Kindle Fire HD gives Nexus 7 stiff competition
Two months ago, I wrote that Google’s Nexus 7 was the budget tablet to beat. But two months in the tech world might as well be two years in some other business. Now another worthy color tablet comes along to muddy the purchase decision. It’s the brand new Kindle Fire HD from Amazon.com, and it poses a serious challenge to Google while representing a major improvement over the first-generation Kindle Fire model that went on sale in the U.S. in November. Amazon announced its latest tablets last Thursday at a Santa Monica, Calif., press conference.
The best thing about the original Kindle Fire was its then $199 price, $300 below the starting price of the iPad and subsequently matched by the entry-level Nexus 7. Fire was a decent, if imperfect, portable slate for Amazon’s vast ecosystem of books, movies, music and other content, especially if you stream flicks and TV shows as a subscriber to Amazon’s $79-a-year Prime service.
But while the initial Kindle Fire provided good value for the money, its appeal was tempered by its lack of cameras, Bluetooth, microphone, parental controls or any cellular options to complement Wi-Fi.
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Kogan’s Agora Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet: Love and Loathe
Kogan’s much-in-demand sub-$200 Ice Cream Sandwich Agora tablet won’t be shipping to customers for quite a few weeks, but we got our hands on a pre-production review unit of the $199 16GB model. How does it stack up at first glance?
We’ll be running much more detailed reviews on Gizmodo and Lifehacker when we’ve lived with the device for a bit, but right now the initial reaction is: it’s a decent buy in the space it competes with, but it doesn’t have the design touches or performance you’ll get in more expensive recent models (Android or otherwise).
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Guide: How to play WMA on Nexus 7 Tablet
Do you want to play your WMA music on your Nexus 7? Maybe you have tried the Play app and a third party app without success? However mp3 files is played OK. From the Nexus 7 spec, we know the Nexus 7 Tablet is not support WMA format. If we want to play WMA audio on Nexus 7, we need to convert WMA to MP3 format.
Note: Some WMA audio from Windows Media Store, this WMA files have DRM protection, we need remove DRM first.
iSkysoft DRM Removal is the best remove DRM Protection tool, it can help us remove DRM for convert, and convert no-drm files for Nexus 7 tablet. Free download it here.
Step-by-step: How to convert WMA to MP3 for Nexus 7 Tablet
Step 1: Run iSkysoft DRM Removal and click “Add Video” to load WMA files into it.
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Guide:How to Root Google Nexus 7 Tablet
This step by step guide will help you unlock the bootloader, root your tablet, install a superuser app, busybox, and a custom recovery.
Rooting, for those of you that don’t know, means giving yourself root permissions on your Android device. This is similar to running programs as administrators in Windows, or running a command with sudo in Linux. With a rooted Android device, you can run apps that are normally blocked because they require access to the system area of your device. The locked system partition on an Android phone or tablet allows the vendor to channel the usage of the device to enhance their profit potential, much as Amazon did with the Kindle Fire which limited purchasing apps to the Amazon App Store. With root you can also install developed ROM’s, which are custom versions of the Android operating system that are preconfigured with many helpful apps that require root access. Custom ROM’s are like a facelift for and Android device. Recovery on an Android device is a utility accessed on startup which allows you to wipe user data and reset your device to the factory state, but with root you can install a custom recovery like CWM. A custom recovery will allow you to create a full backup of your device, install custom ROM’s and kernels for over clocking your device. We will discuss these features in more depth in additional topics.
In Summery Rooting will allow you to:
1.Install a custom recovery like CWM or other software
2.Run apps that require root permissions, such as Titanium Backup or AdAway
3.Completely backup and restore the device (Nandroid Backup) or flash custom ROMS
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Transfer data files to Google Nexus 7 Tablet
After you bought a Google Nexus 7 Tablet, can you transfer files like: PDF, image, songs, videos, ringtones to Nexus 7 Tablet? Some people can not transfer and drag files to Nexus 7 and can not create new folders, rename files, or copy files onto it. Below I found two ways to transfer files to Google Nexus 7 Tablet.
How to watch Netflix on Nexus 7 without root/unlock
This way is how to run Netflix on Nexus 7 without root/unlock. The way is from a forum’s friendly, thanks provided
I got a Nexus 7 today and the first thing I thought is wow Netflix would work great on this if it wasn’t unlocked. The nice thing about Google Jellybean is that there is new support for VPN profiles so there is no requirement for rooting/unlocking to use a VPN to watch Netflix. Here is what I did to get Netflix up and running in less than 5 minutes.
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Put iTunes music on the Google Nexus 7 Tablet for playing
Want to put iTunes DRM music to Google Nexus 7 Tablet for playback. But you found DoubleTwist can’t upload DRM protected songs to Nexus 7. Don’t worry, If you put the Google Music Player on your computer, you can sync it to your iTunes account and transfer music to your Google Music account, both on your computer and on your phone. You can then select songs to sync to your phone from Google music so that you don’t have to stream them all. OK, the stream issue is resolved.
As we know, Google Nexus 7 Tablet can’t read DRM files. The iTunes DRM music also can’t played by Nexus 7. Unless we can remove DRM protection from DRM music.
iSkysoft DRM Removal can remove iTunes DRM protection. We can free download it to try, or buy it here.
Tips: With this DRM Removal tool, we can also remove DRM from Amazon WMV Video and Windows Media Audio.
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Play Flash videos on Google Nexus 7 Tablet
With this way we can play flash videos on Google Nexus 7 Tablet, just convert flash video to Google Nexus 7 Tablet compatible video format.
Don’t want to convert flash format(flv, f4v, swf) to mp4 format for Google Nexus 7, maybe you like me try below ways: install Adobe flash player apk in Google Nexus 7(Although we know the Adobe not supported Android 4.0, Android 4.1), try third part media player, or use Chrome/Firefox to open flash files, etc. But all failed!
Now when I use the Flash Video Converter to convert flash video format to Nexus 7 friendly video format, the Nexus 7 play flash video Successfully.
Here is my way how to convert flash to Google Nexus 7 Tablet
Start before, we need download and install the Flash Video Converter on your computer. You can download it below:
For Windows: Flash to Nexus 7 Converter
For Mac: Mac Flash to Nexus 7 Converter
Step 1: Run the Video Converter then click “Add Video” to load Flash video(flv, swf, f4v) it.
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Sync/play iTunes video to Nexus 7 Tablets from Mac
Do you have a large number of videos from the iTunes Store and want to put them on Nexus 7 tablet for watching? As we know, the purchased videos from iTunes Store have DRM protection. But Nexus 7 cannot read DRM protected files. So if we want to play iTunes on Nexus 7 Tablet, we need to remove DRM protection first.
Nexus 7 Tablet only compatible H.263, H,264, AVC, MPEG-4, VP8. When we finished removed iTunes DRM protection, we need convert M4V to H.264 MP4 format for Google Nexus 7 Tablet.
M4V Converter for Mac (compatible Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion) is we best choose to convert iTunes movies to Nexus 7 Tablet tool, with the Mac M4V to Nexus 7 Converter, we can easy and fast remove DRM Protection and convert M4V to Nexus 7 friendly video format. Free download M4V Converter for Mac Now.
Step 1: Click “Add Video” to load iTunes M4V files into the M4V Converter for Mac.
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Best video format for Archos 101 Internet Tablet
The ARCHOS 101 internet tablet is a tablet who’s choice you’ll be proud of. You’ll have in your hands the best of the highly desirable Android™ technology with a large, high-resolution 10.1’’ screen, a weight of 480 g, and a thinness of just 12 mm. Beyond containing your window into the Internet and your HD multimedia, your device is completely customizable with a world of apps to make it your personal tablet.
Then how to watch movies on Archos 101 Internet Tablet? What’s the best video format for Archos 101 Internet Tablet?
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