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this video was brought to you by NCI X great technology selections and service so New York is a wonderful place to visit for the drinks and for the foods with the busy busy streets and an urban experience like no other and one word it is unique and to complement this unique environment Nvidia invited us for the debrief on something they've been cooking for the mobile community the Tegra note 7 and particularly the shield have provided an interesting take on Android gaming and integration of PC gaming that fast became one of the coolest ways to casually play PC games off your couch and today they are announcing the shield tablet featuring many interesting implementations for gaming but NVIDIA has made sure to cover all the grounds with regards to this being an appropriate tablet experience first and by their words it's a tablet first and a gaming device after all so don't underestimate the power of this thing as it is quite capable pricing is $2.99 for the 16 gigabyte plus Wi-Fi model and $100 premium for the double the capacity and LTE support which is extremely competitive in our opinion the shield tablet features a gorgeous 8 inch IPS display with 1920 by 1200 resolution stare your front-facing speakers with nice aluminum housing something that has carried over from the Tegra note 7 the speakers are very detailed with the sub-base boosters on each side for more full range like representation and from what we've heard they are outstanding a 5 megapixel camera is both at the front and at the rear why not the rear cover is slightly rubberized with a shield text embedded that has a very anti slip surface that I found satisfactory for handling and the 8 inch 4 factor isn't anything new and the curvature of the frame feels comfortable to hold nothing unusual stood out on the right there's a power button and the volume rocker with tactile response micro SD card slot for expandable storage I know all further down is a sim slot for the LTE version it also features mini HDMI out micro USB headphone jack and the magnetic insert for the optional case that's low profile unlocks the screen when opened and allows different orientation of the shield tablet there's also a passive stylus included no need for batteries with accurate pressure recognition palm rejection and pretty interesting implementation with the hardware that allows real-time simulation of oil painting or watercolor something that we'll cover in the full of you to come and now onto the best part it is the hardware it's rocking NVIDIA k1 this is a quad core SOC with 192 CUDA cores and so the interesting part behind the k1 is its rockin Kevlar architecture same as found on the Nvidia Titan or many many enthusiasts desktop GPUs and with this power the shield tablet is fully capable and gaming ready with full OpenGL 4.0 support so running half-life 2 and portal that have been ported to Android with excellent high res textures and smooth frame rate we saw a live demo of Unreal Engine 4 being run on the tablet in real time with pretty impressive dynamic lighting particles and physics and to take advantage of all this horsepower is invidious new $59 Wi-Fi controller it's not bundled with the tablet as gaming is optional remember Nvidia designed this to be a proper tablet first this is not Bluetooth so latency factor is reduced by a factor of 2 X and supposedly improved battery life of the controller as well over Bluetooth 4 controllers can be connected to the shield tablet at the same time for some multiplayer and the tablet will ship with trine 2 that looks gorgeous and is actually a lot of fun the controller very much resembles the original shield controls with two joysticks directional pad buttons and triggers and shoulder buttons they've added capacitive controls in the center for Android navigation and the mic for voice commands and an actual volume rocker at the bottom it does have a built in battery rechargeable via a microUSB port and the headphone / mic input for audio and voice basically if you've held a shield in pass you'll be right at home with this controller and so the shield tablet with the controller would come in handy for game stream that allows you to stream a game off your Keppler powered computer as you set on your couch or just use the controller for simple Android gaming with the shield tablet propped up on stand it can also be used in console mode thanks to the HDMI out for either gaming or entertainment like Netflix HD and all you twitch lovers you can stream 720p without the performance hit very cool NVIDIA has always been great with Android updates the shield tablet launches with 4.4 KitKat running in a smooth as expected and we don't have any solid information on battery life so that will come in the full review and with the introduction of these new devices the shield family gets specific with the original shield now the shield portable as the shield tablet and the shield controller and through the marketplace and from the time you've spent with the controller / tablet combo we were very impressed it seems like the tablet side of things have been covered very well plus the gaming capabilities are also a huge bonus as it is a seamless integration of the shield ecosystem that is already seeing massive growth in the game easier but what do you guys think of the shield tablet from the gaming perspective and from the tablet form factor and is this something that tickles your gaming side or perhaps that's completely not what you'd ever use is always let us know in the comments below don't forget to subscribe to be notified when our full review of the shield tablet and shield controller comes out when we put it through the hardware conducts paces thanks for watching we'll see you in the next one