NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1 - An interesting Android 6.0 tablet

I am testing NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1 right now, a tablet that I brought for my friend as a Christmas gift.  I brought her a Nexus 7 gen 1 before and the tablet really showed it's age.  After testing K1 for a while, I am pretty confident that she will enjoy this new tablet.

In fact, it's so good that makes wonder: should I get one for myself too?

Here's what I like about it:

• Relative low price for a powerful tablet (16Gb for US$199)
• Good screen and speaker
• Runs Android 6.0
• Support OTG USB

However, here's the problems:

• 16Gb memory is a bit lower, and supporting installing apps on microSD  in Android 6.0 is still not perfect.
• There is no spring ejection mechanism to reject out microSD card.  I need to use a flat head screw driver to drag the microSD card out of the slot.
• A bit slower than my iPad Air 2
• The device seemed a bit heavier than I expected.  At least it's heavier than iPad Mini.

The microSD support is an interesting thing, as I found that sometimes after moving apps to microSD card, you need to reboot the machine to make those apps to work properly.  Experienced that with Asphalt 8.  However, there are more apps that does NOT work on microSD card.

Apps that failed on microSD:

• Google Docs
• Google Sheets
• Google Slides
• Puzzle And Dragon

Apps that works on microSD:

• Asphalt 8

That means I can't really treat microSD as internal memory.  Thus, internal memory size does matter.

Mostly importantly, I already have iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, Nexus 5 and Spectre x360.  I don't really need another Android tablet.

So at the end, nope, I am not getting an additional one for myself.

Finally make my Windows 8.1 OS sees my Nexus 5

For a long while, when I plugged my Nexus 5 to my Dell XPS quad core desktop computer, I did NOT see the device content, and when I developed with both Android Studio and Eclipse, I did NOT see my Nexus 5 shows up as one of the deploy-able device.  That really irritated me, but somehow I didn't have time to resolve that problem, until NOW.

I found this link that talk about the problem I was having, I followed everything EXCEPT that I didn't see "MTP USB Device", but another "XXXXXX USB Device" beside the WRONG ACER ADB INTERFACE.  So I picked that another one, and now the device shows up on Windows Explorer, and Andorid Studio sees the device.  Interesting though, when I connect the Nexus 5 to the desktop, I still see the name "ACER Device - ACER Composite ADB Interface".  But heck, as long as I can continue to develop, I am good.

BTW, didn't use the Google USB Driver.  Kind of strange.

Also, while copying files to the device is fine, DELETE seems to have problem. Odd.