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NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored
MojoKid writes Last week, NVIDIA offered information regarding its Android Lollipop update for the SHIELD Tablet and also revealed a new game bundle for it. This week, NVIDIA gave members of the press early access to the Lollipop update and it will also be rolling out to the general public sometime later today. Some of the changes are subtle, but others are more significant and definitely give the tablet a different look and feel over the original Android KitKat release. Android Lollipop introduces a new "material design" that further flattens out the look of the OS. Google seems to have taken a more minimalist approach as everything from the keyboard to the settings menus have been cleaned up considerably. Many parts of the interface don't have any markings except for the absolute necessities. While the OS definitely feels more fluid and responsive, the default look isn't always better, depending on your personal view. The app tray for example has a plain, white background which looks kind of jarring if you've using a colorful background. And finding the proper touch points for things like a settings menu or clearing notifications isn't always clear. Performance-wise, NVIDIA's Shield Tablet showed significantly better performance on Lollipop for general compute tasks in benchmarks like Mobile XPRT but lagged behind Kit Kat in graphics performance slightly, which could be attributed to driver optimization.
In the CM11 themes you can apply the Lollipop theme and pretty much make the whole phone take on the biggest changes of Lollipop without effort.
Plus the new apps are already rolling out so you can have it all today instead of waiting for February to get CM12
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I don't care if we're talking about Microsoft, Apple, Android or someone else. These flat, over-simplied GUIs are making things less intuitive and harder to use.
Don't hide scrollbars because they're ugly, they're there to tell us something can scroll (ex: horizontal scrolling in the iTunes Store). The fact that I need to have my mouse cursor over the area to see it can be scrolled if a failure in user interaction.
Stop with the over-simplified icons that don't mean anything, the lack of button borders that prevents me from knowing the area I can touch to push that button (ex: iOS 8).
Stop with the GUI elements that looks like a blur on regular monitors, the pastel-color-coded shit in 16x16 pixels icons that requires 20/20 vision and absolutely zero color blindness to discern between them all (ex: Finder tags).
The list goes on and on. Hardware people have no business designing user interfaces.
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PC gamers hate joysticks. Mice, better performance, and mods are the only reason that PC gamers play PC games. Say goodbye to your mouse, goodbye to desktop-level performance (and screen size), and I bet the shield doesn't support game mods very well. So that's 3 for 3. I really don't care about performance numbers on a product that nobody wants and nobody will buy.
Is it a name or an acronym, an adjective or a noun - or maybe a verb. Who the fuck knows. Is it SHIELD or Shield? Is it made by NVIDIA (And should get a possessive 's)? Do we need to know that NVIDIA is the maker at all, or is it important that the Shield (or SHIELD) is the particular tablet (do we need to know it's a tablet?) that you've benchmarked. Should we know what is happening (performance explored - or was it just a benchmark?) and then find out it was under a particular release. And why Lollipop - aren't we past codenames now to understand that this is the official Android 5.0 (pre)release?
If you're going for obscure and useless, you guys are nailing these headlines. Why not take the next step and just pick 8 random words from the summary and post those in any order?
(ob: now get off my lawn)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I am wondering, and cannot seem to find anywhere, if the Nook Tab 4 will be receiving Lollipop. Anyone?
SHIELD needs their own tablet?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It is funny with all these new operating systems supposed to be faster on the old devices; yet less and less of these old devices can actually run them.
These reviews claiming otherwise are pure marketing.
OS improvements usually come with a different cost: new bloat. Hence at some point your old hardware will not work good enough with the new OS. Or whoever made the hardware has no desire to support the new OS once they have sold you the device.
It is more obvious with Apple devices, although that can be attributed to a desire to force millions of devices becoming obsolete, so that new can be sold.
Another truth is that some tablets with Tegra chipsets newer ran any Android well enough as CPU performance was bad, so no OS can fix that. no matter how many ROMs you try, overclocking, etc.
Does anyone here actually like to wait for the OS to show a stupid animation instead of it going directly to the app?
I just can't take this name seriously. Everyone sounds like a complete idiot talking about their "Android Lollipop." Or, they sound like they are sucking off robots. Which, in retrospect, they're coming quite figuratively close to.
"NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored"
This headline has meaning for many of the people reading it on this website, but imagine the average non-technical person trying to parse this.