The tablet is destined to have a successor soon  but until that happens Nvidia will continue to replace the Shield tablet's broken batteries and release new updates for its operating system.

The latest update is based on Android 5.1.1 and it brings the security patch for Stagefright. The new 25.6MB download also includes stability and performance improvements and system wide optimisations and fixes. These include battery performance and Netflix playback.

The Shield wireless controller is getting the firmware update too.

This comes just days after Nexus sent out a 22.9 MB update for its Nexus 5,6 and 9 devices. It would appear that the Shield tablet gets the updates almost as fast as the Nexus. Our biggest problem with most of the devices out there is that it takes ages to get the OTA updates.

There are only 21 percent of devices on the market with Android 5.0 and 5.1, codenamed Lollipop, and Google is about to segment the market even more with Android 6.0 Marshmallow  which comes in a month or two.

Please insert Windows 3.11 joke below.