While fans wait with bated breath over the (possible) announcement of an
TV,
Android fans can start redjoicing as has just released details of the world's first
Android ICS smart .
While the
Lenovo K91 isn't the first smart
TV to make use of Android, this is the first
TV to make use of Android
4.0 Ice-cream Sandwich, those other TV's Google
TV OS.
Using Android
4.0 on the
Lenovo K91 means that
Lenovo have left their
TV open to all those great
TV streaming and
video applications that both your smartphone and Android tablets happily run, whats-more you should also be able to play the latest games on the K91 also.
Lenovo have tweaked the Android ICS os on the K91 Smart TV to include their own 'Smart UI' which makes use of the larger screen real estate avaialable to the TV.
The K91 uses a Qualcomm 1.5GHZ Snapdragon CPU to run things, and there is a choice of either a 55" or 42" version.
Lenovo K91 Android 4.0 TV Specifications:
- Qualcomm Dual core 1.5G processor
- System Android Ice Cream Sandiwch 4.0
- Video Graphics: FPR 3D, no flicker, no crosstalk
- 55“ or 42″ IPS, LED, 240Hz refresh rate panel
- 1GB RAM
- Hard Disk Drive 8G storage; 2G removable SD card
- Sound SRS TrusurroundHD audio/Dolby/DTS
- WiFi 802.11b/g/n 1*1 connectivity, Ethernet 10M/100M, USB2.0 / HDMI 1.4a
- Camera/Video Built-in 5M camera, support facial recognition and child lock; SD, HD, UHD video content, Up to 2.8M video coding
The K91 will be on show at CES 2012 along with Lenovo's latest range of ultrabook laptops and Android tablets.