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Jan.10th.2012


Lenovo is entering the Smart TV category with fanfare and has unveiled the world’s first Smart TV to be powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the K91.

The 55" Smart TV is powered by QualComm’s 8060 Snapdragon dual-core CPU and blends the lines between traditional TV, Video On Demand and internet applications.

Instead of running on Google’s own Google TV platform (which is based on Android 3.1 Honeycomb), Lenovo has customized Google’s Android 4.0 operating system to help it stand out from the oncoming rush of Google TVs made by LG, Sony and Samsung.

Last week LG announced that it will join Google’s existing TV partners Samsung, Sony and Vizio with a new line of Google TVs that will run on its own L9 chipset. LG’s Google TV will be debuted at CES alongside new Google TV devices from Samsung, Sony and Vizio.

Lenovo boasts that its K91 TV will offer "online HD VOD ... tailored to an individual consumer’s viewing history, and delivers the best picture and audio quality with 3D FPR technology delivering flicker-free video on a full HD IPS panel at 240hz with SRS TruSurround."

Consumers will be able to run thousands of applications and games from the Android Market

and Lenovo’s own store on the TV. Other features include a built-in 5MP webcam, facial recognition for parental control, cloud storage and file sharing between the TV and a tablet, smartphone or PC.

Lenovo will also join a number of other TV manufacturers in offering voice control with natural language processing and speech recognition technology via a smart remote.