<p>Should I return it ? </p>
<p>I just received a Sam Sung Galaxy Nexus as a present and love it (esp love the larger screen for my old eyes and clumsy fingers) and assume I will like the tablet too - the main reason I bought it.</p>
<p>Sometimes it’s handy to have both as you can leave one in a room and use the other for most other places in the house.</p>
<p>I think that I prefer the Google Nexus 7 for a small tablet to the larger stuff. The smaller tablets fit in your hand are generally much lighter. The price on the Google tablet is $200 for 8 GB and $250 for 16 GB.</p>
<p>Sorry, I wasn’t clear about my concern. In light of the verdict against Sam Sung, I am concerned about future support for this product from Sam Sung. I hate changing my tools - they are tools to me and would like to keep it for as long as possible. </p>
<p>BCEagle91 - this is my first tablet and I plan on subbing it for a net book when traveling. I think I would prefer the larger size because of poor eyesight and fat clumsy fingers. I had a most horrible time this last weekend trying to book a last minute flight at the airport with the Nexus. I kept hitting the wrong fields ! I was so afraid I would not book in time for what must be the last few seats.</p>
<p>I used tablets until I got trifocals and now use an iPod Touch for mobile surfing. I agree that it can be hard to do a webform with a touch interface but do the airlines or air brokers have apps for purchasing tickets? I generally try to do my mobile stuff with an app over the browser.</p>
<p>Yes, there is some uncertainty with Samsung and the lawsuits results on future support.</p>
<p>If in doubt, you could always go with a Nokia tablet (I’m not sure if they make one of these yet) as the OS would be from Microsoft and Microsoft has a licensing agreement with Apple.</p>
<p>I bought a Google Galaxy Nexus for my daughter recently and am considering getting one for myself to tide me over for a month before I get an iPhone 5. The lawsuits results is a consideration. BTW, I’d just give the spare phone to my wife or son when I get the new one.</p>
<p>The main concern is software updates because tablets are essentially sealed objects that you can’t fix. I forget which version of Android the galaxy tab uses. The question is whether it will be updated to whatever Samsung uses as Android for other tablets. No one knows the answer to that. And frankly, no one would know even if Samsung hadn’t lost the patent case because they aren’t very good at pushing the latest versions of Android out across their smartphones. But this is a problem with any Android tablet not made by Amazon or Google itself. With Amazon, you know you’ll get whatever Amazon writes for that thing. You can assume Google will keep its own hardware up to date.</p>
<p>My buying advice is that all Android tablets are iffy with regard to future updates except for Google’s own and, to a lesser extent, Amazon. I say less extent because no one knows how Amazon will develop what they took from Android. They’ll update but it may not be all that close to the latest versions of Android.</p>
<p>Oh btw, the latest rumor is that Apple will introduce the iPad Mini - or whatever it will be called - in October. They’ll introduce the new iPhone, whatever they’ll call it, in September. </p>
<p>So one question will be how you use a tablet that’s smaller. I’m curious to see if the iPad Mini has the screen size the people I trust believe it will, meaning a larger screen than the Amazon or Google tablets of essentially the same overall physical size. That would be attractive to me for travel use.</p>
<p>I believe that Jelly Bean is already available for the Google Galaxy Nexus (it ships with ICS) so it looks like Google will do a good job on their own hardware products. I agree on Amazon too - they seem to do a good job with their devices. I don’t know if Amazon will be impacted by the suit results.</p>
<p>The Google tablet is a very nice size, about 7 inches. That’s what I am expecting for the iPad Mini. I think that I’d be fine with a 4-inch iPhone for most things. I do have a tablet pocket in my travel vest that will fit an iPad but I don’t really like the extra 1.5 pounds everywhere I go. For travel where I will have to do some work (basically all travel), I’d bring a laptop. I need a real operating system and a set of tools which would be hard to use on a tablet (unless it ran Windows or Mac OS X).</p>
<p>I actually got an ad for the Google tablet (Nexus7) on their home page today while Googling. Seems like a decent price point, $199 for the smaller 8K version.</p>
<p>Samsung is one word</p>
<p>If you want a tablet, bite the bullet and pay the $99999999 or whatever it costs to get an iPad 3. DD1 got a 2 from school last year and it is nothing short of amazing. This from someone who dislikes Apple products and someone who deals with Apple products as a software developer every day (iAP, thanks :)). I’m not a big fan of Android in general and Windows RT (not Windows 8) tablets won’t have the software base initially.</p>
<p>Real Windows 8 tablets are out a few months and even then the laws of Physics have not been repealed yet, so you won’t be getting iPad battery life or thin-ness out of them.</p>
<p>^^Thanks for the correction SonicCare. </p>
<p>From the replies I guess I should return it and get an iPad for about double the price.</p>