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superchunk on 27 October 2012
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smbu2000 said:
superchunk said:
 

Apple won't change its pricing model. Just look at the iPad Mini that was intended to compete against the Nexus7. Its nearly twice as much with less features and lower quality screen, the most important piece of the tablet.

Android is now around 40-45% of the tablet market, almost entirely due to the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. This year Nexus7 is upgrading its storage (doubling) at the same price points. Additionally a Nexus10 is launching and will also be priced very aggresively, I'm thinking it will start at $300 which is cheaper than the iPad Mini. It will again blow away the specs of the iPad3 just as Nexus7 does for iPad Mini.

Next year this time Android tablets, Fire, Nexus 7 and 10, Note 10.7, and a few of the others like Asus lineup will together have a greater than 50% share of the tablet market and iPad will no longer be the king.

However, if RT is good and has good word of mouth, this initially very good interest in the Surface tablets will result in a very good increase of MS marketshare. It should also have a direct positive effect on winphone.

It should be interesting to watch.

Is the Nexus screen really that good?

http://www.displaymate.com/Tablet_7inch_ShootOut_1.htm

Factory Display Calibration:

The raw LCD panel hardware first needs to be adjusted and calibrated at the factory with specialized firmware and software data that are downloaded into the device in order for the display to produce a usable image – let alone an accurate and beautiful one. This is actually a science but most manufacturers seem to treat it as if it were a modern art form, so few Tablets, Smartphones, and even HDTVs produce accurate high quality images. Apple does a virtually perfect Factory Calibration for the new iPad, and Amazon has done an excellent Factory Calibration for the Kindle Fire HD. It is probably more accurate with better color than any display you own.

On the other hand, the Factory Display Calibration on the Nexus 7 was severely botched, which significantly degrades its picture quality. In spite of its good Color Gamut, colors and contrast are washed out due to a compressed, convex, and irregular Intensity Scale (sometimes called the Gray Scale). Bright images look like over exposed photographs. We have discussed this in more detail in this Display News article – also see Figure 3 below for more information.

Conclusion:

The Nexus 7 actually has an LCD display that is similar in performance to the Kindle Fire HD, but a poor (and sloppy) Factory Calibration has degraded its native panel performance. Depending on the display firmware this may or may not be correctable with a software update. A second problem is a bug that causes a 15 percent erratic variation in screen Brightness, sometimes bringing the Nexus 7 Maximum Brightness down to almost 300 cd/m2, which we classify as Poor for Maximum Brightness.

Its still better than the iPad Mini screen. All this suggests is that Kindle Fire HD has the best screen of the 7"ish tablets. However, Mr Fire has the worst overall OS setup as its a gimped Android 3.x (hint, the ipad screen this article is referring to is the iPad3 retina display... the ipad mini does not use that display, it doesn't even use a retina display at all)