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Nvidia Shield Tablet

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Nvidia's Shield Tablet is an Android tablet aimed at gaming. This is Nvidia's 2nd Android portable gaming device, the first being the Shield Portable. This time around the controller is not permanently connected to the screen, rather they can be purchased separately. You can have up to four controllers wirelessly connected at the same time. While the Shield tablet features an 8inch 1900x1200 pixel display, it can output 4K resolution to a television via HDMI.[1]It is powered by an Nvidia Tegra K1 processor and has stereo front facing speakers. There's a 16GB WiFi-only model and a 32GB LTE model. There are front and back facing 5 megapixel HDR camera's. It weights 390 grams and is 221 x 126 x 9.2 mm in size.[2][3]

Connectivity / slots

  • Headphone jack
  • Micro USB
  • Mini HDMI 1.4a
  • Slot for the stylus that makes use of Nvidia's GPU accelerated DirectStylus 2 technology
  • Micro SD card slot

Wireless

  • 802.11n 2x2 Mimo 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth 4.0 LE
  • GPS / GLONASS
  • SIM card slot for the 32GB / LTE model with LTE, HSPA+, 3G, 2G, GSM and EDGE connection.

References

  1. ^ ""Nvidia Shield Tablet Preview"". CNET. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Nvidia's Shield Tablet Makes a Good First Impression". Gamespot. Gamespot. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Nvidia shield microsite". Nvidia shield microsite. Nvidia. Retrieved 23 July 2014.