Leaked images of Google’s new Chromecast reveal a true Apple TV rival

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  • Google plans to announce a new Chromecast streaming device on September 30th.
  • Leaks of the device (codenamed "Sabrina") have been popping up for months, but the latest leaked renders appear to give us a look at Google's final design.
  • The remote for Google's new Chromecast has dedicated buttons for YouTube and Netflix.

While Apple, Amazon, and Roku were all releasing standalone streaming media players, Google was content with asking us to stick a dongle in our TV that could connect to the apps on our phone, tablet, or computer. Chromecast has always been an intriguing outlier, but recent leaks have revealed that Google is working on a media player that could finally rival the likes of the Apple TV and Fire TV, and we got our best look at it yet this week.

On Friday, WinFuture published a series of purported press renders that show off the new Chromecast (codenamed "Sabrina") and its remote. As expected, the device itself is similar in shape and in size to previous Chromecast HDMI dongles, though slightly larger and a bit more oblong. Other than that, it looks like a Chromecast, and shouldn't take up too much room behind or on the side of your TV. But what we're really interested in is the remote.

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Leaked images of Google’s new Chromecast reveal a true Apple TV rival originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 17:36:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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