Possible image of Nvidia’s Shield tablet appears online

An image of an Nvidia tablet has surfaced online that may be of the upcoming Shield product, which has been rumored for months. The image shows a tablet that closely resembles the reference tablet for Nvidia’s K1 soc.

The image posted on the internet by EVLeaks, the twitter account with which Evan Blass regularly distributes information and press photos at an early stage. With the Nvidia Shield Tablet, the screen edges would be largely concealed behind the glass plate and the sides would be occupied by speakers that are incorporated in a gray metallic edge.

The tablet is very similar to the reference tablet that Nvidia showed at the beginning of this year and of which Phone Arena, for example, published a hands-on. The difference seems to be that the Shield Tablet has a camera module in the screen edge and that the grilles for the speakers run longer.

According to previous rumors, the Nvidia Shield has, in addition to a Tegra K1-soc, a 7.9 “touch screen with a resolution of 2048×1536 pixels, 2GB RAM, Android 4.4 and, optionally, 4G. It is the successor to the first Shield handheld, but In contrast to that model, Nvidia would supply a separate controller and the company would see possibilities to use the tablet as a home console, including via streaming PC games on TV. That option can also be seen on the interface of the image. : The interface shows a My Android and a My PC Games section, and there is also a reference to a controller. Nvidia may announce the tablet in the near future.