good deal for Nexus 7 today

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

This looks like a good price ($200) for the Nexus 7:
<http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/id/10212407.aspx>

Normally these are $209 + shipping from Google Play store.

These seem to be fairly hackable as Android tablets go.

Wet blankets:

I think Ubuntu on this is still a proof of concept (i.e. not useful for 
anything).

I'm not convinced that <http://linuxonandroid.org/> has anything useful 
and they want money to work on it.

These tablets may soon be superceded by ones with cell capability.


I have a Nexus 10 which I quite like as a tablet but wish I could push
into netbook capability (decent convenient keyboard, and running a
conventional distro userland).  I love the gorgeous display, long
battery life, and silence.  The new Google Pixel sounds great: it
fixes many of these things, but using an i5 means (I think) that it
has a fan and shorter battery life.  And the price!
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