Nearly 5 months after Google announced the first Android-based set-top box  program, Logitech has announced a sum of a device based upon it with hopes which the tool will shortly become the partial of vital bedrooms nationwide.

Logitech’s box for Google TV is called the Revue and will price $300. It will mix wire programming with entrance to video from the web, photos from Flickr, games, as well as music from sites such as Pandora as well as Rhapsody. It will include HD video calling capacity, Netflix, Chrome browser as well as an app which lets you use your iPhone or Android phone as the remote for the device.

The box is now available for pre-order upon the company’s website, Amazon.com as well as BestBuy.com. It will be in sell stores by a finish of a month.

Google initial announced the set-top box height, Google TV, during a company’s developer discussion in May. Since afterwards, it has partnered with calm creators such as HBO, CNBC, Turner Broadcasting and a NBA.

So distant, Logitech and Sony have concluded to setup a hardware for Google TV.

The Logitech Revue is a slim device powered by an Intel Atom CE4100 processor and the set of keys controller. To make use of it, consumers will need the broadband tie. With the bundled HDMI cable, users can couple a Revue to a port upon their TV, whilst an additional HDMI wire connects a Revue to a wire TV box.

Logitech’s skinny, lightweight though rather than clunky keyboard controller lets users interact with a device, poke and choose what they wish to watch.

But if you have been wondering because a homogeneous of a remote has so many buttons on it, Logitech says it chose the keyboard layout so anybody can only collect up as well as make use of it but starting through the “learning curve.”

The controller additionally has a rather than well-spoken touch desk pad with scroll and buttons such as back as well as home. Logitech has enclosed buttons which control the TV, A/V receiver as well as DVR, that explains why a entire device looks so difficult. After all, it combines the TV remote as well as the computer keyboard into the single package.

Video job from a lounge

One of a engaging facilities of a Logitech Revue box is a capability to have HD peculiarity video calls from the TV. The accessories–Logitech TV Cam and Logitech Vid HD–lets consumers bond to a a Revue using USB as well as have calls but the need for a computer.

The TV cam has the wide-angle lens so it can capture a complete vital room. And it includes 5x digital zoom so consumers can get up, tighten as well as personal, if they want.

The TV Cam as well as Vid HD software enable high-definition video calls of up to 720p. It includes a little tidy facilities such as call notifciation. For example, if you embrace the video call, a TV cam will blink to alert you of an incoming call.

If your TV shade is on, you will listen to it ring as well as have a choice to collect up or skip the call. The software additionally ensures which a TV lights up when you’ve longed for the call – even when your TV is off.

Overall, the Logitech Revue seems impressive with the hardware specs (1080p, 60 frames per second output, dual USB ports, Wi-Fi as well as ethernet connectivity). It will be engaging to see if Google TV can go mainstream, something that Apple with the Apple TV has failed to do so distant.