NVIDIA is the latest company to jump on the Black Friday bandwagon and is now offering its very own high-end Android-powered handheld gaming system, the Shield, for $249 (that’s an impressive $50 discounted off the retail price), together with a free carry case worth $39.99 and two free games to get you started — Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 and Expendable: Rearmed.

The Shield is an extremely impressive portable gaming device, that packs a 5-inch multi-touch “Retinal Quality” display with a resolution of 1280 x 720, a NVIDIA Tegra 4 quad-core processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 16GB of flash memory (expandable up to 64GB via microSD), a mini-HDMI output slot and a 28.8 Watt battery.

Furthermore, the unit ships running the latest build of Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean, which means users will have access to the full suite of standard Google apps, including Gmail, Google+, Google Play Store, Quickoffice, Maps, YouTube and Calendar. So, when users are not engaging in some elite gaming, they will be able to sit back browse the internet, respond to e-mails and stream videos from YouTube.

The deal comes with free shipping and runs until Monday, December 2, 2013. So if you like the sound of the Shield and want to pick one up — click the source link below.

• SourceNVIDIA