
As a first from Chromecast, there’s no precedent to give a comparison. The new and improved Chromecast finally bowed to pressure and tossed in a remote control. That hasn’t stopped the colored variants from being snapped up the minute they surface in online shops.
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Not that the colors really matter much, seeing how the dongle will stay hidden behind your TV pretty much till the end of time. The dongle has a smooth matte finish and comes in three flavors white, blue, and pink with matching remote controls. The underbelly houses the reset button and an indicator LED. The pebble-shaped dongle has an HDMI cable permanently attached along with a USB C port for power draw via a power adapter that’s also provided. The latest Chromecast maintains a familial resemblance to those that came before.

Google didn’t go too far out into the woods design-wise. This time around, it’s a necessity as we are going to find out. Older generation Chromecasts shipped with a power adapter but it was entirely up to you whether to use it or no.

The Chromecast with Google TV dongle comes with a remote control, a USB-A power adapter, a USB-A to USB-C cable, and two AAA batteries. The new one does a thing or two differently.

Previous Chromecasts were barebones to the point that once plugged into a TV, you’d more or less forget about it. It hasn’t escaped our attention how most reviewers are gushing about Chromecast with Google TV, but we would like to do our own bit of due diligence before we join the gush-fest. Now that the latest Chromecast is here to take back its birthright and assume the throne, it’s only fitting we put it through rigorous tests to ensure it’s the real deal.
