32GB Nexus 7 Tablet Already on Store Shelves
The 32 GB version of Google's Nexus 7 has been spotted in Sam's Club and Staples.
While we personally haven't gone out to hunt down the device, multiple sources report that the 32 GB version of Google's Nexus 7 tablet is already appearing on store shelves, over a week ahead of Google's Android event on October 29. So far locations include Staples and Sam's Club, but currently Google Play is still listing only the 8 GB and 16 GB models.
The news follows a previous report pointing to a 32 GB version of the Nexus 7 with GSM and WCDMA connectivity. The device was spotted in an internal system listing stemming from Asus. Even more, the report claimed that Google will only release a 32 GB model of the Nexus 7 with 3G connectivity.
Last week, one Japanese consumer received the 32 GB model by accident. He reportedly ordered the 16 GB Nexus 7 tablet from Google Play in Japan, but what he received was the 32 GB version wrapped in the 16 GB version's packaging. A provided storage screen snapshot even showed a total space of 27.58 GB and an available space of 26.62 GB.
UK retailer Carphone Warehouse first spilled the beans on this third model weeks ago, showing the gadget in its inventory. Now the 32 GB model is showing up on store shelves early, but store tags and receipts, as shown on Engadget, show that the units aren't supposed to officially go on sale until October 29. There's talk that it's selling for $249, the same pricetag as the 16 GB model. Does that mean the 16 GB will hit the $199 pricepoint and the 8 GB will cost a mere $99? We'll see soon.
Now, on to that 32 GB 3G model....
So they should also do the same in the PC industry. Instead of saying a machine has 4 GB of memory they should call if by how much memory is free after the OS is loaded. Or same for HD. That's not a 500 GB hard drive, it's a 475 GB drive (Windows takes 20-25 GB on average).
Your logic is flawed.
as for the pc industry, its also screwed up. I bought a laptop with supposedly 500gb of storage and t came with a 450gb HDD-20-25gb of os space, so it actually had 430gb of space, not the promised 500gb.
my point is that im getting tired of oems false marketing tactics with storage.
Which model will sell more: Nexus 7 32GB or Nexus 7 ~28GB
This has been standard practice in computing for a long time, this is nothing new.
downgrading to ICS would solve the lack of flash
A KB is by definition, 1000 bytes, but because of use of binary, it takes 10 bits to reach 1000, and it can calculate to 1024. A MB = 1048 KB's. Anyways, for specific measurements, we round up to the nearest power of 2. However, with large storage, it's too confusing to do so and much simpler to stick with the metric system.
If you really want flash capabilities you can manually download and install the apk. It's pretty easy to do, and works quite well. I can actually play games on addictinggames with my nexus 7 (normally they don't work very well though, being designed for a desktop/laptop). More realistically, it lets you view pages with flash content or watch videos online.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774336
How much free memory after the OS had loaded depends on what operating system (and in the case of Linux, Window Mananger/desktop) you are using and what programmes you have on the computer. A certain Windows 7 installation might use up 512mb, another might use 1GB because different Windows 7 features are enabled. When you consider that Windows XP and Windows 8 are lighter...
You can't possibly know what capacity your RAM will be then.
Your logic is flawed.
Actually it was the industry that changed the prefixes value in the first place. In the SI system 1 kB always equaled 1000 B. It was the memory industry that changed this for convenience. It's a lot easier to say you have a 1 kB memory than 1,024 kB memory, but the SI system never acknowledged that annotation. So in 99 the IEC created the Ki, Mi,... prefixes, so that 1 KiB = 1024 B. Unfortunately a lot of people in the industry still refuses to use the correct prefix, specially memory manufacturers. This isn't helped by the fact that Windows, Mac, Android, iOS also use the wrong prefix, and this generates confusion. People buy a 3 TB HDD just to get home and have the OS state that they only have 2,73 TB, 9,1% less that what was advertised, when it's the OS that's giving the user the wrong number. This also happens in memory cards, internal storage,... This is why you buy a 32 GB SD card and Android reports it as 29,8 GB.
So an Android 4.1 device eats about 4.5GB of space... compare that to WindowsRT tablets that eat 12GB of memory storage! I don't think they'll even be making a 16GB version...