Sony anticipates the Bravia Smart Stick, a "Dongle" with Google TV

Sony just anticipated an announcement on its blog for the Bravia Smart Stick product, a "Dongle" that essentially upgrade Sony televisions to Google TV.

When connected to a Sony TV, the Smart Stick adds standard Google TV features with voice control, cable/satellite integration and web browsing with Chrome. A product that comes almost at the same time as the appearance of Google's ChromeCast, which allows you to view multimedia content on your televisions.

Sony is offering even more on its dongle than Google TV does, as the Japanese company claims it is implementing the full integration with existing applications Bravia TV in just one interface. As they say, "allowing users to use only one menu to launch some of their applications«.

Some of the pre-installed apps include Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, Amazon Prime Instant Video, and YouTube, while others may be downloaded from Google Play.

The Smart Stick also brings the "picture after picture" feature that allows users to surf the web and watch TV at the same time. What is not yet known is that if the Smart Stick will work with televisions that are not of the Sony brand, perhaps in the face of uncertainty, they are also trying to create greater expectations about the Dongle.

Sony is promising to announce more details this Sunday. Expected to dispel doubts about whether he will be able to use this extraordinary gadget on any television, at the same time that they say a price and when it will be launched on the market.

Another gadget that appears just after the launch of ChromeCast, which adds more options to the Android system and the way we play multimedia content on the screens of our televisions. It's the good thing about Android, the versatility it offers It depends on the platform where we use it.

More information - Chromecast will make it possible to play local content very soon according to Google

Source - The Verge