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Help New Nexus 7: Touchscreen Defective?

I just bought my first tablet, a new Nexus 7 from NewEgg, and I think the touchscreen has a defect. There seems to be an area about 1/2" wide from top to bottom of the screen where a LOT more pressure is required to get it to register input.

Here's an example of what happens when I draw lines across the screen (along with a single line down in the problem area):

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As you can see, the lines drop off in that area. Notice also how the vertical line I drew cuts in and out.

The biggest problem for me is using Swype or Swiftkey. Because it drops out in that area, when I'm swiping words that require my finger to move across that area, it inserts a new garbage word most of the time when I go across that area.

Should I try to return the tablet to NewEgg?
 
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I don't think it's a hardware thing because others have said it got worse after an update.
It was one of the first things I checked when I took it out of the box. On mine I hardly ever experience it. Sometimes when I'm using Swype it'll geek out on me, skipping over letters, making a bunch of gibberish while I'm swyping one word.

That thread I posted above has some possible fixes.
 
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I had this exact issue with my Asus Prime TF700T. If I rotated the tablet, the same 1/2" dead area rotated with it. I just lived with it but after several months my entire digitizer went haywire with random phantom touches occurring rapidly up and down either side of the dead space, activating any icons they hit along the way. I RMA'd it to Asus and they fixed it under warranty (though I had to pay shipping & insurance sending it to them). Took 2 weeks door-to-door. My recommendation would be to return the unit if possible, if not then get it repaired under warranty. My TF700T went bad on day 1 of a 3-week trip that I intended using it on - very inconvenient to say the least.
 
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I called Asus. They wanted to do the same thing I did with Google tech support. He did a hard reset. It still did not solve the issue. I told him I will return the tablet and get a new one, hopefully from another batch. If the issue still persists in the new tablet, he said to send it to Asus... At this point, I am not sure I will follow thru, I will probably get a different tablet altogether...
They need more people to call In to make them aware that they have a generalized problem in their hands... Their number is 1-888-678-3688 24/7
 
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I wonder what percentage of these devices are affected by the screen, GPS, unavailable Play Store etc problems. Mine has absolutely no issue I can complain about, it's perfect (other than many widgets not really ready for Nx 7). If it's more than a few per cent, they have a problem, if it's one per 10,000, it just happens; it's a very complex product at an early stage of production, so let's be realistic.
 
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