Great new Nexus 7/Chromecast feature, a lot of fun to cast my 7" tablet on to my 46" Samsung TV. Makes the Chromecast well worth the $35.

I was on the Long Island Railroad heading home last night, I was watching Star Trek (2009) on my new Nexus 7. Sitting next to me is a 50ish old lady with her toy....errr, iPad mini. Every few minutes I see her, out of the corner of my eyes,   looking at my Nexus 7, sneaking a peek. Now, she's probably clueless and probably thinks the iPad mini is the greatest most powerful 7-8 inch tablet, but in all reality, she was sitting next to the guy (me) with the greatest most powerful 7-8 inch tablet.

Now I'm no hater, I've had iPhones since 2007, so I have some love for Apple products. But man, they can put anything together, call it iPad mini, and people will drink the koolaid. Hell, the iPad mini isn't even as good as the Nexus 7 2012. The Nexus 7 2013 is on a different planet than the iPad mini. The iPad mini is just basically and iPad 2 shrunken down. They are up to iPad 4 !

Scott is it dead or asleep? Did you try the app?

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Thanks Jay, I haven't tried the app yet, but I will. The funny thing is, Unless I'm searching for it, I really never notice the pixel. I'm having way too much fun with my Nexus 7 to even notice.

Just replied to another of your posts Scott, if it's a sleeping pixel then try this...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htc.chris.blackspotdetect

If it's dead, then RMA.

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Thanks JayJ, what exactly is RMA ?

Well, I guess I should be more descriptive of my problem. I'm not sure if it's a deap pixel, or a stuck pixel, since I'm not an expert on the subject. It's like a little white light or speck, only noticable when the tablet is on, and on a black screen. I noticed when the screen went black while downloading a video. When the tablet is off, you can't see it. I'm starting to think that this might be a stuck pixel. Any info or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not an expert, so here's a link.lol
http://m.androidauthority.com/qualcomm-opengl-es-3-snapdragon-600-800-156906/

The newer tegra 4 should have even better graphics but it wasn't logistically ready for this nexus release.

Read the article, and it only confused me more. Not sure how opengl 3.0 can "turn on" the effects that were lost on a game like Dead Trigger when moving from a Tegra 3 Chip to a Snapdragon Chip.

So as soon as the coders catch up to this technology there will be something new for them to work on and new devices for us. At least these upgrade cycles aren't the planned obsolescence that the mypad company employs. Our tablets should always have functionality without all the apps in Google play losing support for older android versions. Rant over.

Ok, I got my new Nexus 7 2013 version. And as I was with my 2012 Nexus 7, I'm blown away by it, amazing tablet. The sound quality both on the tablet as well as through headphones are 1000x better. Also, watching movies and playing games on thie thing is amazing. Bought Crazy Taxi, and it brought tears to my eyes because of how good it looked.

My only slight complaint/question about the thing is, now that it doesn't have NVidia's Tegra 3 chip in it anymore, I can't use certain apps any more (Tegra zone, etc). Also, I noticed that certain effects weren't on in certain games anymore, like in Dead Trigger, it seems like the water effects and steam effects are missing. I feel like I'm playing on my old iPhone 4 which didn't have those effects (on my iPhone 5, the effects are there)

Yet the water on the camera effect of Riptide is still there.

My question is, why didn't they just put the Tegra 4 chip in there ? Kind of confusing and irritating.

Awesome, because I love to watch movies on my Nexus 7 Gen 1, and had no problem screen wise, but the volume through headphones just sucked. Now with the best screen, and better volume, I think I may do it, I may upgrade. The only problem is the resale value of the Nexus 7 Gen 1, it's horrible. Radio Shack offered me $38 lol.