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Samsung's not content with just making smart TVs, taking another lunge into your living room with HomeSync, an Android-powered media hub.
The glossy black box, announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, has an HDMI connection, but also hooks up to other gadgets over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The HomeSync streams Android movies, TV shows and games, but Samsung promises the system will also work with Galaxy smart phones, giving smart phone owners the power to beam their home movies or photos onto the big screen.
Samsung says the HomeSync will feature a 'Jelly Bean media player', so while there's no detail yet on the HomeSync's interface, it should be broadly familiar to anyone who's toyed around with Android before. Access to the Google Play store is also confirmed.
You get up to eight separate accounts on one device, so each family member or flat-mate can create their own space on the HomeSync's 1TB hard drive. You can share stored files with another account, or if you're concealing footage you'd rather keep private, there's the option to lock your data down with file encryption and user IDs.
Powering the system is a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, while other hardware niceties include USB 3.0, micro USB and an optical audio connection.
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