Nexus 9

Disappointed with the lack of storage expansion.

Just bought the Xiaomi Mi Pad instead.

64GB plus micro SD slot. That will do for my media consumption when camping.
 
Skeeter said:
I've been thinking. Don't they (all, not just Google) have it the wrong way round? LTE opens up the possibility of using the cloud (all be it only when you have good and consistent signal), so shouldn't the WiFi one be the one with the more storage? That's the one you want more offline content on.
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Usually LTE is available in both sizes. Google have basically thrown in an extra 16gb with LTE. :p

Lot of tension with the price. People seem to be putting a massive premium on expandable storage. Yes it's very useful and all manufactures should include it.

End of the day the specs and screen blow everything out of the water (apparently). The price is fine imo, perfectly justified. Only tablets you can compare it to in price imo is the z2, iPad air etc.
 
This one of the first tabs to use IPS screen technology? Think the nexus 7 had a high resolution screen which always appealed to me. Great picture quality is a must!
 
TripleT said:
End of the day the specs and screen blow everything out of the water (apparently). The price is fine imo, perfectly justified. Only tablets you can compare it to in price imo is the z2, iPad air etc.
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The spec argument I sort of get, but the screen is really not the head and shoulders above the rest people seem keen to claim it is. It's the same resolution as the iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2, and a 4:3 9" screen offers the same viewing area as a 16:9 8" screen when watching 16:9 content. The advantage of a 4:3 screen is in browsing, and its an advantage the N9 shares with the iPads. There is nothing exclusive about the screen.
 
Definitely not the first tablet to use an IPS display.

The pricing and lack of large internal storage are definitely causing a stir. Pretty sure the shock waves are being heard by Google and HTC!
 
adam98150 said:
This one of the first tabs to use IPS screen technology? Think the nexus 7 had a high resolution screen which always appealed to me. Great picture quality is a must!
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IPS panels have been used on tablets as far back since the iPad 2. They're nothing new to iPad owners for the most part. Also used on various Kindle colour devices from what I recall.
 
TripleT said:
Lot of tension with the price. People seem to be putting a massive premium on expandable storage. Yes it's very useful and all manufactures should include it.
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I don't think its so much the lack of expandable storage, that was generally expected, but the lack of any kind of storage is really the issue. If it was 32GB and 64GB at the same price points I would have been okay with it (and it wouldn't have exactly cost them much extra)
 
I've been thinking about the whole 32gb being max issue and think that there could be a 64gb version planned, HTC just haven't mentioned it yet.

In the past when Apple begin manufacturing new devices they buy up huge amounts of parts from other suppliers. There's normally deals going on here and there. There have been huge memory chip shortages in the past when Apple released certain devices - I can't recall if it was the iPhone 4 or the iPad 2. Since the latest iPad stretches to 128gb, maybe memory chips are in short supply globally? Hence HTC going with 32gb for now?

No way to tell for sure apart from waiting though :/
 
Sorry yes, screen isn't anything new. I meant it'll compete with anything out there at the moment. I don't think there's not much further you can take screens of this size in terms of pixel density etc.
 
Once you get above a certain point more pixels is pretty pointless. But as with razors, marketing departments will always push that more is better!
 
So unbelieveably tempted. I need to replace my 2012 N7.

Really would have preferred a 32GB/64GB versions at these prices though.
 
m4rk84 said:
Glad to see you finally agree that comparing different sized devices is stupid. Thanks for that.
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You can't be serious?, This tablet is competing with all tablets on the market, you can't just build a brick wall around it, if you are 'specifically' looking for a tablet that is at the top of the benchmark tables then yes this may be the only tablet for you, but if not then you can compare this tablet to any tablet of your choosing if you so wish.

If I'm a consumer with £350 in my pocket and I'm after a tablet I'm going to want to look at a whole bunch of different tablets weighing up the pro's and cons of which there are many, it's not as black and white as "This tablet is the fasted so no discussion.

For me personally I'd take a Mini Retina because I think it's better value for money, I prefer the build quality, the market place, the price, I can also even have double the storage for £40 less, I also have a feeling it will be better on battery life also, these things are more important to me than benchmark figures that in real usage will barely if at all make any difference to me.
 
I wouldn't bother lowrider. I lost a whole evening trying to work him out, and basically concluded he was trolling as nobody is that blinkered.
 
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