issue66:critique
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+ | ===== Intro ===== | ||
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After one long journey too many on public transport, I decided that I needed some sort of pocket-sized entertainment. Yes, I could listen to an audio device while staring blankly out of the window. Yes, I could check my email every five minutes on my mobile phone. Yes, in theory, I could read books on my mobile phone, but, with a 4” screen, it’s not the most pleasant of tasks. | After one long journey too many on public transport, I decided that I needed some sort of pocket-sized entertainment. Yes, I could listen to an audio device while staring blankly out of the window. Yes, I could check my email every five minutes on my mobile phone. Yes, in theory, I could read books on my mobile phone, but, with a 4” screen, it’s not the most pleasant of tasks. | ||
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There must be something better. | There must be something better. | ||
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+ | Après un long voyage de trop utilisant les transports en commun, j'ai décidé que j' | ||
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+ | Il doit y avoir quelque chose de mieux. | ||
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+ | ===== Nexus ===== | ||
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Enter the Nexus 7. Made by ASUS and using Google’s Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), it has a seven inch (full color) touch screen, 8 or 16 GB of storage, and comes with (in most cases) £15 of Google Play credit. | Enter the Nexus 7. Made by ASUS and using Google’s Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), it has a seven inch (full color) touch screen, 8 or 16 GB of storage, and comes with (in most cases) £15 of Google Play credit. | ||
Surely it must have a down side? Well, there is one minor niggle: it uses only wifi, there’s no 3G option to give you data everywhere and anywhere. Living where I am in the UK means that I am usually without 3G and wifi, and survive reasonably well. Come the inevitable zombie apocalypse, I reckon I’ll be one of the OK ones. But, should you have an Android mobile phone, then, in most cases (not all!), you should be able to make your phone a wifi hotspot. Tethering it’s called. I’ve done this a few times with my Nexus 7 and it works great. | Surely it must have a down side? Well, there is one minor niggle: it uses only wifi, there’s no 3G option to give you data everywhere and anywhere. Living where I am in the UK means that I am usually without 3G and wifi, and survive reasonably well. Come the inevitable zombie apocalypse, I reckon I’ll be one of the OK ones. But, should you have an Android mobile phone, then, in most cases (not all!), you should be able to make your phone a wifi hotspot. Tethering it’s called. I’ve done this a few times with my Nexus 7 and it works great. | ||
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+ | C'est là que le Nexus 7 entre en scène. Fabriqué par ASUS et utilisant Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) de Google, il a un écran tactile de sept pouces (tout en couleurs), 8 ou 16 Go de stockage, et est livré (dans la plupart des cas) avec 15 £ (un peu plus de 18€) de crédit sur Google Play. | ||
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+ | Il doit sûrement y avoir un côté négatif ! Eh bien, j'ai un reproche mineur : il n' | ||
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Free Stuff! | Free Stuff! | ||
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All in all, the Play shop is very well designed and very easy to use, so there should be no real problems installing/ | All in all, the Play shop is very well designed and very easy to use, so there should be no real problems installing/ | ||
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+ | Des trucs gratuits ! | ||
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+ | Après vous être enregistré dans le Nexus 7, vous recevrez un e-mail de Google vous informant que votre compte Google Play a un crédit de 15 £ (ou 18+ €). La façon dont cela fonctionne est que vous passez par le processus habituel d' | ||
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+ | La boutique Google Play est l' | ||
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+ | ===== Best ===== | ||
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Best Of Both Worlds | Best Of Both Worlds | ||
Speaking of apps, not only can I read books from Google Play on this, but I can also install the Amazon Kindle app and read Kindle books on there too. Best of both worlds! Within both the Kindle app and Google Play you can download the books to the device, so you can read your books offline. Google have helpfully included a widget (a little ‘app’ you can drag onto the desktop which can be thought of as being a shortcut) which can display your Play books right on your desktop! A widget can be downloaded from the Play store which will display links to your Kindle books on the desktop too. Here’s my current desktop with ‘MY BOOKS’ (Google Play) and a link to the Kindle edition of ‘The Complete Sherlock Holmes’: | Speaking of apps, not only can I read books from Google Play on this, but I can also install the Amazon Kindle app and read Kindle books on there too. Best of both worlds! Within both the Kindle app and Google Play you can download the books to the device, so you can read your books offline. Google have helpfully included a widget (a little ‘app’ you can drag onto the desktop which can be thought of as being a shortcut) which can display your Play books right on your desktop! A widget can be downloaded from the Play store which will display links to your Kindle books on the desktop too. Here’s my current desktop with ‘MY BOOKS’ (Google Play) and a link to the Kindle edition of ‘The Complete Sherlock Holmes’: | ||
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+ | Le meilleur des deux mondes | ||
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+ | En parlant d' | ||
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Installing Adobe Reader from Google Play will allow you to read and annotate PDF files. Text can vary between PDFs though. Some use large margins and small text, but most PDF books should be easily readable without zooming and scrolling, which is something I hate. | Installing Adobe Reader from Google Play will allow you to read and annotate PDF files. Text can vary between PDFs though. Some use large margins and small text, but most PDF books should be easily readable without zooming and scrolling, which is something I hate. | ||
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Battery life on the Nexus 7 is excellent. With some light reading, and no wifi, I went three days without a charge. Obviously turning on wifi and/or doing more intensive tasks will drain the battery much faster. | Battery life on the Nexus 7 is excellent. With some light reading, and no wifi, I went three days without a charge. Obviously turning on wifi and/or doing more intensive tasks will drain the battery much faster. | ||
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+ | Installer Adobe Reader à partir de Google Play vous permettra de lire et d' | ||
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+ | Si RSS est plus votre truc, alors vous pouvez utiliser Google Currents (qui est pré-installé). Très pratique pour lire le FCM en déplacement. | ||
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+ | ===== Audio/video ====== | ||
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Audio/Video | Audio/Video | ||
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Android no longer uses the old ‘USB Storage’ method for sending/ | Android no longer uses the old ‘USB Storage’ method for sending/ | ||
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+ | Audio / Vidéo | ||
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+ | Si vous avez un accès wifi et avez besoin d'un peu de divertissement, | ||
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+ | Android n' | ||
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Type that into your browser and you’ll be able to access your Nexus to send/ | Type that into your browser and you’ll be able to access your Nexus to send/ | ||
ESFE is a similar idea, but you connect directly to the PC to send/ | ESFE is a similar idea, but you connect directly to the PC to send/ | ||
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+ | Tapez cette adresse dans votre navigateur et vous serez en mesure d' | ||
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+ | ESFE est similaire, mais vous vous connectez directement à l' | ||
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+ | ===== Cloud ===== | ||
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Head In The Clouds | Head In The Clouds | ||
Ubuntu One works dandy with the Nexus 7. I simply installed ubuntuone-control-panel-qt (I use KDE) which gave me a folder in /home called ‘Ubuntu One’, and anything I dropped in there would show in the cloud on the Ubuntu One website and in the Ubuntu One Android app. Adding a file from the Nexus 7 was as simple as pressing the ‘+’ button in the top right of the screen, selecting the type of file to send, then selecting the file itself. After a few seconds, the file was in the cloud. DropBox works flawlessly, and in the same way as Ubuntu One. DropBox came in handy with this review. I took my screenshots of the Nexus screen (hold the power and volume down keys), and sent them to my DropBox account. When writing this review in Google Docs, I simply added the images from my DropBox folder. Cable free! | Ubuntu One works dandy with the Nexus 7. I simply installed ubuntuone-control-panel-qt (I use KDE) which gave me a folder in /home called ‘Ubuntu One’, and anything I dropped in there would show in the cloud on the Ubuntu One website and in the Ubuntu One Android app. Adding a file from the Nexus 7 was as simple as pressing the ‘+’ button in the top right of the screen, selecting the type of file to send, then selecting the file itself. After a few seconds, the file was in the cloud. DropBox works flawlessly, and in the same way as Ubuntu One. DropBox came in handy with this review. I took my screenshots of the Nexus screen (hold the power and volume down keys), and sent them to my DropBox account. When writing this review in Google Docs, I simply added the images from my DropBox folder. Cable free! | ||
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+ | La tête dans les nuages | ||
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+ | Ubuntu One fonctionne élégamment avec le Nexus 7. J'ai simplement installé ubuntuone-control-panel-qt (j' | ||
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Say Cheese! | Say Cheese! | ||
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I haven’t tried many games on the Nexus, but Minecraft ran smooth as silk as did Broken Sword (Android remake of the old PC classic), and Pinball HD looked mighty impressive, and, again, smooth as silk. No glitches or slowing down at all. | I haven’t tried many games on the Nexus, but Minecraft ran smooth as silk as did Broken Sword (Android remake of the old PC classic), and Pinball HD looked mighty impressive, and, again, smooth as silk. No glitches or slowing down at all. | ||
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+ | Souriez ! | ||
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+ | Pour un appareil photo, le Nexus 7 a une caméra frontale qui est de résolution assez faible, mais c'est plus que suffisant pour la reconnaissance faciale dans Android 4.1 (une fonction de déverrouillage sympa) et pour un usage sur les vidéo-conférences de Google+. | ||
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+ | Je n'ai pas essayé beaucoup de jeux sur le Nexus, mais Minecraft d' | ||
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One new addition to the Android box of tricks is Google Now. With this app you can use text/voice searches, and, based on those searches, it will, over time, build up a series of ‘cards’ that it will display. These cards will give you everything from traffic advice, weather, even public transport timetables. Google is pretty much trying to predict your searches before you even do them! | One new addition to the Android box of tricks is Google Now. With this app you can use text/voice searches, and, based on those searches, it will, over time, build up a series of ‘cards’ that it will display. These cards will give you everything from traffic advice, weather, even public transport timetables. Google is pretty much trying to predict your searches before you even do them! | ||
At £199 ($199) the Nexus 7 is an absolute bargain. It’s fast, has a really nice responsive screen, and Android 4.1 is indeed buttery smooth (as Google has been saying). It fits nicely into the palm of the hand, it’s not too heavy, and, more importantly, | At £199 ($199) the Nexus 7 is an absolute bargain. It’s fast, has a really nice responsive screen, and Android 4.1 is indeed buttery smooth (as Google has been saying). It fits nicely into the palm of the hand, it’s not too heavy, and, more importantly, | ||
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+ | Un nouvel ajout dans la boîte à malices Android est Google Now. Avec cette application, | ||
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+ | Au prix de 199 £ (323 $ ou 245 €) le Nexus 7 est une excellente affaire. Il est rapide, possède un écran vraiment sympa, très réactif et Android 4.1 est fluide et velouté (comme Google ne cesse de le dire). Il tient parfaitement dans la paume de la main, il n'est pas trop lourd, et plus important encore, se glisse dans la poche de ma veste ! | ||
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