[rwmj]

Here's my very quick, nitpicking Nexus 7 review (had mine delivered last Wednesday):

- It's a tiny tiny bit too heavy to hold comfortably. It feels like just a few grams would make the difference.

- The battery life is fantastic. I've used it for hours and hours and it's still on 80-90%.

- Android 4.1 is fast and efficient. I don't notice any difference in speed or usability from an iPad 2.

- The screen has an incredible resolution. Some text is slightly too small to read comfortably.

- (Not that it matters at all but ...) the box it came in was as hard to open as many people have said.

- I bought GTA III with part of the "free" £15 credit and it's a piece of crap. I haven't even managed to play the game yet because it keeps crashing while downloading half a gig of data files. So I'll be finding out how well refunds work in the Google Play store.

Overall: well worth the money.

[roopeshv]

i am not sure why everyone is feeling that it is hard to open the box. there were 2 tapes on the box, which I cut with my room keys and everything was fine, it wasn't hard. Is it just me that feels everyone is just too idiotic when it comes to opening boxes?

[rwmj]

There was also a sleeve which I had to attack with scissors to get it off. As I said, it doesn't matter because you only open the box the one time. But there is a noticable difference between this and Apple hardware which really concentrates on the "[getting it] out of the box experience".

[roopeshv]

what? i pushed it from one side and the box slid from the other side. I have no idea why anyone would use a scissors to take off sleeve.

And no matter how you concentrate on getting out of box experience, people should really use common sense when it comes to opening boxes.

[rwmj]

It seems fairly obvious there are two different types of box or a bad batch of boxes or whatever. Clearly I'm not an idiot and I did try to slide the box out of the sleeve, but that was impossible and I had to cut the sleeve open with scissors.

[Andrenid]

Myself and my wife had absolutely no problem sliding it out of it's sleeve and then slicing the 2 tabs with a knife and lifting the top off.

Only thing i can think of, is maybe there was a defective batch of boxes that were slightly too tight? The complaints I had been reading for days definitely confused me once I got it and opened it with ease.

[zerohp]

A more likely explanation is that that the paper expands at slightly different rates. People who had no trouble, like you and me, received the package after it sat in a hot UPS truck all day. The sleeve was slightly larger than the box due to heat expansion.

[mmagin]

In recent memory, I haven't needed a knife to open an apple box easily. (Not counting brown outer shipping boxes.)

[roopeshv]

he cut open a tape with a knife. if you have nails, you can take off the tape with it, but I bite my nails, so I had to use my keys, and it's easier to do it with cut tape along a crevice anyway.

[cmelbye]

I was surprised about this too. I was expecting a fight after seeing countless unboxing videos featuring people that simply couldn't open it without shredding it with scissors. I cut the two pieces of tape with a knife, and then held the top part of the box and the bottom just slid out.

[berkut]

I had to rip the sleeve cover to get it off as it wouldn't slide without ripping...