[Nexus 10 General] 3DSammy:
Had my Nexus 10 for under two weeks. I bought it mainly as an extension of a continuing experiment with hand held computers which started all the way back from the original PalmPilot and temporarily ended with an HP4100 PDA. I lurked on the XDA Transformer 101 forum and its matching IRC channel right through to the announcement of the T700. Only the economy and other priorities prevented me from buying one at the time.

When I read the announcement of the Google Nexus 10 and saw the specs the stars aligned with my available throw away cash so I set a date (tax return time) then had to wait until the 32GB was available in Canada again. Now that I have one, thankfully without any of the issues other poor soles have experienced, I am very satisfied with my purchase.

My main reason for buying the Nexus 10 were the hardware specs and that I want to branch out and develop on a different platform/language other than Linux python. Of course my plans for Android development were thrown asunder when weeks before my purchase Ubuntu-Touch was announced. As I already use Ubuntu as my main desktop and netbook OS the idea of a converged OS on all my devices is very attractive.

In fact I've already tried out the developers preview on my N10 and it works very well. Video playback is every bit as smooth as on Android (they use the same HW acceleration blobs). The camera app can switch between the front and rear camera something I could not figure how to do with stock JB. Of course the developers preview is too immature to use as a daily driver but it will not be all that long (~Oct 2013). I use TWRP's nandorid backup and restore to flip seamlessly back and forth between Android and Ubuntu-Touch with no data loss. A poor man's dual-boot solution.

After getting my development fix, the N10 is intended to be my main media-consuming device replacing a netbook that I use now for ebook reading, surfing and HD video watching before I go to sleep. That seems to be what this device was designed for.

Outside of the screen resolution and impressive I/O speed, is the quality/accuracy of the speech recognition. I was all ready to customize my various desktops with icons and folders of icons when I discovered the app "SayIt - Voice Launcher". After using that app I combined it with "Sidebar Pro", "GMD GestureControl" and Nova Launcher. Now I do not see the need for icon app launchers on my desktops.

My SideBar contains only three apps icons "SayIt - Voice Launcher", "Voice Search" and SideBar's "app list" (just in case). My desktops only have information or dynamic widgets for date/time, news, weather, media .. etc. It also comes very close to emulating the Ubuntu-Touch interface with the additional advantage of a much more mature app store for at least a good while to come.

This trend may change as I am sure to discover new apps and ways to use my N10 but it has been an amazing ride so far.

One things I read was that the N10 was incapable of tracking more than three fingers at a time. I tried one of the recommend test apps and could track eight fingers concurrently without issue. I stopped at eight otherwise I was going to drop the Tablet;) I do not understand what the various threads commenting on poor multi-finger tracking are referring to. There is slight lag even with one finger and the N10 does not have the same ability for drawing or writing that say a Galaxy Note has but that is to be expected with this screen technology.