It's true: Google and Samsung have trumped Apple for pure pixels-per-inch, which may make for some marketing fun over the coming weeks and months. Leaving the tech-spec willy-waving aside for the moment, the Nexus 10's screen is very impressive indeed: uber-sharp and bright, with a 16:9 aspect ratio that's made for movies (well, vice-versa, if you're being picky), and pixel-perfect performance for text.
The 10in display, reinforced with Gorilla Glass 2, offers a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels: 300 pixels per inch, which as you'll read in every article about the device, is more than the iPad's 264ppi Retina display. Google is making a big noise about the Nexus 10's screen, and understandably so: it's rather marvellous. But if your habits are different, the Nexus 10's speakers are excellent. In my tablet usage over the last three years, I've tended to use headphones for films, games and music, so the quality of external speakers isn't a huge selling point for me. The positioning does mean your hands will be partly over the speakers when holding the tablet, but this doesn't have a particularly noticeable effect. The sound quality is good: decently beefy audio when watching video, playing games or listening to music. That extends to its external speakers too, which are positioned on either side of the screen (when held in landscape orientation) as vertical strips.
The Nexus 10 has them on the longer sides, with landscape use in mind. The iPad's emphasis is on portrait use, given the positioning of its dock and camera on the shorter sides of the device. There's an interesting contrast between the Nexus 10 and the iPad in their hardware layout, too. That's the Nexus 10's slightly fiddlier equivalent of iPad's Smart Cover: no magnets presumably means no lawsuits winging their way towards Mountain View (or Seoul) from Cupertino. In contrast to the Nexus 7's dimpled back, this is mostly smooth, apart from a section along the top, which can be peeled off and replaced with one that has a protective cover attached. The Nexus 10 is a sleek, smooth tablet that feels solid, and sits nicely in the hands with its rounded corners – more rounded than the iPad. The latter is the most impressive 10in Android tablet yet, from its design and hardware specs through to its software.īut does Nexus + Android + Google Play have a shot at tilting the tablet market towards Android, at a time when Google's OS has rampaged its way to top dog in the smartphone space? Let's see. Meanwhile, Google has extended its Nexus brand from smartphones to tablets, first with the Asus-made Nexus 7, and now with Samsung's Nexus 10. Amazon is taking its Kindle Fire line beyond the US, with its services and stores tightly integrated.
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