Asus: Nearly One Million Nexus 7s Sold Last Month

padkingThose 1 million buyers must be feeling the sting now that 16GB Nexus 7 has just become $50 cheaper. This is really not something to brag about at this point...
Not even close. The price was cheap enough and the performance is great on these things. I'm not at all concerned about the $50 dollar difference, besides I still got a $25 Google play credit.

Cheaper, faster, better than an Ipad (did I really just put all three in one sentence?).

padkingThose 1 million buyers must be feeling the sting now that 16GB Nexus 7 has just become $50 cheaper. This is really not something to brag about at this point...
yea, let me tell you how much money i have wasted over the years if we are comparing new stuff to old.. man i once paid $200 for a 25 gig hard drive granted that was in the early 90's but man now my face has egg all over it $8 per gig man what was i thinking

g00fysmileyyea, let me tell you how much money i have wasted over the years if we are comparing new stuff to old.. man i once paid $200 for a 25 gig hard drive granted that was in the early 90's but man now my face has egg all over it $8 per gig man what was i thinking
Gooby pls

kawininjazxI love my 16GB Nexus 7, except I got the "sluggish bug" when it started to get full, I deleted stuff and it's still a little slow, gonna have to restore it. Of course, now the 32GB version is the same price. Oh well, at least I didn't buy a $500 iPad 3 which has already been replaced.I still feel the Nexus 7 is the best deal in tablets.
That bug is due to the flash memory used. If a tablet maker were to use SLC flash then you would get an extreme performance boost.

Android does not do any kind of TRIM command or even garbage collection (for example doing a FF fill on the flash temporally uses all of the free space to do a large FF write and that does the equivalent of TRIM)

since android does not do any of that, after you use up 50% of the space, you lose some performance due to how data is stored in MLC flash, then after the equivalent of many GB's of writing (enough to dirty all of the NAND, then you get another slowdown.

Sadly no one has written a tool that does garbage collection on the NAND, and android does not seem too have any plans for improving flash management in the OS.

iOS also does not have any kind of TRIM or garbage collection, but the NAND that they use only loses around 40% of it's performance when dirty, while it is a noticable slowdown (which is why people who have had their 4s for a while will complain that it has gotten slow) it is not the major slowdown that you will get in a nexus 7 where most of the performance is lost by the time all of the nand is dirty (eg taking your write speeds from around 20MB/s to around 5MB/s.


With the push to lower cost tablets, android seriously needs to consider adding something to condition the flash memory either have it as handle process or something that happens when the device is charging. (remember cheaper flash is more reliant on TRIM (that is why if you get a cheap low end SSD and use it on a OS that does not have TRIM, you get horrible performance, the same is with tablets)

PS the NAND on the nexus 7 is faster than what you will find on many smartphones including ones made by apple, the problem is that the performance drops off significantly when the NAND becomes dirty.

g00fysmileyyea, let me tell you how much money i have wasted over the years if we are comparing new stuff to old.. man i once paid $200 for a 25 gig hard drive granted that was in the early 90's but man now my face has egg all over it $8 per gig man what was i thinkingOh man you should have waited bro!

seriously, everytime someone tells me to wait, i feel like slapping them. just wait until a decent sale and then purchase it. whats $50 over the course of two months anyway? NOTHING. some people wait months and months for a $25 discount... wouldn't you just rather pay the extra $25 and have it like 8 months ago man? you would have probably had more fun with it in those 8 months too...you pay more for you wireless bill.

regardless, im sure they would have sold more if they didn't keep supply low... i couldn't tell you how many times people came in and asked for the nexus at my store for me to tell them theres a huge waiting list. and some of those people never even bothered picking it up. a lost sale is a lost sale.