nexus 7 tablet

hi - I've been inactive for a while...any experience with the Nexus 7 tablet? ...or tablets in general? ..any dif from a laptop re. emf? Thanks.

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> hi - I've been inactive for a while...any experience with the Nexus 7 tablet? ...or tablets in general? ..any dif from a laptop re. emf? Thanks.
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All wireless radiation is dangerous to your health. There is no safe level of non-ionizing microwave radiation.

"The 7-inch Nexus 7 houses a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro system on chip with a quad-core Krait CPU and a single-core Adreno 320 GPU. It has 2GB of RAM and includes support for 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 (including Bluetooth Smart support), and a GPS. Additionally, a gyroscope, accelerometer, and a digital compass are included as well."

On August  3, charleskasler <[hidden email]> wrote:
> hi - I've been inactive for a while...any experience with the Nexus 7 tablet? ...
> or tablets in general? ..any dif from a laptop re. emf? Thanks.

The nice thing about laptops is that you can put your wireless transmitters
far away from you, attached to a USB extension cord of whatever length
you like.

With a tablet, the wireless transmitter is right next to you.

Marc

I have iPad Mini and am very happy with it.  Amazed that it doesn't affect me.
Aimee


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hi - I've been inactive for a while...any experience with the Nexus 7 tablet? ...or tablets in general? ..any dif from a laptop re. emf? Thanks.




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Hi - I know that this is way late....but I've been exploring tablets in recent weeks.  I recently bought an iPad 2 and returned it - because the emissions were too much for me to feel comfortable with using it regularly.  Thus, my attention turned to Android tablets - specifically the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (8-inch model), and the Google Nexus 7 that you are (or were) interested in.  I've made three different trips to stores to test the Samsung - during the most recent trip, I also tried out the Nexus.  Perhaps I didn't spend the sheer amount of time testing them as I would have liked - but I did spend several minutes on each tablet.  My impressions are that these Android tablets are significantly less bothersome than the iPad 2 (or any iPad model).  They just may be devices that I can comfortably use - at least on a limited basis.

The Google Nexus 7 - despite being pretty "speced out" (exceeding the 8" Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 in many respects) - didn't seem to bother me much.  Based on my limited time with it, it even seemed to be less bothersome than the aforementioned Samsung.  I went into the store expecting - even wanting - it to be more bothersome than the Samsung - but I was surprised that it wasn't.  I knew that this was a possibility - that is in fact why I went to the store today.  Despite being tempted to "write off" the Google Nexus 7 because of its more "impressive" specs, I knew in the back of my mind that specs aren't a foolproof indicator of how I might respond to a device.  In person, it wasn't nearly as bad as I might have expected.

Perhaps the only issue that seemed apparent with the Google Nexus 7 was the bright screen.  The bright screen didn't bother me all that much during my in-store visit - but I have a history of light sensitivity and I have to be cautious in that area. (I want a device that I can use at full-brightness - I'm not sure whether or not you can dim tablets without introducing more RF radiation, and/or more low-frequency "flicker".)  Brightness is a matter of opinion, though - you may not experience the screen as "bright", and might feel more comfortable using the dimming feature.

The Samsung Galaxy's screen wasn't quite as bright; it may have been easier on my eyes.  Also, I prefer the larger screen of the Samsung - and I'm not sure if the Google Nexus' reduced emf was enough to cause me to choose it over the Samsung (since the Samsung's own emf didn't seem to be that bad).  

I may go with the Samsung - but the Google Nexus seems like a viable option.  

~Svetaswan

Well, after some further thought and observation, I may have to amend some of the things I said above.  It seems that I may have noticed a bit of a delayed reaction from my in-store experimentation with the Android tablets I mentioned above.  I woke up the next day feeling certain dull pains in my abdominal area and in my chest area.  These pains were not severe at all - but they were noticeable and disturbing nonetheless.  There is a strong possibility that these pains may have been due to the tablet emf that I had exposed myself to the day before. (It seems that I may have felt some residual effects in my head, too.)  Then again - I'm not exactly sure of this reaction - because when I returned to the store the next day to evaluate the tablets further, I did not wake up the day after with these pains.  So I'm reluctant to say anything conclusive - and, even if I were more conclusive - my reactions don't necessarily indicate how you would react to a device.

On the "first" day of evaluation (the one that resulted in the above post), it seems that I did feel some emf coming from the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0.  I guess I sort-of disregarded it because it seemed mild compared to my experience with the iPad, and I fell in love with all of the adjustable features that Samsung offers.  With the Samsung, you can tinker with and "turn off" several features to reduce emf.  When I was experimenting with these features in the store - I seemed to feel immediate relief when I turned off or "reduced" various features.  You can even put the processor into a "low power" mode that noticeably reduces emf (you can do the same to the screen - though I've been conditioned to believe that tinkering with the screen can make things worse in some ways).  That's one thing that I've noticed with several Samsung mobile devices (phones, tablets); on top of seeming more tolerable overall than Apple, Samsung offers several more adjustable, (potentially) emf-lowering options than Apple does.  Maybe Apple is (overly) confident that their machinery and software do this automatically, I don't know.  If Apple does have extensive "built-in" power-lowering features, they certainly don't do enough good, as far as I'm concerned.

As for the Google Nexus 7 - when I evaluated this tablet the 2nd day, it seemed a little more bothersome to me.  It's enough to cause me to throw up my hands in issuing a "definitive" opinion.  But as I said, Google seems to cram considerably more powerful features into that 7" tablet (i.e. it offers an "insane" resolution for a 7" screen) - so you'd think that it would have higher emf.  

It can be difficult to get a completely accurate sense of how you may react to a tablet by just testing it in the store.  In the store, the tablets are often in different positions relative to your body than they would be if you brought them home.  For example - in Best Buy - the tablets are "nailed down" on tables that come up to my waist or to my abdominal area (which is the general area that "ached" the day after use).  At home, I would be using these tablets closer to eye-level (closer to my head) - and at different positions/angles than I used them in the store.  What kind of a difference would this make?  With the iPad 2, it seemed to make a negative difference.  

But anyway - I think the safest option emf-wise - at least for me - is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 (7" tablet).  In the store, its emf seemed to be noticeably lower than its 8" sister.  (I partly attribute this to the lower resolution of the screen - the graphics chip has less work to do.)  But the screen size may not be very kind on my aging eyes, and, according the the Amazon reviews - the 7" is not as reliable as the 8".    

Which tablet will I end up with, if any?  Who knows!


~Svetaswan


P.S. - the 7" Samsung doesn't offer quite as many adjustable options as the 8" - but its emf seems to be "naturally" lower anyway.