Seemingly out of the blue, Lenovo has released a new product that nobody had quite expected. The Lenovo Cast is a pocket-sized wireless media streamer that works very similarly to Google’s Chromecast.
Seemingly destined to serve the Chinese market only, where Google’s services such as Android (in which Chromecast is heavily reliant upon), the Lenovo Cast allows you to take any content on your smartphone or tablet and cast it to a HDTV. Just like the Chromecast, it works on any HDTV with at least one HDMI port, allowing you to easily share photos and videos to a group of people without having to crowd over your small screen.
Fitted with two high-performance dual-band WiFi antennas (2.4GHz and 5GHz), they significantly reduce signal interference, and offer a streaming range of up to 20m and penetrate up to two walls. This allows you to easily send both online and offline content to the HDTV even if you’re in a different room. They also ensure very low latency in streaming (below 200ms). Besides that, the Lenovo Cast is also designed to be easy to use, offering a painless plug-and-play experience – users only need to plug the Cast to a HDTV, link their mobile device and then cast any content to the big screen up to a maximum resolution of 1080p.
The Lenovo Cast is also DLNA and Miracast-certified, allowing virtually any device that supports these two wireless standards to work with the Lenovo Cast. The Chinese company also adds that the Cast works with any Android device running Android 4.3 and above, and selected Windows 8.1 and iOS devices. And, at just 50g and a mere 70mm in diameter, the Cast is very pocketable. Each Lenovo Cast is bundled with a 1m USB to micro-USB cable for power, a 1m HDMI to micro-HDMI cable, and a bracket to place the Cast at the back of a HDTV.
At launch, the Lenovo Cast’s pricing and availability details were not revealed – we’ll update this post with more information as they arrive.
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