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GSMArena team, 12 December 2012

Perfect ten


Google Nexus 10 review: Perfect ten

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  • User reviews
  • Google Nexus 10 P8110

11. Google Maps, Play Store
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Retail package, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Controls, handling
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Google Now, synthetic benchmarks
  6. 6. Phonebook, loudspeaker, messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, multimedia, audio quality
  8. 8. Still camera and quality, video camera and quality
  9. 9. Connectivity, web browser
  10. 10. Office, organizer
  11. 11. Google Maps, Play Store
  12. 12. Conclusion
  13.  
  14. Samsung Google Nexus 10 P8110 specification
  15. User opinions and reviews
  16. Review comments (63)

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Google Maps and Google Earth

The Nexus 10 features a built-in GPS receiver that got a lock in about a minute. You can use A-GPS to speed that up or go for Cell-ID and Wi-Fi positioning for a rough lock (all three options however require an Internet connection), but the GLONASS support and the barometer allow it to get quick locks even offline.

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Google Maps on the Nexus 10

Google Maps is an extensive mapping solution with everything from voice-guided navigation (in certain countries), through local search and the ever popular Street view.

3D buildings are shown for some of the bigger cities and you can use two-finger camera tilt and rotate to get a better view of the area.

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Street View

Google Maps switched to data-efficient vector maps a while back. This allowed for caching whole areas of the map for offline usage. It used to be a Labs feature, but now it's enabled by default (and you can cache a bigger area).

You just choose "Make available offline from the menu" and pan/zoom around until the desired area is in view (there's an indicator showing how much storage that area will take). You can later view cached areas and delete ones you no longer need.

Note that there's a limit to the size of the area you can cache - you can't just make all of Europe available offline, not even a whole country. We managed to fit New York and some surrounding area before Maps told us the area is too big. Also, there's no address search in the cached maps and you can only cache map data in supported regions of the world.

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Making an area of the map available for offline usage is very easy

Google Earth came preinstalled on the Nexus 10. It's like a 3D version of Google Maps (well, except for the navigation bits). People interested in geography will appreciate Earth as it's much better at showing terrain, but it's not very useful for getting around a city like Maps is (e.g. finding a nearby cafe or navigating to an address).

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Google Earth comes preloaded

Play Store for apps, multimedia and more

The Play Store has several scrollable tabs - categories, featured, top paid, top free, top grossing, top new paid, top new free and trending. It hooks into your Google Plus info and will recommend apps based on what your friends like, but also based on what other people like, even if they're not in your circles, but have installed the same apps as you.

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Samsung Google Nexus 10 P8110
The Google Play Store

When downloading an application, you get useful info on the app, like rating and comments along with the info, screenshots and demo videos by the developers. Before confirming the download, the Market will show you a list of permissions required.

The Play Store features much more than apps - you can also buy (or rent) movies, TV shows, magazines and books. You can even charge those to your phone bill rather than your credit card (it works only on some operators, in some countries).

Next Page » 12. Conclusion
11. Google Maps, Play Store
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Retail package, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Controls, handling
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Google Now, synthetic benchmarks
  6. 6. Phonebook, loudspeaker, messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, multimedia, audio quality
  8. 8. Still camera and quality, video camera and quality
  9. 9. Connectivity, web browser
  10. 10. Office, organizer
  11. 11. Google Maps, Play Store
  12. 12. Conclusion
  13.  
  14. Samsung Google Nexus 10 P8110 specification
  15. User opinions and reviews
  16. Review comments (63)

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  • Comments (63)
  • User reviews
  • Google Nexus 10 P8110

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