Sure are loads of Smart TVs and Android TVs including the new brands I have never seen before. Companies such as Ainol, Xiaomi, and various Android TVs like the E-Box, Xiaomi TV Boxes and other stuffs which were being shown at the Singapore Expo, demonstrating on various apps where you can watch whatever you want. Not to mention that certain remote controls have the abilities to do mouse nagivation in the way of the Wii Remote but you do not want to play Android games with that, right? One of the Android TVs that is completely different is the one from Xiaomi. The interface is different and you don't see the common buttons on the bottom of the screen such as the back button, the home button and the button that opens up the list of apps you have open. Not to mention that the settings window is completely different.
One cool thing about the Android TVs or Android Mini-PCs is that you can use Miracast where you can connect whatever Android or IOS device wirelessly to it as long as your device supports it. Unfortunately for me, my IOS and Android devices are like too old to support that and it was kind of regretful that I was not able to fulfill my curiosity and future plans with the use of Miracast. The problem is that the OS on my devices is quite old enough that I am not able to get the clean gameplay video capture of various Android and IOS games I have played. Sure, you can use Miracast on any device but depending on the specs, the performance will be good or perhaps unstable.
Plus, you can use the USB storage devices and USB mouse and keyboard on those Android smart TVs. The specs we already saw were good with quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM but they are not on par with the superior smartphone specs we see today.
