Got an iPad earlier this year from the US and boy have I missed out on owning a tablet device. I don’t know know what I did before I had one.
While its not an essential device I do find its a bloody amazing piece of kit. Though it is great and works well, it certainly hasn’t made me an Apple fanboy in any way. It’s good but not frenzy worthy.
At the moment taking on my daily commute across London is a bit unnerving. Partly it’s because. It’s a tad on the heavy side, but mainly it’s because its not exactly discreet. I keep feeling like I’m showing off by even taking it out on the tube, and also worried at the same time that some chav might be eyeing it up for a grab and run as I get off the train!
With Google’s entry into the small tablet market with their Nexus 7 tablet, I thought “Great, a tablet worthy of the commute that I can use Amazon’s Kindle app on for books and also do other stuff”. 8GB and 16GB models but I don’t need space as its not my main device so 8GB is fine. Problem is there’s so many problem cases with ordering from Google’s Play Store that I don’t want to risk the hassle.
Firstly its taken me 2 weeks to properly decide to buy it, with the Microsoft Surface and rumoured Apple iPad mini on the way in a matt of weeks so I’m led to believe. To be honest, it depends on which hour of which day you speak to me at the moment. Sometimes I’m going to wait and see what the marketplace is like in 2-4 weeks, sometimes I’m getting the Nexus immediately. But whenever those “immediately” times arrive, I can’t source the 8GB model in any UK high street store, not even on any of those stores websites!
Come on Google, help us out. And by us I mean those customers that are willing and waiting to buy. We won’t be hanging around forever!