Android TV, Google TV remote control will be built into Android phones

Lost your TV remote? If you have a device running Google TV or Android TV, you can use your phone instead.

A new feature will soon be built into Android phones: remote control functions for smart TVs and streamers that run Google TV or Android TV. You can use your phone to control TV power, move around TV menus and use the phone’s keyboard to more easily enter usernames, passwords and search terms. 

Google says the functionality will work for the more than 80 million active devices run its Android TV smart TV operating system or its new variant, Google TV. In the US that includes the Chromecast with Google TV and Nvidia Shield TV streamers as well as TVs made by Sony, TCL and Hisense.

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