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Release

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. HP has rebranded the Tegra Note 7 as the HP Slate 7 Extreme.

Features

The Note 7 uses a 1.8 GHz quad-core

chipset with 1 GB of RAM; Nvidia claims that the chipset and other improvements make it the fastest 7-inch tablet on the market offering 50% faster browsing experience than tablets twice the price. Notable features of the device include enhanced

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"DirectStylus" technology that is three times more responsive, premium Tegra 4 audio processing with PureAudio, and world's first HDR camera in a tablet with Nvidia Chimera computational photography. The 1280×800 display use Nvidia PRISM 2 display processing, which modulates the display backlight and per-pixel color values to extend battery life 40% for up to 10 hours of HD video playback.

Software updates

Nvidia released Tegra Note 7 System Update 3.0 (Android 5.1) on July 23, 2015.

References

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Release

Features

Software updates

See also

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