Gadgetory

hey everyone and welcome to another review by Jim's review room I have here the brand new portable gaming device beating the vidya shield now retails for 299 dollars and can be bought from any one of these following retailers now what's unique about this device is you're able to play android games now with the controller which gives you the player a totally different experience and you can utilize this as a portable pc rig as well no more on that later now this is primarily a gaming machine but has the functions and features nearly identical to a tablet with apps emails and entertainment now since this is new videos go around at a gaming device how does it work you know what are its features and is it better than the other portables out there right now we'll find out on this review from Jim's review alright folks what we're going to do is start the run down this is a new segment for me where I just run down the entire list of specifications for this particular product so the new video shield comes with the latest and greatest it comes with a new video Tegra 4 quad-core processor with two gigs of RAM on board now it comes with 16 gigs of storage space running on the latest stock Android jelly bean now there's no no video skins or overlays again this is a hundred percent stock Android now the screen size comes in at five inches with a resolution of 1280 by 720 now that translates to 296 pixels per inch now the video calls this there retinal display not retina but retinal the new videos shield has theater speakers with a built-in microphone on a controller mini HDMI output to connect to your TV or monitor micro USB 2.0 micro SD slot to expand your memory and a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack with microphone support now wireless connections include the 802 11 n connection to your router and Bluetooth 3.0 now the shield comes in at one point 27 pounds with measurements of six point two two inches wide two point two four inches tall and 5.31 inches deep so with all that being said the next section of review is how does it feel the device does feel very solid now when holding on to the shield it truly feels like a game controller and not necessarily like a portable gaming console now I like the other portables like the PlayStation Vita but the ergonomics is actually a bit better on the shield not great though but at least better however the nuance is to this item it's a bit bulky compared to let's say the PlayStation Vita or the 3ds now the button layout though as you can see resembles an Xbox controller with a few other additions like the integrated speaker which are pretty loud though but when I do play someone maximum value there is a slight distortion on the high notes or it's a little bit tinny um where it's a little bit high-pitched where it's droned out a little bit but again you always have your head important news though now on the back of the controller it does provide a rubber texture for extra grip which I liked and gaming on this thing for extended periods of time did feel natural and at ease now all the buns felt the hundred-percent top-notch including the trigger buttons and the shoulders all the other buns were very responsive just very good quality overall now regarding the screen I thought the 5-inch screen was actually small but it was actually perfect for gaming now in certain applications like Google Maps because of the smaller screen real estate it did make pinching in and out you know for zooming a little bit more difficult I just had just to get used to it but again I'll remind you this is first a gaming machine then a gaming machine with tablet features second though so overall it's somewhat bulky for a portable gaming device but for what you can do with it this thing has so much potential in power so what can this thing to do and what are its features so as you can see the new video shield functions identically like a tablet on Android with all your Android apps being accessible through google play now considering this thing has Tegra 4 it's the newest and most powerful moment from nvidia at the moment now this thing hauls this thing kicks but with everything that you throw at it it is lightning fast and there's times where it's faster than the second generation brand new Nexus 7 which I just did a review in my channel now one of my personal real-world tests is pretty primitive or pretty quick and easy is to see real-time loading from Google Earth and as you can see image loads either instantly or with minimal lag games function perfectly fine as well the only issue though there's a lack of games that support the handheld controller and there's games that lack the phone use of Tegra 4 of course this is completely new on the market today now the shield store is accessible when you click on your new video icon twice on the controller and here you can browse what games are specifically made for the shield or Tegra belt specific now popular games like dead trigger are great with the controller scheme but another awesome free game that i love is actually real racing 3 it doesn't utilize the joysticks or the buttons to break the vehicle change the view or at least steer the vehicle two joysticks that's not even a veil so I'm the limited available games only a handful of those games are actually worth really purchasing and playing too but with that being said the she'll definitely has the potential although it is scared to me if the shield floats that's great if if you know sinks if it slowly disappears and it's forgotten you know in the market you know it's unfortunate we just wasted three hundred dollars if it does great in sales it would open the android community further development of games they would just take advantage of these features and so going back to the screen here the screen itself being what new video calls their retinal display does feature 296 PBIS that's pixels per inch now again pixels per inch is the amount of detail in every one square inch on your screen the more you have the more densely packed the pixels are giving you more detail in every image so in this case 296 pixels per inch looks perfectly fine on the screen color saturation and contrast are within accuracy with skin tones and colors and everything looks generally looks normal and not washed out play netflix was fine and the image quality was good although the main screen for selecting the movie was not rotatable at times which i found little bit weird maybe it's a glitch on my end there so one of the last yet notable features i want to mention was the ability to play your games from your pc wirelessly now you do have at you have to have at least a new Vidya GT 650 graphics card and your main desktop to utilize this feature now / new video you have to have a compatible game as well you can go directly to new videos website and see the list of those games however i have seen folks that have been able to play games that are not on the list through steams big picture mode so that's of course you know worthy try if you can now unfortunately i do apologize though I personally don't own or have a GT 650 or higher so I personally am unable to demonstrate that for you but I'm certain there's other YouTube videos out there that can review this for you a little bit more in-depth than I came but with such an original and unique feature I still believe it will pretty much be niche now if I want to play the same battlefield 3 on my desktop computer and then for some reason I want to play my living room on my small Council here I don't think many people do that I mean that's just personal opinion I mean some people obviously would but I think mainstream general audience I would think playing am a big gaming rig you know with your keyboard with your precision mouse with your you know 19-inch 24-inch whatever monitor people going to go with that the thing is gonna be a really tough transition to play it on a 5-inch screen especially on a console controller I mean you guys had heard of the war you know consoles versus pcs except except no give in to that but again we said if people are you know hardcore gamers on the gaming rig I don't think that they would actually go towards the small handheld console on a daily basis that is um I think maybe it's in need of an emergency if they don't really want to play downstairs or if they really need to play on the living room chair but again that's just my opinion one less than my new thing here it's an important feature to me it was missing the swiping and texting message feature now I had to manually key in letters not my Nexus 7 and my android phone has swype texting with the android operating system so i'm not sure why it doesn't have it here at sense it's basically the same version might be nice to have though so overall this machine i think is an amazing build and I'm certainly can do well but only if future games will support the shield but yet again the shield needs to do well itself so it's the case of the chicken or the egg whichever comes first so those considering of purchasing please throw caution into this awesome product though before buying alright folks and that's it for this review here I know it's a little bit longer than my previous reviews but definitely thank you for hanging in there if you can definitely like the video just to show you support and definitely if you have not subscribed to my channel that way you can see more future alerts to new products coming out shortly again this is Jimmy from Jim's review room take everyone bye bye