[BozemanLUG] One more thing...

[Robert Potter]

thought I would jump in mid stream.....

Not "exactly" sure what the full conversation thread has been about, but I
thought I would comment on the Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 was something I thought
I would really like to get my hands on. Not a horrible size and the price
seemed to be a bit of a sweet spot. However, I was in Office Depot last
weekend I think and was looking at their display of tablets including the
7. I discovered that the 7 will not allow you to rotate horizontally. I
asked the salesman and he said they have not figured out how to make it do
that so the assumption was that you could not.

Now I admit, I have not searched the web looking for answers to verify
there is no setting to allow that. But based on my experience it looks like
Google has it locked down. Right next to the Nexus 7 was a Samsung 7"
tablet that looked real nice and would allow horizontal view. It was
however a little more money normally (was on sale, same price as 7 at the
time).

Anyhow, something to consider if looking to buy a Nexus 7.


On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > btw Nexus devices come with unlockable bootloaders that make it easy
> > to hack on things.  You can always get back to a factory image:
> >
> > https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
> >
> > And they're super-affordable at $199.  :)
>
> Thank you salesman... err.. I mean Jeff.
>
> But seriously, LWN has done a few articles on the Nexus 7.  They put
> Ubuntu Core on it and it was horribly bad.
> https://lwn.net/Articles/525458/
>
> Of course that isn't to say anything bad about the hardware or the
> software it comes pre-loaded with.
>
> Then they did a "review" of CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7 (subscriber
> link, nag free after next Thursday)
> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/527086/b0ac3c818efc0499/
>
> I use the quotes around review because it is more of a "how Android is
> open source but not really an open community" type of explanation... and
> that is all well and fine... no real complaints... but it is made clear
> that everyone else will always be behind because of the nature of Android
> releases... unless someone puts a completely different system on there not
> based on Android.
>
> I do appreciate your commentary and the fact that you are still
> participating!!!
>
> So, what are you up to that you can talk about without having to kill us?
> :)
>
> TYL,
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