A quick test of the camera indoors shows that it can do better than the Nexus 7, but it's far from perfect.Table of Contents Per richiedere la rimozione dell’articolo clicca qui La rete #dessonews è un aggregatore di news e replica gli articoli senza fini di lucro ma con finalità di critica, discussione od insegnamento, come previsto dall’art. Even though most manufacturers include a rear camera on their tablets now, even Apple doesn't seem particularly interested in pushing the quality envelope. The 5MP rear camera is similarly perfunctory, but it's joined in its mediocrity by most other tablets. For example, it's hard to pick hi-hat sounds out of a song unless you have the speakers up around 50 percent. However, the speakers aren't very good-their sound is muffled and a little hissy, and the problem is especially pronounced at lower volumes. The positioning is preferable to the edge-mounted speakers on the Nexus or the iPad since they're less likely to get muffled by your hands (in landscape mode) or a surface you're resting the tablet on (in portrait mode). The G Pad includes a pair of speakers mounted on the back (they're on the right side if you're looking at the back of the tablet, the left side if you're looking at the front).
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I generally find that auto-brightness on Android phones and tablets is a little too aggressive, making the screens look dimmer than on equivalent iOS devices, but the G Pad made me even more eager to disable auto-brightness and crank the setting up to maximum. Whites are less white on the G Pad than they are on the Nexus 7, and while blacks are blacker, the distinction between gray and black is much less pronounced. More noticeable is the drop in brightness. There's also a microSD card slot tucked away beneath a plastic door on the top of the tablet-more on that in a minute. There's no notification light, however. Like some of LG's other efforts (the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5), it doesn't have the satisfying buzz of an iPhone or Moto X, but it is nevertheless an appreciated addition.
It has a vibration motor that will let you know when new notifications come in (and provides haptic feedback for the keyboard and other things). The issues are avoidable if you're careful about where you place your thumb, but on the iPad you don't really have to worry about this stuff.Īside from the different dimensions, the G Pad does have a couple of features that the Nexus 7 and iPad mini lack. Your experience may differ from ours based on what apps you use. Chrome behaved pretty well when I had about a third of my thumb touching the display, while the Kindle app was less well-behaved. Some apps seemed a little better at ignoring extraneous input than others. This can actually cause some usability problems-while the iPad mini and iOS are great at detecting and ignoring a thumb pressed down on the edge of the display, the G Pad had a harder time. The G Pad's display bezels are also more iPad-like-the device lacks the large top and bottom bezels of the 2013 Nexus 7 and its side bezels are even thinner. We like the all-plastic construction of the 2013 Nexus 7, but if you like metal more, the G Pad delivers. It's not as stiff or rigid as the aluminum Apple uses in the Retina iPad mini or the iPad Air, but it makes the tablet feel sturdy.
The all-black tablet uses plastic around the sides and on the top and bottom, but most of the back is made of a black brushed metal that looks and feels nice even though it's a fingerprint magnet. The so-called "Nexus 8" that set the rumor mill a-buzzing ended up being nothing but a bad Photoshop job, but if the prospect of an 8-inch Nexus got you excited, the G Pad is a nice consolation prize.
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We never took a look at the standard G Pad, so we'll be giving the Google Play edition the full hardware and software review treatment.īody, build quality, and screen: More good news than badĪndrew Cunningham Specs at a glance: LG G Pad 8.3, Google Play editionĨ.54" × 4.98" × 0.33" (216.8 x 126.5 x 8.3 mm) Even more importantly, the Google Play edition hardware can fill niches that the Nexus doesn't serve: the 6.4-inch Sony Z Ultra is the "Nexus" that "phablet" fans have always wanted, and LG's G Pad 8.3 is a tablet that slots almost exactly in between the great-but-smaller Nexus 7 and the large-and-aging Nexus 10. GPe devices got Android 4.3 just eight days after it rolled out to the Nexuses, and they got 4.4 about two weeks after it came to older Nexus hardware.
While the Google Play edition gadgets lack the wallet-friendly pricing of the Nexuses, they run a Google-style version of Android bereft of skins and bloatware, and they get updates much faster than they otherwise would. Further Reading Cheaper than most, better than all: the 2013 Nexus 7 reviewedEnter the Google Play edition (GPe) program, which lets these people have their cake and eat it too.