Lenovo’s 55-inch first-generation Idea TV will make you wish you lived in China — because that’s the only country that’s going to see its smartly designed Android interface for now.
The 1080p HDTV centres around an Android-based home screen, Lenovo is calling the “Sandwich screen”. (Get it? Ice Cream Sandwich?) From this point you use a touchpad on the TVs remote to navigate between a standard TV screen, a video on-demand screen and an applications screen. All video-on-demand content is streamed via Lenovo’s servers to the the TVs. We didn’t get too much hands-on time with the system, but it seems to run really smoothly compared to other remote-based interfaces we’ve seen for apps.
olearymo
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 1:21 PMso… it’s not google tv… but android?
what a mess.
Darren
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 8:28 PMGingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Chrome os, Google tv… I concur.
In a time when Apple are trying to make OSX Lion more like iOS and Microsoft are trying to make Windows 8 like Windows Phone – Google & partners are just rolling a dice and saying “lets go ahead and put Y operating system on Z device”.
Darren
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 8:29 PMBy ‘put’ i mean shoehorn.