How does Google’s Jelly Bean tablet shape up?
We’re still waiting for further details to come through on the Google Nexus 7, but in the meantime here’s an extract from an initial hands-on from PC Advisor, who were very impressed after managing to get an early look after the Jelly Bean tablet was announced last week.
As the name suggests the tablet has a 7in screen as is therefore a small tablet. It’s very comfortable in one hand, designed to be held in portrait mode predominantly. This is partly because it’s really light at 340g and respectably thin at 10.5mm.
The front is one piece of glass surrounded by a silver frame and a textured rear cover which has a rubbery feel. The finish on the rear cover provides a good amount of grip and feels nice to the touch…Continue reading here
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As impressive as it may be, many of the features we would like to work outside of North America are still not available due to copyright and licencing restrictions which prevent us officially using Google to store and play our media from the “Cloud”. Perhaps that’s why the Kindle Fire has not appeared in the UK. I wonder how long it will be before we get to see the Nexus Q outside North America and useable without having to use proxies and VPN’s?
The difficulties in sorting out copyrights, patents and licencing seem to be holding the world back!
A good point. Maybe it’s more a case of how long it will take consumers to cotton on to how easy it is to get round these things with a VPN or proxy.
I doubt most consumers even use a region-free DVD player to get around geographic distribution problems, expecting them to spoof IP addresses seems ambitious!
Ha ha yes it does. Although if/when any of these new bills like the Digital Economy Bill or SOPA get pushed through, people will have some learning to do pretty quickly…