Google ’s TV ambitionsscrambled into viewlast month , when the NYT outlined the company ’s architectural plan . Today , we learn a little more : Google — with Sony — is make an announcement next month , around a version of Android call Dragonpoint . update
https://gizmodo.com/a-google-tv-set-top-box-is-coming-5495856
Dragonpoint ! We ’ve get to out to Google for what on earth this is — it could be anything from a codename for a new appliance interface to a whole new crotch in the Android project — but here ’s what we ’re work with now . SaysBloomberg :
Sony , aiming to win back percentage lost to Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. , would employ Intel and Google to help produce TV and Blu - ray DVD players with Internet access . Intel , whose processors go 80 percentage of personal computing machine , need to get its chips into new areas , let in roving phones and consumer electronics …
… Intel is bring a customized edition of its Atom chip that will run a fresh version of Google ’s Android operating organisation call Dragonpoint .
Sony ’s Blu - electron beam player / set - top box boxes / TVs will tend Android atop a edition of Intel Atom processor — left , but not unheard of — and almost certainly integrate video speedup , if not in the for of Nvidia ’s Ion , in a similar ware from Intel themselves . Logitech will make a special keyboard - y remote control . It ’s overnice to have some newfangled details here , but this info falls well within predictions from last month . Except , well , the Android part .
What Google is facing in adapting Android to be worthy for television is nearly unprecedented . Desktop operating systems like windowpane have to be massively overhauled to be functional in a TV context ( see : Windows Media Center ) . To adapt a fluid bone to TVs is something else totally : easier in some ways , since the OS is already suit to remote - ascendance - style navigation , by chastity of having been build around devices with d - launchpad and a handful of buttons ; and harder in others , since it was design for use on palm - sized screens .
What we ’ll probably ( hopefully ? ) see here is a piece of software package with an heretofore unobserved user interface , bearing about no resemblance to the Android we ’re used to . And that ’s fine ! The point here is to consist the groundwork for machine-accessible TV computer software that any manufacturer can use , that ’s built on a real , internet - centric operating system , and which gives developers a platform that they can publish for that is n’t doomed by brand exclusivity or general crappiness . On another tone , this is a rare chance for Sony to get out in front of everyone else on a authentically exciting newfangled concept , so , yay Sony !
https://gizmodo.com/we-miss-sony-5484148
The proclamation is bear on May 19th or 20th , with both Sony and Google on the stage . We ’ll keep you up to speed .
UPDATE : Google ’s answer to our query :
You wo n’t be surprised to discover we do n’t comment on hearsay or guess . Sorry .
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