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.