Yea you are right.

But damn, USD199 for a quad-core.

Several deal-breaker
- no 3G
- no SD Card

My suggestion on how to live with it
- Use more cloud service; we have plenty, Google Drive, Dropbox etc
- Buy a mini-wifi. It is a portable hotspot (like the one in Android but this is a dedicated device to provide wireless data transmission). You can put a SIM in it.

But cloud service cost you huge amount of data, I suggest get an unlimited plan for data. Life is meaningless with capped speed once you get limited
Maxis do offer corporate package, first month pay rm400. Then for every each next month only RM68. No VPN or tricky method involved. You got unlimited for the rest of your life. I got a friend using it for 4 month and yup it is true damn super unlimited. There's no official page for this in Maxis website though. They distribute through an agent offered specially for corporate ppl. We got one agent here at the WTS thread too.

Combine all this with a USD199 Tegra 3 720P HD Display, YUP I AM SO GOING TO BUY THISSS. I'm glad I canceled my decision to buy Kindle Fire hee



Technically, no. But there will be a hack around it.
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/mobile-...torage-usb-port

This post has been edited by damned_dude: Jul 3 2012, 12:35 PM

One quick search give me this :
this is one i mean by mini wifi portable hotspot
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2320818/all
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1983247/all
http://www.justbuy.com.my/hame-mpr-a1-3-in...ower-router-453
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2370847/all

one example of portable hotspot. There is alot other model and much more smaller in term of the form factor and much more portable
Your cost how much total?

Currently I'm trying to compare which is the best mail forwarder.

Shipito.com ??? HopShop??

Cmon guys lets brain this which one is the cheapest

Thanks for your input.

Somemore, I re-read their assisted purchase terms and it seem they only can help purchasing only the buy now item at ebay. The price at ebay alone is damn high as majority of the seller is targeting buyer from outside USA. Need to buy from google directly.
Will be digging on HopShopGo more later

I never thought can use malaysian credit card to buy device from play store
Is it ok paying to google play with a proxy? Or is there any other way you get to access google play?

Sorry I'm not referring to you. I understand in your part it was HopShopGo that made the transaction for you and no proxy involved.

I was referring to Mikelanding, he bought the Nexus 7 using a malaysian credit card and if I'm correct, you would have to get into the Google Play device website first right?
It just that I didn't know before that you can even pay through a secure transaction USING a proxy as maybe Google Checkout security can detect that you are indeed using a proxy and therefore the transaction is rejected.

I don't really know as I have never tried it before. Nvm, carry on.


Nope. Have no interest in bulk order. Just searching the cheapest way to get a Nexus 7 for myself aha.
There is someone though in our garage sale doing bulk and taking pre-orders. You can search around.

60USD is the USPS Priority with insurance is it?

You guys think there will be a problem if just use cheap economy postage one?

Aghh those 60USD hurts my head. Guyysss we need to bulk and no markup involved. Me so poorrrrr

Most of the time, not. It is only an electronic product worth USD199.
Unless you do a bulk order and bring in many, it will looks like you are going to resell it and thus customs may charge you some kind of import duties bla bla I have read this kind of detail somewhere not too long ago but forgot the source and some of the facts too. Anyway just prepare extra money to be safe although IMO you won't be likely charged for it.. This one needs further opinion from other member.

Other way you can ask your freight forwarder to label it as a 'gift'. I'm not sure if Shipito or HopShop allow this but back in the days when I were actively trading at eBay I ask my shipper to do this all the time. This is illegal by the way. I don't really care since the magic word 'gift' somehow can make the custom inspection process faster. When buying from outside, this custom inspection can make your package so long to arrive/deliver if you were unlucky. Sometimes they lazy do the job and just let your package go through, depending on the size of your package.
I once were unfortunate, the package stucked for 1 month. 2 weeks for deliver(which is normal for shipping from china to malaysia using cheap economy postage no tracking code) and 2 weeks for custom inspection only. I even blamed the sender for not shipping lol

Thanks! Now this is sufficient.

This post has been edited by damned_dude: Jul 5 2012, 12:59 AM

Erk.. nope.
The only members here who have made the pre-order is jackdon and mikelanding.
I'm having a little problem with the shipping charge. Wanna see how market develop here first

LOLL
Man how can you sleep at night knowing this??
Just rob the damn office and take your tablet loll
Singapore damn small I think your tablet is only 1KM away from you right now

I have read about this somewhere.. the OTG hack allows all types of usb mass storage, except for the spinning disk type. E.g, external hard disk.

Not sure if i understand it correct though. Other tablet can support external hard disk? All I know is that even ipad do not allow that kind of stuff so there is not many reason to be disappointed.

Yea I forgot about the external-powered hard disk.

Anyway Microsoft Surface tablet has a dedicated usb port specially for external storage. I guess they support the 2.5" usb-powered external hard disk?

Damn la all these competition me so pening pening

Yesterday was my first time holding a 7 inch tablet (Galaxy Tab)....

It... seems... so.. small.........

LOL

I occasionally use my dad's iPad, and the 10inch seems perfectly fine with me.
I guess I'm just too comfortable with 10inch.. might take some time with 7inch.

Can't really argue about this though as this is the matter of personal taste.

Well I do notice I'm getting manlier lately

Dude hows your pre-order going? Everything went fine?

Well thats weird coz one of the many praises for nexus 7 is the removal of its rear camera considering the awkwardness of taking pictures with a tablet and plus they get to reduce the price too.

The camera wasnt a big issue really, at least for me..

Too bad for you then.

Anyway do remember this is specially designed to be an eBook reader. Not many productive stuff that can be done.

Yup. The quad core is for the sake of project butter

I wonder what will happen if google are producing a $399 or maybe $499 tablet.. maybe 12cores!?! O.o

Well ipad is lucky that ppl at google are not targeting them. Maybe it's the lack of tablet app in android.

This post has been edited by damned_dude: Jul 11 2012, 03:17 PM

@googlenexus just tweeted 5mins ago, all nexus 7 pre-orders have started shipping

Goodluck receiving the tablet.
I'll just sit here waiting for news from you guys. Hope all is well

can buy adapter rm5 only

Waa I don't know you need to give credit card information to get the 25$ credit. I think this is a really smart move by Google to educate users to actually use money for maximum usage of Google Play. You can opt to not give credit card information and if you do, you get a reward
Rather than what Apple did, sure Apple has educates their user well, but kinda forcing it though.
Correct me if I'm mistaken. I registered my email with iTunes 2 years ago at that time iTunes didn't require any credit card information for registration. But my friend said now it is a compulsory.

Weeeee the community is growinggg. Expecting this thread to be flooded with happy users any time soon
I can only only be jealous for now. Waiting for Google to bring it in Malaysia and then I can use the 'reporting in' line

This post has been edited by damned_dude: Jul 27 2012, 03:57 AM

Wohoooo only 3 days left to enter the month AUGUSTTT



Yeah actually i kinda hate the application launcher too. That's why I use MIUI ROM for my Android, which the design is inspired by iOS. I doubt there is MIUI for nexus 7 since the MIUI is not optimized for tablet at all. I don't know much about nexus 7 modding community.

+1 this question, want to know the answer too.

This post has been edited by damned_dude: Jul 27 2012, 08:54 PM