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miko11: 'IT TAKES A SMART PARENT TO
MAKE SMART CHILDREN' - Thank u my brother!

Yeah, smart parents and also correct exposure!
Infact EXPOSURE is all!
It even cures stupidity!

ayox2003: Does that make her a genuis?
While her peers are busy writing programs, making robots and animations in Japan. Dont expose her to basic software tutors, languages and projects but expect her to be a genius because she can handle your devices.
SMH.

Frawzey.

Its this kind of cretinous reasoning that sometimes makes me loose hope in Nigerian youths,
But let me humor you and come down to ur level, before her peers could do all these things you listed up there, they've been over exposed to all these gadgets, it takes an analytical mind to see a working tech and wants to write a program for it or do you think they just picked up a crayon and start writing codes out of thin air?
smh

honeric01: I was about writing the same thing..knowing how to operate a phone makes you a genius? good lord!

No, it doesnt, but for kids of that age, it arouses their curiosity to know how such tech works!


[quote author=Ileke-IdI]I think na2day? is not in Nigeria, so there's a higher chance that his daughter might go somewhere with her interest in technology.

Even if he was in Nigeria, let's not assume a future for our kids. Let's help them as much as we can.


That saying, I'm still granting my kids the "advantage" of a smart-phone at such a young age. (contradicting myself, huh)[/quote]Thank you o, Ileke!
I know most of us grew up seeing the equivalent tech of our days only in the hands of the rich, we can only make do
with card boards, sand, tyres and sometimes our imaginations.
All those responding to my post, have you seen what they use in schools here for teaching?
My daughter has been using computer since age 5, i had to promise her, her own laptop because she's always disturbing mine to do her stuff!
I still maintain, if had been exposed to half of what my kid has been exposed to,
i'd have turned out better!
no kidding!

I just promised my 8 years old a daughter a laptop by October!
Fyi she can use Asus transformer prime, hp touchpad and my htc desire s very well (All android gadgets)
Wish i had someone to give me these when i was her age, i'd have been a genius!

HP Touchpad! please

[size=13pt]It's Alive! Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) source code now available[/size]

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Source code for Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) has been released. We’re sure many of you will be downloading the new Android 4.1.1_r1 files simply to poke around, but CyanogenMod and countless other Android development groups around the globe will be spending countless hours pouring over every last line of code to see what changes will need to be made to integrate Jelly Bean into their existing code base.

Along with Android 4.1, Google has also released the proprietary binaries for the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus. Code for the “Nexus S and Xoom will follow.”

The CyanogenMod team has already predicted a quick turnaround with Android 4.1; let’s just hope they can keep their word. We’re still trying to decide which new Android 4.1 features we’re most excited about. Google Now definitely got the most buzz at I/O, but we think Project Butter will have more impact on users.

What are your thoughts? Will you be waiting for a full CM10 build for your device? Or will you be lurking on your favorite development forum, flashing dozens of half-baked ROMs as soon as they’re posted?

This is barbaric and no wonder the cycle of violence continues

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Kobojunkie: Possibly carbon monoxide poisoning -- did they have a running generator, or furnace, in the house?

That was my first thought too, but according to the story,

fatdon2: Grief and sorrow enveloped
yesterday Umuakuru village in
Emekuku, Owerri North Local
Government Area of Imo State

A woman, who narrated her
ordeal to Daily Sun also, said a
day to the burial she defeacated
in her dress unknowingly and
was rushed to the hospital.
[size=13pt]Suspicion of the victims’ death
from fumes of generating set
was dismissed by eyewitness,
who said the family had none.[/size]
Source

enitan2002: I saw this at the frontpage of Sun newspaper, with the picture of the crime scene, it is definite that those guys were poisoned. This ain't a natural death, cos two of the victims had foam formed at their mouths, the police should do a thorough investigation in fishing out the killer(s).

Yes, an apparent case of poisoning!
This one no be juju o.
What a terrible place the country is turning to be!

[quote author=d-jay]The owner of this post is sick..[/quote]The issue is that, did the above really happened?

Is this what my beloved 9ja has turned to?
I think its time to relocate the rest of the family!

Unfortunately, the events in Libya will continue to have widespread ramifications for the African sub-continent, part of it, is what is going on in Mali now and we should not even forget that our own Bokoharam developed fangs after Libya became lawless!

cap28: Black Libyans from Tawergha were lynched in full view of western journalists, these same journalists REFUSED TO CARRY THE STORY IN ANY OF THEIR NEWSPAPERS - MANY black libyans and other so called sub saharan africans WERE STRUNG UP FROM LAMP POSTS, OTHERS WERE TAKEN TO SLAUGHTER HOUSES AND BUTCHERED LIKE ANIMALS BY THESE US AND EU BACKED MONSTERS AKA THE NTC BUT NO WESTERN PRESS CARRIED THE STORIES UNTIL INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS BEGAN TO EXPOSE ALL OF THIS. Now they come to you with more half truths,ommissions and outright lies about what is going on in a country they helped destroy.

You know Cap! the hypocrisy of the west is extra-ordinary.
sometimes i wonder how people like Sarkozy(Imagine, it was the same Gaddafi that financed his election), Hillary Clinton, Hague et al are able to sleep at night.

Sometimes an oppressive dictator is better than chaos.
Remove Gadaffi they said, it'll bring peace they said...they lied.
Gadaffi was a vile man but these are worse.
This is typical middle east!
You need a strong leader to control the tribes.
And this is where the west is wrong, anyway who cares as long as the oil is flowing!

seunny4lif: I pray becos benghazi no wan agree wit tripoli gov ernment.Make God help us,becos i dey tripoli...If,i comot make dem kill each oda,na dem come knw.

Ol boy! u no like yaself at all o!
U no be blackman? you want make them mistake you for a Tawergan?
u beta pack ur load quick before the 2nd rebellion starts!

Kobojunkie: For 42 years prior, Libyans knew no freedom. Yet the world expects them to get it all right in less than a year after ridding themselves of the shackles? Of course the anarchy is not going to end right after the people head to the polls. It has been 42 years in the making. It will take time but the good is the people are finally able to make the decision on their own.

What decision are you on about? when more than half will not be able to come out to vote in fear of the big bullies behind machine gun mounted pickup trucks.
Do you seriously believe any good thing will come out of this?
What has happened is that a bully that made a country to work has been exchanged for a rabble of bullies hell bent on chaos!
Libya is another Afghanistan that has already happened!

[size=13pt]Back to bloody anarchy: Andrew Malone revisits Libya and finds a country riven by torture, mass murder and savage vengeance[/size]

On a baking hot day this week, the people of Libya’s most prosperous city flocked to the beach and splashed in the cooling waters of the Mediterranean. Such happy scenes were unthinkable in Misrata a year ago, when the world watched in horror as Muammar Gaddafi’s forces encircled and besieged this port city, unleashing what he called the ‘forces of Hell’.

Firing thousands of tank shells, mortars and missiles into residential areas, the Libyan dictator was determined to smash the uprising in Misrata, only three hours from his underground stronghold in Tripoli, the capital.

To add to the terror, he sent thousands of troops into battle, many of them African mercenaries who had been allowed into Libya in return for their undying loyalty to the despot. Gaddafi told them: ‘Misrata is yours.’ There was carnage. While local men were fighting back against Gaddafi’s troops, their homes were looted and their wives and children kidnapped. Rape was widespread, death everywhere.
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Revenge: Rebels have destroyed the town of Tarwegha, which they believed to be loyal to Gaddhafi

Today, a year on from the horrors endured by ordinary Libyans, Misrata’s buildings remain riddled with holes from bullets and tank shells. But shops and cafes are open. There are funfairs for children. And there are those families enjoying the beach.

Yet there is one stretch of sand where no soul ever ventures. This is an area of scrub and dunes just back from the sandy coves.

Called Funduq Al-Jannah - Arabic for Heaven Hotel - it is an execution ground where up to 1,000 of Gaddafi’s fighters were taken by the victorious rebel army, then slaughtered in cold-blooded vengeance.

Everyone in Misrata knows of the events that unfolded at this desolate spot, but no outsiders had been here until I visited this week and heard the full harrowing details of what happened at Heaven Hotel - a bitterly ironic name, as I shall explain.

The killings highlight the bitter divisions and violence in Libya as its people vote today in their first election for a 200-member national assembly that will name a prime minister, enact legislation and appoint a committee to draft a constitution.

For the truth is that, since Gaddafi fell, Libya has been run by a National Transitional Council which has overseen a descent into anarchy.
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A man walks past a destroyed building in Sirte yesterday, a day before Libyans will take to the polls

A report from Amnesty International this week warns the country is in the ‘stranglehold’ of hundreds of militias acting above the law. The organisation says widespread human rights violations - arbitrary arrests, detention, torture (sometimes to death), unlawful killings and forcible displacement of families - are rife in the country.

The levels of repression are reaching those that sparked the revolution against Gaddafi in the first place, and, according to the charity, methods of torture include ‘suspension in contorted positions and prolonged beatings with various objects, including metal bars and chains, electric cables, wooden sticks, plastic hoses, water pipes and rifle-butts’.

‘Some detainees were subject to electric shocks,’ it adds. ‘Without immediate action to stop abuses and lawlessness, there is a very real danger Libya could end up reproducing and entrenching the same patterns of violations we have seen in the past four decades.’

I was told of what happened at Heaven Hotel by a group of fighters I came to know at the height of Gaddafi’s siege of the town last year. They drove me to the spot up a bumpy dirt road past a beach crowded with families.

Here prisoners captured by the rebels were ordered to get out of the pick-up trucks into which they had been bundled after being tortured at rebel bases.

These Gaddafi fighters were the ‘worst of the worst’, I was informed - rapists and sadistic killers. Many had been mutilated and made to drink diesel - a form of torture common in Libya - and confessed to rape before being taken to the killing ground near the sea.

Misrata’s rebel fighters reassured them they would not be harmed, that they were simply being taken for questioning at the ‘hotel’. It was a lie. As soon as the captives arrived, the killing started.

‘I’d told one of these dogs that we were taking them to Funduq Al-Jannah near the beach - he was really pleased and said that was good because his aunt lived in the area,’ a Misratan revolutionary told me. ‘We cut his throat first.’
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Destruction: A man holding a Free Libya green flag walks past the remains of a destroyed building in Sirte

The prisoners’ hands were bound with plastic ties. They were ordered to lie on their side, with their heads on piles of sand. All my guides were involved, saying they had held the legs of the prisoners while their throats were cut with bayonets. Every one of them denied killing any captives themselves.

‘We burned some of the bodies before burying them in the sand,’ I was told. ‘I don’t know how many were killed - as many as 1,000.’

Most died in the immediate aftermath of the end of the war last August. But sources say people were still being taken to Heaven Hotel earlier this year.

The bodies were buried in a gulley across the sand from where we stood, explained my guides. Here, bulldozer tracks criss-crossed the area. The machines had been used to make large piles of sand and rocks to cover the bodies.

In blinding white sunlight, I scraped at the one of the piles of rock and sand. I found shoes, flip-flops and empty machine-gun cartridges near the surface. The men with me said this was a mass grave.

Later, I spoke to dozens of militia fighters. All told the same story: that Gaddafi fighters suspected of rape or particularly brutal killings were slaughtered here for their crimes.

Senior military sources in the city also acknowledged the existence of Heaven Hotel. Indeed, older, wiser leaders in Misrata were horrified when they learned soon after the war that the prisoners were being killed in such a manner.

They ordered that, in future, all executions had to be carried out with a single bullet in the head - rather than by holding the victims down and cutting their throats.

‘After that, we always shot them,’ another militia fighter told me. ‘It was quicker and cleaner - better for everyone.’

Many of the victims were from Tawerga, a town 30 miles from here, where some 50,000 black Libyans once lived in happy co-existence with their neighbours in Misrata.

But since Gaddafi fell, the rebels have been targeting its black population in indiscriminate revenge attacks for the despot’s deployment of thousands of African mercenaries recruited from outside the country against them.

Some Tawergans undoubtedly took money to join Gaddafi’s forces. But vast numbers never joined in the fighting - and are being attacked simply because their skin colour is associated with Gaddafi’s mercenaries.

Today, Tawerga has been ethnically cleansed of its black Libyans, and largely destroyed. Militia fighters regularly drive out there from Misrata to make sure none of the population have sneaked back in.

Signs bearing the town’s name have been painted over. What remains of the shattered homes, shops and restaurants have been daubed with vile graffiti: ‘Black dogs! No blacks.’
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Libyan election campaign posters hang in Misrata - but the city is still plagued by violence and chaos

A group of ‘freedom fighters’ told me how they had ransacked the town, setting fire to buildings and attacking anyone they found. These men told how they repeatedly kicked a heavily-pregnant Tawergan woman in the stomach. One said: ‘The woman was shouting as we kicked her: “I could be your mother.”

‘I told her my mother is not a black b***h,’ he added.

Some 25,000 Tawergans have now been placed in ‘refugee camps’, which are, in effect, little more than prisons.

The people in these camps do not dare leave: Misrata militias scour the country for anyone from Tawerga and regularly kidnap and torture black Libyans suspected of helping Gaddafi.

And even in the camps, fortified with barbed wire and watched by armed guards, the refugees are not safe from the marauding militias.

In a series of attacks, fighters from Misrata have opened fire on camp residents, killing both men and women. The latest happened at a camp for 1,700 Tawergans in Tripoli this week, when men from Misrata in four cars attacked with guns.

So bad has the situation been that some want the Nato-backed rebels to be tried for war crimes. The tragic irony is that Britain, France and the U.S. imposed a no-fly zone and helped overthrow Gaddafi to stop him committing war crimes.

Medical charities now refuse to work in Misrata. They pulled out after accusing rebels of bringing torture victims in for treatment - only to take them back for more torture once their wounds had recovered sufficiently for their bodies to cope.

A senior member of the city’s military council stressed that only rapists and the worst Gaddafi soldiers were executed at Heaven Hotel - and seemed baffled by any misgivings.

‘These people killed our families and raped our children,’ this influential figure told me. ‘If you rape, you must die - you have no rights.’

Nor, apparently, do critics of the killings. In recent days, one Libyan journalist was abducted by Misrata militias from the seafront in Tripoli, the capital, after saying these armed groups are out of control and need a ‘stick taken to them’.

Sulaiman Dougha, the country’s equivalent of David Dimbleby, was found in Misrata 72 hours after being snatched by men in balaclavas. He was tortured and sexually assaulted before being freed with a warning to leave the country - or be killed.

Not all are bent on vengeance. Mohammed Al-Koor, who runs one Misrata prison containing 700 Gaddafi supporters, had to move prisoners from cells visible from high buildings nearby, after Misrata snipers started killing inmates through the bars. In another disturbing development, these acts of revenge are now fuelling a new ‘rebel movement’ among Gaddafi supporters, financed by loyalists to the dictator who have escaped into neighbouring countries with billions.

For today’s election, thousands of police have been ordered on to the streets to show the world that Libya is safe. But the police are the only people in this country without guns: the militia fighters who overthrew Gaddafi with the help of British-backed Nato airstrikes say they cannot be trusted with weapons.

At the same time, fighting is raging in the south, where a brigade of Gaddafi loyalists, the Eagles of Muammar, has repeatedly tried to seize control of the airport in Sabha, a strategically vital city.

With a huge arsenal of artillery, mortars and missiles, followers of the dead dictator aim to push north towards the coast - and vow to avenge their leader, who was captured by rebels last October before being tortured and killed.

And in Sirte, where Gaddafi was found hiding in a sewage pipe, residents say they have had enough of the killing and kidnapping of suspected Gaddafi supporters - and are ready to fight back.

‘People still love Gaddafi, but they are scared,’ said one man. ‘Militias from other places come here every night and snatch men and boys from the streets. They say they come here to find guns, but they just want to kill people.’

With the country descending into a spiral of lawlessness and revenge, and with no national army to impose order, people all over this vast country are stock-piling weapons.

Zuba, an 18-year-old former rebel, showed me his personal arsenal of heat-seeking missiles, five Kalashnikovs, phosphorous grenades, ordinary green grenades and two rocket-propelled grenades.

Before leaving the country, I went back to Heaven Hotel alone early one morning to reflect on the degree of hatred that led to the slaughter there.

When I was reporting on the siege a year ago, I witnessed some of the atrocities inflicted by Gaddafi’s men - scenes of carnage and overwhelming grief I will never forget. This is Misrata’s bloody revenge.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170025/Back-bloody-anarchy-Andrew-Malone-revisits-Libya-finds-country-riven-torture-mass-murder-savage-vengeance.html

SAFO: another nice game..... Dead Trigger

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As for me, i enjoy these kind of games on my tablet.
But i like what I'm seeing in these screenshots.
Reminds me of Shadowgun.

chucky234: Nice info but google now is already running on my phone.

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Here is Google Now getting an epic 47-question interrogation![/size]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo[/flash]

puskin: Because Google has taken over now........doesn't mean others can't re-take it later on........I only made a statement pertaining to the current happenings NOW.

Talking about "NOW"
Anyone used the GOOGLE NOW?
Will it react accurately to people like us with our thick Nigerian accent?
I'm anxiously waiting for this jellybean 4.1 feature on my phone!
Imagine the wonderful voice telling you stuff like :
shortest route to ur house, telling you about the deals in the shop around?
The future is really here!

[size=13pt]Google shows off Project Glass at I / O with live skydiving and bike jumps[/size]

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We've been hearing things about Google Glass, the Google-powered eyeball accessory, for a while now. While the device isn't quite ready for consumers (and won't be for a while), we got an extensive look at what these devices can do...right after Google engineers jumped out of an airplane while on a Glass-based Hangout, then proceeded to bike across rooftops, repel down the side of the Moscone Conference Center, and finally bike into the I/O keynote to deliver the device on stage to Sergey Brin. This is the first product demo in recent memory where a company employee could feasibly have died. Bad a.s.s.

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We still haven't gotten a demo of how the UI works, although Sergey hinted that showing off the UI would be difficult to accomplish. Nevertheless, it is nothing short of awe-inspiring to see a live, group video feed from 10,000 feet in the air. The device is certainly powerful. Of course, such a dramatic paradigm shift is not so easily accomplished, and Google, the company best known for being open to letting users beta test its unfinished products, is being remarkably timid with Glass. The device is going to be made available to non-Google personnel, but only those in attendance at Google I/O, and for the cost of $1500.

This is clearly not a consumer device just yet. We still have a long ways to go before us plebeians get our hands on them. However, Google is not making any secret of its desire to get the world's info as close to your brain as possible.

And with product demos like today's show, it's hard not to get excited.

[size=13pt]And the lucky sods who attended?[/size]
Google just announced that all 6,000 attendees of I/O will be walking away with an
Android Developer Pack — a Galaxy Nexus phone, Nexus 7 tablet, the latest OTA update of Jelly Bean, and the Nexus Q. Attendees will be able to pick them up at 4pm today — don't forget your badge and ID. We'll see how long it takes for developers to release Jelly Bean into the wild after getting it on their new devices today — we're willing to bet it won't take long.

ALL THE INFO COURTESY OF ANDROIDPOLICE AND THE VERGE!
Google no gree give me ticket o!

[size=13pt]Google announces Google Glass Explorer Edition, $1,500 pre-order shipping next year[/size]

Google has just revealed a new Google Glass Explorer Edition of its prototype camera-equipped glasses at I/O 2012. Pre-orders are open today, only for attendees of the I/O conference, and will cost $1,500 for a delivery early next year. As Sergrey Brin himself confesses, this is by no means intended to be a consumer product, but Google's keen to get the Project Glass hardware out into people's hands and onto their faces.

[size=13pt]Jelly Bean Feature Closer Look: Project Butter Means Enhanced Animations, Transitions, And More Responsive Apps That "Anticipate" Your Touch[/size]

Another major enhancement we've just learned about with the announcement of Jelly Bean is called Project Butter. Butter (so named likely due to the colloquialism "smooth as butter" represents a new, more efficient processing framework for Android's latest and greatest iteration, making the OS much faster (allowing animation up to 60fps). Android 4.1 also makes apps more responsive, reducing touch latency and "anticipating where your finger will be at the time of screen refresh."

"How is such an enhancement possible?" I can almost hear you wondering.

To ensure a consistent framerate, Android 4.1 extends vsync timing across all drawing and animation done by the Android framework. Everything runs in lockstep against a 16 millisecond vsync heartbeat — application rendering, touch events, screen composition, and display refresh — so frames don’t get ahead or behind.

Android 4.1 also adds triple buffering in the graphics pipeline, for more consistent rendering that makes everything feel smoother, from scrolling to paging and animations.

Android 4.1 reduces touch latency not only by synchronizing touch to vsync timing, but also by actually anticipatingwhere your finger will be at the time of the screen refresh. This results in a more reactive and uniform touch response. In addition, after periods of inactivity, Android applies a CPU input boost at the next touch event, to make sure there’s no latency.

from developer's site

Besides these enhancements, Project Butter also brings something called "Tooling" to the table. Tooling involves the use of a new tool called systrace. Systrace uses Android's Linux kernel to essentially paint an overall picture of what's happening on the system at any given moment, stacking time-series graphs representing happenings and allowing developers to "isolate rendering interruptions and other issues." For those interested, the tool is already available in the Android SDK (Tools R20 and higher).

Project Butter, on top of all the other new features we're learning about today, brings a major enhancement to Android, finally delivering on the age-old cliché of "smooth as butter" transitions and animation, while delivering myriad behind-the-scenes enhancements as well.

[size=13pt]Jelly Bean Feature Closer Look: Expandable, Interactive, All-Around Enhanced Notifications[/size]

"Android has always put you in control when it comes to staying notified and connected. Now you can take action directly from the notifications shade," says Android's updated "What's New" page. Indeed, today's Jelly Bean announcement saw a number of improvements to the already handy notification system we've come to know and love in previous iterations of Android. Not only can the new notifications system display larger, richer notifications, developers can create actionable notification with interactive controls for telephony, music, and more.

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With a new and improved Notification Builder, apps can create notifications with a height of up to 256dp. The builder also features three template styles. From the Android Developer site:

BigTextStyle — a notification that includes a multiline TextView object.
BigInboxStyle — a notification the shows any kind of list such as messages, headlines, and so on.
BigPictureStyle — a notification that showcases visual content such as a bitmap.

In addition to these styles, developers can create their own styles with up to three actions in a single notification. In addition to all of this, users can long-press notifications for further options, including displaying information about the sender, and the ability to "optionally disable further notifications from the app."

These enhancements allow users to see all the information they need about a notification, while potentially taking any action they could possibly want, all without leaving what they are working on elsewhere. While a revamped notification shade is just one of the improvements we'll see in Jelly Bean, it's a big one, majorly enhancing productivity.

[size=13pt]This Is The Nexus Q: Google's Front-Line Soldier In The Invasion Of Your Living Room[/size]

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The device includes support for optical audio out, as well as micro HDMI video and audio. The device can connect to the internet via WiFi or ethernet. The device connects and can be set up via NFC. The device also includes a micro USB port to "encourage general hackability." This line was, of course, met with thunderous applause.

Because it's social, the device allows anyone with access to your Nexus Q to share media from their Play Store accounts. The Google engineers demoed using the device to share one users movie on someone else's Nexus Q. It's unclear if users will have to be in the room or on the same network with a Nexus Q to allow this to work, or if friends from across the country can share movies and music. The latter seems unlikely due to licensing issues, but hey, we can hope, right?

The price seems prohibitively high, but the experience appears to be incredibly high quality. So, what do you think? Is it sexy enough to justify the price? Or are you going to wait until the price drops?

[size=13pt]The Nexus 7 Is Official - Here's Everything We Know[/size]

We've been hearing about waiting for Google's first tablet, the Nexus 7, to become official for what seems like an eternity. Google just made the official announcement (finally!) - here's everything we know so far:

Specs:

7" 1280x800 IPS display
Quad-core Tegra 3 processor
1GB RAM
Super thin and light: only 340 Grams
front-facing camera
Wi-FI, Bluetooth, NFC
4325mAh battery - 9 hours of video playback, 300 hours of standby time
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
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Along with ASUS, Google designed the Nexus 7 with Google Play in mind. Everything from the homescreens to the way content is consumed, the N7 was designed with these things in mind. One thing that you may have noticed, though, is that it using a phone-like interface, not Android's dedicated tablet-optimized interface. This is clearly a design choice purposefully made by Google, and anyone who has actually used a seven-inch tablet will understand why: the tablet interface is better suited for ten-inch (or larger) devices. Still, we'll have to actually go hands-on to see what a difference this makes for everyday use.

The Nexus 7 will be available for pre-order beginning now starting at $199 for the 8GB version, and $250 for the 16GB version, and should begin shipping in mid-July in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia with more countries to come. The Nexus 7 also comes with a $25 Play Store credit, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Bourne Dominion ebook, and several magazines. This way, you get to experience all the content right out of the box that the N7 was designed for.

Over at Google I/O, the news about Android 4.1 - a.k.a. Jelly Bean, if you haven't heard - just broke.

The first announcement was Project Butter, a new processing framework for Android that should make it run much, much faster - up to 60fps, in fact. The CPU and graphics will now work together in harmony, with the latter being triple-buffered, meaning things like scrolling and transitions should be noticeably faster.
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There's also going to be improved voice input, including support for offline voice-to-text, which should be exciting. Speaking of input, there's now going to be 18 more input languages, from Hebrew to improved Arabic support.

For blind users, there will also be improved accessibility, another requested feature.
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Notably, the camera app has also been improved - users can now pinch to see the camera and gallery side-by-side, so you can swipe to the photo you just took.

Another improved feature is Android Beam, which will now allow you to share files between phones. You'll also be able to simply tap an NFC-capable speaker to pair with it - nice.

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Android's already awesome notification system is also seeing an update, wherein your notifications for a certain app will be grouped together, and devs will be given more APIs. These APIs will allow users to control music apps from within the notification bar, and the notifications will expand or collapse upon your command. Sexy.
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Google Search is also being improved, as we've been hearing about. There are now short "cards" with information about celebrities, weather, maps, etc. - so you will no longer have to dig through full Google results (though these will be available should you want them).
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Another new feature is Google Now, which uses past actions for which you've used your phone to figure out useful things like faster routes home, bus / train schedules, restaurant menus, flight info, and sport scores. You can access all this from the search box or by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.

Jelly Bean will start rolling out to the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and Motorola XOOM mid-July, but the SDK is available today. If you're not drooling yet, there's something wrong with you.
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[size=13pt]Welcome to i/0 2012
The Highlights[/size]

Google has quietly updated the Play Store listing for the Galaxy Nexus GSM with a new, slightly lower price: $349.
Remember, this is unlocked, off-contract pricing.
The new listing page also shows the device running Jelly Bean which Google has promised will come to the Galaxy Nexus by mid July.

Oh!
The thread has been put to sleep? Resurrecting as this?

Women really need to cool down!
I'm not a chauvinist, but all these female liberation shi.t, trying to be like the westerners will continue
to shoot the rate of divorce northwards
All hail the female lib!

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[size=13pt]Google Nexus 7 Tablet Leaked In Internal Training Document, 8GB To Cost $199 And 16GB To Cost $249[/size]

Google I/O is coming and we already expect a bevy of Android related announcements.
Furthermore, rumours of a Google-branded Android tablet have been swirling around for some time now, and
last month a benchmark report indicated that the 7-inch tablet would be manufactured by Asus.

According to a leaked internal training document, recently uncovered by Gizmoda Australia, the Google tablet will indeed be manufactured by Asus and will feature the following specs:

7-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280x800 and a 178-degree viewing angle
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor
nVidia GeForce 12-core GPU
1GB of RAM
8GB or 16GB of internal storage
1.2 MP front-facing camera, no rear camera
NFC with Google Wallet
Android Beam
Battery life estimated at 9 hours

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Aside from the specs, which are quite impressive, there are two pieces of news that are especially interesting. Firstly, the cheapest version of the tablet, with 8GB of internal storage, will be priced at just $199. The 16GB version of the tablet will cost $249. These prices put the Nexus 7 in direct competition with the Kindle Fire, while having better hardware.

Secondly, the training document suggests that the Nexus 7 will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and that Google will be handling system software updates from now on. This is big news if Google plans on handling software updates for
all Android 4.1 Jelly Bean devices, however the leaked documents are not clear on this point. It is more likely
that Google will handle the updates for just the Nexus 7 tablet.

Whatever the case may be, the imminent release of a Google-branded tablet comes soon after Apple's iOS 6 reveal
and Microsoft's Surface and Windows Phone 8 announcements. It is about time Google took the reins of the
floundering Android tablet ecosystem and firmly brought it to heel.

We will have to wait a few more days for Google I/O to find out whether the Nexus 7 is real or just an
elaborate fake.

I need one asap!