Enlarge / The Chromecast with Google TV. It comes in colors. (credit: Google )
9to5Google reports that Search engines is prepping a sequel to the Google Chromecast with Yahoo TV. Last year, Google changed the high end of the Chromecast line from a dead-simple, streaming-only video device to a full-blown Android streamer with installable apps, a navigable UI, and a physical remote. The move was effectively a merger of Google’s two TV products, the particular Chromecast and Android TV, with the revamped, Android TV-based software being rebranded “Google TV. ”
9to5Google says the next-generation version of the device is codenamed “Boreal” and was spotted in some documentation next in order to ” Sabrina , ” the code name for the current Chromecast with Yahoo and google TV (which 9to5Google was also the first to discover). The report doesn’t have any details about what we can expect from typically the new Chromecast, but the current device has some glaring shortcomings that will hopefully be fixed.
The biggest problem with this current Chromecast? You really have to wonder if it was actually designed from the ground up to run Android. The device has a measly 8GB of storage for the entire OS plus all your apps and updates. Even $100 Android phones possess 64GB of storage now, and 8GB isn’t enough for even light app usage. Some Android games are exceeding 10GB these days, so you can’t install them on the new Chromecast, even before half the storage is reserved for the base OS.
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