If this was an apple product it would have been 2000 heat by now like the year old iPhone going for 600 quid :confused:

Google are collaborating with Google Chrome and Google Android....?



I'm confused!

Showing the 32GB version at £199.97. Don't know about the stock position but that's the one i'd recommend if you can stretch. to it. Games and media apps quickly use up the storage. e.g the Times newspaper app takes up over 2GB unless you frequently clear the cache.

Nice tablet. My middle lad has one. Just for reference, Argos are still selling them for £179.99 new with free delivery.

16 or 32GB??

Nice tablet. My middle lad has one. Just for reference, Argos are still selling them for £179.99 new with free delivery.

Oooo! thanks!! Will check it out :-)

Awww.. thanks. Bought it for £149 from argos during black friday.

Remember lots of comments about 2 different versions(older with some issues and newer) when argos deal was posted at £149...

Great tablet. Use it everyday. Front of the queue for android updates (currently running 6.0.1 Marshmallow), superfast performance, great screen quality and twin front facing speakers. Got to say that 16gb ram is tight but OTG works flawlessly for accessing/streaming additional storage. I've tried more than a few tablets and this is up there with the best.

Showing the 32GB version at £199.97. Don't know about the stock position but that's the one i'd recommend if you can stretch. to it. Games and media apps quickly use up the storage. e.g the Times newspaper app takes up over 2GB unless you frequently clear the cache.

32GB version showing out of stock at the moment. If this comes back in I'll be on it in an instant. I hope.

Which store was this deal in??

Didn't see any on display at all in lakeside

What store

Good price but definitely go for 32gb if you can get/afford one. 16gb would be fine if you just want it for email and general browsing.

Nb Google have brought out the pixel C as the premium tablet offering, but the nexus 9 hasn't been discontinued or 'phased' out, not yet anyways...

Just got one at lakeside last one

​Argos have no stock anywhere of any nexus 9 except the £4xx 3G version. bummer.

Local Currys sale bin

John Lewis have these too at this price. And I know alot of you prefer them. Well the one in purley way Croydon did, but I don't how many, if any, we're in stock.

Not being colourist, but wasn't there an issue with the white 16gb ones ?

I think screen issues, etc, when Argos had em for £159.99. Which are now £179.99.

Not trying to scare monger, but trying to kill pain.

Google are collaborating with Google Chrome and Google Android....?



I'm confused!

If this was an apple product it would have been 2000 heat by now like the year old iPhone going for 600 quid :confused:

I am looking for the 32gb, best I can find it £265 at Amazon (I have to get online)

Chrome and Android are 2 separate divisions within Google, next version of Android is rumoured to bring both together.

I just knew that was coming. However it's still a bit like saying the people at Ipod are working with Macbook on a new tablet for Apple.

Not really, Pixel is actually built by Google, its the 1st 'Nexus' device to be so - Nexus 9 is a HTC tablet

​potentially going to combine both their OS x

you are awesome!!!

PC World Wednesbury x

I had a black one from argos on black Friday. Updated it to the latest version of Android and the battery performance was awful. Very slow to charge , and quick to discharge.
Other than that, a pretty good tablet.

Not bad.. But an iPad is better!!!!

Out of interest, can anyone think of any examples in which that has worked out well, historically?

Historically, people tried to shoehorn their desktop OS to work in resource constrained devices. :smiley:
The Chrome/Android merge will never happen. The best you can hope for is Android apps running in sandboxes on a Chrome device.
Of course, there is nothing to stop Google running a full blown Android on a Chromebook. A simple extension to http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc would be ideal. :wink:

red hot deal. But for me the lack of a SD card slot is a deal breaker. 16gb is too small.

Ignore him, he's just a little kid that likes arguing for the hell of it. His posts are all the same.

which stories and has anyone a receight they could post? might be able to do price match or something :innocent:

the 16gb is currently out of stock but 32gb's still available on store.google.com

For this price id rather go for Nvidia Shield K1. Has waaay better specs and tht 4k screen!

nexus 9 or nvidia shield tablet...?

If it only had microSD slot I would be all over it for playing movies in the car for my little one!

Excellent tablet for the price. I have an older model one (well, my son has) and while there is a bit of bleeding around the edges you rarely notice it and certainly not when reading or watching movies.

One word of warning - dont try to use this until fully updated. It was terribly sluggish out of the box but the latest o/s is quite snappy.

It did but it's quite old now and has obviously gone through quite a few manufacturing cycles since then.

quite a old tablet £159 seems alot for 16gb

Good find OP - but not sure what you mean by this:

"Google are fazing out the Nexus 9 to focus on their Chrome OS/Android potential collaboration with the Pixel C chromebook"

The Pixel C is NOT a Chromebook it is a Tablet running Android. The 'Pixel' is a Chromebook running Chrome OS. These are two different products.

Had mine for £149.99 before Xmas. Very happy with it

Nvidia K1 probably if you can find one.

16GB for a tablet wouldn't be enough for me personally. Otherwise heat added.

A surface is poor in regards to tablet experience, heavy, cumbersome and not built from the ground up for touch!! Not to mention significantly costlier !!

I've seen some excellent deals recently for the iPad mini 2 so keep an open eye and you can grab a bargain!! Refurbished can be bought straight from Apple, practically new, £200! Higher pixel density (sharper) screen than this and large selection of apps fully optimised for the iPad retina resolution!! Superb build quality and ease of use! And Apple are the best out there in terms of customer service especially if you have an apple store near you!!

Nope.

And I wouldn't say that locking down the file system, restricting you only to apps that they have certified and bricking a device during an upgrade just in case you might be trying to hack it represent good levels of usability.

You were also wrong about pretty much everything else that you said as well.

http://www.geek.com/android/nexus-9-vs-apple-ipad-mini-2-have-the-tables-turned-1608888/

What exactly is iPad retina resolution?

Fair enough, everyone's entitled to their opinion! My own experience with Apple customer service - I.e. returns, warranty and so on is that they've been absolutely stellar! If you get a problem just take the iPad to an apple store and they'll fix within one year warranty! I've not once experienced a "bricked" iPad - unlike several android devices where it is actually possible to brick the device and very difficult to get it back! On an iPad, a simple case of restore to fix! (And I have a lot of experience in both jailbreaking and rooting, so not just talking out of my ass!) "restriction" can.be considered in both a good way and a bad way - the locked down file system is to ensure absolute maximum security - I always feel cautious entering bank details on an android device (or even a laptop) compared to an ios device! The article you linked to didn't seem to conclude the nexus 9 was necessarily better?!

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The word "retina" is simply a marketing term, but I use that to differentiate between the older, lower resolution.. If an app states it is "optimised for ipad retina" (which now they almost all are) it means the app has been specifically built with that res in mind

Locking down access to files will not make a device more secure for anyone other than the manufacturer. Allowing someone to use a file browser doesn't add any kind of risk element or increase the number of potential exploits.

All that iOS is going to do if the device has been compromised is mask the malware better because you usually have no way of checking the device for malware or exploits yourself. For that reason, it is actually potentially more hazardous than Android of Windows and the fact that it is the most common mobile platform in the wealthy world but also has the lowest average level of user technical competency doesn't help.

Theoretically, it shouldn't be possible to brick an Android device because there are so many different recovery mechanisms readily available. Apple's recovery mechanisms are built into iTunes and if those fail then you are entirely at Apple's mercy, which usually means just throwing the device in the bin if it's out of warranty.

This tablet has the same screen resolution.

In reality, a quick browse of the XDA forums shows just how confusing it can be for a user who tries to root, or modify their Android device and ends up inadvertently bricking it, to receive support even with the most popular of android devices such as a galaxy s6 , Android promises a great deal but in practice the user experience i find is just not there, there are so many things that can and have gone wrong on every single one of the android devices I've used and getting support just to restore to the factory condition has always been a pain in the ass, weeks of scouring XDA forums for a solution, again every one entitled to their opinions but personally speaking I've just not had the best experience!

Over the past 5 years I have owned at least 7 different android devices and over 10 different iOS devices ( i don't keep them all, i sell etc) so id like to consider myself fairly unbiased, both are good operating systems and both have their advantages!

But that isn't the resolution of a iPhones 'Retina' screen. The problem with marketing buzzwords are they are actually meaningless, the term retina actually applies to the screens ppi, pixels per inch not resolution. Apps don't have to be 'optimised', a method called upscaling avoids this issue, just like it does on your PC monitor and your TV screen.

Very few Android apps look out of place on an Android tablet simply because the resolutions used in flagship phones are as high as their larger siblings.

My personal experience is I haven't had to deal with Android manufacturers customer services because the devices haven't broke...

What support do Apple offer for Jailbroken devices?

Jailbreaking voids your warranty, but quite easy to restore with iTunes to factory
I've never had a problem on a jailbroken iOS device that i couldn't resolve myself so honestly i can't comment, I'm not sure if they'd actually turn you down for support, because your device was jailbroken,i suppose it might depend on whether the jailbreak had actually been the cause of the issue..usually if I've had an issue on a jailbroken device it was because of some cydia tweak id recently installed, and uninstalling that tweak would solve the problem
im not sure on the android side, i think rooting generally voids the warranty if it trips the knox (well, that's for the samsung devices) about the nexus not sure

You're absolutely right it is just a marketing word, what i meant was that the apps are generally optimised for the resolution, before the introduction of the new iPad pro there was just the iPad retina resolution, (for both the mini and the normal one) , now that the iPad pro has been introduced i suppose there'll be a bit more fragmentation, but still consider that there are many many hundreds of different android devices developers have to cater for, it makes sense that iOS apps are generally more optimised for the devices, and this is my experience particularly with games apps and things tend to run at a rock solid 60fps on iOS devices and on android, a lot of the games I've played are capped to 30, and i just find apps are nicer on iOS and as if less effort has gone into the android siblings

Apple is fragmented just like Android is these days, if something is running at a firm 60fps on all devices then the resolution typically will be cropped to a standard across the board, it has to be to ensure consistency. Android is far from perfect because of exactly the same issue, some apps are optimised for certain devices, other aren't but its exactly the same in the PC market and has been for well over 20 years.

OMG... I try to stay out of these back and forth meaningless debates but some comments are too astonishing to ignore. Would you care to explain to all parties interested what the word "fragmented" means in the context of the proliferation of devices, Apple or otherwise? Then, once you've explained what the word means to you, kindly explain how having "1 previous-generation and 2 current-generation devices ALL running on the same (latest) OS" for sale by the same manufacturer represents fragmentation.

I'm not of the mindset that either iOS or Android is better than the other for everyone but certainly even the most obstinate person obsessed with arguing the virtues of a platform would not call iOS "fragmented" in the same context that the word is often used to refer to the plethora of Android devices.

I can see that as someone else wrote earlier, there seems to be a trend with your posts. If you're going to engage in meaningless debates, at least be sensible; don't pull malformed rabbit arguments out of a hat!

Who cares if it's fragmented anyway... As Long as my device is up to date I'm not fussed.

Meaningless? Think you need a name change fella as its clear you know jack about Tech! Just because something is running the same OS as another model by the manufacturer doesn't mean it's the same! Apple also has a habit of dropping things from OS's on older models due to 'technical' reasons (read marketing). Fragmentation is different processors, screen sizes, screen resolutions, available ram etc, it has next to jack all to to with which version of OS is currently available!

It wouldn't matter if a Nexus 9 was running KitKat, Lollipop or Marshmallow, the apps still work and perform pretty much the same bar any optimisation within the OS which is usually minimal anyway, the fragmentation is the 4:3 nature of what is pretty much a 2k screen next to a 16:9 1080p screen the next device the App is on, is it Dual, Quad, Octo core, 1,2,3 or 4gb of ram and so on and so forth.

Apple hardware is fragmented, thats fact so get over yourself!

Ipad 2 probably only has a shelf life of another year or so before Apple's IOS upgrades will slow it down, whereas the N9 will get another 2, or even 3, years Android upgrades.

Apple's customer service is only of any real benefit if you've a 2 warranty otherwise it's fairly meaningless, unless you need somebody to explain how to restore your iPad etc.

What's slightly irritating about Android OS fragmentation is device manufacturers ignore older devices for no good reason, my Samsung Galaxy Pro Tab 8.4 is stuck on KitKat when it could easily be upgraded to Lollipop and Marshmallow, Google should really insist anybody producing an Android device gives their customers at least two OS upgrades. Although Nexus devices of course don't have this problem.

Even Nexus devices are only guaranteed to be supported for 2 years, Googles own admission - after that it's hit and miss if they will get another update. People get so hit up about not getting the latest version but the facts are that anything that got updated beyond Gingerbread is still able to run the vast majority of apps and if jellybean pretty much 100%.

Can't think of any major that hasn't supported devices through at least 2 updates where the device was able to handle them, it might have taken a year like the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 13.3 I'm typing this on but it happens.

This is what happens when people who like to spout technical digits have zero business acumen or common sense.

For your information, the "fragmentation of Android" commonly refers to the proliferation of the vast number of Android devices, from a multitude of manufacturers and running on a wide variance of builds, mostly as a result of how updates are handled.

Here are just two links among many to enable you to educate yourself instead of inventing misinformation based on poor or no sensible analysis:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/05/this-is-what-android-fragmentation-looks-like-in-2015/#gref

http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/mobile-device-fragmentation

You will no doubt have another nonsense bovine-excrement response so just to forewarn you, I will steel myself and refrain from responding, knowing that arguing with edjuts is pointless.

Zero business success? I've ran 2 companies, sold one off and maintained the other for 13 years ya Muppet!

The only reason you can't continue is because you haven't a clue what you are talking about!

oh dear! I never thought that an electronic device will bring the "best" in so many! and I never thought that there is so many! gents, it's a tablet at that price, is it a good deal? vote hot! is it not? vote cold! simple!(s)

If I have a problem with my Nexus device I call Google from my armchair and they provide 24/7 support. If there's a device fault they send me a new device within 48 hours and give me 14 days to return my old one. Without paying for ridiculous "Apple care." Google even offered to replace Nexus 4 devices with faults, outside of warranty. Please beat that?

See my OP the Samsung Galaxy Pro Tab 8.4 hasn't had even one major update, it's stuck on KitKat which it's been on since I bought it around a year ago, I've missed out on both Lollipop & Marshmallow, meanwhile my wife's iPad mini is on it's 3rd(?) iOS update and still working OK so probably will make it to it's 4th update later this year.

Great service but who's going to pay £319 for a N9 direct from Google when you can pick up one for nearly half that elsewhere?

​Go into Apple shop round the corner,change faulty phone, 30mins topsThere I beat you,Sent from my Nexus 6 :stuck_out_tongue:

More often than not, those people haven't bricked anything. They just think they have because they don't know what they're doing and people like that shouldn't be trying to install root in the first place.

The vast majority of people have no need for root because android is an open platform anyway. I've been using android since 2012 and have never rooted a device yet whereas when I had iOS, I had to use jailbreak from day one onwards because the standard iOS is so crippled.

That's because Samsung are terrible at device support. Only their keynote S series of phones receive any long-term attention and they ignore everything else.

That's why I will never buy another Samsung phone again. I learned that lesson the hard way.

Yes it costs a lot more, but this nexus was £340 at launch. But the Surface a poor tablet experience? I think not... More ports, dedicated USB so you can charge and watch films/tv from external storage and a kickstand which is also perfect for that... And even the Pixel C doesn't come close (£479.00 64gb), at least with the Surface you can do REAL work on it. e.g. Google Sketchup which is great for site visits.

Have you even used one with Windows10? If you don't have the keyboard attached it is ideal for tablet mode (from charms bar) and Microsoft Edge works very well with the surface, chrome is crap on it though as expected... Ok you miss apps.. but many are just novelties that you launch no more than a couple of times, plus you can have amiduos for android... So yeah, I know which one I would prefer.

I tried a Windows 10 tablet for a few months last year and couldn't do it. Some of the additional functionality is nice but Windows isn't suited to a touch screen UX at all IMHO.

I did actually get one at lakeside it was shoved in a clearance bin

This was always an online deal only?

Is this deal still on? Are they exdisplay models?

Agreed. Has nobody heard of the cloud these days? I really don't get it... All of my photos and music are on the cloud. The only things I might store on it are a movie or 2 for long flights (4gb tops?) And apps. If you end up installing 16gb of apps you probably need to considering organising your apps a bit better.

i believe they still have 1 or 2 at the Wednesbury store ;-)