And I still use my Logitech Revue.
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Logitech has significant street cred as a maker of gaming peripherals, and its Freedom 2.4 cordless joystick cements that reputation with its wireless connectivity and all-you-could-want control set. The Freedom 2.4's solid construction-silver metal, black rubber, and plastic-exudes cool and gives the stick a pleasantly substantial feel. The ergonomic design and placement of the 10 buttons (4 on the base, 6 on the handle) allow easy access for big or small hands. A throttle wheel and an eight-way directional hat switch top off the comprehensive controls. The handle also rotates to serve as a rudder control. Left-handed users will feel left out, however; the stick is designed for righties only.
The stick feels tight and controlled, with superb response time. On our test unit, however, one of the base buttons malfunctioned after about a month of heavy use. In our replacement unit, a different button became sticky after roughly the same period of intense play. The unit comes bundled with a USB receiver that transmits on the 2.4GHz channel within approximately a 20-foot radius-far enough for any reasonable play scenario. Three AA batteries provide power; Logitech estimates at least 50 hours of life per set, a claim that we found to be accurate.
Click to expand.Hmmm. Are you the notorious 'squeezeon' mentioned in this Logitech Revue thread? From that thread: 'Oh, another day - another squeezon.Let's finish talking about the functionality of this generation of Revue first.' 'Yeah, there are millions of 'developers' with a lot of credibility. But you check it against the facts, and then decide. His latest attempt to claim that Honeycomb update is now being sent over the air to set top boxes was just too much.
The only people who can post credible product update info are Logitech employees, and let's keep it that way.' - And then there was this thread from this forum - where you claimed the Logitech Revue at a Best Buy store already had the 3.1 update back in October (when none of the Revues had received the 3.1 update yet): From that thread:, 07:12 PM #5 squeezon Junior Member 'best buy recieved logitech revues yesterday. We opened one in warehouse they did indeed have the honeycomb upgrade. Instructions indicate to activate online'.
“Today, Google TV is moving to the latest version of Android (Jelly Bean, 4.2.2), and we’ve refactored Google TV so that our TV OEM partners can update to future versions of Android in a matter of weeks rather than months. For developers, this means you can build TV experiences using the latest Android APIs, including the NDK. Today Google TV is also moving to the latest version of Chrome, and from now on Google TV benefits from Chrome updates on the same six week cycle that you’ve come to expect from Chrome. In Chrome on Google TV, we’ve added support for hardware-based content protection, enabling developers to provide premium TV content in HD within their web apps.” Some Google TV hardware partners This will be a big step for Google TV, which has been based on Android 3.2, or Honeycomb, since the last major OS update in late 2011. However, some Google TV owners won’t be able to take advantage of the update: A Google spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that it will only be available for ARM-based Google TV devices, and not on first-generation Intel-based Google TV set-top-boxes and TVs.
Coming next to Google TV: video games? The update could bring a number of new features to Google TV that owners of newer Android handsets take for granted, including a better performance, a much-needed UI-update and an all likelihood some form of Google Now integration.
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It should also help developers by making it easier to port their Android 4.x-optimized apps to Google TV. But there’s another aspect that’s interesting about this step: Google also announced Google Play games services, a cloud gaming service that makes it possible to develop multi-player games and save game plays across devices, at I/O Wednesday. With Google TV switching to Android 4.2.2, it’s reasonable to assume that Google TV devices should have access to Google Play Games sooner or later as well. This could give the smart TV platform, which has so far only seen modest adoption, another leg to stand on, and potentially enable future Google TV devices to function as full-blown game consoles as well. This post was updated at 1:35pm with additional information about the devices that will receive the update.
Today following its yearly, Google that Google TV is moving to Jelly Bean (version 4.2.2) and the latest version of Chrome (26). Google says existing Google TVs will “start to receive updates in the coming months.” For manufacturers, Google says it is “refactoring” it’s update cycle so “partners can update to future versions of Android in a matter of weeks rather than months.” This will clearly make the platform more attractive to developers — it needs all the help it can get. The same goes for Chrome, which will now be updated every six weeks on Google TV, just like it is on other platforms. Google TV has gone through a slow, curious evolution since launching in 2010 Google was quick to point out that developers will now be able to “build TV experiences using the latest Android APIs, including the NDK.” Additionally, Chrome for Google TV is receiving “support for hardware-based content protection, enabling developers to provide premium TV content in HD within their web apps. ” As for upcoming hardware, Google remained rather vague, and simply said “we expect to see new Google TV devices launched later this year.” Google TV has gone through a curious evolution since launching, but throughout this time, the general mission of bringing Web-based entertainment (like Netflix, ) and Google search technology to your television has remained unchanged. Logitech’s Revue was the, but the launch ended up being a. In fact, Logitech even went as far as admitting that the Revue “.” Nevertheless, new iterations of Google TV have since been released, the latest being the and Netgear’s — both announced earlier this year. Google arrived early to the connected TV game, along with companies like Boxee and Roku, but the space is now more competitive than ever: the continues to sell, Microsoft’s is said to offer more general entertainment features, Amazon is reportedly planing to release, and then there’s the and the, which includes LG, Toshiba and Panasonic.
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Right now, Google is surely hoping its third generation of devices fares better than its first, but this space is clearly only getting more crowded. What’s worse is that Google appears to be moving Google TV to hobby status, which won’t be very encouraging for curious developers or consumers. Image credit: Read next.