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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 SHIELD portable gaming handheld is one of the few products this year which took the tech world by storm. After NVIDIA's decades of focusing on designing graphics chips for the desktop, professional and mobile markets, its announcement came as a surpri...
Powerful enough to run highend games, Sleek design, Affordably priced
Performance will depend on quality of internet connection
Combined with Nvidia's updated Grid game streaming service, Shield could become one of the company's core products. Nvidia has every right to be proud of its five years of work....
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Published: 2014-10-02, Author: Sean , review by: gizmodo.com.au
Abstract: I just stepped into the future of gaming. Well, that's not quite correct. I sampled one possible future: the one where you can take the power of your entire gaming PC absolutely anywhere.This hands-on comes from our brethren at Gizmodo US. The Shield Tabl...
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Published: 2014-09-19, Author: Will , review by: au.pcmag.com
Powerful, Plenty of features, Attractive design
Interface performance needs improvement, Gamepad costs extra
Nvidia's gaming-oriented Shield Tablet is one of the first mobile devices to use the Tegra K1 CPU, and in sheer power it blows other tablets out of the water...
Published: 2014-08-30, Author: Scott , review by: cnet.com.au
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
Its plastic chassis feels a little cheap; there aren't many Android games that support the K1 graphics potential; the game controller required to play most games is sold separately
Even if you don't take advantage of its gaming prowess, the Nvidia Shield Tablet is one of the most versatile -- and affordable -- high-performance 8-inch Android slates you can buy....
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Published: 2014-07-30, Author: Eric , review by: gizmodo.com.au
Do you care about games? Like at all? Do you think you might in the future? Then yes. Yes! The Shield tab is not quite the best all-around tablet tablet out there (mainly because of battery life reasons, and also because it's a little hefty) but it's stil...
Published: 2013-07-31, Author: Eric , review by: cnet.com.au
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
It's more expensive than any other streamer and doesn't include a remote, aside from the game controller. Native app selection is still weaker than that of Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. The menu system seems designed to push users toward Google's med
The Nvidia Shield brings console-level quality to portable Android gaming, but it needs a higher quality list of compatible games before it can truly rival the Vita or 3DS....
Exceptional power, Great for gaming, PC streaming is excellent
Controller isn't included, Battery life is poor, Not many games push the hardware
Hardened gamers may be disappointed that NVIDIA has taken a step back from the handheld console concept with this tablet device, and not bundling the wireless controller as standard is a mistake. However, it's impossible to deny the incredible power con...
Exceptional power, Great for gaming, PC streaming is excellent
Controller isn't included, Battery life is poor, Not many games push the hardware
Hardened gamers may be disappointed that NVIDIA has taken a step back from the handheld console concept with this tablet device, and not bundling the wireless controller as standard is a mistake. However, it's impossible to deny the incredible power con...
