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Comment by damiankennedy | Hacker News Reader

I'm confused. Why would you get one of these instead of an Android TV?

My Android TV running ICS was only 135 $NZ and I got a wireless keyboard for 70 $NZ. Now my kids play Angry Birds Space and Justin Bieber videos on TV!

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Could you link to the TV? I'm curious.

The device itself plugs into the TV's HDMI slot and looks like an oversize memory stick. I then put in my home wifi details just like you would on a phone. Then with apps like kies you can link to any other android phone or vice versa. The family windows box isn't turned on most days and when it is it just continuously downloads updates and spins the hard disk.

Any links? Where did you get it?

They're in a chain of stores in New Zealand called Warehouse Stationary.

DealExtreme always has a few different ones for sale: http://e.dx.com/albums/201207/android-4.0-mini-pc/index.html

Oh, just an ICS dongle. Thought you were talking about a full, integrated Android TV O_O

There is a bunch of such devices on dx.com, but I wouldn't be wondered if they start appearing in large department stores all over the world by now, similar to all those cheap Android based tablets you can buy everywhere now. This is essentially the same thing, only minus the display and plus the HDMI.

What's confusing? This is an article about them not releasing it for precisely that reason.

The confusing part is them announcing something that was so bad that it wasn't worth releasing. Why waste the marketing opportunity? Why take it so far along the production path? Why give themselves all of the bad press?

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