Realme entered the house leisure house with TVs final 12 months. To this point, the corporate has launched 4 televisions, together with a soundbar that goes with the 55-inch mannequin from final 12 months. Now, Realme might quickly carry an inexpensive gadget to make your dumb TV good. Flipkart might have revealed that Realme’s first Android TV Stick is in works and that it’s going to go on sale through the upcoming Large Billion Days Sale 2021.
On a devoted webpage, Flipkart has teased upcoming merchandise that would be the spotlight of the annual sale pageant that kicks off through the festive season in India. Though Flipkart realised its mistake and pulled the knowledge from its webpage, screenshots taken by fanatics present the sale would be the good springboard for Realme to launch its streaming stick. It’s known as the Realme 4K Google TV Stick and can seem like the Hearth TV Stick.
Realme India and Europe CEO, Madhav Sheth, informed me in an interview earlier that there are a bunch of AIoT merchandise lined up for launch forward of Diwali. That’s the reason this inadvertent reveal by Flipkart is smart. Realme has no such product in any market, not even in China, so it’s possible India would be the debut marketplace for Realme’s streaming stick.
Probably the most attention-grabbing takeaway from this teaser is “Google TV”. Google launched the brand new interface for its Android-powered units final 12 months with a brand new Chromecast, however just for choose markets, reminiscent of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Eire, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Google has not mentioned something about India to date, so possibly Realme will bag the title of being the primary Google TV gadget right here. In spite of everything, Flipkart’s teaser known as the Realme TV Stick “first ever in India.”
This additionally signifies that Google might launch Google TV formally in India for a spread of televisions. Android TV-powered televisions from manufacturers reminiscent of Realme, Xiaomi, and OnePlus, amongst others, might get the Google TV interface within the coming weeks. Again in February, Google had introduced that its Google TV facelift for Android TVs started rolling out in the identical international locations as those the place the brand new Chromecast was obtainable.
One other risk could also be Flipkart complicated Google TV with Android TV. Quite a lot of Android TV-powered tv units was once marketed utilizing the time period “Google TV” for a very long time till Google determined to make use of “Google TV” for a forked-up model of Android TV with a brand new interface and higher visuals. On this case, the road “first ever in India” may be for Realme’s first-ever TV stick. For what it’s price, we’ll discover out extra in regards to the Realme TV Stick quickly, in all probability by the horse’s mouth or by way of Flipkart, which appears prone to make an announcement in regards to the Large Billion Days Sale.
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