10 years ago, Google launched the 2nd-gen Nexus 7, and no tablet has captured its magic since

I loved my Nexus 7. The rubbery silicone back of the tablet made it the most comfortable device I have ever held. Meanwhile my laptop and phone made of glass and metal making them cold and slippery

The Nexus 7's data storage became extremely slow after a while. The device became completely unusable.

A short while after the Nexus 7, many mobile phones screen got bigger, so the 7-inch screen size became sort of obsolete.

My Nexus 7 still lives and it's running Android 12. I use it for mostly YouTube these days.

The nexus 7 was siesmic in the android tablet market at the time.

Previously, your choices were iPad, equally expensive (but often lacking) android tablets (galaxy tab, moto xoom), or really rather crap cheap offerings (I had a 7" resistive archos that cost me £70...I wish I hadn't spent the money).

When Google released the N7, it was a big change. It was a small tablet, with enough grunt, a good IPS screen, cohesive software, and was £150.

The fire-sale of the HP touchpad, imho, kicked google off on this. It made google realise that there was a market for a decent android tablet at a lower price point.

I still have my Nexus 5 somewhere in a drawer, and it’s still my favorite phone ever. Time from time I pick it up, and I get reminded of how good it felt to hold it in the hand. It’s so light. The buttons are at the right place.

I wish they made phones with the same form factor again.

The nexus 7 2013 supports LineageOS 20 which is android 13

This was my first Android device. Still got it, not using it much, but its still working.

The 2nd gen Nexus 7 was the reason I left Apple hardware and to never return. I loved the iPhone but I got bored of them very quickly. I tried two Android phones and each time absolutely hated the experience and returned to the iPhone. I eventually picked up a Nexus 7 and wow it changed my perception. No bloat. Simple and fast. It felt like an iPhone where the software complimented the hardware. I switched to a Nexus 5 phone and have been with Google phones ever since.

I loved mine, but sitting a year or two the flash memory had degraded to the point it was completely unusable, even just as a digital photo frame.

The small tablet market is still underserved today, I’m running an iPad mini, which is great, but it’s definitely a second-class citizen compared to the bigger iPads.

I still miss how nice this was when it came out. Rocking a Galaxy Tab S5e with Lineage OS which I'm really enjoying now though.

My Lenovo Duet 3 (8gb) is the only tablet to feel as nice as the Nexus line to me.

Magnetic keyboard, pen, full Chrome via ChromeOS, Android apps, Linux support. And with Code-server its basically a desktop for me when needed, all for $300 at time of purchase.

iPad Mini is about the same dimensions, though slightly wider.

All other Android tablets that exist in that space have horrible CPUs.

At this point I use all Apple Products (Except for my Ubuntu Desktop) but damn do I miss the Nexus 7 so so so much

This was my primary device for a couple of years. I didn’t have a phone at all. I could do everything I needed to do. Camera quality was of course terrible, but I had one of those Sony “lens cameras” paired with it, and that worked great.

I even sailed across the Atlantic with the Nexus 7 as my only media device (I packed a Kindle but it died a week in).

That is why I’m considering a foldable now. If only they weren’t so fragile…

Mine still works

When digging through some stuff from a move in 2018 I noticed a tablet. WTF is this?

Charged it. Booted it up. Nexus 7 v2

Little fucker still was going

I had the first gen, and it wasn't great in terms of performance, but damn I Ioved it. Very fond memories.

Also, I do have to chuckle at the progress since then. My S23 Ultra's screen is almost as large at 6.8 inches, yet the overall device is much smaller and obviously much, much, much more powerful. Progress!

I had one. Well I still have it, but I stopped using it years ago for some reason. I forget why. I think I ran out of storage or something. Anyways, I had gotten a cheap Fire tablet and that thing sucked, so I dug out my Nexus and somehow wound up bricking it. Yay. Now I have a Tab A8 that's working fine so far.

I'm still enjoying the Pixel C, still a great tablet I think

I had one of these! Loved it 😍

I would vouch for Mi Pad 4 as N7 2nd gen sucessor had it not been for its limiting supply

I remember listening the launch of this one in the local radio, the hosts sounded excited, I was excited, everything was great. Never got one though, it was my dream device at the time

So far I've been pretty happy with the new Pixel Tablet, hope we see more like it and better in the future.

NVidia Shield K1 was pretty great too. It was also $200, about the same size (8"), 1920x1200 screen, fairly stock android, and had a pretty speedy chipset. It even had decent speakers. Came out 2014. I really liked that thing. I got it to replace my first Nexus 7 (2012), whose storage had decayed really fast, to the point it wasn't really usable anymore.

I still have mine, changed screen 2 times, battery is weak, but it is still used daily to watch videos. I installed Lineage on it. I have it for 10 years, it is still pretty snappy!

Loved the Nexus 7. I remember getting the 4G model and finally being able to do crap on my way to work (back in the days when 4G connectivity was hard to get back on Android tablets)

I won mine off a KitKat bar. Still have it, a little sluggish but it works.

Ugh yes, I have been talking about it ever since, I got an 8inch cheap Chinese tablet to use as an e reader and it's ALMOST the same size (and almost the same specs lmao) the only reason I'm not used my nexus 7 is usb c on this on and I soft bricked it trying to put a lightweight OS on it 😢

Aaah tablets, the grown ups toy.

No android tablet since then you mean. I loved that thing. I still use Pixel phones but I caved and bought an iPad. Even the Pixel tablet can't compare.

The Nexus 7 would be absolutely pointless today. It's barely bigger than most phones.

I had one at the time but the form factor was simply inferior to either a 10inch Android offering or any iPad.

That thing was garbage. They all were.