Nvidia Shield: shipped, praised, critiqued, dissected

Aug 05, 2013, 06:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Eric Brown)

Nvidia began shipping its Nvidia Shield handheld gaming console, which runs Android 4.2.1 on a 1.9GHz Tegra 4 SoC, for $300. Early reviews praised the device on just about every level except for its weight and price, and the lack of decent Tegra-optimized Android games, while an iFixit teardown found an internal design unlike anything it had ever seen.