Realme will announce its first TV streaming stick this week. The device will launch as the Realme 4K Google TV Stick and it will run Google TV out of the box, making it the second portable streaming device that runs Google TV. When Realme’s streaming dongle arrives, it will come with a feature that puts it ahead of Google’s own portable streaming device, the Chromecast with Google TV.
One common user complaint of streaming dongles such as the Mi TV Stick and the Chromecast with Google TV is their abysmal storage capacity. Both aforementioned streaming devices have just 8GB of onboard storage, of which less than that is user-accessible out of the box. What is worse is that there is no cheap way to add extra storage.
The result of this meagre storage capacity is having insufficient space after installing a few apps. Users have to uninstall apps or games before they can install new ones or even update old ones. Yes, once you have insufficient storage, it is almost impossible to install an update for an app.
Realme is changing that with its own Google TV stick which has been reported will have 16GB of onboard storage, double that of the Chromecast with Google TV. While users will have less than 16GB of storage out of the box, we presume there will be at least 12GB of user-accessible storage space, more than double the 5GB of storage available out of the box on the Chromecast with Google TV.
At the moment, we don’t know how much the Realme 4K Google TV Stick will cost. It most likely will sell for higher than ₹2,999 (~$40), the price tag of the Mi TV Stick in India, which has an output of 1080p. However, there are reports Realme’s device will be priced under ₹5000 (~$68). For context, the Chromecast with Google TV is sold for $50 which converts to about ₹3685. If it were sold in India, it would cost more than that.
Will you purchase the Realme 4K Google TV Stick when it launches?
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