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Nexus 9 To Be First Device With Android L And Nvidia Denver CPU

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Anonymous
October 14, 2014 10:59:28 AM

The Nexus 9 will be announced tomorrow according to a Google source. The device will be the first to come out with Android L on board and also the first to use a 64-bit Denver CPU from Nvidia.

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October 14, 2014 11:11:22 AM

Android devices keep getting better!

I might leave Samsung for a Nexus 9.
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October 14, 2014 2:30:40 PM

A 9" tablet will not fit in my pockets and after my not-so-good experiences with the N7v1 and N7v2, $400 is $150 more than I would be comfortable throwing at a Nexus-branded tablet.
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October 14, 2014 3:48:36 PM

You should take Nvidia's internal benchmarks with half a grain of salt. Nvidia is known to fudge it's driver benchmark results by various means. The real world performance is an unknown.

That said benchmarks on a tablet are pretty useless to begin with. Tablets are normally single use devices where you're doing only one interactive program at a time. So long as it will play video smoothly, display readable text, and replay music without chop a tablet is no different now from the first generation android tablets.

The entire question isn't how fast it is, rather it's how stable it's software will be. That is a complete unknown with a new generation processor AND a next generation software stack.

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Android devices keep getting better!

I might leave Samsung for a Nexus 9.

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Android devices keep getting better!

I might leave Samsung for a Nexus 9.

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October 14, 2014 4:19:03 PM

I hope this screen resolution isn't accurate, cause it sucks.
8inch tablets now have 2560*1600 screen. The nexus 10 had that 2 years ago.
Going lower than an ipad iwould be a big dissapointment.
If they want a 4:3 screen, then they should go just like a chromebook pixel with 2560*1700.
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October 14, 2014 4:34:36 PM

Something is screwy with those benchmarks. A 15w Haswell CPU should be destroying those ARM SOCs, not barely ahead.
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October 14, 2014 4:39:29 PM

$299/$399 LTE is the price
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October 14, 2014 5:17:48 PM

This nVidia Denver chip beats a Haswell Celeron? First time ever that a mobile chip with arm v8 64 bit cores beats a core chip from intel.
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October 14, 2014 6:32:31 PM

i am in it to win it
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October 14, 2014 8:42:31 PM

Maybe if it cost $199 or $299. For $399 I'd rather buy a lenovo convertible 11.6" laptop
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October 14, 2014 9:51:02 PM

Will they take a week to charge like the first Nexus 7?
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October 15, 2014 2:50:28 PM

chuckydb said:
I hope this screen resolution isn't accurate, cause it sucks.
8inch tablets now have 2560*1600 screen. The nexus 10 had that 2 years ago.
Going lower than an ipad iwould be a big dissapointment.
If they want a 4:3 screen, then they should go just like a chromebook pixel with 2560*1700.


It actually has the same resolution as the iPad. And 2560x1700 is not 4:3...
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October 15, 2014 2:51:59 PM

InvalidError said:
A 9" tablet will not fit in my pockets and after my not-so-good experiences with the N7v1 and N7v2, $400 is $150 more than I would be comfortable throwing at a Nexus-branded tablet.


You must have really big pockets.
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October 15, 2014 5:31:17 PM

a1r said:
You should take Nvidia's internal benchmarks with half a grain of salt. Nvidia is known to fudge it's driver benchmark results by various means. The real world performance is an unknown.

That said benchmarks on a tablet are pretty useless to begin with. Tablets are normally single use devices where you're doing only one interactive program at a time. So long as it will play video smoothly, display readable text, and replay music without chop a tablet is no different now from the first generation android tablets.

The entire question isn't how fast it is, rather it's how stable it's software will be. That is a complete unknown with a new generation processor AND a next generation software stack.

Quote:
Android devices keep getting better!

I might leave Samsung for a Nexus 9.

Quote:
Android devices keep getting better!

I might leave Samsung for a Nexus 9.



You apparently missed all the shield tablet scores. K1's scores are not an unknown, and Denver will probably just match it+better battery life due to in house cpu. That's not a jab, that would still be an awesome soc, just saying what I expect. The best part is nobody has to retool as it is pin compatible, so anyone making a K1 design now, should be able to just slot in the Denver version and boom, selling 64bit shortly after. Very wise on NVs part doing this. Regarding the problems, you're forgetting everyone will have the same issues with new software/stack etc and everyone will be moving to 64bit (hardware and software).
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October 15, 2014 5:36:50 PM

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Regarding the problems, you're forgetting everyone will have the same issues with new software/stack etc and everyone will be moving to 64bit (hardware and software).

Since most of Android is simply Java running on top of Dalvik/ART, there is not much "64-bitness" for software beyond the core OS and runtime to worry about.
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October 15, 2014 9:50:19 PM

InvalidError said:
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Regarding the problems, you're forgetting everyone will have the same issues with new software/stack etc and everyone will be moving to 64bit (hardware and software).

Since most of Android is simply Java running on top of Dalvik/ART, there is not much "64-bitness" for software beyond the core OS and runtime to worry about.


I didn't say it was difficult (or not), just that everyone deals with the same thing here. Not sure why your post says dragonsqrrl said it, I did ;)  Not that I think he'd be offended by thrown under my bus in this case...Just saying...He wasn't even in my post or quoted in it. Odd he got slapped with my comment...LOL.
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October 16, 2014 7:00:39 AM

somebodyspecial said:
Not sure why your post says dragonsqrrl said it, I did ;)  Not that I think he'd be offended by thrown under my bus in this case...Just saying...He wasn't even in my post or quoted in it. Odd he got slapped with my comment...LOL.

Evil comment editing: every time I quote a message but do decide to not post a reply, the text from all the unsent quoted messages get prepended to the next messages I reply to until I post a reply. Since the quote blocks only contain numeric message IDs, quotes get screwed up if I remove the wrong parts while cleaning up that mess of stray quotes.

Not sure if that is a feature or a bug. I'd have to try it from Chrome or IE to see if this is a server-side or browser-side thing.
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October 16, 2014 2:32:15 PM

InvalidError said:
somebodyspecial said:
Not sure why your post says dragonsqrrl said it, I did ;)  Not that I think he'd be offended by thrown under my bus in this case...Just saying...He wasn't even in my post or quoted in it. Odd he got slapped with my comment...LOL.

Evil comment editing: every time I quote a message but do decide to not post a reply, the text from all the unsent quoted messages get prepended to the next messages I reply to until I post a reply. Since the quote blocks only contain numeric message IDs, quotes get screwed up if I remove the wrong parts while cleaning up that mess of stray quotes.

Not sure if that is a feature or a bug. I'd have to try it from Chrome or IE to see if this is a server-side or browser-side thing.


ROFL...It's a feature...Honest... :)  Just like the double posting etc etc...Really tomshardware has the worst software out of any website I've been on in years (for comments and forums at least, and those dang picture slideshow reviews - instant move along response from me since they are such a PITA to read). Or maybe it's really OK software, but just mismanagement of it's use. Either way something is wrong. I have to try many times reloading etc just to get the ability to see the comment button (so I'm not just commenting on the post, but to get into the forum side I mean). I could go on and on with errors that I see routinely but it would likely fall on deaf ears.

Anyway, I get your point ;)  Not shocked at all by your response...Toms has "issues".
*grits teeth tries not to swear* :) 
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