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Lenovo Enters TV Market – Announces Android Powered TV

Published by on Jan 9th, 2012, 11 Comments

Clearly the next big battle in the tech world is TV – not in terms of ever growing screen sizes and resolutions, but rather the software and services that power it. With rumours circling about Apple’s apparent entry into the TV market, many manufacturers are taking a wait and see approach. Not Lenovo though – they decided they will build there first TV as well, and it will be powered by Android. Lenovo is planning to release their first TV in China at first, but international markets will get it later. It should be noted that this TV will not ship with Google TV. Instead it will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich, with Lenovo’s own custom skin, and it will pack some serious processing power. Here are some of the specs:

  • Snapdragon processor running at  a healthy 1.5 GHz.
  • Two screen sizes – 42 and 50 inch. Both LED, Full HD.
  • Built in Webcam with 5 megapixel resolution – great for Skype sessions.
  • 8GB of built in storage, which is expandable by SD card.
  • The remote control will include a touchpad, and it will recognize your voice with a built in microphone.

The TV will still ship with standard HDMI inputs, so you can still connect your set-top boxes. Lenovo must still announce their streaming services that combine with this TV – which makes us think this was rushed to market as an answer to that apparent Apple threat. Which we are not to certain about either… The idea that Apple would move into a highly commoditzed market like TV manufacturing is still difficult to comprehend, but their advantage will lie in the ecosystem that iTunes will provide. But if a Apple Cinema Display costs $1000, we wonder if Apple can crack the TV market where profit margins are lower than ever.

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  • Mario Meyer

    Apple does not make their margins on their hardware, they make it from apps and content, the tv box will be merely another means to hook into their ecosystem…so your point raised is invalid.. why does nobody get that apple can sell an iphone 4s for 99c, and still make a bundle just out of the usage thererof… they have laid the groundwork, their ecosystem is a tight knit biosphere…hard for anybody to crack

    “But if a Apple Cinema Display costs $1000, we wonder if Apple can crack the TV market where profit margins are lower than ever.”

  • Charl Norman

    Great comment, thanks for sharing.

  • Theunis Jansen van Rensburg

    I completely agree!

  • David de Jong

    Not true. Apple has one of the best margins on it’s hardware in the industry. The 30% cut from apps and iTunes commission is extra cream.

  • oupagol

    I find it shocking that News24 would link to such a badly written article…

  • Charl Norman

    Please share with us the issues with the article so we can improve BWTH Blog.

  • http://www.bandwidthblog.com Minnaar Pieters

    Mario – while Apple does make a lot of money from its ecosystem of apps and entertainment, I can assure you they make massive profit margins from their hardware.

    For example, take the iPad, which is still arguably quite well priced. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9150045/Apple_makes_208_on_each_499_iPad

  • http://www.bandwidthblog.com Minnaar Pieters

    Thanks for the feedback – please let us know what we can improve upon.

  • http://www.bandwidthblog.com Minnaar Pieters

    Read this: http://www.splatf.com/2011/09/apple-profits/

  • genefer s

     Nice post.Thanks for Sharing.Android app developer  can’t wait to read much more from you. This is actually a terrific site.’ll follow your blog even more when you’ll keep up the good work

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    Android enabled TV ???? It was really interesting concept u have shared dude !! Ofcourse, It would definitely make the other sources to do it.

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