battery-and-use-your-data_id39617

There are too many apps folk install that sit there and cause complaints like yours.

-> You bring up a good point. Should users be expected to know this?
Bob

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Not rly sure
Aug 1, 2013 4:26AM PDT

Well i'm kind of a freak when it comes to maintaining the device really :S, i rarely install trash apps and do regular factory resets whenever the device feels encumbered by the accumulated trash. I have tried factory reseting, different ROMs, going back to stock multiple times and now i get about 6 hours of screen on time with 1 day of usage and it goes dead as opposed to aboutt 14,5 and 3,4 days of standby i was getting on the iPad 4 :/. It could be a faulty battery but i've seen countless posts of people saying their nexus 7s also degraded over time. I think the cheap price has to have some drawbacks that reveal over time, which is why I'm skeptical when it comes the new model. Do you think they got it right this time or should i go for the mini?

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Different roms? I'll share this.
Aug 1, 2013 4:35AM PDT

At the office I guess we lead a boring life as we don't swap those. We use the current version and can't see the issues you are reporting so with that I think you should ask for an in warranty swap or repair. Something's wrong but part of that from my view is that comment about trying different roms.

We just let google send the updates and all's good here. I'm sure there are folk that want to tinker, explore and explode over custom roms but I just like it to work. It does so this leads me to believe yours has some hardware fault or you are tinkering too much.

We've done one factory reset in a year. I can't guess why folk do that except when changing owners.
Bob