Wow the Note 4 is a beast of a phone.
I should be awesome running all those multicore mobile apps on it.
Wow the Note 4 is a beast of a phone.
But did they use the Snapdragon 805 or Exynos 5433 version?
It's the only Android thus far to have an S805. It didn't really wow me considering.
In past years I've usually bought an iPad and Android tablet. Currently have the Nexus 7 2013 and iPad Mini 2. But this year I think I'm only going to buy one tablet and that's mostly because I want something with a bigger display. May still keep the Mini and 7 around as well.
So I'm deciding between an iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 (disappointed with Samsung tablets). After fondling the Air 2 at the Apple store and watching some Nexus 9 hands on videos, I think I'm siding towards the Nexus 9...
Price is a big factor. I need at least 32GB, so the Nexus 9 32GB will be $120 cheaper than the 64GB iPad Air 2 I would need to get .
Speakers is another factor. I like the front facing speakers from HTC on the Nexus 9.
This wasn't much of a factor, but I do love the soft touch material on the Nexus 7 and the 9 appears to have the same. If feels real nice to hold and I don't worry about it scratching. So that's a bonus. I think I like the white color more, hopefully it also feels nice (on the Nexus 5 apparently the white material was more slippery).
And I'm more invested in the Google eco system. Not a major impact on the decision, because I can use all my Google apps on the iPad (and have been, works just fine). But obviously the integration is better on a Nexus tablet.
So, I'm really looking forward to the Nexus 9.
Pricing from 16gb to 32gb isn't Google like. Normally it wouldn't be any more than an extra $50 to double the storage. Wonder why they're asking for such a premium this time.
There is this weird thing many manufactures, including Google have in that they want to charge more money for a storage bump on devices with bigger screens and bigger price tags. Like there is some correlation between the cost of memory and the screen size or something.
I was looking at another 9" 4x3 tablet in the store the other day, and since it is 4x3, the 9" is much larger than I had imagined. I'm sure I would get used to it, but it looks so much larger than my N7. Although I think at 4x3, 8" would have been better.
Bendgate 2, the return of the soft spot
I could understand this if it was a cheap tablet like the N7 (for example, the N4 had hollow spots and would creak if you pressed on it), but we're talking closer to premium pricing here and likely tackling on high end tablets like the iPad with this. I'm a bit disappointed TBH.I'm just OCD enough that that might bug the hell out of me. I've seen other hands on mention the hollow feeling as well. Hopefully mine isn't like that.