Samsung Will Build Google TVs

They can't afford not too. After a year of humming and hawing Samsung quietly threw it's hat into the ring and quietly peeped it's going to build Google TVs at CES 2011 in Las Vegas last week. Despite being TV market leaders in Europe and the USA and aggressively pushing it's own application and developer program, the risk of not producing Google TV in the event of it's success and letting Sony gain more TV market share was perhaps a little too risky.

It's an interesting decision, seeing that Google TV has been absolutely thrashed by the media which is perhaps the reason it was not mentioned during the keynote from Samsung president, Boo-Keun Yoon... and rather a Blu-ray player and set-top "companion box" were on display in the booth, along with special remotes, with a vague release date this year - likely to wait for the next OS release from Google.

Thankfully Samsung also said that it was designing a custom controller for the box, as Sony has with its Google TV devices - and hopefully it will be more akin to a Galaxy Tab rather than the 80s Atari-esque Logitech device.

For Android developers this is good news though - as Samsung is the most popular TV brand in the world and market leader, far ahead of Sony, Sharp, Panasonic and the rest.

 

 

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