El new nexus 7 It reaches the market with a base audience and its objective for this generation is to consolidate the franchise that began to be forged over the past year. Its features place it as a high-end tablet, perhaps the most powerful in the 7/8 inch segment today. Today we compare the team with a tough rival, the Galaxy Note 8.0, also recently arrived in the sector.
Even if your processor lags a bit behind, maybe we can consider the New Nexus 7 as the first new generation tablet in its own right. For his part, despite the fact that Galaxy Note 8.0 was officially announced during the last MWC in Barcelona, ​​most of its parts (especially screen and processor) are more typical of a team from last year.
Designer
As long as the tablet Google has searched minimize frames, the Galaxy Note 8.0 has preferred to offer an extra space to grip the device. We have two quite different formats facing each other, therefore: the team of Samsung is much more voluminous (with an extra inch), aesthetically similar to the terminals of the Korean firm, while the Nexus 7 is lighter, more compact and more manageable.
Screen
Until the arrival of the new Nexus 7 there was no tablet of seven or eight inches that offered resolution Full HD. The Galaxy Note 8.0 has a quality panel, with good brightness and vivid colors but the pixel difference is abysmal. Despite having a smaller screen, the Asus-made tablet has four times more pixels than Samsung's: 1920 x 1200 versus 1280 x 800.
Operating System
The new Nexus 7 offers the latest version of Android, Jelly Bean 4.3, recently released, in an interface without customization layer, that is, as Google releases it. The Note 8.0 runs Android 4.1 with the interface Touchwiz and a package of very practical applications when it comes to editing and generating content. On an aesthetic level, each user will have their opinion, on a functional level, it depends on what we want to do with the tablet, if we look for one Work tool Samsung's maybe a better option.
In terms of performance, neither of the two tablets has a state-of-the-art processor. Both CPUs are from 2012. The Nexus 7 has a Snapdragon S4 Pro 4 GHz 1,5-core and the Galaxy Note a Exynos 4412 also with 4 cores at 1,6 GHz. In the RAM section the two devices are even with 2GB each. Still the benchmarks of AnTuTu they place the Google team somewhat above with 19.800 points compared to 16.900 of its rival.
Autonomy
It is difficult to reach conclusions on this issue without having been able to test the 7 Nexus 2013 first-hand. Even so, Google says that this generation has improved its performance and reaches about 9 hours of video playback and 10 of web browsing. In numbers, your battery has a capacity of 3.950 mAh and also supports wireless charging using the technology wireless Qi.
The Note 8.0, meanwhile, has a significantly higher capacity, of 4.500 mAh, but it is also true that the autonomy, apparently, has improved a lot in the Android 4.3 version. For this reason, perhaps, it offers fewer hours of use between charges. In our tests it lasted about 6 or 7 hours.
Price and conclusions
In this section, the influence of Google is too noticeable. The Nexus 7 it costs a little more than half what the Galaxy Note 8.0 when it hit the market, 229 Euros versus 419 euros. It is true that throughout these weeks the Samsung tablet has seen its price lowered and now it can be obtained for a few 360 EurosBut it's still the most expensive compact tablet on the market, above even the iPad mini.
Does the price difference offer the same difference in benefits? It depends. The two teams can be framed within the high range, but each one has a clear user profile. Yes, we are Android fans and we like to always have the latest tablet updates with the best technical specifications in its range, the new Nexus 7 is the clearest option. If, on the other hand, we are willing to do without a processor and a higher power screen in exchange for having a tablet better equipped for, for example, editing photo-video, taking notes, drawing, etc. the Note 8.0 stands out from its rival.