Facebook Ripley:features, price,specs, release date,every thing you need to know

ByLinky Johnson 2019-06-15 523

Facebook is a huge and constantly growing company. Beyond its popular social network, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg has tried with more or less success to expand into other areas of our daily lives. Its greatest successes come from the purchase of companies such as WhatsApp or Instagram. But it also has shadows. The scandals by the attacks and leaks of data, espionage to what we say and failed launches like that already distant HTC First are the counterpoint of their great successes.

That's why we don't know which path they can take in their new development. And if a few days ago we saw how they aimed at the fashion of intelligent loudspeakers with Portal, now it has filtered out that could be working on a new device of which we know the code name: Ripley.

Ripley - a multimedia centre？

With nothing to do with Alien and Sigourney Weaver, the new device echoed in Cheddar, could be destined for use next to the TV. It would be something like an add-on to turn any TV into a smart one and give it more multimedia capabilities.

Rumor has it that it would be a kind of device designed to be placed not next to the TV, but on top of it. With those words many of us can think of one of those primitive webcams that we bought to use with computers when they were not integrated and that's where the clues can go.

A small device equipped with a camera and microphone designed to be able to access video services from any television, such as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video... what would become a kind of set-top-box, an area in which we find great proposals. In addition, the presence of the camera and microphone would allow video calls to be made from the television set itself.

Facebook: Set-Top-Box könnte günstiger sein als Portal und Portal Plus

Internally, the Ripley Codename can be used to display some of the information as a Portal and Portal Plus, which costs 199 US-Dollar 349. In addition, you can Facebook with the TV-Set-Top-Box in Konkurrenz for other applications such as Apple, Roku or Amazon. Watch is integrated into the Portal Manager. Weitere Streamingdienste sollen langfristig dazukommen.

Little else is known about "Ripley". A development that is still at an early stage and that could apparently reach the market in 2019, with a presentation that would take place at the F8 Facebook conference. We will have to wait.

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