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how's it going guys Kyle here with awesomesauce news today I'm taking a look at a pretty sweet product this is the Tegra note 7 from EVGA and I know you're thinking Tegra that's that's Nvidia isn't it and the box is green so it must be which is totally true this tablet does feature a Tegra 4 processor from Nvidia and in fact to my knowledge I think this product was almost entirely forged in a video warehouse so at that point or Nvidia factory I should say so at that point you're wondering why the hell is the name evj slapped on here in the first place well this is my theory is that Nvidia doesn't really sell products right they kind of make a cool product and then they have another company sell it for them I think the Nvidia shield is like the only thing I can think of right now in recent years recently anyway that that Nvidia has actually taken and marketed themselves and is selling on their website directly so with I think with what happened here is they made a cool product this tablet and then they reached out to one of their trusted board partners EVGA to help them distribute it and to help them market it and use their distribution expertise to help them sell more units at the end of the day which is fine by me as long as it's a reasonable or as long as it's a good product at a reasonable price point and I think it is for all the features that you get with this this tablet is at a very attractive price of $1.99 at least of the time of filming this video and the time of its release so let's take a look at it right now and let's start off with opening up the box alright so the first thing you will find upon opening up the box is what looks to be a Quick Start Guide take a quick look at that ok ooh specs here we go we'll take a look at few of these it's got video Tegra 4 of course 1.8 gigahertz quad-core processor cortex a15 72 chord video GeForce GPU does 1080p video decoding encoding and recording it's got 1 gig of ram ddr3 L 1600 speed at twelve point eight gigabytes per second and those are all the other hardware issue specs that I'm gonna get into more when I look at the tablet itself oh here's some diagrams of the tablet more hardware features that they point out there some more general instructions on charging your battery charging your battery turning off and on the Tegra note pretty simple stuff if you've used a tablet once or twice before you probably don't need to look through this guide very extensively but it's just there for reference in case you need it here's the tablet itself ooh it's got a nice way to it I actually like that I'm gonna get more into that just a bit and here I'm guessing are you're charging accessories like your ace the wall adapter that has the USB connector there so you can plug it into or plug this cable into it this is your micro USB charging cable that you can use either with that included wall adapter or with a PC charge with your laptop or an external battery pack and other similar devices so here's the tablet here's the face of it obviously and the first thing you might notice or probably not because it's a little funky angle are the speakers so you've got a speaker up top and one at the bottom once again these are front-facing speakers and they're being advertised as HD audio speakers powered by invidious pure audio technology which is apparently a good thing and they look they look pretty decent they almost cover the entire width of the tablet so we're gonna test that out in just a bit when we get into the operating system so them that you also have a front-facing VGA camera if you want to do some video chatting or if you want to take a selfie something like that whoo you also get a 7 inch IPS panel Jesus that reflection I'm really sorry guys 7 inch IPS panel 20 I'm sorry 25 60 yeah I just bought a high-res panel so it's totally 2560 by 1440 get my numbers confused it's 1280 by 800 resolution not the best resolution that we've seen even on tablets this size but it's it's a 7 inch tablet for 200 bucks what do you want and I'm sure it's still gonna look pretty nice when we turn it on it is IPS afterall and you can see that the bezel is isn't too thick this this tablet does not suffer from thick bezel syndrome like a lot of older tablets do and even some of the more recent ones just look hideous because the screen to bezel ratio is just out of control why don't we take a look at some of the features Hardware features on the sides on the edges here first off you've got a micro SD card slot and that reminds me this does have built-in 16 gigs of nand this is expandable however up to 32 gigs of memory if you want to put in an SD card there you also get a volume rocker of course on the down here on the down low I'm will sit on the down low down here you get a stylus which I was mentioning earlier and this is a really cool stylus let me show you why first off I think they might sell interchangeable heads you could probably take this off and screw in another one maybe EVGA or nvidia sell it on their website I'm not too sure but you can see here this is a special stylus because it has a really fine tip on one edge and then it's kind of round it's kind of slanted at an angle so if you want to do like right just straight-up like writing note-taking you use that chiseled edge but if you want to use like a paintbrush app or something like that and you're doing some artistic stuff you have a wider edge right here to make those wider strokes so gives you some versatility an additional layer of functionality when you're using a tablet with a stylus which is always nice to see a bit of innovation there and it just tucks right into the bottom and it actually stays in pretty well so it doesn't accidentally get lost when you're carrying it around and such over here you've got your micro USB charging port you've got a micro HDMI port as well if you want to plug this in and have your image or your video being output to a larger TV or monitor you can do so you've got an analogue jack for your audio for your headphones and you've got a sleep button put your tablet to sleep or wakes it up also turns it on and off we all know how that works and let's take a look at the back here I guess this kind of brings me to construction this this whole thing is pretty much made of plastic as far as like the top and bottom where the speakers are obviously the LCD is glass but on the back here you've got two areas of plastic here but in the middle you have more rubberized texture and we've kind of seen this on a lot of tablets in recent years even more recently there's a Tegra note and EVGA branding there but I'm not sure how much functionality the this rubberized texture actually serves because when you hold the tablet most of the time most people to my knowledge actually hold it with one thumb here and maybe the rest of your fingers here you might have one finger in the back so it gives you a little bit of grip that way I guess you'd have more functionality with it more luck better grip if you were holding it in landscape mode like that that way you can definitely feel more of the rubber and it feels a little bit more secure in your hands aside from that you also do get a rear facing camera that's a 5 megapixel camera it also does HD video recording it's got a 41 milliamp battery and EVGA and Nvidia are advertising up to 10 hours of HD video playback I don't have 10 hours to really confirm or deny that statement so maybe if one of you guys pick this up and you have the 10 hours you can let me know in the comment section below if that's a true statement cuz I'd be pretty cool but enough about hardware why don't we get into the operating system because we haven't really gone over that yet and there's some pretty cool things to be seen so let's do that alright guys so here we are into the operating system and you could probably tell that this is running Android 4.2.2 jelly bean to be exact and this is going to offer you a very your Android experience there's not going to be any kind of skin that goes over this any third-party application like that running over it so there's no bloatware it's just pure Android very much similar to the the Nvidia shield for that matter I'm gonna show you guys really quickly what happens when you take the stylus outside of its little silo there you can see the Nvidia direct stylus launcher is popped up and it's a pretty cool app that basically just automatically detects when you've taken the stylus out and it kind of guesses well you're probably gonna want to use one of these apps if you're taking the stylus out and you can always add applications to the direct stylus launcher so if you tend to prefer the stuff using the stylus when you're on YouTube a lot you can add YouTube to the direct stylus launcher and any time you pull the stylus out it will suggest YouTube as one of the apps you might be wanting to use at that very moment so this is a good example a good time for us to go into tag or a draw let's do right first I'm going to write this is just a basic note taking application and I'm gonna write a note what should I write hmm let's do this forgive my awful cursive yes wow that was I was pretty bad I'm not done yet this is obviously taking advantage of that really fine tip the very point of it as you can see the the thickness of what of the point that I'm writing with is very thin so this is great this is a great stylist for when you want to do thin stuff like that get really fine details if you wanted to like fill in something really tiny you could totally do that but why don't we go on to the painting app that's a little bit more fun than just note-taking let me see if I can get here there we go tegra draw is the name of the app and here we can see that I can still utilize that really thin point on the stylus if I want to make some thinner designs thinner strokes but as soon as I flip it over a bit and start using the other side you can see how much thicker the lines get and this is really kind of cool because it lets you just do infinitely more things with your stylus as opposed to just being limited to one thickness and of course there are several apps that you to change the thickness of your stylus or of your paintbrush and that's always fine and Danny but it's really so much easier just to be able to turn your pen a little bit and do that dynamically on the fly the other thing I forgot to mention about this pen this stylus is that it's pressure-sensitive which is a huge thing that for me to overlook so I'm sorry about that but you can see here if I just lightly brush it I'm just barely grazing over I mean I'm even missing contact at some points and you can see how thin the line gets kind of like a zebra almost but if as soon as I press down on it the lines get a lot thicker and just kind of fill up a lot more but wait there's more that I forgot to mention about the cool little stylus pen thingy and for that we're gonna go into chrome really quick and the thing I forgot to point out to you guys was the awesome lasso tool that you can use in literally any application on this tablet at any time you just select it and it lets you select whatever you want you literally just draw around it like a lasso tool and you can instantly share with your friends and family or whoever be a gmail Bluetooth whatever so pretty much self-explanatory I thought it was really cool feature and worth pointing out why don't we move on to a more general demonstration let's just see how speedy this the CPU is the Tegra 4 by opening up a browser like Chrome and just kind of playing around on a website for a while and honestly we're at new Wacom for no particular reason of course but really not every app should be used with a stylus pen it's only you know a best-case scenario for for some applications I think for the web browser I think we're gonna use the good old finger this guy right here so excuse me I just burped that's nasty so scrolling is a pretty fluid you can kind of double tap to zoom in and out you can also do the whole pinch to zoom of course I shouldn't I shouldn't look at the the camera LCD I should just look straight at the tablet because it's messing me up but here we go let's just tap computer hardware with my fat finger oh okay there we go and let's check out this no I don't want to can't look competitor products let's just look at this Rosewill case because Rosewell doesn't make tablets yet ah there you go pretty fluid experience if I want to go check out something more detail let's let's see how crisp or how much aliasing we get out of text you know what it's actually really crisp for being a 1280 by 800 resolution it actually I don't see any aliasing at all on this on this text right here which is really really nice impressive why don't we go to the Google the Google app the YouTube app look up an awesomesauce video oh wow somebody's been browsing here and what a coincidence awesomesauce news is the only thing they've ever searched for it must be a really good YouTube channel so let's click a video like this let's see what how a video playback goes video streaming in HD there's a talking head I'm not comfortable with that so I'm going to skip it so here's an HD video of me building a computer and stuff getting rid of my old one this would be a great time to actually turn up the volume and maybe hear oh my gosh I just powered it off or I just made it go to sleep sorry yeah all right as I was saying this would be a great time to test the audio the speaker's here crank it up have a listen you're listening to this these are the front-facing speakers on the tablet and it's coming into my lavalier mic that's currently clipped to my my shirt so take that for what you will I'll let you listen to the music for a little while watch a bit of awesomesauce it actually sounds pretty good I'm not gonna lie yeah you know what for tablet speakers they're actually pretty good I've heard a lot worse and I guess that pure audio technology from Nvidia really does does help in that regard that's cool that's enough and we got to the CPU I think that's I think you guys know the rest but here's a YouTube pretty much and it's also very fluid and responsive kind of see what other channels we can look at here there's a bunch of stuff I can't really play any of their videos though because then they'll sue me and I'll be even more on the hole than I already am all right guys so the last app that I'm demoing for you today is the camera application and really there's not too much to say about it doesn't have that many bells and whistles to it but there's one thing worth mentioning it does come with the SmugMug camera awesome app which is a pretty much whoops I don't I don't want to go to Facebook anyway it's one of the top camera apps on iOS devices and this is the first Android device it's actually being offered on to my knowledge and it lets you do cool things like take slow-motion shots at a hundred frames per second and put on a bunch of extra filters honestly I'm not too big into the whole mobile device photography craze that's going on that's been going on for the last few years but some of you are I'm sure and I guess it's worth noting for you guys so here we are inside the camera application and I've decided to use my dt 880 pros as the subject of my shooting just because they look nice and pretty much standard camera features you can actually tap to autofocus which is really handy here are some other features here you've got your single straight-up shoot burst auto burst HDR self timer you can do intervals continuous bursting and there's image stabilization you you also have all these features for video only the ones that apply to video of course you have panorama that's also cool let's see what else we got here let's go back to the single camera mode and obviously you can do video let's take a look at these settings for video here you can do ISO settings auto white balance I think that's brightness yes that is definitely brightness pretty cool you can also switch it to the front-facing camera oh gosh that's creepy switch your back switch your back alright you'll you've also got a little leveler there it tells you exactly if your if your pictures straight if you are parallel to the tops and bottoms of you're shot kind of a useful feature you can make it go away if you want you also get all this stuff it tells you little grids if you want to do a little bit more professional shooting and you care more about I guess the placement of things in your in your photo in your photography you can access these little grids and they will help you in your aesthetic eye I'm not making sense right now but you get the point all right guys that's gonna wrap it up for this unboxing and overview once again this has been EVGA s Tegra note 7 tablet powered by Nvidia and this is not a review video at all and in fact I only spent a couple hours with this thing so I don't really feel like I've had enough time to give you an honest review of it so far but I can tell you my first impressions and that is for being at $200 starting that price point is pretty appealing for all the features that you get along with it mainly I'm talking about the stylus and all the applications and the software that you can utilize with it's really optimized that pen experience on a tablet screen looks great no aliasing from what I can tell from my naked eye on text even up close and it's just a solid all-around tablet with decent speakers more than decent speakers and I would I would recommend it right now but I obviously have to do a full review to do that I highly recommend that you guys go look at other articles or videos that do actual reviews on this product and decide for yourself if it's the right tablet for you but that's just my opinion first look thank you all for watching the video I'm Kyle with awesomesauce news subscribe to the channel if you 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