If you thought Google TV was nifty, how about having full-blown Android running on your living room telly? In 3D? Well, that’s just what a Russian company called IconBit is aiming to deliver.
IconBit launched four set-top boxes at CES last week, each of which runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread (with the potential to upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the future) and outputs everything to your TV via HDMI. Not only that, but all can be controlled with a Wii-style gesture remote – the idea being that you can have a “tablet-style experience” on a big screen.
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The entry-level IconBit box is called the Toucan Nano and features a 1GHz processor, 256MB of memory, Chrome and Dolphin web browsers (with Flash support), Dolby Digital audio and connectivity via Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI and SD slot. It’ll cost $99 (£65) or $159 (£104) with the gesture remote. The Toucan W is much the same but with Wi-Fi (no price given as yet).
The third box, the XDS7 3D, features HDMI 1.4, lossless Dolby and DTS sound, USB 3.0, Android and Linux OS, a faster processor and, yes, the ability to play 3D movies. The fourth, the XDS100 3D, is similarly specced but looks a tad more stylish and comes with 3TB of hard disk storage built in. There are no prices or UK release dates given for these boxes, but we’ll keep an eye out for more news.
(Via TalkAndroid)
