Stefan Mileschin

A little over one week ago NVIDIA committed to bringing Android Lollipop to the SHIELD Tablet before the end of November. This was fairly noteworthy, as it represents a very quick turnaround time for shipping Android updates after Google releases the source code. Today NVIDIA has made a number of additional announcements about the SHIELD Tablet, including a release date confirmation for the Android Lollipop upgrade, news about imminent expansion of their GRID game streaming service, updates to NVIDIA's stock applications, and new game titles that have been designed to work with SHIELD.

The first part of the announcement is the announcement of the release date for the update to Android Lollipop. NVIDIA plans to begin the rollout of the update on Tuesday, November 18th, less than one week from today. Although NVIDIA is not the first manufacturer to begin to ship the Lollipop update, the speed at which they have done so is still extremely fast relative to how long it typically takes Android devices to receive updates. It's also impressive because NVIDIA has had to spend time updating their included applications like SHIELD Hub to follow Google's Material Design principles.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8722/n...-tablet-update