Chromecast who? The real Android TV is here. This is the Nexus Player, a four-inch, half-pound disc of a set-top box designed to watch all your movies AND play your Android games. It'll cost $99 on October 17th.
Powered by a quad-core 1.8GHz Intel Atom processor with PowerVR Series 6 graphics, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of onboard storage, it's the first device with Google's new Android TV operating system on board. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, is designed to be everything Google TV was not.
Where Google TV was a confusing power-user experience driven by the web, with a tiny siloed collection of apps, few games, and where you needed a keyboard to get very far, Android TV channels the full power of Android into a super simple set-top-box interface more like Amazon's Fire TV. (It even uses an identical game controller — sold seperately.) Android TV sports a single flat interface you can scroll up, down, left or right to navigate through all your applications with a dead-simple remote control with just four buttons and a d-pad, though you can also say what you want — the remote has a microphone as well.
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