David Yerle Writes about his Nexus 7

David’s Nexus 7

David Yerle writes about his Nexus 7 tablet. Just because he is extremely happy with it and wants to tell the world.

David Yerle is happy because he only spent 200 euros on it. This seems a ridiculously low price compared with the iPad, for example. Is the tablet as nice? It depends. The screen is a lot smaller and that is an inconvenience and an advantage both.

David Yerle finds his Nexus 7 is very handy as a portable device. It comfortably fits in his bag and he can take it out any time to read, play a game or check the map. The map app works wonders, unlike other tablets’ (iPad, anyone?) and has a really handy offline option. David Yerle lives in Beijing, an extremely large city with too many streets to have a fair knowledge of it, and loves to take out his Nexus 7 on taxi rides and tell the driver where to go.

He also finds the interface extremely elegant and smooth. He actually prefers it to that of the iPad. Android was not a prodigy in the design aspect, but the latest version is just gorgeous. Sometimes he just passes screens with his finger just to see the beautiful transitions between them.

Not everything is top-notch. David Yerle’s main problem with his Nexus 7 are the apps. There are many, yes, but a lot of them don’t work as well as with the iPad. For example, the Spanish newspaper he likes to read has a gorgeous iPad app and a really crappy Android one. Why, David Yerle does not know. Another example of crappy apps are the book readers, infinitely worse than the iPad’s. He wonders why nobody has come up with a decent reader for Android where you can naturally turn the page. He hopes things will get better eventually, since the problem comes mainly from programmers not writing apps, not from the tablet being crap.

Another thing he misses is an intuitive way of deleting apps that does not involve going to the App store, which is unfortunately blocked in China half the time. This means David Yerle cannot delete an app unless he’s connected to the Internet and the Chinese government is having a good day, which is quite annoying.

To finish on a good note, David Yerle is also happy with the ability to add widgets. He has two in his main screen: gmail, which allows him to see his mail at a glance, and a weather forecast app.

David Yerle highly recommends this tablet to anyone with 200 euros – or dollars, depending on where you leave – to spare and an open mind about Android.