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Tablet sales are lagging in America because manufacturers are not innovating. One of the top rated Android tablets today is the Nvidia Shield K1. It's a great

Tablet sales are lagging in America because manufacturers are not innovating. One of the top rated Android tablets today is the Nvidia Shield K1. It's a great tablet. It costs $200. You can use it to stream a very playable PC gaming experience via GeForce Now provided you have a solid 20 mbps connection. You can connect it to your television and use it as a console. It's 3 years old and still pretty rock-and-roll weighed for it's entertainment value. Its display is easily cast to a television or monitor for anyone that needs to use it for a workspace via Google apps. And there isn't even anything on the American market that offers serious competition. Sure, there's the Google Pixel C. It's got a top notch Tegra X1, but it hobbled itself by not including an SD card slot. Google Drive is nice, but I don't want to be beholden to Google for my files. And the Switch looks gimmicky (and sub-par). So this far there's really no reason to move beyond the Nvidia Shield. At least not on the American Market. Then Asian market is doing much better. They're cranking out some quality spec Core M tablets for $200 to $300. If American tablet sellers would get in on the trend, we might see a decent uptick in sales.

bostand 10y ago
The nvidia tablet is still king of the tablet hill, despite its age. When the new one is released, I'm buying two.
- thrownblown 10y ago
  I had the first 1, and managed to turn that into 4 through two recalls (all basically cosmetic flaws) that have all at this point died. one was killswitched, recovered and killswitched again and bricked. one is stuck in a bootloop after a cm10->cm11 auto upgrade. the other two's batteries failed and i soldered usb cables in their place and they have a second life in the back of my electric junk drawer. I thought about buying a k1 tablet, but i really couldn't justify it as i have a one plus 3 that does almost everything a tablet did. and i can make calls on it and not feel like a goober. i don't think there's another tablet in the pipe: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/11/rumored-follow-nvidia-shield-tablet-k1-cancelled/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/11/rumored-follow-nvidi... I have the first shield tv and its awesome. I use the g-force now service to stream witcher 3. I love streaming games. I used on-live back in the day, and was bummed when it failed. I lost like 10 games. I did here that nvidia had a lot to do with the nintendo switch, but i don't care enough to vet that rumor, so i will jsut spread it anyway.
- digi_owl 10y ago
  The reason it is king is because Nvidia has basically pulled an Apple. Same internals have been supported from 5.0 all the way to 7.0. This while most tablets barely have been supported within a single own major version.

bostand 10y ago

The nvidia tablet is still king of the tablet hill, despite its age. When the new one is released, I'm buying two.

thrownblown 10y ago
I had the first 1, and managed to turn that into 4 through two recalls (all basically cosmetic flaws) that have all at this point died. one was killswitched, recovered and killswitched again and bricked. one is stuck in a bootloop after a cm10->cm11 auto upgrade. the other two's batteries failed and i soldered usb cables in their place and they have a second life in the back of my electric junk drawer. I thought about buying a k1 tablet, but i really couldn't justify it as i have a one plus 3 that does almost everything a tablet did. and i can make calls on it and not feel like a goober. i don't think there's another tablet in the pipe: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/11/rumored-follow-nvidia-shield-tablet-k1-cancelled/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/11/rumored-follow-nvidi... I have the first shield tv and its awesome. I use the g-force now service to stream witcher 3. I love streaming games. I used on-live back in the day, and was bummed when it failed. I lost like 10 games. I did here that nvidia had a lot to do with the nintendo switch, but i don't care enough to vet that rumor, so i will jsut spread it anyway.
digi_owl 10y ago
The reason it is king is because Nvidia has basically pulled an Apple. Same internals have been supported from 5.0 all the way to 7.0. This while most tablets barely have been supported within a single own major version.