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Google TV: Android gets backing from Intel, Sony, and Logitech

by James Tromans on March 18, 2010 6:02 am

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According to the New York Times, Google, Intel and Sony have decided to get together and develop an Android powered internet platform based on the Intel Atom processors for televisions and set-top boxes. The general idea behind the project is to make viewing web applications such as YouTube, Twitter or Picasa just like changing the channel on your TV at home.

Logitech are alleged to be involved with the things they do best, peripherals. There really are no other details than this at the moment, but we do not expect the New York Times to be blowing out hot air unless they have it on good authoity that something meaty is actually going to come of this high-profile collaboration. We’ll keep you posted

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http://twitter.com/lukamlinar Luka Mlinar

That’s a whole lot of cash right there. Thank god for the Nexus.
- lil bit
  
  Yea, thank God for LTE, card slot, battery life.
briankariu

At $500, just buy the other flagships.
Max Luong

The picture says 2GB of RAM but the article says 1GB.

Which is it?
- Akash Swain
  
  The latter, the amount of RAM on the device is 1GB.
lil bit

Will get the ZR instead, for my daughter. The SP should be 2gb RAM, but it many be a very interesting phone when price drops.
- lil bit
  
  And i tested a ZL yesterday, amazingly compact, despite not being very slim it is considerable smaller than galaxy s4, and responsibly priced even with lte. I recommend checking it out.
  - lil bit
    
    Reasonably priced