![]() ![]() The so-called "Nexus 8" that set the rumor mill a-buzzing ended up being nothing but a bad Photoshop job, but if the prospect of an 8-inch Nexus got you excited, the G Pad is a nice consolation prize. We never took a look at the standard G Pad, so we'll be giving the Google Play edition the full hardware and software review treatment.īody, build quality, and screen: More good news than badĪndrew Cunningham Specs at a glance: LG G Pad 8.3, Google Play editionĨ.54" × 4.98" × 0.33" (216.8 x 126.5 x 8.3 mm) Even more importantly, the Google Play edition hardware can fill niches that the Nexus doesn't serve: the 6.4-inch Sony Z Ultra is the "Nexus" that "phablet" fans have always wanted, and LG's G Pad 8.3 is a tablet that slots almost exactly in between the great-but-smaller Nexus 7 and the large-and-aging Nexus 10. GPe devices got Android 4.3 just eight days after it rolled out to the Nexuses, and they got 4.4 about two weeks after it came to older Nexus hardware. While the Google Play edition gadgets lack the wallet-friendly pricing of the Nexuses, they run a Google-style version of Android bereft of skins and bloatware, and they get updates much faster than they otherwise would. Further Reading Cheaper than most, better than all: the 2013 Nexus 7 reviewedEnter the Google Play edition (GPe) program, which lets these people have their cake and eat it too.
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