NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Tablet & Unexpected Surprise...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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2,144 words · ~10 min read
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the Jazz mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that
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even holds tablets up to 8 in Click now to learn more the tegr Note 7 is the
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second fruit born of NVIDIA's ongoing strategy of well if no one else is going
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to recognize the greatness of our processors then damn it we're just going to build the finished products ourselves
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then it is the second handheld device to use NVIDIA's latest and greatest tagra
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for system on a chip but unlike the first device that rolled around one that
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I happen to be a huge fan of the NVIDIA Shield this one is in a much more
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conventional form factor the Tegra Note 7 is a plain Jane 7-in tablet designed
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to go head-to-head against products like the Google Nexus 7 and iPad Mini so
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first up is the specs with a 1280x 800
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16 X10 aspect ratio display that unfortunately doesn't use Gorilla Glass
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NVIDIA won't be winning any awards for who has the best most retinal display or
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anything like that but personally thanks in large part to the vibrant colors and
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strong viewing angles enabled by the IPS display Tech in it I find the screen and
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pixel density acceptable if unexceptional at this size the base and
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until the lte1 is available only model weighs 32 G features a quad core 1.8 GHz
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Tegra 4 processor with GeForce graphics and comes with 1 gig of RAM single
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stream 2.4 GHz Wireless N and Bluetooth 4.0 and a 15w hour battery that delivers
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adequate but uninspired iring battery life like Shield the Note 7 uses a
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version of Android that's about as close to stock as you can get short of buying
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an nexcess device and comes with NVIDIA's promise of timely support for
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newer versions something that they've actually done quite well up until this
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time with both shield and Note 7 running the latest 4.4.2 as of the time we're
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filming this video on the back of the unit we find a rear facing 5 megapixel
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camera a Tegra Note logo and the partner branding of whoever is responsible for
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sale and support of the device in your region on the top we find volume control
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and a Micro SD slot a definite plus since the tablet itself is only
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available in a 16 gig configuration and on the left side we've got a lock button
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headphone jack micro HDMI and micro USB for charging a position that I actually
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like since it keeps these connectors out of the way if you're watching a movie or
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playing a game in landscape mode the right side has a base port and slot for
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the included stylus whenever you're not using it and I guess that's pretty much
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it for the physical tour so what did NVIDIA really do here to
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differentiate themselves well a couple of things first up I love the industrial
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design I wish Google had never done away with the textured back of the original
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Nexus 7 and I'm very pleased to see that make a return here along with a bit of
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the aggressive you know flare that NVIDIA does so well next up is the
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front-facing speakers having grown accustomed to an HTC1 over the last year
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or so I find Sid mounted or heaven forbid rearm mounted speak speakers to
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be abominable to use and I can't wait until that unfortunate design approach
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goes away entirely third and this is where things get really interesting is
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the stylus NVIDIA hasn't included a premium digitizer like you might find in
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a Wacom tablet albeit at a much higher price but rather an unusual
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implementation that offloads touch controller processing to the low power
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fifth core present on All tagra 4 S so's
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this allows this relatively lowcost tabl
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I mean for all the things I've said that haven't sounded that impressive throughout this video it is a very
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inexpensive tablet to ship with no taking and drawing apps that support
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ignoring your palms and correctly detecting the pressure you're putting on
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the screen with your pen without an expensive extra screen layer and a
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special stylus great features indeed now
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with all of that out of the way though I wasn't really sure how to review this
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thing tiger 4 is wicked fast okay not quite as fast as the one in shield with
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its active cooling mind you but nothing we haven't seen before 7in tablets are
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swell but nothing we haven't seen before unless our name is Luke Luke has never
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extensively used a tablet so I figured let's do this I hand it to Luke someone
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who uses a phone notebook and desktop as part of his daily life and recently got
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a shield and see what happens all I told him is this use it as much as you use it
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and record your thoughts if it sucks and you think it's pointless say that if you
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move a significant chunk of your Computing time over to the device then
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say that so let's get his thoughts but first a guide on how to shave your face
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what are you doing um how to shave it's well it's
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kind of like a how a basic parody no no that's not this is that that's this
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disgusting and you have blood on your is that actually blood either way you're
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going to have blood of others on your hands if you release this it's actually not
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okay okay either way do your do your
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proper like advertisement presentment thing present the thing I can't even
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talk right now slippery this is disgusting I'll be back I'll do my part
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do your part properly we'll be
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okay so um yeah Dollar Shave Club saves
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your door once every month so you don't have to choose between the two terrible
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options of either using a dull razor or
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being stuck trekking out to the store to fight with a customer service
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representative to go get the key from the thing to unlock it so that you can
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overpay for blades that have useless features that you don't need like
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vibrating handles nope instead of G gimmicks like promising to have Bears
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shipping your package from a party warehouse Dollar Shave Club focuses on
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delivering highquality bathroom supplies that like their shave butter that was
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featured so prominently in this video and goes on clear so you can see what
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you're doing while you shave and their butt wipes for men that with the help of
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a mirror also go on clear and let you see what you're doing I mean well Dollar
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Shave Club doesn't include the mirror for the butt wipes I came up with that idea myself anyway the point is
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dollarshaveclub.com Linus to join the club and now I'm going to hand off to Luke for his Impressions on life with
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the Tegra Note 7 from NVIDIA as lus said I have not used a tablet before and when
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I first got my hands on this tablet my first reaction was this is too small and
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Dinky why would I care over a phone spoiler alert that wasn't necessarily
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the case but I'll get into that later the first thing that I liked on this tablet not the main thing but the first
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thing was emails being able to read a large portion of the email and reply to
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it the same time is really nice on my phone I can see some of the email but
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not usually a very usable amount and I find myself hiding the keyboard a lot so
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I can actually read the person's email to make sure that I'm replying very
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specifically to what they were saying so it is nice sending emails on a tablet
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but is buying a tablet just for emails worth it probably not um so now into
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gaming which I found was awesome on this tablet almost every single game that I
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could play on Android on this tablet was
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way better on this tablet than on my phone I played on this tablet for quite
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a while and then moved back to my phone and was very annoyed at the back of
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screen real estate because when you get used to having all of that room for
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touchscreen movements and everything else that you might run into when playing games like Raiden being able to
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see that much more and being able to move around that much more on the screen is really nice compared to a phone where
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it's actually kind of small I even noticed a huge Improvement in this going
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from an S3 to a note and going from a note to a tablet is still a very
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noticeable Improvement and much much better that being said heavily based
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joystick games I have never liked on Android and being able to to play those
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on the tablet didn't really make it that much better because it's still a
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touchscreen game using joysticks which I find a terrible experience maybe you
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like it I don't know that's totally up to you but personally I do not like
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touchcreen joysticks so that brought the shield up to point why why not the
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shield why not use the shield The Shield is a good device it's great device for
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using different things and playing different games like I can't remember what it was called but Raven Shield or
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something like that is way better on the shield than it is on a tablet way better
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so if you want to play those kind of games if you want to be able to put into console mode and plug into your TV if
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you want to be able to do any of that kind of stuff awesome great if you want to be be able to push games from your
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computer to the shield and play them in bed or whatever awesome experience
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that's great the problem I have with the shield is it's not as well-rounded as
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the tablet you're not going to want to send emails on it it feels like you're
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punching your name into a game that you haven't played before for the save file
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and it's super frustrating because your name's really long and you have to find the worries all the time using the d-pad
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or you have to hold the screen in a really weird way to be able to touch things on the screen and neither of that
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great experiences so personally I would probably go with the tablet because it's
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more well-rounded in my opinion although if you happen to be able to get both
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maybe you get a shield on a discount because you bought a graphics card with it or something like that awesome
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all-encompassing experience that you will really enjoy all right guys if you
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