Nexus 9 • Hacker News Board

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by benaiah » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

jtgeibel wrote: post #7

benaiah wrote: post #6

A bit suspicious that there's no resolution announced, especially considering the Nexus 10 had its resolution advertised ad nauseam from the day it was announced, and the Nexus 6 has its high resolution hyped up as well. It'll be curious to see if they've pulled back on the resolution arms race in favor of something like battery life or price range.

There is a button to expand the tech specs and see additional details: Display 8.9" IPS LCD 4:3 aspect ratio QXGA (2048x1536) Gorilla Glass 3 Double tap to wake

Ah, that's what that does. Didn't even realize it was a button until you said so. Seems like they didn't want to draw attention to the resolution drop (admittedly to a smaller screen) between the Nexus 10 and the Nexus 9.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

jtgeibel wrote: post #7

benaiah wrote: post #6

A bit suspicious that there's no resolution announced, especially considering the Nexus 10 had its resolution advertised ad nauseam from the day it was announced, and the Nexus 6 has its high resolution hyped up as well. It'll be curious to see if they've pulled back on the resolution arms race in favor of something like battery life or price range.

There is a button to expand the tech specs and see additional details: Display 8.9" IPS LCD 4:3 aspect ratio QXGA (2048x1536) Gorilla Glass 3 Double tap to wake

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Re: Nexus 9

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

benaiah wrote: post #6

A bit suspicious that there's no resolution announced, especially considering the Nexus 10 had its resolution advertised ad nauseam from the day it was announced, and the Nexus 6 has its high resolution hyped up as well. It'll be curious to see if they've pulled back on the resolution arms race in favor of something like battery life or price range.

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Re: Nexus 9

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Post by imaginenore » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

Seems like a step back from Nexus 10.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by Trellmor » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #5

Bud wrote: post #2

They're releasing a big expensive tablet in 2014 and the top-end storage size is 32GB? Really?

Well they are a cloud company. They probably just expect you to not store anything locally. No company puts a good amount of storage in their device for a reasonable price. It's a problem on par with battery life.

The Nexus 6 has 32 and 64GB options. I'm a bit disappointed that they don't match this with the Nexus 9.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by Symmetry » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

Wait, they're using the 64 bit K1 as their processor? That's Project Denver[1]! I'm super excited to see how that thing benchmarks. This is basically Transmeta's Efficeon (same IP and team, even) with a bunch of improvements. They mentioned in the Hot Chips talk that they had made improvements like enabling native execution while the optimizer works - they benchmarks they provided said that it was very effective but I'm eager for third party tests.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

EDIT: And here's Anandtech's article on Project Denver http://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:52 PM UTC

benaiah wrote: post #6

A bit suspicious that there's no resolution announced, especially considering the Nexus 10 had its resolution advertised ad nauseam from the day it was announced, and the Nexus 6 has its high resolution hyped up as well. It'll be curious to see if they've pulled back on the resolution arms race in favor of something like battery life or price range.

I sure hope somebody does soon. I'm looking forward to devices with enough power to do more than just push pixels to the screen. Of course, I exaggerate, but it's doubtless a factor in performance.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by WildUtah » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:55 PM UTC

4ad wrote: post #4

It has an arm64 CPU. It looks like this will be the first cheap, easily obtainable and hackable (?) arm64 hardware out there. I'm writing the arm64 Go compiler. I wonder if it's feasible to start testing on this machine too (e.g. how open it really is, how hard is to get a sane working environment, etc).

You could jailbreak an iPhone 5S for a year now.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by WildUtah » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:57 PM UTC

So is it confirmed that there's no new Nexus 7? What is the best new alternative with some kind of clean Android mini tablet?

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by polshaw » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

Sanddancer wrote: post #10

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9

Sad to see no SD card slot. I know that's not Google's thing, but Asus and Samsung have defied them in the past to include them in Nexus models and I was hoping HTC would follow suit. That said, I hope this sells well. HTC badly needs some success.

Last year's nexus 5 didn't have an SD card slot either. They're pretty much a dying breed at this point.

No nexus has ever had an SD card slot [ED: since the nexus one!]. It's their thing, to push people into the cloud.

>dying breed

Rubbish, quite the opposite: every (other) flagship android phone has one this year: S5, One M8, LG G3, xperia Z3. Every windows tablet has one. Compare this to the last round when it was pretty much just the S4.