Android
The telyHD platform delivers robust living room entertainment
telyHD is SO much more than Skype-in-a-box. In fact, Skype is an application that is running on the telyHD platform.
With a lighting fast Tegra2 ARM processor from NVIDIA, telyHD has the processing power of a tablet computer. While Tegra2 provides the horsepower, what enables the true potential of the platform is the integration of the Android operating system.
The Power of Android
Google released the Android code as open source software, making it publicly available. The open source nature of Android is one of the main drivers of its massive growth, with over 200,000 applications available in the Android marketplace, and more than 600,000 new Android devices being registered every day.
Android is constantly being upgraded and improved. Each new version is named, in alphabetical order, after a dessert.
The growth and flexibility of the Android OS makes telyHD a powerful open source platform that enables a whole new area of TV/living room-based applications.
As new apps are developed, telyHD will provide a wide range of entertainment options such as Web browsing, social networking, interactive games, and HD-rich media streaming.
These apps will utilize the hardware elements of telyHD including the four noise-canceling microphone array, GPU for console-quality graphics, and HD hardware acceleration.
Combined with the big screen real estate on your HDTV, future Android apps for telyHD will provide robust and fun entertainment with the capability of full 1080p HD video through telyHD’s high-speed internet connection
Recent improvements to the Android OS
Gingerbread refined the user interface, improved gaming performance, and added support for both VoIP calling and Near Field Communications.
Honeycomb 3.0 was a tablet-oriented release which supports larger screen devices and introduces many new user interface features, support for multi-core processors (like the Tegra 2) and hardware acceleration for graphics.
Honeycomb 3.1, released in May 2011, added support for extra input devices and the Google Movies and Books apps.
Honeycomb 3.2, released in July 2011, added optimization for a broader range of screen sizes, loading media files directly from SD card, and an extended screen support API. The improvements introduced in Honeycomb 3.2 are what made telyHD possible.
Ice Cream Sandwich, announced on October 19, 2011, brought Honeycomb features to smartphones and added new features including facial recognition unlock, network data usage monitoring and control, unified social networking contacts, photography enhancements, offline email searching, app folders, and information sharing using Near Field Communications.
