14 DAY TRIAL // The NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 has just been made available in some parts of Europe, including Germany, albeit the tablet was eligible for purchase in the US a few months before.
But a disquieting discovery has been made by a European user, reports TabTech. Even if so far the Tegra Note 7 has received encouraging reviews and seems to be a pretty worthy device overall, it appears the tablet comes with some pretty serious magnet issues.
According to the reports, the magnets used to hold the slate’s protective cover in place are so powerful they can damage mechanical hard drives and even hearing aids and heart peacemakers!
The user who noticed the problem in the first place reported placing his NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 on his notebook, only to find the hard drive no longer worked. Furthermore, we’re being told the magnets are strong enough to hold the tablet into place on a metallic surface.
So users who are using hearing aids or peacemakers should be very careful when using the NVIDIA Tegra Note 7. Usually tablets are recommended to be kept at least 15 cm / 5.9 inches distance from users, but since the magnets in the Tegra Note 7 are so powerful, owners of this particular tablet should increase the distance.
Be advised that other items might be damaged by the magnets, including magnetic cards, so you shouldn't transport the tablet near your wallet.
So bearing what we said in mind, you should be very careful where you place or store your NVIDIA Tegra Note 7, if you don’t want to end up with a defective hard-drive like our German user.
NVIDIA’s Tegra Note 7 tablet has been hailed as one of the best 7-inch tablets available on the market, but this new turn of events surely puts a damper on things. Perspective customers might now think twice when it comes to purchasing the slate.
The 7-inch tablet (1280 x 800 pixels resolution) comes equipped with NVIDIA’s latest Tegra 4 processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GPU. XOLO offers 16GB of memory (extendable to 64GB), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0.
The slate bundles a stylus that takes advantage of the DirectStylus technology and a cover that can be folded into a stand (hence the magnets embedded in the slate).
In recent times, NVIDIA has also announced an LTE version of the slate and talk about the chip-maker building a successor has already been leaked online.