NVIDIA SHIELD: Android Portable Gaming Device with 5-inch 720p Touch Screen Display

The SHIELD of NVIDIA has been publicly released and with this, the company has added a new video featuring the Android part of the gaming console to its own YouTube channel. For the ones who do not know what SHEILD is, it is the Android based portable gaming device of NVIDIA and is powered by TEGRA 4 quad-core Cortex-A15 processor. This device has another side of using it as a standard Android device because it flaunts with a 5 inch 720p touch screen display.

This amazing device runs on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean platform of Google and this implies that you can have access to your desired games and apps and have an experience as that of a large screen phone. It is also enabled with GPS and so you can use Google Maps and various navigation apps. It accompanies a built-in controller alike the PlayStation having two joysticks along with the A,B,X,Y buttons. You can use the left joystick to navigate around the interface and browse through web pages when you are using the SHIELD as a standard Android device. At the same time, you can also use the right joystick as a mouse, redolent of the TrackPoint controllers which you find on the IBM ThinkPads.

If you are a hardcore gamer, you will prefer only playing games but for others this device gives a better option to run Android apps and hence take double advantage. Well, the maximum number of the SHIELD device will be purchased and grabbed by hardcore gamers for sure. Another interesting fact about the device is, along with gaming and usage of apps, the device enables you to watch movies and listen to music stored on the external SD card.

With all these, NVIDIA promise to give a pure Android experience and I would suggest you to watch the above embedded video without laughing or groaning. The presenter in the video discusses how you can use the mouse to select a cell. You should watch the video up till 1 minute and 10 second mark. Keeping the spreadsheets apart, the SHIELD seems to impress a lot with its amazing Android goodies.