The Californian company announced today the launch of its own TV platform designed to revolutionize the way in which users are associated, on the second day of its annual developer meeting the Google I/O conference, where Google also released the latest version of the Android operating system for ’smartphones’, Android 2.2.
Google TV was presented at the conference for developers in San Francisco and promises to “end the option to choose between television and the web.”
“Google TV is a new platform that will change the future of television,” said a Google official, Rishi Chandra.
Through this new tool, users can search videos and view online TV channels, while surfing the Web via a keyboard connected to their monitor.
Google TV, based in Android 2.1, will feature a powerful Intel will have WiFi connectivity, connect to your TV via the HDMI interface for high definition and can be controlled remotely with any smartphone with Android.
The American company has enjoyed the cooperation of Sony and Logitech for this release that fuses TV with the new technologies.
This technology would be accessible through internet-connected televisions, either directly or via a decoder.
Google TV will be released in the coming months. In the world there are more than 1,000 million viewers, a good figure for the internet giant.
The second big announcement of the Google I/O 2010 conference has been the release of Android 2.2, the new software revision for smartphones. The company focuses on more than twenty specific applications, including of which is the synchronization with Microsoft Exchange to view emails from Outlook.
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