The Google TV Streamer is official as of earlier this week, however as a result of the gadget hasn’t but shipped and nobody has it of their arms for evaluate, bits of additional information are trickling out that can assist you determine should you want one. For instance, simply at present, we’re studying about expandable storage for it and which model of Android it runs.
First, we’ve now bought affirmation that the Google TV Streamer does certainly assist exterior storage. Whereas Google made it clear that they assume the improve to 32GB of storage on this new gadget is a serious improve over the 8GB within the Chromecast with Google TV (and it’s), some energy customers might have much more area.
Google informed 9to5Google that the Google TV Streamer can technically deal with exterior storage via its USB-C port. Sadly, there’s solely a single USB-C port, which is used for energy to the gadget. So as to broaden storage and energy the Streamer, you would want to make use of some form of dongle that might provide you with a further port. That can apparently work, too.
And the opposite a part of at present’s information drop pertains to the model of Android. The Google TV Streamer, in accordance with Mishaal Rahman, runs Android 14. This may be the primary Google TV gadget to take action, which it must be as a Google-made gadget.
Android 14 for Google TV was introduced again in Might at Google I/O and is anticipated to deliver massive efficiency enhancements, in addition to multi-tasking. We hope that refers to Android 14’s picture-in-picture capabilities. There’s extra too, which you’ll examine right here.
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