diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 8cfbc529143..d1a1f4cf6bc 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -119,6 +119,6 @@ module ApplicationHelper
 
   def mobile_device?
     # TODO: this is dumb. user agent matching is a doomed approach. a better solution is coming.
-    request.user_agent =~ /Mobile|webOS/ and !(request.user_agent =~ /iPad/)
+    request.user_agent =~ /Mobile|webOS|Nexus 7/ and !(request.user_agent =~ /iPad/)
   end
 end
diff --git a/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb b/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
index feeb04b0ee3..697f8d009e9 100644
--- a/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
@@ -34,10 +34,15 @@ describe ApplicationHelper do
           helper.mobile_view?.should be_false
         end
 
-        it "is false for Android tablet" do
-          controller.request.stubs(:user_agent).returns("Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.2; Nexus 7 Build/JZ054K) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19")
+        it "is false for Nexus 10 tablet" do
+          controller.request.stubs(:user_agent).returns("Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.1; Nexus 10 Build/JOP40D) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19")
           helper.mobile_view?.should be_false
         end
+
+        it "is true for Nexus 7 tablet" do
+          controller.request.stubs(:user_agent).returns("Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.2; Nexus 7 Build/JZ054K) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19")
+          helper.mobile_view?.should be_true
+        end
       end
     end