{"id":618,"date":"2012-08-15T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=618"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:05:37","slug":"618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"This is the Droid you&#8217;re looking for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Nexus 7\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_PY4dTdrb3-K6c6rSw-p0AgmmbrZ1-CGkgxGNOHu4ERpSiM0pNybh1ze8iQl4AU4_A=w346\" width=\"346\" height=\"346\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Nexus 7<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Got a 16gb version of this new tablet last week. I worked on the principle that Google wouldn&#8217;t put their name to it if it wasn&#8217;t capable of showing their OS at it&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p>So far everything seems great, design is sleek and all the apps seem to run effortlessly, even using it at work as well as home, I&#8217;m getting a couple of days out of the battery (unless I&#8217;m streaming movies on it)<\/p>\n<p>GPS apps pick my location up effortlessly even when inside.<\/p>\n<p>So intuitive even my other half has managed to use it with a minimum of swearing.<\/p>\n<p>Very few apps pre-installed, allowing you to customise it to your own tastes very quickly through Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Chrome browser at home means all my bookmarks are available on my tablet as well.<\/p>\n<p>Cons&#8230;<br \/>\nYou have to connect to wifi first time, but I couldn&#8217;t find the mac address to allow it to bypass the filtering on my router until after I&#8217;d got it connected. (after that no problems connecting at home or at work)<br \/>\nNo storage expansion slot<br \/>\nOnly one camera which is on the screen side, so not much use for taking pictures (or reading barcodes which would be handy at work)<\/p>\n<p>Pros&#8230;<br \/>\nPrice \u00a3159 or \u00a3199 depending on the memory<br \/>\n\u00a315 credit on Google play<br \/>\nEase of use<br \/>\nBattery Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a 16gb version of this new tablet last week. I worked on the principle that Google wouldn&#8217;t put their name to it if it wasn&#8217;t capable of showing their OS at it&#8217;s best. So far everything seems great, design is sleek and all the apps seem to run effortlessly, even using it at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}