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Swedish firm launches world’s first Android TV

By Emil Protalinski

On November 18, 2010, 2:46 PM With Video

People of Lava, a small Swedish privately-owned manufacturer, has launched a new 55-inch TV using Android as its operating system, touting it as the first Android TV. The product is named Scandinavia and is available in white, black, or grey. You can only get it in Sweden, but the firm hopes to roll the sets out to the US and the UK next year. It's currently priced at 40,000 Swedish kronor (€4,257), according to The Wall Street Journal.

The TV set runs Android 1.5 and has its own app store for downloading apps specific to a TV. There are only about 20 apps available right now, though over 1,000 are expected to be available by the end of 2010. It's unfortunate it apparently access the Android Market but at least it comes with a browser, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Maps.

The remote for the TV has an integrated QWERTY keyboard and there are plans for an app that will let users control the set with their Android phone. People of Lava will have quite a battle on their hands with the Google TV already available though at the same time it might convince consumers to consider a TV that does more than the current options.


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  1. November 18, 2010 3:11 PM
    Johny47 said:

    That's Need for speed most wanted shown on that screen, nice =)

    Reply
  2. November 18, 2010 5:50 PM
    vangrat said:

    Spell check on isle 10, spell check on isle 10:

    "id dose come"

    Reply
  3. November 18, 2010 5:51 PM
    matrix86
    matrix86 said:

    "but at least id dose come with a browser"

    Might wanna do some proof reading, lol. This does seem pretty neat, though. I don't see myself having any of these Apple, Google or Android TVs in the near future, but they're still pretty nifty.

    Reply
  4. November 18, 2010 7:35 PM
    unrealmp3
    unrealmp3 said:

    Android 1.5

    FAIL

    Reply
  5. November 18, 2010 8:39 PM
    Guest said:

    Read that very same sentence again, before where you fixed the mistake.

    Reply

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