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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here at the full review for you of the latest collaboration between google and HTC this is the lollipop rockin nexus 9 there are a ton of great tablets out there can be hard to choose from let's see if this should be the tablet that finds away in your bag so as I do with all my reviews let me give a disclaimer I use this device for six days before filling this review Todd who did the written part which will be in the link down below use it for six days as well if you want more information on things I'm going to talk about if you want to see samples of the gallery and just from get a bit more detail again link down below to go to the written review we tested the Wi-Fi only models by doing this review in both white and black which there will be a difference as you'll see later on LTE models are also available so you broke this review up into six categories obviously there's a lot we can cover by thought these six are encapsulated the whole tablet hardware performance software camera battery file thoughts and an official TechnoBuffalo score let's get started so first we undertake big difference between the white and the black models offered by HTC the white model is certainly a bit more premium looking and feeling of the two devices offering sleek metal edges and a smooth though definitely not soft touch black panel the Black Mountain other hand though offers the same metal edges but they aren't as prominent or shiny and the soft touch material grabs fingerprints like you would not believe also if you push to HTC logo this is on both tablets it definitely depresses a little bit you can sort of feel it moving just not as solid build quality are used to from HTC the screen is an 8.9 inch QX GA which means it's got a 2048 x 1536 pixel display it's got a kind of unique four by three aspect ratio which I really ended up liking the sharpness is solid but in general Todd and I kind of agreed to display is far from the best on the market and more talking about screens one thing to keep in mind there is a decent amount of screen bleed here and it's very apparently returning the device on see the android boot logo you can see the bleeding in from the top and the bottom so for that in mind the screens are in the sharp is what you might find on the samsung galaxy tab s product line which offers in our opinion some of the best screams on the market and just didn't give the same sort of wow factor the screen such as sharp resolution often does but they mentioned the screen is very sharp that was appreciated in certain areas like when I'm reading a book or a magazine something you might pick up from google play the text comes to really nice and crisp and helps alleviate the strain on the eyes it also gets really nice and bright which i like i like my screens big and bright the screen is flanked by two front-facing HTC boomsound speakers a deep dive by the iFixit folk discovered that these are the same ones used in the desire a 10 instead of the more high-end speakers found HTC One m8 San was admittedly a little bit Hollow although we were told you okay with that given the trade-offs those front-facing speakers moving around the device you'll find a micro USB charging port on the bottom two volume buttons any power button on the right side which also kind of felt a bit cheap and hard to reach a 3.5 millimeter headset jack on the top there's a 1.6 megapixel camera in the top bezel right smack in the middle and an 8 megapixel camera on the back of the tablet with a single LED flash the camera does stick out a little bit which kind of looks funny but it's angled so it doesn't sort of affect how the tablets it's on the table it's like much more about the cameras later alright next let's move on to performance we already know NVIDIA Tegra k1 is a boost the Nvidia shield tablet is incapable of playing console quality games the same chip is hiding inside a nexus 9 Google doesn't really show off its prowess however and all something all developers have a chance to do as apps take advantage of that just ridiculous power so on the software side as well you noticed an android 5.1 pop flies everything is blazingly fast we opened up the task switcher and with about 20 apps open flip through them as if it was just nothing I had no issue at all it's pretty impressive how far android has come how smooth and drag now runs and how first-class android feels on this processor we had some issues with choppy games on nexus 9 though an update from google help fix that just a little bit suspect though this is mostly a software problem be fixed more over time particularly since we know that k1 is designed to absolutely crush games but I know you guys love raw numbers so let me give you some specs Nexus 9 knocked up a score of ten thousand eight hundred and forty-three in quadrants and 30 3993 in and 22 so pick bat for whatever it's worth so more on the software Nexus 9 s hardware and lollipops are a match made in absolute heaven lollipop runs and looks gorgeous we've already gone into pretty deep dives of Android discussing to change the new features in lollipop so check out those articles as well which will link right down below in general though you'll find that android 5.0 is by far the best and most advanced version of Android ever and kind of why shouldn't it be red it's the newest one everything has been refreshed their branding with real design that creates a much more aesthetically pleasing you I there's small touches here and there I really really like the light animations that make the whole operating system feel so much more smooth it's just incredible how far and read on tablet has come from honeycomb which was really not very good multitasking is way more fluid as we already discussed earlier and I really really like the spacious and clean keyboard layout it supports multiple users increased encryption and way way way more also I really recommend checking out google's new calendar app which is more refined color for and robust than ever before which you can probably download for your own android device anyway we also really like the new lock screen notifications which you can finally interact with and we all know before we start yelling at me third-party options existed for a way way WAY long time but sight to see these on full bake and cook android right now on that same note though the double tap to wake functions another welcome feature we've seen on other high-end flexure devices um LG g3 um it's convenient when you want to quickly check in a vacation without having sort of dig around for that power button it's kind of hidden on the side so this struck me as super weird there are some software oddities living inside a volley pop so gmail now supports all email accounts which is great but Google still includes your default email application I like unified inbox it so I always use that default mail app and I didn't use gmail so I was excited I saw the application I opened it up and all it does is prompt me to open up gmail that's it that's all the app does is say you should open up gmail why why even put it on there I just I found that very strange its overall Todd and I agree that Android has certainly caught up if not surpass the visual beauty of iOS on a tablet whereas once kind of clunky looking it's now much from refined and a app salute pleasure to use so first let me just say I love using the camera on a tab but let me just get the out there and full disclosure but if you had that type of person likes a gigantic viewfinder you will not be very disappointed all those people looking at your shooting pictures might be it takes pretty good pictures if you want to see more samples of how it looks hit the link down below to our full review we'll have plenty of samples up there's slice to say if you want to take pictures it's gonna be fine it's not going to blow you away you know but won't take a quick picture your kids scooting around it'll do the job let's next talk about battery the 6700 million power battery is pretty solid in regular usage I easily got four days regular usage is different for everybody for me usually watching about an hour to two hours of HD video on YouTube generally browsing the web is any email I've got two accounts being pulled down all the time easily got sort of full four days I'd probably have gotten you in losing longer really where the objective test comes in we're an HD video playing on this guy we were able to get nine hours that was with all the wireless stuff turned off and brightness at about fifty percent about 20 to 30 minutes to Rick google claims but if I adjust the brightness I probably could have pushed it so you can easily get through a full flight and watch two or three movies and still have a little bit of battery left to tell your parents that you got home so what's the verdict on the Nexus night you couldn't tell i kind of like it's a fantastic little tablet i dig the size for me it's kind of in between the size of what you get with an ipad mini versus a full-size tablet and i really like 24 x 38 aspect ratio the software is obviously the highlight here and lollipops is an absolute treat although i'm not the biggest fan of front-facing speaker a battery life and overall smooth performance so really sort of made up for that this blight isn't perfect there are way better ones out there but it's not a complete deal breaker here at all additionally in the area the back that depresses when touched doesn't really scream premiums HD you know usually been known for over the past few years the white model simply looks better than the black one I don't usually say that often sort of pick a color but if you're trying to pick which device to get i would definitely opt for the white one although obviously going to come down to personal taste mech design isn't perfect but it's a great way to experience the best of android 5.1 pop without many sacrifices and you'll be guarantee you'll have google's latest advancements free and if any OEM bloatware this gets a very solid eight point oh on the TechnoBuffalo scale what do you guys think do you agree disagree I want to hear your thoughts on the Nexus 9 let us know in the comments down below again link to the full review is also going to be down there as well as our lollipop tour so next time I'm John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo see you next video okay thank you guys for watching if you want to see more videos from TechnoBuffalo hit the big subscription button right here if you want to see us play games and I'll admit it sometimes not so well check us out at twitch TV / technobuffalo