It has a vibration motor that will let you know when new notifications come in (and provides haptic feedback for the keyboard and other things). The issues are avoidable if you're careful about where you place your thumb, but on the iPad you don't really have to worry about this stuff.Īside from the different dimensions, the G Pad does have a couple of features that the Nexus 7 and iPad mini lack. Your experience may differ from ours based on what apps you use. Chrome behaved pretty well when I had about a third of my thumb touching the display, while the Kindle app was less well-behaved. Some apps seemed a little better at ignoring extraneous input than others. This can actually cause some usability problems-while the iPad mini and iOS are great at detecting and ignoring a thumb pressed down on the edge of the display, the G Pad had a harder time. The G Pad's display bezels are also more iPad-like-the device lacks the large top and bottom bezels of the 2013 Nexus 7 and its side bezels are even thinner. We like the all-plastic construction of the 2013 Nexus 7, but if you like metal more, the G Pad delivers. It's not as stiff or rigid as the aluminum Apple uses in the Retina iPad mini or the iPad Air, but it makes the tablet feel sturdy. The all-black tablet uses plastic around the sides and on the top and bottom, but most of the back is made of a black brushed metal that looks and feels nice even though it's a fingerprint magnet. The so-called "Nexus 8" that set the rumor mill a-buzzing ended up being nothing but a bad Photoshop job, but if the prospect of an 8-inch Nexus got you excited, the G Pad is a nice consolation prize.
We never took a look at the standard G Pad, so we'll be giving the Google Play edition the full hardware and software review treatment.īody, build quality, and screen: More good news than badĪndrew Cunningham Specs at a glance: LG G Pad 8.3, Google Play editionĨ.54" × 4.98" × 0.33" (216.8 x 126.5 x 8.3 mm) Even more importantly, the Google Play edition hardware can fill niches that the Nexus doesn't serve: the 6.4-inch Sony Z Ultra is the "Nexus" that "phablet" fans have always wanted, and LG's G Pad 8.3 is a tablet that slots almost exactly in between the great-but-smaller Nexus 7 and the large-and-aging Nexus 10. GPe devices got Android 4.3 just eight days after it rolled out to the Nexuses, and they got 4.4 about two weeks after it came to older Nexus hardware. While the Google Play edition gadgets lack the wallet-friendly pricing of the Nexuses, they run a Google-style version of Android bereft of skins and bloatware, and they get updates much faster than they otherwise would. Further Reading Cheaper than most, better than all: the 2013 Nexus 7 reviewedEnter the Google Play edition (GPe) program, which lets these people have their cake and eat it too.
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