Yesterday, I received a belated birthday present from Eric--a brand new Google Nexus 7 tablet.  Eric will be posting a detailed review of its attributes, but since it's my tablet I thought I should post my own observations about it.

1)  The color screen and resolution on my Nexus 7 are marvelous--clear, bright, and perfect, with no annoying refresh delays (at least not when I'm using it on our house wifi network).
2)    Movie watching is a great experience (though you'd have to buy, download the movie, or find it on the web) and I bet listening to music on it would be too. 
3) The Nexus 7's touch controls are easy to use.  If they have a fault, they're a bit more sensitive than anything I'm used to, and as a result I keep popping myself out of my Angry Birds games by accidental stray touches on the screen.  Possibly I could adjust the sensitivity, but the present touch level is so good for all of the other uses I've made of the tablet so far that I'm disinclined to do so.
4)  The back surface of the Nexus 7 tablet is rubberized, so in effect the tablet carries its own no-skid surface with it--a very nice feature.
5)  The Nexus 7 has a reasonable battery life, from what I've seen so far.  It charges with the same type of USB cable Eric's Google phone uses (probably not a surprise), and came with a wall plug you can stick the other end of the cable to, in case you want to charge it from a wall socket and not your computer.
6)  The Nexus 7 has the same voice search facility that Eric has on his G2, which works surprisingly well, at least 70% of the time.
7)  The virtual keyboard has a nice feel to it, but IMHO it's a bit small for typing anything other than URLs and short messages.
8)  On the other hand, the software works overtime to work with your Google account, and keep the sacred name of Google on your lips at all times.  (Since that includes Google Wallet, and access to the Android Play Store, it's also eerily easy to use it to spend money.)  I find that kind of creepy.  On the other hand, I don't have to use all of its promised functionality and I can always turn it off if I find I'm being too tempted to fritter time (and money?) away with it.

My impression so far is that it's a great machine for smartphone games (Angry Birds played on it = awesome!) and okay for web browsing (the browsing is easy, but the screen is a bit too small to take in all of most web pages at once, whether you use portrait mode or landscape mode).  I can certainly check e-mail on it, but answering same with more than a few lines would be a PITA. (I would not, for example, want to compose a post as long as this one using the Nexus's virtual keyboard--this review is being written on my desktop machine.)

I wish it had come with a case, but no dice.  I have ordered a cheap, but serviceable case from Amazon that should be here early next week. 

In short, as I've said before about tablets in general, the Nexus 7 is a great  portable entertainment machine. It will certainly make web surfing in bed possible, which is something I haven't really been able to do before and which I'm looking forward to.  We'll see how much of a place it finds in my life.