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After teasing us with its cool hardware and even cooler name last
spring, Swedish TV maker People of Lava has now launched what it
claims is the world's first Android-powered TV -- that is if you don't
count Korea's Smartroi TV running Android 1.5. Its top-of-the-line 55-
inch models cost a wallet-singeing 40,000 Swedish Krona (or roughly
$5,820) and ship with Android 1.5 along with widgets for Google
Chrome, Facebook, YouTube and Google Maps. They also have access to an
app store which currently only includes 20 titles, but could grow to
more than 1,000 by the end of the year -- since according to marketing
director Martin Ljunggren, the store should import any app now in the
Android Market that's scalable to a TV screen. That's a feat we're
curious to see given Android's difficultly scaling apps even to tablet
screens -- but hey, what do we know? In terms of sales, People of Lava
hopes to move $29 million dollars worth of Scandinavia units in 2011,
in both Sweden and niche US and UK markets. Overall that's great news
for the tech savvy well-to-do, but considering Mountain Vew's focus on
Google TV, we're not sure how long these Android TVs will be around.
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