Google TV Remote now available for iOS devices

If you happen to own a Google TV-branded product, the official remote app released last December on Android devices is now available free on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad running iOS 3 or higher.

Sporting a plethora of buttons, the program packs in channel surfing, DVR access, voice search and other features from the Android version minus the ability to push web pages from your iPhone to a Google TV device.

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Logitech Revue with Google TV Coming This Month for $299

I think this is going to change everything! Two days ago, we broke the news about Google TV's min-website to introduce the all-new Google TV which will beat Apple's one. Today, Logitech's Revue Google TV box (with 1.2Ghz Intel Atom CE4100 processor) is now available for pre-order for $299, unveiling a bunch of new features. If you pre-order today, you will get by the end of the month, Sept. 29 to be exact.

Logitech Revue comes with Google TV box, keyboard with integrated touch and directional pad, an HDMI cable, one IR blaster and a couple of AA batteries. Also other accessories are available for pre-orders including a $149 webcam and larget keyboard for $99.

The TV Cam features a Carl Zeiss lens and is designed for video chatting from the comfort of your living room (Other cameras won't work, because Logitech's Google TV camera has built-in hardware compression for the video). You will be able to video chat with any other Logitech camera

Content can also be pushed from your PC, allowing easy local streaming. It works with all codecs extensions as MP3, AAC, JPEG, MKV. Oh, as mentioned before, you can fling content from a phone to Google TV. About the apps, it will run Android-based apps which will be available from a Google TV market. All the apps demonstrated seemed pretty fast and fluid.

You can pre-order Logitech Revuew with Google TV for $299 and will be delivered to you on September 29th. Pre-order are available on the official website, go ahead, get a one (forget about Apple's TV) and tell us what you think? [via Engadget]

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Google Launches Google TV Website with Details; Apple May Lose

Google today has launched an extensive site for their Google TV. With the launch of the site, so developers are getting ready to announce their apps for Google TV. There still no price or date known but the site is giving a good look at some features especially when considered against the new Apple TV (will Apple lose the war?).

So far, we’ve seen announcements from Twitter, Pandora, CNBC, Vevo and Netflix. Watch the embedded video and look at the applications, you will be able to expand your TV in any way you want using these applications (This is the real difference between Google & Apple's TV) but Apple can also do this, they just need to enable it and they better do it soon before the cameras go away.

Google will also allows users with iOS & Android devices to serve as a remote for their Google TV including voice search & the ability to link multiple phones with a single Google TV. Also as noticed by CrunchGear, you will be able to make video calls from your Google TV, yes the same as FaceTime but on a big screen. It will even have an AirPlay feature called flinging, which will differentiate itself by flinging whole websites and not just the certain type of video content playable by Apple's TV.

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