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Google HTC Nexus 9 Android Tablet Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the Google Nexus 9 Android tablet (manufactured by HTC) and really likes what he finds. The Nexus 9 is a credible competitor to the dominant Apple iPad. But there's trouble in paradise too, as he finds when he checks out the HTC "Smart" Cover....
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hi dave taylor here again and this time
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i'm looking at a tablet
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now i know you're thinking oh an ipad
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and really ipad has really become
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synonymous with tablets but they
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shouldn't be apple has a really good
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product but there are some really
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amazing alternatives out there now and
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this is the nexus 9 this is from google
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although it's actually manufactured by
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htc
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you see it comes with a smart cover
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we'll get back to the smart cover later
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but the device itself let me unlock it
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and
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you can see here i don't know how well
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you can see the screen
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but let's go home
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you know this is running full android
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and
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it's incredibly fast so i have a variety
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of different ipads and you get used to
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the speed of ios and it's not a slow
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tablet operating system but this version
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of android 5.0 running on this very high
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powered nexus tablet really makes me
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realize what i'm missing this thing is
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just lightning fast i mean you can see
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here i'll open an app and it opens right
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up it's done it's ready to roll and in
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terms of specs well let's see so i got
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them all written down here because
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there's a lot so it runs at qx ga
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resolution where they come up with these
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acronyms i have absolutely no idea but
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that means it's double hd so this is
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running at 2048
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by 1536 pixels
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now you'll remember
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that hdtv is 1080p which means that it's
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1080 pixels so this is basically
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double hd which means that things like
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photos and video look beautiful on it
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it's also running an nvidia tegra k1
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processor at 2.3 gigahertz and that's
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really where the performance and speed
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comes from and nvidia also is not um
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without its experience with doing video
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and it certainly has powered a lot of
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display cards on pcs for a long time
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let's see has a 1.6 megapixel forward
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facing camera for those ever important
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selfies and an 8 megapixel rear facing
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camera
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for everything else that you would take
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a photo of
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it's an actually an 8.9 inch display i
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think that's important disclosure uh
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when we're talking about it being a
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nexus 9
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so technically it's not exactly 9 inches
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but you know
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we'll cut them slack for that point one
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inch difference on the diagonal
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and it comes it weighs in at a little
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less than a pound it's 0.96 pounds
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now to be fair
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it is heavier and thicker than my
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experiences with the ipad now i haven't
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weighed them against each other directly
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but it feels substantial so
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the good news is that it's really fast
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and so i think that it's really worth it
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and it's less expensive than an ipad and
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that's nice too and it's running android
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which means that you have access to a
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whole different world a whole different
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ecosystem but speaking of ecosystems one
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of the problems is that the ipad is such
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a dominant tablet that there are tons of
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companies making tons of great covers
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and keyboards and screen protectors and
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all sorts of stuff there's a whole world
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of accessories out there when you get
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into these other brands like the htc
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nexus there's not so much out there so
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when htc came out with their smart cover
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i said well i got to get one of these
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and you can see it's one of these where
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it has the different folds so you can do
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it different ways to get it to stand up
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and such and that's really cool
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unfortunately the nexus design team or
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the perhaps htc cover design team
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whatever didn't really study the
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ipad cover well enough because this
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actually drives me crazy and you can see
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the problem here if you look real close
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because the cover bends
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it works with a magnet but it it doesn't
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actually stick back
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and you can reverse it you can go either
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way which is nice then you get some nice
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colors
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but in one orientation everything's nice
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and snug and all the corners are snug on
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the screen but you turn it the other way
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and you get this sort of wobbly effect
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even more bizarre is that there's no
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hinge so it's really just sort of like a
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face cover which means when you go to
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open it
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you have to have this sort of tricky
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maneuver to get it to not fall off
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so
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i really like the tablet it's 399 for 16
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gig and 479 for 32 gig you can go check
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it out at amazon.com and they have tons
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and tons of super positive reviews
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but the cover 45 bucks for the htc nexus
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9 smart cover
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i think they need another generation of
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this i don't think they got this one
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right so this is dave taylor saying the
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cover
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not so much but the tablet this is a
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keeper the google htc nexus 9. i say
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before you go buy an ipad check this one
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out
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you
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