2019-02-10, 04:31
I can tell you one thing in regards to brand new Android TV devices launching with Google Certified Android Oreo or greater in 2018 / 2019.
They must be Goggle "Treble" (click) compliant, which for Android users means from that point onwards supposedly much faster Android OS updates (click) going forward independant of the hardware the OS is running on.
Along with that Goggle has mandated Treble compliant devices must run a modern v4.x Linux Kernel to plug security holes in the older v3.x Kernels.
For Sony "Master Series" TV's (click) the immediately noticable difference is the much more powerful new ARM MediaTek Chipset that includes a modern, powerful "G" series ARM Mali GPU. Combine that with optimizations in the Oreo OS and beyond and you have a much snappier device that is Treble compliant and should get OS updates much faster and for a longer period of time into the future - In theory !
They must be Goggle "Treble" (click) compliant, which for Android users means from that point onwards supposedly much faster Android OS updates (click) going forward independant of the hardware the OS is running on.
Along with that Goggle has mandated Treble compliant devices must run a modern v4.x Linux Kernel to plug security holes in the older v3.x Kernels.
For Sony "Master Series" TV's (click) the immediately noticable difference is the much more powerful new ARM MediaTek Chipset that includes a modern, powerful "G" series ARM Mali GPU. Combine that with optimizations in the Oreo OS and beyond and you have a much snappier device that is Treble compliant and should get OS updates much faster and for a longer period of time into the future - In theory !
