Project Shield Launch Delayed Due To A “Mechanical Issue”

Project Shield Launch Delayed Due To A “Mechanical Issue”

NVidia pushed back the release date of Project Shield from this week to sometime in July.

"During our final QA process, we discovered a mechanical issue that relates to a 3rd party component," the company explained in a statement on its official blog. "We want every Shield to be perfect, so we have elected to shift the launch date to July. We'll update you as soon as we have an exact date."

Project Shield boasts a 5 inch 1280x720 (294 ppi) Multi-Touch screen. It runs on Android Jelly Bean operating system powered by Tegra 4 Quad Core Mobile Processor with 2GB RAM.