Nvdia Shield Prototype with specs

[Shreyas1]

35 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Can Nvidia make a Shield phone with a Tegra Z1 (or whatever the successor to X1 will be)?

A gaming phone? 

[LAwLz]

4 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

This is mostly because they Tegra chips were/are expensive compared to the competition.

Source?

I haven't been able to find prices for any new Tegra chip.

 

(Please note that the developer kit is NOT the price of an individual chip).

 

 

1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

AOSP pushes better versions of the major Android versions than Google does.

Ehm... AOSP is developed by Google. AOSP is the major Android versions.

Also, if you think Google should step aside and let OEMs run Android, or that Google hasn't played a role in the success of Android then you clearly don't understand how open source projects work. Google has played a tremendously important role.

[Zodiark1593]

21 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

A gaming phone? 

Well, that, and something reasonably priced that actually gets regular updates.

[S w a t s o n]

1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

No, they aren't. They're no closer to stock than they were years ago.

 

Who was once owned by Google, and isn't known for making anything exceptional. They're passable mid tier phones. Congrats, Motorola, you're good enough to pass for average.

 

 

You're just wrong about point 1.  As for point 2. That's your opinion on Moto, they make some of the BEST mid range phones, which I argue is harder than throwing all your money at a solution and the older Moto Xs was a pretty good flagship back in the day.

[AlTech]

9 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

I think Nvidia canceled all plans for Switch portable system due to Nintendo.

* Shield

9 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

The whole point of the Shield systems was to sale Tegra chips, as very few manufactures were interested in as they were no demand for it by manufactures. This is mostly because they Tegra chips were/are expensive compared to the competition. The full actual GPU is not good enough interest point to even consumers, as Android games runs on a verity of system and are coded to the limited OpenGL support the mobile chips on the market had.

 

Now that the Nintendo Switch has Tegra chip, but the system sales like hot cakes, Might still have a Shield TV at some point (probably showcasing Nvidia latest Tegra chip when it will come out... well a consumer variant instead of a car version)

 

Sad to see it still had 3GB of RAM. Good thing the Switch is 4GB.

Allegedly, the Switch was only supposed to have 2GB but companies like Konami and Capcom got angry and told Nintendo they needed 4Gb.

[captain_to_fire]

6 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Can Nvidia make a Shield phone with a Tegra Z1 (or whatever the successor to X1 will be)?

NVIDIA shield phone with 5.7" display, 4 GB of RAM, etc for a price of $1300. ?

[Drak3]

5 hours ago, LAwLz said:

AOSP is developed by Google. AOSP is the major Android versions.

No, it isn't. Android Open Source Project is the collective sum of developers working on Android that is not explicitly working for the benefit of Google's Android. AndroidIA, Android x86, Remix OS, LinageOS/Cyanogen Mod. None of them serve to uphold Google's vision of Android in any way, they serve to adapt Android to the needs and wants of users that fall outside of Google's Android.

 

5 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Google has played a tremendously important role.

Google's little more than the financial backer to a project that doesn't need an organization just to back the software. And only because they bought out Android Inc. in 2005.

 

Google's "tremendously important" role was signing a check. OEMs are far more responsible for Android's success.

 

5 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Also, if you think Google should step aside and let OEMs run Android, or that Google hasn't played a role in the success of Android then you clearly don't understand how open source projects work.

Governing organization cultivates the submitted work of individual developers, and providing all source code of the operating system and required services so that a user may change it based on their own needs and improvements they can offer.

 

Whereas Google's Android is a mixed source project. Not every component of their version of Android is actually open to the public to edit and change for their needs.

[Curufinwe_wins]

An updated shield tv with the x2 or future replacement would be sick.

[LAwLz]

7 hours ago, Drak3 said:

No, it isn't. Android Open Source Project is the collective sum of developers working on Android that is not explicitly working for the benefit of Google's Android. AndroidIA, Android x86, Remix OS, LinageOS/Cyanogen Mod. None of them serve to uphold Google's vision of Android in any way, they serve to adapt Android to the needs and wants of users that fall outside of Google's Android.

 

No... You don't know what AOSP is.

CyanogenMod, LineageOS, Remix OS... None of those are AOSP.

 

AOSP is Android. It's the code Google puts out for developers to create their own distros from.

Other people and companies contribute to AOSP too, but Google is the owner and maintainer of AOSP.

 

There is no such thing as "Google's Android" because Android (yes, that means AOSP) is Google's Android.

 

 

7 hours ago, Drak3 said:

Google's little more than the financial backer to a project that doesn't need an organization just to back the software. And only because they bought out Android Inc. in 2005.

 

Google's "tremendously important" role was signing a check. OEMs are far more responsible for Android's success.

 

You can't be for real. Have you even looked at the source code or are these things you are just grabbing out of thin air because you want them to be true?

I would like a source on your claims if you aren't just making stuff up.

 

By the way, even IF (big if) most of the code was not written by Google, they are still the maintainers of the project and have to approve all code submissions which makes it into the final builds.

 

7 hours ago, Drak3 said:

Whereas Google's Android is a mixed source project. Not every component of their version of Android is actually open to the public to edit and change for their needs.

"Their version of Android", again with this false belief that AOSP is one thing, and "Google's Android" is another thing.

What you are referring to as "Google's Android" is AOSP with a few preinstalled apps and libraries (which can be found in the play store). That's it.

[DexterSmythe]

23 hours ago, Shreyas1 said:

IMO the only reason the shield exists in the first place is for emulation, android games, and streaming pc games. There really shouldn't be a more powerful version.

Plus Indie games.