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Nexus 9
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Re: Nexus 9
#32Sad 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.
Ehm.. no nexus since Nexus One had SD card slot. Which Nexus models are you talking about exactly?
and nexus one was also the only nexus to have an SD card. so I think he is talking about every nexus phone/tablet except the nexus one.
Re: Nexus 9
#33> The 8.9" screen is big enough to work and watch on, but small enough to carry around in one hand.
Really I could carry that in one hand? That's amazing! Know what else I can carry in one-hand? My fucking 17 inch macbook.
Re: Nexus 9
#34Sad 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.
In general, no way. In Nexus, well yeah, Google wants you spending money on cloud storage.
Until we all have affordable wireless signaling at 300+MB/s without stupid data limits, then local storage matters.
Re: Nexus 9
#35Sad 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.
They're only dead for Nexus phones because of license costs and cloud storage etc.
Re: Nexus 9
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Excitedly waiting for a new Android tablet but 32GB max is too little for that price tag.
I suppose Google expects more photo/video taking on phones vs tablet hence lower storage?
Re: Nexus 9
#37> The 8.9" screen is big enough to work and watch on, but small enough to carry around in one hand. Really I could carry that in one hand? That's amazing! Know what else I can carry in one-hand? My fucking 17 inch macbook.
That's a good point in a way. At that size (especially with the 4:3 screen ratio) it's certainly uncomfortable to hold it like a phone, even with huge hands. Ergo, screen size doesn't really matter that much (of course it matters somewhat; think of the forces and you realize what affects torque) – you hold it like an iPad Air, and the more interesting spec would be weight which I couldn't find by glancing the product page.
Re: Nexus 9
#38Anyone have experience installing Linux on an Android tablet to use for development work? I'd love to use it with tmux/vim to hack on stuff.
Is battery life worth it?
Re: Nexus 9
#39> The 8.9" screen is big enough to work and watch on, but small enough to carry around in one hand. Really I could carry that in one hand? That's amazing! Know what else I can carry in one-hand? My fucking 17 inch macbook.
That's a good point in a way. At that size (especially with the 4:3 screen ratio) it's certainly uncomfortable to hold it like a phone, even with huge hands. Ergo, screen size doesn't really matter that much (of course it matters somewhat; think of the forces and you realize what affects torque) – you hold it like an iPad Air, and the more interesting spec would be weight which I couldn't find by glancing the product…
425g (WiFi) or 436 (LTE). You have to expand the tech specs to see it, which isn't very obvious. The jewel looks like something you'd drag, not click.
Re: Nexus 9
#40It 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).
Put Linux on this and you've got a very viable development machine. I look forward to one day running arm64 Go on this machine in the near future! :) (Among other things..)