Android.com cleaned out Tablets section before bringing it back

One could even argue why Google thought to bring back a page that has not had its contents updated since 2015. After all, there were more reasons to keep it out of sight than there were to keep it.

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Sad but predictable: No Oreo update hopes for NVIDIA Shield Tablet and Tablet K1

In case you were still holding out hope for Android Oreo goodies on the NVIDIA Shield Tablet and Tablet K1, the updates are definitely not happening.

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That long overdue NVIDIA Shield Tablet sequel is apparently cancelled for ‘business reasons’

Anyone remember when Tegra SoCs powered such varied and popular devices as the Motorola Atrix 4G, OG Nexus 7, Microsoft Surface and Surface 2, HTC One X and One X+? Those were the times for NVIDIA, which then inexplicably lost the battle for smartphone and tablet processor supremacy with Qualcomm, also failing to compete against the likes of MediaTek on affordability.Nowadays, you can count on the fingers of one hand the semi-relevant commercial products packing Tegra K1 or X1 punch: the homebrewed NVIDIA Shield Tablet, ...

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NVIDIA comes through with Shield Tablet K1 Marshmallow update

It’s Christmas Eve, and unsurprisingly, that means a lot of the tech news world has already packed up for the holidays and dialed things back to skeleton-crew levels. While that has the result of not a ton of new action going on, it’s thankfully giving us a chance to catch up on some of the events of the past few days that managed to slip by on first pass. We’ve already been looking at some new Marshmallow updates hitting devices today, and now we’re checking in with one that started landing a littler earlier this week, as NVIDIA delivers Android 6.0 to its Shield ...

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NVIDIA offers sneak peek of imminent Marshmallow update on Shield Tablet K1

It’s not every day that you see an Android tablet manufacturer unveil basically the same exact product as a year before, just with a slightly tweaked name, lower price and no bundled-in accessories. But NVIDIA did at least promise to update the Tegra K1-powered 8-inch Shield to Marshmallow shortly after its debut.The gaming specialist will be looking to make good on the vow before Christmas, but first, a few details about what’s coming. In a ...

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NVIDIA Shield Tablet X1 pops up, delivers mouthwatering GPU benchmark scores

It seems like such a long time ago that NVIDIA-developed Tegra SoCs ruled the mobile world, powering devices as diverse as the Motorola Atrix 4G and first-gen Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in 2011, the original Nexus 7 and HTC One X the following year, and the Microsoft Surface 2 in 2013.For the past couple of years, Tegras have slowly slipped towards oblivion, with the K1 model used only on the Nexus 9, homebrewed Shield Tablet, and

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