The Google TV set-top box we’re promised from Sony looks like it’s been caught with its components out in the photos attached to an FCC Filing. So what can we deduce from the official details and the rather fetching photo of a topless Google TV set-top box sunning itself on a work bench? Read on for all the racy Google TV details…
During the Google TV launch hoopla, Sony promised both a new version of its Sony Bravia Internet TV packing Google TV tech and a set-top box. Now the notoriously leaky FCC seems to have spilled the beans on the second of the two devices.
The box which is built by Foxconn (notorious makers of amongst other things, the iPhone) looks a little like a plastic version of the current Apple TV. It’s packing 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and has been approved for sale in the US already. Secrecy conditions slapped on Sony’s submission (and as usual roundly ignored) put the launch date sometime in September. That sounds just about right for Google TV’s proposed autumn arrival in the US.
Google TV isn’t set to arrive in the UK until 2011 so a new Apple TV with iPhone OS baked inside could get here first. We’re still to be sold on Google TV but perhaps seeing the Sony Internet Box in its finished form will sway us to its charms.
Let us know: do you think Google TV’s assault on our living rooms will take off? Or are you hoping that another streaming dream like the Boxee Box takes off?
