Re: Best Buy In-Store?
I didn't preorder, because I wanted to get a hands-on demo before pulling the trigger. I was out in Oklahoma City visiting family over the weekend and flew back late yesterday, so I checked inventory at the closest Best Buy (Oklahoma City West, Store 1419) and got there when they opened.
Abraham helped me out, and managed to locate their stock of Nexus 9s buried in the back (two each of 16GB and 32GB, Black Wi-Fi), AND he got permission from a manager to open up one of the units for a test drive since they didn't have any display units. Even though I told him I'd be buying a 32GB if I bought one, he opened a 16GB so I could walk out of the store with an unopened box.
It didn't take long for me to be sold. The tablet is gorgeous hardware-wise: slim, sturdy, light. The screen is beautiful, and the sound is rich and full. We put it through its paces and talked geek stuff. Abraham was pretty blown away by it, and I think he was looking forward to selling more of them.
Before my flight, I downloaded Compendium 2 of The Walking Dead on Play Books and my playlist of choice on Play Music All Access. I was pretty easily able to read TWD in landscape/two-page mode, and the sound quality through my headphones was fantastic. In addition, Google Now is great in Lollipop in two-column mode, and the new Lollipop calendar is gorgeous.
Yeah, lots of superlatives here, but I am a very happy customer. I haven't yet found one single thing that's less than great. To me, the black bars on widescreen video are a non-issue -- the viewable area is still as big as or bigger than the entire screen of my Nexus 7, and my main use case on the Nexus 9 is for reading and browsing, anyway.
HTC and Google killed it with this one. And Abraham at Best Buy Store 1419 in OKC is the man!
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