ARCHOS TV Connect turns HDTV into an Android powered smart TV
Archos today announced its latest Android device, the Archos TV Connect, an Android 4.1 box for your television. Priced at $129 and arriving in February, the unit brings the full Android 4.1 Jelly Bean experience to your HDTV. Details include HDMI, USB, microSD, WiFi, and Ethernet connectivity …
WISE TIVI offers three Android-powered Smart TV options
So you want to put a Smart TV in your living room but don’t feel like spending hundreds or thousands of dollars. What to do? Maybe you start with WISE TIVI and one of their three affordable Android-powered options.With prices that start at $59.99 we’re …
Ice Screen: a 26-inch Android-based smart TV
Tencent and TCL have teamed up together to make the Ice Screen: a 26″ Android TV packing a dual-core Cortex A9 1GHz processor, a Mali 400 GPU, 4GB of RAM and support for a memory card of up to 32GB in size. The Ice Screen also …
Previously filed patent could bring voice commands to Google TV
It appears that Google quietly applied for a patent back in September, that might just make Google TV a lot easier to use. Essentially, the technology they’re trying to patent would use an Android phone as a transmitter of sort, and the user could give …
Google TV poised to receive update this week
The Google TV experience is expected to improve in short order as a new update rolls out to the service over the next few days. According to the Google TV blog, the updates will center around making it faster and easier to discover great content as …
Lenovo impresses at CES with Android
The magic that is CES is starting a bit early, thanks to Lenovo. They’ve unveiled several new Android devices, and each is just as impressive as the next. Let’s start with what everyone wants to see: tablets. Lenovo announced the IdeaTab S2 10, which is …
Logitech deploys Honeycomb update to Revue
The Google TV experience gets significantly better for Logitech Revue owners this week.
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Samsung Announces Blu-ray Player and Companion Box With Google TV Support
As expected, Samsung has officially joined Sony and Logitech as official Google TV partners. Last week’s CES saw the company announcing (PDF) both a Blu-Ray Player and companion box with Google TV capabilities. Both devices run Android and will allow consumers to watch television and surf the internet at the same time.
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Logitech Finds a Way to Get Even Weirder in Promoting Google TV, Employs Kevin Bacon [VIDEO]
Remember those creepy Google TV commercials for Logitech featuring the television that “misses you”? Well, Logitech has somehow found a way to make those seem a little less weird. Take a look at the latest ad spot for Google TV which features Kevin Bacon as a guy who loves Kevin Bacon. Also, he looks like Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones.
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Samsung Smart TV’s are going Google.
I consider Samsung to be one of the pioneers of this generation of smart/web TV’s. They weren’t running Google TV when I last saw them, but the sets were amazing nonetheless. Bringing about some really neat add-ons, like a camera so you could Skype with friends and Family. It didn’t seem like there was a bunch of room for expansion or further development though, which is what Android seems to have mastered. So it seems only logical that Samsung would take the success we have enjoyed from the Galaxy S line to their consumer electronics devices
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Sony Google TV is NOT as expensive as thought
t seems that SonyInsider has found out that the new NSX-46GT1 (46′) will cost only $1399, instead of the initially reported $1899. Set to be released on October 12th in New York, many people have high hopes for Google TV and Android.
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Bloomberg: Samsung “Reviewing” Android-Based TVs
Android lovers who are in the market for a new HD TV might want to hold off just a little bit longer. Samsung, the top TV maker in the U.S. at nearly 20% market share, is considering Android for its line of televisions. Speaking to …
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First Android Based TV Unveiled
In an article over at Chinitech.com, it is being reported that the television set pictured to the left is the fist set in the world to have the Android platform built into it. Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL has reportedly been working in their labs since …
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Bloomberg: Sony to Announce Android-Based Dragonpoint TV at Google I/O
Bloomberg is reporting today that Sony is expected to unveil their new televisions based off a new version of Android called Dragonpoint. We’re going to go ahead and say this name will be a play on words “Drag N’ Point”. The name alone already has …
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Samsung Considering Google TV with Android
Samsung is said to be considering the business feasibility behind creating televisions with Android. The Korean manufacturer already moves more units than anyone in the world so this may or may not come to fruition. As rival Sony is rumored to be hard at work …
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