CMetaphor
Quadfather
Reporting back like I said I would. And wow. Best Android experience I've ever had. The Maxwell GPU, eight cores and fast storage makes it an obvious improvement over the Shield K1.
Pros and Cons:
Shield K1 has better bass, forward facing speakers and the *correct* 16:9 aspect ratio. (So I'll be keeping it for video watching gladly).
The Pixel C is obviously better at games, brighter screen with higher resolution and loud soeakers...but it's much heavier and the form factor/ aspect ratio is some weird flight of fancy of a now (hopefully) unemployed engineer. It's pretty much pointless. 16:9 is better rotated for reading, better in landscape for watching things. I've yet to see anything use the pixel C's weird ratio properly. Yes, games fill the screen, but even after playing with icon and text sizes there is wasted space all over. There's really no reason why the pixel C is as big as it is, so I completely understand why Nintendo *didn't* use it for their Switch.
Shall I leave it there?
Pros and Cons:
Shield K1 has better bass, forward facing speakers and the *correct* 16:9 aspect ratio. (So I'll be keeping it for video watching gladly).
The Pixel C is obviously better at games, brighter screen with higher resolution and loud soeakers...but it's much heavier and the form factor/ aspect ratio is some weird flight of fancy of a now (hopefully) unemployed engineer. It's pretty much pointless. 16:9 is better rotated for reading, better in landscape for watching things. I've yet to see anything use the pixel C's weird ratio properly. Yes, games fill the screen, but even after playing with icon and text sizes there is wasted space all over. There's really no reason why the pixel C is as big as it is, so I completely understand why Nintendo *didn't* use it for their Switch.
Shall I leave it there?
The aspect ratio I remember being a "huh?!" moment from a lot of people when it originally launched.
