Bonus $25 Google Play Credit with Google Nexus 7 Tablet (from $249+Shipping)
This was posted 10 months 23 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
For a limited time, includes $25 of credit to spend in the Play store, as well as some great free content like your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon
There are two versions of the Nexus 7 tablet.
Nexus 7 (8GB) - $249
Nexus 7 (16GB) - $299
Tech Specs
SCREEN
7” 1280x800 HD display (216 ppi)
Back-lit IPS display
Scratch-resistant Corning glass
1.2MP front-facing camera
SIZE
198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm
WEIGHT
340g
WIRELESS
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth
MEMORY
8 GB internal storage
1 GB RAM
USB
Micro USB
BATTERY
4325 mAh (Up to 8 hours of active use)
OS
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
CPU
Quad-core Tegra 3 processor
FEATURES
Microphone
NFC (Android Beam)
Accelerometer
GPS
Magnetometer
Gyroscope
So if you're planning to buy Android apps, this is essentially 10% off and the Transformers 3 movie. Website doesn't say expiry date for the bonus $25 credit, only says it's for a limited time.
Doesn't have a micro sd slot which is a major feature missing especially when it only comes in 8/16GB versions.
EDIT: As pointed out by bigbear, shipping is $19.95 nationwide, and payment has to be made by Visa/Mastercard.
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+5 votesshopaholic32 on 28/06/2012 - 06:14 ¶Shame about Google screwing us ozzies for $50 i.e.more than 20% premium above US purchasers even though the $A is higher than US$, I guess still better than not getting allocated amongst the first to get them.
Missing MicroSDHC slot is a pain!
garratt torlesse on 28/06/2012 - 06:29 ¶The Australian shipping is more expensive as well at twenty bucks. More expensive product and more expensive shipping :-(
nanoronline on 28/06/2012 - 06:38 ¶Well all the tech stuff sold in Australia have been more expensive than other places, especially in the U.S. :S
fchis on 28/06/2012 - 09:25 Comment score below threshold (-13).
+3 votesMany states charge for interstate purchases now. Search for "online" on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_State...
+1 voteThat's the problem a lot of people don't realize, when they see the prices on the US Internet which doesn't include taxes, and the automatically presume it's the price (taxes in the US varies from state to state). Anyway, it's good for us as we don't need to add the 10% GST if it's under $1,000.00
But we do pay a lot more in shipping cost!
I'm guessing the extra $50 helps fund the zero restocking fee for change of mind refunds. It'll be interesting to compare our price with the EU who also have zero restocking fee. http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en-AU&...
+5 votesStrand0410 on 28/06/2012 - 15:23 ¶'blah blah blah.. Aussie overpriced yada yada'
$250 vs $200 is good. Our dollar isn't set in stone, it can easily drop on a dime under the USD (as it did not 2 weeks ago). Or would you seriously rather all products be sold at "Market Price" like restaurant lobster? A $350 tablet in a month because of a bumpy week for the Aussie economy. As mentioned, $200 + sales tax and the Australian salary and cost of living are both higher than the USA.
I doubt the manufacturer is making any more money from selling $250 to Aussies as ~$220 to Americans. But hey, whatever… let's bitch!
+1 voteOr would you seriously rather all products be sold at "Market Price" like restaurant lobster?
yep, I'd bet on demand-driven market compared to highest-margin hedging.
Google can easily do international sales and support from US, at US prices (ala. Amazon) - what's stopping them? (Better still, international sales and support from ASUS/Taiwan - the closer to source the better - everyone else in chain between customer, Google and ASUS is just creaming it).
- Strand0410 on 29/06/2012 - 17:51 ¶
There isn't anyone between Google/ASUS and the consumer if they're selling directly from the Play Store. The reason why the tablet is so cheap compared to its competition is because they cut out all the middlemen and pared back a few features.
"I'd bet on demand-driven market compared to highest-margin hedging"
People just want to have their cake and eat it too. They want market parity prices now, but if the dollar nosedived to 0.6 USD like a few years ago, they'd start bitching again for fixed pricing. You can't have the best of both worlds and after hearing the same tired arguments, it comes off as incredibly juvenile and entitled.
There isn't anyone between Google/ASUS and the consumer if they're selling directly from the Play Store.
so much the better, hence, allow Australians to buy and ship directly from Google US themselves! Simplest, fairest and effective.
start bitching
Price fixing and currency fluctuations are unrelated. Google should just state price in US$ if that's their target currency and let buyers convert on-demand.
Price fixing and currency fluctuations are unrelated. Google should just state price in US$ if that's their target currency and let buyers convert on-demand.
Ahaha, you can't be serious. If you walked in to Officeworks and all the prices were in USD, you would be happy? OK maybe you would, but do you really think everyone else would be? Imagine an office or business trying to write up a budget or do some planning.
Google is having another crack at direct sale and support. If this tablet sale takes off, which it most likely will because of the fantastic hardware and very competitive price, it will eventually appear in retail stores. But I don't think it will happen for at least another 6-12 months.
-2 votesHard to know which movie to hate more - Transformer DoTM or Tron: Legacy. Both appear to be have been written for the population from Idiocracy.
But at least they're not as outright pathetically feeble as dross like Super 8 - or TV crud like "Falling Skies" or "Touch" (or as I call it "Jake… Jake…oh why can't I understand you?" - the story of some dill who's been raising a divvie for seven years but still looks the other way all the time. Oh, and all retards are secretly geniuses, in classic American false-hope-reinforcement.)
bargainhunter on 28/06/2012 - 10:36 ¶missus btw. And Idiocracy is rule by idiots so what that says of its population idk.
smart-aleck on 28/06/2012 - 11:39 ¶Don't worry scro, there's plenty of tards out there living kick-ass lives! My x-wife was 'tarded… she's a pilot now.
- bargainhunter on 28/06/2012 - 10:32 ¶
Your last point is what kept them going through 8 years of Bush Jnr.
Funnily enough, I liked Tron and can't stand DotM and same for Falling Skies vs Touch..
- garratt torlesse on 28/06/2012 - 07:54 ¶
How can Kogan offer a better price? This is already a direct ship from where its made, and I am not sure if the 249 is inclusive of GST or exempt, because the Apps that they sell don't charge GST.
exc3113nce on 28/06/2012 - 07:34 ¶Never really been interested in smaller screen sizes, do you think they'll release a 10"?
Supposedly already in the pipeline: http://www.slashgear.com/google-nexus-10-reportedly-in-pipel...
Like your points.
I think once Sammy 7.7" gets the ICS update, then the only con will be slower cpu, but many more pros
Pricewise, Google Nexus 7 is $299 + $20 = $319 (mid July)
Sammy is $385 now, or maybe even a price drop as this has been released. I have the Good Guys gift cards, so it will be same or cheaper : )
I got the 16GB one for $348 at Goodguys VIP night sale:)
I was so impressed by the display and also surprised by the performance as the web browsing is actually much faster than my Asus Transformer TF300 (Quad-core Tegra 3, ICS). I sold the transformer as I prefer 7inch tablets for reading manga. The only problem for me is it's so thin and cold to hold in winter so I'm getting a book case ;p
+1 voteI have noticed this weirdness too.
Samsung Galaxy Tab (the old / original one) - P1000T has much smoother browser experience than Tegra 2 tablets. That's actually Gingerbread (P1000T) vs ICS (Acer Iconia A500). The pinch to zoom performance is better. P1000T also handles 720mkvs better than Tegra 2.
I know Tegra 3 suppose to improve a lot, but I don't have one. I think Samsung optimised the browser to take advantage of the hardware more.
Same. I was looking around at potential candidates to upgrade my old SGT, but to be truthful I haven't found anything particularly impressive! I was expecting a lot more tangible performance gain given the on-paper spec improvements of the newer 7+ inch tabs.
I'm holding out for a good 10" tab deal now! ;)
+3 votes- Memory - I think the lack of micro SD slot on the Nexus is a big disadvantage compared to the Sammy 7.7. You can pick up 64gb micro SD cards now for $60-80. Depending on your main uses, 16gb (or worse still 8gb) can be very limiting if you throw on some music and some 720p videos, let alone games.
I have the HDMI dongle for the Sammy and can output 1080p to a TV which is great when traveling.
Camera - The Nexus also appears to miss out on a rear-facing camera (not a big deal imo but another point of difference).
Battery - Samsung battery appears to be almost 18% bigger (5100mah v 4325mah).
Lastly the form factor of the Nexus would seem to be not quite as slick as the 7.7:
Nexus 7: 198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm
Samsung 7.7: 196.7 x 133 x 7.9 mmWeight appears to be same (or thereabouts).
With a smaller screen and less features, I would have thought that the Nexus could have been a bit trimmer.
On the other hand we probably won't see Jelly Bean on the Samsung for another year, if at all.
- +1 voteStrand0410 on 28/06/2012 - 15:29 ¶
As a GT7.7 owner, I'd say the Tab has the better hardware overall vs the Nexus's superior, cleaner software. Very similar comparison to the Nexus/Galaxy phone series. Software you can change with xda support and custom launchers while hardware you can't.
Ultimately, if I was buying from scratch, Nexus 7 all the way. It's almost half price and will always have the best version of Android. My 7.7 still hasn't seen ICS and JB is already out.. It sucks that Samsung is always a step behind.
- +2 votes
8GB could be limiting, but 16GB is generally okay. It depends on how you use the tablet and how often you are using the tablet on the move.
If you use the tablet at home a lot, and you have a NAS or a shared drive on the network, you can stream movies / music from the NAS to your tablet easily, rather than copying files to the microSD card.
Don't forget USB OTG. You can plug a USB flash drive (or even a USB portable hard disk) to your tablet running Honeycomb or above. I assume Google tablet would continue to allow that. So unless you must have lots of apps installed, by using USB OTG, the lack of microSD card built in may not be an issue.
-2 votesIt's because people don't pay for apps that is the reason why Apple products have better apps because people actually pay for them. Developers feel that their effort is worthwhile since they are getting rewarded. I seriously cannot understand how people can complain not wanting to pay for $2 apps.
-1 voteYes, exactly. People who buy cheap tablets usually will go for free apps. That's the reality. I read a comment from an IOS developer saying Apple users are much willing to pay for the Apps than Android users. As a result, developers are more than willing to create apps for IOS. In addition, there are just too many different devices running Android and it creates headache for the developers of having to create many different versions for different android devices. A key reason that Apple's Iphone and Ipad are so successful is because of having developers create so many wonderful apps and they need money to keep them going.
+4 votesWoah, I don't think he was inviting a lecture.
I use an android tab all the time, and have probably spent ~$20 total on Play- there are heaps of excellent free, ad supported apps. Many use a tablet for media consumption- movies, books, magazines, which means no revenue for devs.
Google aren't stupid, and they no doubt realize that not all users are going to cash in on hundreds of apps. The ecosystem can still be profitable.
- +5 votesStrand0410 on 28/06/2012 - 15:37 ¶
This goes double for fchis
"Apple users are much willing to pay for the Apps than Android users"
This is an incredibly flawed and somewhat condescending attitude. As someone who uses both iOS and Android, I've sunk a couple hundred into iOS Appstore while Android? <$20.. and it's not because I'm somehow a one-way cheapskate.
The fact is, most of the functions you want are already pre-installed on Android or free. Here are just a few of the things that I've had to pay for on iOS that come with Android out of the box: Decent Mail client (Sparrow), RSS (Reeder), Turn-by-Turn Nav (Metroview), Offline-Page Reader (Instapaper). Those all up are $20-30 that I never had to spend on Android. Yes, the game selection on Android is poorer than iOS but they have much healthier emulator communities.
If you want to make money on Android, do something different instead of simply filling holes the OS developer hasn't done itself. The iOS 6 update now provides Nav and offline page saving, so the guys who provided those services are now effectively screwed. Google's usually a better with adding features, so there's simply less room for redundancy on their market. The note-taking app market on Android is particularly nasty with Evernote, Docs, Milk and Astrid struggling for exposure.
I was refering to the comment by Seth Porges in the article.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/06/25/why-googles...
- Strand0410 on 29/06/2012 - 17:55 ¶
They're not.
-Sparrow is no better than Android's Gmail client
-Google Maps Nav is superior to TomTom/Metroview
-Reeder is superior to Google Reader, is not something I'd pay $5 for.
-Instapaper, the Chrome offline page-saver is more seamlessUltimately, I'd love better 3rd party apps like Reeder to exist, but I don't want to be forced to purchase them because there's no native app that does the same thing.
+8 voteswolfenator87 on 28/06/2012 - 07:57 ¶Why, oh why Google did you have to chuck an Apple and omit the microSD card slot? 16gb just doesn't cut it these days, especially when you want to load up on 720p movies. The only workaround is connecting a USB HDD but that is mostly impractical with a tablet device.
The specs are mindblowing and it looks really impressive so I would still be interested to buy if the price falls in line with the US market(why do we always get shafted?).- +1 votewolfenator87 on 28/06/2012 - 08:19 ¶
lol never thought of that, might be unreliable though. fancy walking around with a daisy chained tablet with cables running in and out. atleast the battery life is strong.
- +1 votewolfenator87 on 28/06/2012 - 08:28 ¶
Actually I think the memory limitation(8/16gb) imposed on this device is a conspiracy by Google to make us go and purchase/rent movies(or other content) from the marketplace(google wins $$$) as opposed to illegally downloading them and transferring them to your device of choice(the good old fashioned way).
+1 voteI guess the only conspiracy here is that Google has been tracking your ozbargain comments, emails, browsing etc and decided to specifically target you …. :)
Joking aside
Not every device will suit everyone, when will ozbargainers learn that. Good on Google for deciding to target a specific type of user.
Every device has limits and trade offs. Just make a choice of what pain/benefit you want.
- +2 votes
In mass production, providing SD slot would cost nothing, and with an SD slot, there wouldn't be a need for 16GB version - in terms of marketing, it would have benefited Goggle to have a single SKU.
Most likely, lack of SD slot is ASUS' imposition - trying to differentiate between this (their economy) and their premium models that do provide it.
- wolfenator87 on 30/06/2012 - 12:46 ¶
It pretty much has all of those things - except for microsd slot. But totally agree, the Nexus is going to shake up the tablet market. It is not revolutionary but it will certainly put downward pressure on prices. Quad-core is the new standard in tablets at a $200 price point. Brilliance :)
- wolfenator87 on 28/06/2012 - 08:21 ¶
The shipping is the deal-killer IMO. I'm going to wait a while for the nexus to penetrate the mass-market so that the prices of all tablets(except apple) will gloriously fall muhahaha
+3 votescornucopia on 28/06/2012 - 08:33 ¶No 3G/4G? This is the first function I'd include in designing a tab so it can travel! I don't get it…OK, so it's got WiFi, but you can't always be near a hub. Waiting for GN7 Mk2 with 3G/4G…over to you Google.
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should also note that $19.95 delivery applies.
and checkout wouldn't accept AmEx as payment either.