Quote from: S.Yu on August 03, 2018, 10:41:52
"flagship-class specifications"...right...that'll hardly play a 4k video without lagging. My S6E, was already 14nm...The ancient processor will ruin the entire package.
Have to agree with you on that. The price is good, but I'd much rather add $50 and get a more current CPU. At least something A73-based, and preferably with four big cores to make some use of the increased thermal headroom of a tablet.
As I see it, what has killed the tablet market (outside of iPads, at least) is the fact that they're (often significantly) less powerful than the phones people already own. This makes absolutely no sense. Not only can tablets afford higher power draw due to more surface area for heat dissipation, but why would I want to go to the trouble of picking up another device if it's slower than the phone in my pocket? Sure, a bigger screen is better for a lot of things, but if it's slow and annoying, a smaller screen is less of an annoyance. I saw this with how my usage of my old Nexus 7 evolved. Sure, I bought it when it was more than a year old, but even owning a below-flagship level phone made it feel molasses-slow. I ended up using it only very occasionally, before not using it at all. It had a lot going for it, but the incentive to go pick up a second device (that I'd either have to leave in the charger constantly or risk it draining between uses; or switching it off, requiring a 1-ish minute startup time for each use) disappeared very, very quickly.