Amazon Launches Android-Powered 'Fire TV' For Streaming and Gaming

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 2, 2014 @05:59AM from the bookstores-sure-sell-a-lot-of-stuff-these-days dept.

Today Amazon launched 'Fire TV,' a new video streaming box designed to compete with devices like the Roku and Apple TV. The Fire TV runs Android on a quad-core Qualcomm 1.7 GHz processor with 8GB of internal storage and 2GB of RAM. It supports 1080p video output at 60fps and measures 4.5" x 4.5" x 0.7". The Fire TV is also explicitly designed to support gaming, and Amazon has concurrently launched their own game controller. The Fire TV's remote control includes a microphone and a button that lets you search TV show and movies by voice.

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The name is logical at least by tepples · 2014-04-02 06:19 · Score: 4, Informative

Kindle Fire is a tablet that extends the Kindle e-reader line and runs Fire OS, Amazon's fork of Android OS. Fire TV is a set-top box for watching TV that runs Fire OS. I don't see how it's that bad of a name.