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I'll start by giving up calling it a Nexus 8 or 9, no idea which is more appropriate yet, so I'll just go with The Next Nexus Tablet!
I'll being with this latest gossip/rumor from Evleaks (reported via BGR)...
http://bgr.com/2014/07/02/nexus-9-leaked-specs/
They have it as an 8.9 inch tablet with 2560x1600 display, Tegra K1 2.3GHz 64bit, 5GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and Boom sound speakers. HTC will make this and it'll have an aluminum body.
Take it with a grain of salt. But so far this seems mostly plausible, so I'll salivate over this potential Nexus 9 for now.
Hopefully this Tegra K1 is worthy and not a disappointment. I haven't really followed the K1 news, but I hear people are excited about it and it should have a great GPU, think it's the first ARM SoC with the Keplar architecture taking from the desktop world. So it should be great paired with a really high resolution display (unlike the new Galaxy Tab S tablets and it's underpowered GPU).
I wish it was closer to 8 inches. That size I can still palm in portrait mode while reading. 8.9 inches, even with a very thin bezel is going to be a bit too big to palm (I'm not Shaq or Lebron).
A Nexus tablet jumping from 2GB of RAM in 2013 to 5GB of RAM in 2014 seems a bit odd. I'm not sure why Google would pack so much RAM into an Android tablet. Granted it's got a 64 bit processor, they are switching to ART in Android L, and this uses a bit more memory. Not complaining, just I'd expect excess RAM from Samsung, but not really from Google.
64GB sounds great, usually Google ships with two size options, so maybe there will be a 32GB option as well. Hope this means we are moving away from 16GB entry level models. Was sad Apple released it's 64 bit tablets will still sporting only 16GB of storage space.
Boom sound is good. But I'm not a fan of the oversized speaker grills on the HTC One phones, hopefully HTC will take the Microsoft approach and try to hide them better in the glass bezel.
Never thought I'd say this, but Ugh, aluminum? Haha. Aluminum is good. Sometimes it's not. Tad worried about the slippery aluminum HTC has used in the past. And really the soft touch plastic of the Nexus 7 2013 is just perfect, I really wish Google would continue using this (yes, I said I wanted plastic over aluminum).
I'll being with this latest gossip/rumor from Evleaks (reported via BGR)...
http://bgr.com/2014/07/02/nexus-9-leaked-specs/
They have it as an 8.9 inch tablet with 2560x1600 display, Tegra K1 2.3GHz 64bit, 5GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and Boom sound speakers. HTC will make this and it'll have an aluminum body.
Take it with a grain of salt. But so far this seems mostly plausible, so I'll salivate over this potential Nexus 9 for now.
Hopefully this Tegra K1 is worthy and not a disappointment. I haven't really followed the K1 news, but I hear people are excited about it and it should have a great GPU, think it's the first ARM SoC with the Keplar architecture taking from the desktop world. So it should be great paired with a really high resolution display (unlike the new Galaxy Tab S tablets and it's underpowered GPU).
I wish it was closer to 8 inches. That size I can still palm in portrait mode while reading. 8.9 inches, even with a very thin bezel is going to be a bit too big to palm (I'm not Shaq or Lebron).
A Nexus tablet jumping from 2GB of RAM in 2013 to 5GB of RAM in 2014 seems a bit odd. I'm not sure why Google would pack so much RAM into an Android tablet. Granted it's got a 64 bit processor, they are switching to ART in Android L, and this uses a bit more memory. Not complaining, just I'd expect excess RAM from Samsung, but not really from Google.
64GB sounds great, usually Google ships with two size options, so maybe there will be a 32GB option as well. Hope this means we are moving away from 16GB entry level models. Was sad Apple released it's 64 bit tablets will still sporting only 16GB of storage space.
Boom sound is good. But I'm not a fan of the oversized speaker grills on the HTC One phones, hopefully HTC will take the Microsoft approach and try to hide them better in the glass bezel.
Never thought I'd say this, but Ugh, aluminum? Haha. Aluminum is good. Sometimes it's not. Tad worried about the slippery aluminum HTC has used in the past. And really the soft touch plastic of the Nexus 7 2013 is just perfect, I really wish Google would continue using this (yes, I said I wanted plastic over aluminum).
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