Nvidia on Thursday issued an over-the-air software update to its Tegra Note 7 tablet, adding new stylus and camera features as well as upgrading the device to Google's Android 4.3 mobile operating system.
The upgrade adds support for left-handed users of the 7-inch tablet's stylus input device, Nvidia saidof the "first significant software update" for its self-branded Tegra Note 7, released last month and currently made for the company by EVGA, Advent, Gigabyte, Shenzhen Homecare Technology, Zotac, and Xolo.
The Tegra Note 7 features a 1,280-by-800 resolution touch-screen display, a rubber-tipped stylus that fits into a slot on the side, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, support for Bluetooth 4.0 LE and GPS, and comes in at 7.88-by-4.75-by-0.3 inches (HWD) and 12.3 ounces.
The tablet also makes use of Nvidia's DirectStylus technology baked into the 1.9GHz Tegra 4 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) that powers it. More new capabilities to the input device added in the software update include a new stylus help option in the device's settings menu, notifications for when the stylus is removed or inserted back in its housing, and the ability to capture the notification bar with full-screen capture.
With the update, the Tegra Note 7's camera now "gets always-on high-dynamic range (AOHDR) capability, which provides more lifelike images across a range of lighting conditions," Nvidia said. That improvement and things like the addition of video stabilization for shaky video captures take advantage of "Tegra 4's processing power and Chimera computational photography architecture," the company said.
Meanwhile, the Tegra Note 7 isn't the first Nvidia-branded device to get the upgrade to Android 4.3. In October, the company also updated its Shield handheld gaming system with the last major version of Google's Jelly Bean platform.
Android 4.3 (actually the minor 4.3.1 bug-fixing update from October) marked the end of the line for"Jelly Bean. Now rolling out to devices everywhere is Android 4.4 KitKat.
For more, see our full review of EVGA's Tegra Note 7 as well as the slideshow above.
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