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I've been having a pretty fun weekend primarily because I've been watching or rather binge watching a couple shows on Netflix and playing quite a few games from the Play Store to catch up on my android gaming but what makes it so enjoyable this weekend is what I have been using in order to perform all those tasks and I'm here to show you my first impressions on it hey it's Josh regards manager or authority what's going on everybody and here are my first impressions on the Nvidia shield tablet now first things first I do have a bit of a disclaimer for you yes there is a shield wireless controller that you more or less are supposed to use with this tablet as it is perfectly optimized for the PC games that you might be streaming to here as well as plenty of the games that are available in the Tegra Store for your gaming pleasure unfortunately we don't have our hands on that particular controller yet primarily because it is backordered or otherwise sold out across the internets and we have to wait for it to be available before we can get our hands on it but we are working on that and I will have a follow-up on the controller itself and the experience of gaming on this tablet when using it in the future unboxing the tablet was pretty much a basic affair you pretty much just open the box itself there's the tablet and underneath you have a charger a USB cable and one booklets you don't really get a whole lot in here unless you do get the bundle that comes with the controller which does come in a separate box but nonetheless you have the tablet right here as far as Hardware goes it is a very good-looking tablet to be honest I do love minimalistic designs and this one takes from a little bit of inspiration from the Nexus 7 primarily looking at the shield logo on the back because it is in landscape mode and I really think this is a wonderful look with the soft touch plastic on the back that does get a little bit smudged but it's not that unattractive when it is a little bit dirty thankfully when compared to glossy plastic as far as the weight of the actual device goes there is definitely some heft to this tablet you have a sizable bezel around the screen it's not that unattractive we would definitely prefer smaller bezels all around but it's not necessarily that big of a deal especially when you consider that there are front-facing speakers on there for a good audio experience and as far speakers go you have speakers coming out the wazoo on this thing you have the front-facing speakers then you have ones on the sides and then you even have a couple of holes on the bottom that allow for some of the sound leaking to come out also to really provide for a immersive experience a stylus is actually available as well on here and the stylus is a bit of a peculiar thing because while it is nestled nicely on the top right of the tablet when you take it out you'll notice that the tip is not just a rounded tip it has a bit of a brush designed to it that does make it quite pleasant to use it's a little bit different from other styluses out there but the reason why that brush is there is if you're going to use the Nvidia dabbler application that will allow you to draw on the fly but the stylus for the most part works about a standard as you would expect it and it is pretty comfortable in the hand along that same area where you have the stylus is the button layouts with the power button and the volume rockers I do feel that they are a little bit squishy but they do get the job done and right next to those buttons is a micro SD card slot to bolster the at least 16 gigabytes of capacity that I have on this version of the tablets once you power on the display though you'll see that it's mostly a standard affair the display is an 8 inch 1080p full HD display that does pretty decent color reproduction but all in all there isn't really anything particularly special about it but it's when you get underneath the surface of that display that you find what those defining features are after all the Nvidia shield tablet is the follow up to last year's Nvidia shield which gave you a new way of playing Android games with a peripheral that had a controller built in but this time they brought it to a tablet form factor which I think does make a lot more sense for plenty of Android users out there I've already had trying to pre-installed on here it comes pre-installed on the Nvidia shield tablet but then after that I've already installed a bunch of games and the ones that I've played already up until now other than trying to our Riptide gp2 and I did fire up GTA san andreas already for a little bit of fun I also will have dead trigger 2 anomaly 2 and GTR racing 2 available and I'm going to be using those as a basis for a couple of videos so you can see the performance on this tablet up until I do my full review I have had no issues with slowed down especially when gaming by getting through the stock Android build of KitKat 4.4.2 one here has been a breeze as well the Tegra k1 is really doing its job quite well thus far and I have had no issues really getting the native applications and games to run smoothly on it game streaming is something we're going to take a look at a little bit later on especially after we get that controller because it is what is needed in order for a fully optimized experience when streaming games from your in my case a laptop or from your desktop computer that has an Nvidia card built-in but other than that I have also watched quite a few episodes of orange is the new black in particular great show and of course it's on Netflix I actually didn't feel like I wanted to turn off the tabla and just watch the show on a TV with a louder speaker on there either because the speaker setup on here did a good job of keeping the immersed into the media I really felt like once I got into the episodes I had no reason I could find no reason to really turn it off and look for a different way of watching those episodes I was able to go through about a quarter of a season already and yes the battery life did get done pretty low at that point but my full battery life testing will of course be saved for my full review so I want you to keep it tuned to Android authority for the future coverage of this the Nvidia shield tablet including maybe one or two videos of me just playing games on it we will do some benchmarks which you will be able to see in the full review and also on Android authority comm but until the full review make sure you stay tuned he refer to the other videos and for also videos from my colleagues in Android Joe Jace Kevin the tech ninja and of course lon and from there you can also subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and to drop us likes in our videos because we'd love to see thumbs up on every video from there once you're done head on over to Android Authority calm for even more in-depth coverage because we are your source for all things Android