2014年10月22日星期三

The Nexus 9: Hands-on with Google's most recent attempt to take on the iPad

The Nexus 9: Hands-on with Google's most recent attempt to take on the iPad

Robot has not at all gotten much respect taking part in the sizeable tablet bazaar. Certain, the Nexus 7 has been surprisingly flourishing — merit taking part in veto undersized part to its low cost and well-mannered performance. But the stigma around robot medicine is real and not entirely undeserved as soon as you make to the superior sizes. Despite Google's unsurpassed pains, many robot apps haven't been optimized instead of sizeable screens. Apps with the purpose of are a defensible sin on a 7-inch tablet grow to be unbearable on a 9-incher.

With the purpose of puts a allotment of pressure on the Nexus 9, the fresh high-end tablet from HTC and Google. Supplementary than several Nexus tablet ahead of it, it seems custom designed to take on the iPad. It starts with the 4:3 aspect ratio — a moment ago like the iPad — and it extends to the universal premium feel of the device — a moment ago like the iPad. It's a not much thicker than I was expecting and a not much heavier, but it did not feel inexpensive next to all. Opening next to $399 instead of the 16GB version, it had better not.

With the purpose of held, the Nexus 9 is a compelling tablet taking part in its own exact. The 8.9-inch screen is a spot of an out of the ordinary size, but it factory. It feels much supplementary portable than you'd expect, while still feeling sizeable a sufficient amount to be there supplementary open and not as much of cramped than the Nexus 7. Preceding robot medicine suffer felt like extremely large phones, but in attendance are a sufficient amount of individuals around these days, so the Nexus 9 feels like a tablet, satiated stay. It's a weird in-betweener kind of tablet, but even as soon as a moment ago a a small amount of minutes of abuse it makes less significant medicine feel too undersized and superior medicine feel too sizeable. On a chief impression, next to slightest, it's pretty much Goldilocks.

 A cabinet instead of robot
A quantity of Nexus campaign are inescapable to be there inexpensive, plenteous, and everywhere. Others are inescapable to be there showcases instead of what's entrance after that instead of robot. The Nexus 9 cataract steadily taking part in the latter type. That's essentially as of its high-end specs. It's powered by the Nvidia Tegra K1 chipset, a 64-bit CPU, which be supposed to promote to it super fast (though it's problematical to critic zoom what time you're using a brand fresh operating procedure with fresh animations). It's and a cabinet instead of a bevy of robot 5.0 Lollipop skin tone. You can log into a tablet with a guest bank account. You can fold tap the screen to wake the device. You can interrelate honestly with notifications exact on the lock screen. You can even "pin" an app so your delude can't renounce not at home of it and email your boss. The information with the purpose of Google Docs and Gmail can spawn multiple "cards" taking part in the multitasking watch process with the purpose of the Nexus 9 might and potentially be there better next to productivity than other medicine.

I was impressed with the screen quality, too. It's "only" 2048 × 1536 pixels, but they sit close to the superficial of the tumbler and their color fidelity seems fine. The hardware overall feels "classic" Nexus, which is to say it's unassuming taking part in the extreme with nigh on veto hardware trappings. That's fine — the spot of a tablet is to be there a screen — though I be supposed to mention with the purpose of the front-facing dual speakers are a finicky lay a hand on.

Like the Nexus 10 ahead of it, the Nexus 9 probably isn't available to set a dent taking part in iPad sales. As an alternative, it's available the way of other Nexus campaign: Supplementary figurehead than flagship, designed to TV show users and developers what's workable more exactly than dominate the sales charts. And with the purpose of sums up the robot sizeable tablet story pretty nicely: There's a allotment that's workable (maybe supplementary than on iOS), but the veracity seems to fall a not much stunted. Maybe this Nexus tablet desire be there discrete — we'll perceptibly run through supplementary occasion with it to bargain not at home.

Tags : Nexus 9 ,  Google , iPad
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