[Nexus 10 General] gdourado:
Hello,

How are you?

I decided I'd share my story and give my insights about the Nexus 10. First a little background...

I have been an OSX user for some years. From Macbook, to Macbook Pro, to iMac, I have long ditched windows for my personal computing needs.

In the gadget front, I have always been an android user. Despite having thought about getting an iPad on some occasions, or even an iPhone, I never actually pulled the trigger.

Since my first smartphone, I have always used android phones, from 2.1, to froyo, to Ginger Bread, ICS and now Jelly bean.

After having several phones I settled for the galaxy nexus. I really like Google Web Services and the way they all just work with android and sync flawlessly.

I also love the Nexus pure android and timely updates.

Because I was so happy with my phone, when the nexus 7 came out, I bought a 16gb wifi unit. It was not my first android tablet. About a year ago I bought an HTC Flyer that a few months later I gave to my wife. At the time I had a Galaxy note and didn't use the tablet that much... But anyway...

I liked the Nexus 7. It is fast, good size, good portability. The device is not ideal for web browsing, but because of it's screen size, it is great to use phone apps to do things, like ebay app, paypal app, tapatalk, and such...

Then, after the confusion of the 13 November nexus 4 and nexus 10 launches, I ended up not getting any. Last week, I was finally able to order a Nexus 10 from the playstore and it was delivered this monday morning...

Unboxed it:

Beautiful device. Great specs. It was light, well built and with a good feel.

Loved the screen... Beautiful piece of kit.

The front facing speakers were great...

It ran fast as hell... Synced everything with my nexus 7 and galaxy nexus beautifully!

It was a dream of a device... Until I actually started using it...

There were not too many apps for the bigger and higher res screen...

But that is ok. It is not like I use apps for facebook, ebay or forums on my laptop or desktop... I just use the web browser...

So, went and used it on the nexus 10... And that was the disappointment...

The 16:10 screen which becomes 16:9 when in use thanks to the soft buttons is horrible.

Text is crisp as hell, and I see no pixels, but I also see no content...

The tablet is just to short in height to use in landscape mode. I have to scroll and scroll and scroll to use any site... The way the sites scale on chrome, even fully zoomed out, just don't allow enough content on screen...

So, portrait, no problem...

Well, terrible...

It felt like holding a wooden board... The tablet is just too long and becomes too top heavy to use comfortably in portrait... Also, because the screen is narrow, the web sites don't look natural...

After trying to like the Nexus 10, I just couldn't...

Ended up selling it yesterday. Thanks to the high demand and low supply, I still made a tiny profit with it.

And today I ordered an Ipad 4.

I just realised that at the end of the day, it is not specs, or GPU or CPU or Ram or PPI that make a device...

When a company thinks about usability and ergonomics of a device, that just shows in the way it becomes natural and comfortable to use said device.

I just didn't find the Nexus 10 comfortable or natural for what I wanted to use it for, and that was web browsing mainly.

Maybe that will change in the future when android gets really multi tasking with resizable windows. Thanks maybe the 16:10 will be a plus.

But in the current state of tablet operating systems, for me the 4:3 is more natural and better.

So, this is my experience. I must thought I'd share.

At the end of the day this is just my impressions and my opinions and my feelings towards tablets. I am not an apple fanboy or android fanboy. I am a big nerd and a fan of technology.

It is how you feel about what you use and how what you use gets what you need done that matters. In the end of the day, tablets, phones, laptops, are either tools or toys or a bit of both, but they are not what's most important.

Best regards.