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NVIDIA Shield Tablet - Tegra K1 chip - Will you Buy?
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I have had the tablet for a week now.
It was a bit of a hasty purchase as i had the Shield TV. I was planning to send it back if i found any issues relating to the horror stories i was reading about on the Geforce forums.
I updated to 6.0 and then took the 1.1 OTA and then factory reset.
The first day i had the miscellaneous battery drain that others have reported of 20%.
I was thinking fugg this i'm sending it back to Amazon
Some guy on Reddit said he wiped the cache so i booted into recovery and wiped the cache.
The drain has not appeared since (not sure if it was coincidental or not).
I am seeing 4 hours of SOT at nearly full brightness, with WiFi turned off when the screen goes off.
You can tweak each app though to specify the amount of cores used so i'm sure i could eek some more minutes out if i wanted.
Things i like:-
Nice rubberised feeling to the case which makes it nice to hold
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Nice screen with good viewing angles as you would expect from an IPS screen
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Almost stock Android and i have hardly noticed any lag at all
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Nice speakers, not the loudest but does the job without having to reach for a Bluetooth speaker all the time
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Streaming from my 780Ti through Geforce Experience is for the most part flawless
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Geforce Now works great. Their Northern Europe server is based in Ireland which helps but a 50Mb+ connection is required. Not sure i will keep the service as it is €9.99 per month, although they are adding more titles and have 100 games now i think
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Plays most Android games really really well
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Some say the build quality is bad but i honestly think it is well built
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Nvidia have been good with updates and as it is near stock Android, we should get N and maybe more
Things i did not like:-
The power button is hard to press although i bought the Nvidia official case which will negate this
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Screen on time is not the best but that is down to the K1 chip using more power than its Snapdragon equivalent. Not as optimised really i reckon.
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You do not get a power source and the official controller is pretty expensive
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Lack of AC wireless, N works fine but only seeing 90Mb from my 240Mb connection
For £150 / €200, even if you are not a gamer it is a fast tablet. For another £70+ you can get the Sony 8" tablet which may be a better choice but if £150 is your budget for a 8", you can't go too wrong with the K10 -
Thanks for for the review. Did you get it from Amazon for €200? Seems to be €300 now and no delivery to Ireland.I have had the tablet for a week now.
It was a bit of a hasty purchase as i had the Shield TV. I was planning to send it back if i found any issues relating to the horror stories i was reading about on the Geforce forums.
I updated to 6.0 and then took the 1.1 OTA and then factory reset.
The first day i had the miscellaneous battery drain that others have reported of 20%.
I was thinking fugg this i'm sending it back to Amazon
Some guy on Reddit said he wiped the cache so i booted into recovery and wiped the cache.
The drain has not appeared since (not sure if it was coincidental or not).
I am seeing 4 hours of SOT at nearly full brightness, with WiFi turned off when the screen goes off.
You can tweak each app though to specify the amount of cores used so i'm sure i could eek some more minutes out if i wanted.
Things i like:-
Nice rubberised feeling to the case which makes it nice to hold
-
Nice screen with good viewing angles as you would expect from an IPS screen
-
Almost stock Android and i have hardly noticed any lag at all
-
Nice speakers, not the loudest but does the job without having to reach for a Bluetooth speaker all the time
-
Streaming from my 780Ti through Geforce Experience is for the most part flawless
-
Geforce Now works great. Their Northern Europe server is based in Ireland which helps but a 50Mb+ connection is required. Not sure i will keep the service as it is €9.99 per month, although they are adding more titles and have 100 games now i think
-
Plays most Android games really really well
-
Some say the build quality is bad but i honestly think it is well built
-
Nvidia have been good with updates and as it is near stock Android, we should get N and maybe more
Things i did not like:-
The power button is hard to press although i bought the Nvidia official case which will negate this
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Screen on time is not the best but that is down to the K1 chip using more power than its Snapdragon equivalent. Not as optimised really i reckon.
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You do not get a power source and the official controller is pretty expensive
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Lack of AC wireless, N works fine but only seeing 90Mb from my 240Mb connection
For £150 / €200, even if you are not a gamer it is a fast tablet. For another £70+ you can get the Sony 8" tablet which may be a better choice but if £150 is your budget for a 8", you can't go too wrong with the K10 -
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thanks for all the info MB. I wouldn't be into the gaming at all (just freecell or crosswords etcI did Hitchens. It was back in stock yesterday but sold out again.
Set up a Camelcamelcamel alert for £150 and they will notify you when it is in stock again
) and I'm wondering about web browsing, video etc. Is it okay for just ordinary tasks so to speak? 
(If you load an intensive full colour photos and text page like 'The Mail Online' site for example, can you scroll though the page without very noticeable lag?)0 -
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