Testseek.com have collected 345 expert reviews of the NVIDIA Shield Tablet 8 inch and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for NVIDIA Shield Tablet 8 inch.
July 2014
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Solid guts with great GPU
PC streaming has virtually no lag
Access to full Google Play
Fastest Android tablet on the market
Comfortable to hold for long periods
Gaming on a TV at home or away is incredible
Blazing fast. Tegra K1 is an extremely powerful processor
And SHIELD Tablet takes full advantage of it. No lag. No slowdown. No stutter. Just pure speed
All the time
Fantastic form factor. I may be a little biased here
But eight inches is my favorite
Stellar gaming specs for the price
Stylus option adds surprisingly solid sketch and handwriting options to vanilla Android
Bright
Sharp screen matched with solid speaker-subwoofer combo
Built-in Twitch streaming functionality is first of its kind for
Beefy hardware
Very good battery life
Plenty of potential for tinkerers and itinerant gamers
The Nvidia Shield Android TV streaming box offers best-in-class hardware
Connectivity and gaming capabilities. It works with 4K streaming services including Netflix and YouTube. The Android TV platform delivers good conversational voice search from the i
Excellent game controller
Extremely fast Tegra 4
Long battery life
PC Streaming of games
Offers a fully immersive gaming experience on the go
Has all of the buttons a gamer could want
Streams PC gamesif you have the right NVIDIA GPU
Excellent battery life
Sound quality
And display
Substantive-feeling hardware
Lovely screen
Plenty of potential
Great Performance
Lots of Fun
Pure Android
Good Build Quality
Stream Games From a PC
Comfortable gamepad with powerful Gamepad Mapper feature. Excellent build quality. Very fast for an Android device. Lots of connection and storage options. Local PC game streaming works well.
Blistering overall and graphical performance
Tight
Springy controls
Fairly customizable
Loud
Full audio
Sleek
Clean design
Beautiful display with vivid color
Excellent graphics and overall performance
Can stream Android and PC games
Controller offers tight
Accurate controls with low latency for Android and PC
Game streaming and Grid cloud gaming are great uniquely great fun and cutting edge. Very fast tablet
Clean Android OS
Nice full HD display
Front-facing stereo speakers
The Nvidia Shield Tablet packs a lot of graphics punch with a new Tegra K1 processor. It has expandable microSD card storage
Runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and offers full access to Google Play app store. Its add-on wireless game controller enables connected
Abstract: The Nvidia Shield is meant to herald a new era in handheld gaming as well as Android gaming in general. Designed to feel like a console controller with a flip down screen. Nvidia has created something interesting here with its 5-inch 720p retina like touc...
Published: 2013-08-19, Author: Jen , review by: brighthand.com
Offers a fully immersive gaming experience on the go, Has all of the buttons a gamer could want, Streams PC gamesif you have the right NVIDIA GPU, Excellent battery life, sound quality, and display
Heavy, not as portable as other dedicated gaming devices, Regular Android games are playable only in portrait mode, Somewhat expensive considering its limitationsyou still need a phone to stay in touch, PC streaming requires very particular hardware
While a solid portable gaming device, the Nvidia Shield will only appeal to users with a very specific set of needs, as it has some serious limitations....
Substantive-feeling hardware, Long battery life, Lovely screen, Plenty of potential
Android ecosystem still feels lacking for games, PC game streaming can be balky, doesn't work with AMD or non-Kepler Nvidia graphics, Difficult to operate touch screen like a conventional phone or tablet
An impressive first-gen handheld gaming device, the Shield is more potential than payoff for now, held back by too few Android games and PC-game streaming that works only with late-model hardware. Even so, PC gamers with a recent Nvidia video card sh...
Excellent game controller, extremely fast Tegra 4, long battery life, PC Streaming of games
Heavy, 5" display feels cramped if you're used to tablet gaming, PC Streaming requirements are stiff. Ergonomics suited for gaming but not great for other tasks like reading ebooks
The NVIDIA Shield is one of the most unusual and intriguing mobile devices to cross our path. There's really nothing quite like it and it has serious geek gamer appeal. At $299 it's significantly cheaper than the iPad with Retina Display and top tier ...
Blistering overall and graphical performance, Tight, springy controls, Fairly customizable, Loud, full audio, Long battery life
Heavy and somewhat bulky design, Not a 1080p display, PC Streaming works with desktops only (for now) and only over local networks
The Nvidia Shield takes mobile gaming in an exciting new direction with a powerful Tegra 4 processor, a slew of high-quality games and the ability to wirelessly stream PC titles....
With the SHIELD portable gaming system, NVIDIA enters into a whole new business. However, it doesn't do it blindly and the company isn't trying to pick a fight with Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo. Instead, NVIDIA follows its usual strategy of finding a small...
Abstract: Keep your NVIDIA Shield safe and give it a new look with these official accessoriesTo go along with our review of Shield, we're also taking a look at a couple of accessories being released by NVIDIA. Today we're looking at the official custom carrying ...
Published: 2013-07-31, Author: Will , review by: pcmag.com
Comfortable gamepad with powerful Gamepad Mapper feature. Excellent build quality. Very fast for an Android device. Lots of connection and storage options. Local PC game streaming works well.
Expensive for a gaming handheld. PC game streaming is unreliable outside of home networks and requires specific GeForce hardware
The Nvidia Shield Portable is one of the most unique Android devices out there, combining a 5-inch tablet with physical game controls....
My time with NVIDIA's SHIELD has been more exciting and compelling than I had expected. The Tegra 4 SoC is powerful, and the gaming performance is truly impressive for such a small device. The build quality of every component of SHIELD is top notch incl...
