For anyone interested This Week in Tech episode 360 has some great commentary about Nexus 7 - http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/360 - as does All About Android episode 67 - http://twit.tv/show/all-about-android/67 .

Anyone know of other podcasts showing off the Nexus 7?

Yup, it has a 7 inch screen, hence the name     Rumors of a Nexus 10 have been floating around as well, but I don't think we'll see that anytime soon.

Something else I've seen are people referring to the new Nexus phone as "Nexus 7" too, but this is not correct.  Even on the This Week in Tech podcast Leo Laporte held up a Nexus phone calling it "the new Nexus 7" which made me double-check my order to verify I didn't buy a phone instead of a tablet. 

It's a good convention i guess, but how will they name subsequent versions?  Nexus 7 2?  With the name and the power they put into this thing I hope it'll be a current tablet for at least 2-3 years with the next few versions of Android working with it.  I hate seeing devices come out that are considered legacy within a year or two.

Wow, this is great news...  I hoped they would send a confirmation email with tracking number before it was shipped, but maybe they'll drop them in the mail today or tomorrow and surprise everyone. 

Wonder who in here will get theirs first :-D

We'll know more about this when the N7 ships, but just curious if anyone has heard more about how the offline maps work or how much you can save.  Ideally I'd love to save maps for when I take roadtrips, but I hope Google lets us select what data we want to save... for example I'd only need roads, mile markers, etc and no landmarks, satellite images, etc. 

From the demo's I've seen it looks like you select Offline Map then draw a box around the area you want to save.  I'd think just this wouldn't use much space since I used to have a single CD-ROM with this back in the day.  One reason I got the 16 Gig N7 was for offline maps, so hopefully it's not overkill.

But even if Offline Google Maps is less than ideal at least with the GPS third party mapping apps can still be used at a cost.

Sam, I am curious...when you download a movie rental (from Google, Amazon, etc.) does it eventually expire?  Surely they know you have downloaded it to your device, right?

Through Amazon you have 30 days to start watching the movie and when you first click Play your 24-48 hour period starts.  After that the movie does expire and auto deletes from your device (More info).  As for movies you buy, those stay on your device definitively, but I assume there's a limit to the number of devices you can put it on similar to how the eBooks work.

But I really hope the Amazon video client works on the N7 because since I've had the Kindle Fire for almost a year now and our BluRay player has the Amazon client as well we've started building a decent collection of content through them. 

This is our current society where everyone is out for a quick buck.  If I were google, I would explain that they would be blacklisted forever.

I agree, Google used to be pretty harsh on developers who sold items like this, especially the chrome laptops.  But seriously who would pay that kind of price given the N7 will ship in a matter of days.

"  Rear camera to me is useless.  I would never be using it personally and would much rather have the superior screen and processor/GPU."

Same here, bought the 16gig so I could get all my apps off my evo4g, it's just so bogged down and I love my camera on the evolution, use it for work alot.

Actually I probably would use a rear facing camera if it had one, though it does look silly when you see people holding up ipads to record events   Just nice to use around the house since I'll probably have this thing with me most of the time.

Also I did order the 16 Gig version since I'm guessing the 8 Gig version won't have much room left after the OS and stock apps.  I've heard 3 -4 gig which just isn't much.