Product News (aka We Were Wrong): GPNC to release Android HDTV
July 21, 2010 by Derek
Remember in April we reported a bit about Android and its future in TVs, and that South Korean manufacturer GPNC would soon be releasing TVs running Android 1.5 built-in? Yep, sure you do. We were skeptical that the TVs would ever come to market, honestly. Well, it appears our crystal ball was on the fritz that day.
It seems the company has now officially announced the launch of an Google-powered TV code named Smartroi, and it’ll be on shelves (in Asian countries anyway) starting in a few weeks or so.
Other hard specs: The TV will be sold in Korea at first and will be a 42″ Full HDTV LED backlit screen, sport a 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 500cd/m² brightness, and USB connectivity too. No real hard details on what version of Android will ship with the unit, but support for OS upgrades in the future has been hinted at, so it’ll at least be upgradeable.
