2014年10月22日星期三

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

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

Machine has by no means gotten much respect in the sphere of the gigantic tablet marketplace. Sure thing, the Nexus 7 has been surprisingly booming — gratitude in the sphere of rebuff slight part to its low cost and profit performance. But the stigma around machine medicine is real and not entirely undeserved in the past you find to the bigger sizes. Despite Google's preeminent labors, many machine apps haven't been optimized representing gigantic screens. Apps with the aim of are a justifiable sin on a 7-inch tablet suit unbearable on a 9-incher.

With the aim of puts a fortune of pressure on the Nexus 9, the different high-end tablet from HTC and Google. Additional than some Nexus tablet ahead of it, it seems custom designed to take on the iPad. It starts with the 4:3 aspect ratio — specifically like the iPad — and it extends to the broad-spectrum premium feel of the device — specifically like the iPad. It's a barely thicker than I was expecting and a barely heavier, but it did not feel second-rate by all. Preliminary by $399 representing the 16GB version, it had better not.

With the aim of understood, the Nexus 9 is a compelling tablet in the sphere of its own totally. The 8.9-inch screen is a smidgen of an anomalous size, but it facility. It feels much additional portable than you'd expect, while still feeling gigantic sufficient to be located additional sizeable and a lesser amount of cramped than the Nexus 7. Before machine medicine hold felt like gargantuan phones, but near are sufficient of folks around these days, so the Nexus 9 feels like a tablet, stuffed obstruct. It's a weird in-betweener kind of tablet, but even taking into consideration specifically a the minority minutes of abuse it makes less significant medicine feel too slight and better medicine feel too gigantic. On a essential impression, by smallest amount, it's pretty much Goldilocks.

 A cabinet representing machine
More or less Nexus policy are doomed to be located second-rate, abundant, and omnipresent. Others are doomed to be located showcases representing what's development subsequently representing machine. The Nexus 9 cascade decisively in the sphere of the latter kind. That's chiefly for the reason that of its high-end specs. It's powered by the Nvidia Tegra K1 chipset, a 64-bit workstation, which ought to appoint it super fast (though it's vigorously to evaluator burn rubber as you're using a brand different operating routine with different animations). It's in addition a cabinet representing a bevy of machine 5.0 Lollipop facial appearance. You can log into a tablet with a guest explanation. You can amplify tap the screen to wake the device. You can relate soon with notifications totally on the lock screen. You can even "pin" an app so your mock can't refrain from banned of it and email your boss. The piece of evidence with the aim of Google Docs and Gmail can spawn multiple "cards" in the sphere of the multitasking think about income with the aim of the Nexus 9 may well in addition potentially be located better by productivity than other medicine.

I was impressed with the screen quality, too. It's "only" 2048 × 1536 pixels, but they sit close to the outside of the goblet and their color fidelity seems fine. The hardware overall feels "classic" Nexus, which is to say it's unassuming in the sphere of the extreme with to all intents and purposes rebuff hardware superfluities. That's fine — the summit of a tablet is to be located a screen — though I ought to message with the aim of the front-facing dual speakers are a good stroke.

Like the Nexus 10 ahead of it, the Nexus 9 probably isn't up for grabs to position a dent in the sphere of iPad sales. As a replacement for, it's up for grabs the way of other Nexus policy: Additional figurehead than flagship, designed to program users and developers what's on the cards relatively than dominate the sales charts. And with the aim of sums up the machine gigantic tablet story pretty nicely: There's a fortune that's on the cards (maybe additional than on iOS), but the truth seems to fall a barely terse. Maybe this Nexus tablet yearn for be located changed — we'll clearly expend additional epoch with it to locate banned.

Tags : Nexus 9 ,  Google , iPad



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