“The Shield Tablet is a nice piece of electronics: it’s well-built and sturdy, it has a slick design, it’s got nice angles, it’s got a sharp screen, and it’s a good size at just over 8-inches. It’s a bit on the thick side, but that’s a measure of Shield Tablet running a cutting edge mobile chip and needing more battery power. We’re not talking Microsoft Surface levels of thickness — let’s not get crazy — but it’s thicker than an iPad Mini, for instance.
Speaking of the Surface, there’s a stylus included in the Shield Tablet package (dubbed “Directstylus 2”). While there are certainly applications for the stylus in terms of the tablet’s uses as a tablet, there are no gaming applications that use it. NVIDIA’s including a program called “Dabbler” for drawing images; we’re gonna go ahead and guess that the folks buying a gaming tablet will never use this functionality, but hopefully we’re wrong. It’s not that Dabbler isn’t neat — it’s totally fine, and hey, drawing is fun! — it’s that it’s incongruous with the rest of the package.”
SPECS:
- NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC
- 8-inch “Full HD” screen (1920 x 1200, IPS LCD display)
- Front-facing stereo speakers (think: HTC One)
- 5MP front-and-rear facing cameras
- Directstylus 2
- 16/32GB of internal storage, expandable to 128GB via microSD
- WiFI a/b/g/n, Optional LTE
- 19.75 Watt hour Lithium Ion battery
Source: Engadget
