Smarty McTVface?
By Rob Thubron,
Why it matters: OnePlus’ announcement that it would be expanding into
the smart TV arena, possibly next year, has been met with equal parts
interest and excitement. We still don’t know too many details about its
first television, but you could decide what it's called.

Now that founder and CEO Pete Lau has revealed its smart TVs plans on
the company’s forums, OnePlus is looking for a better name than the
OnePlus TV. Rather than picking one itself, the Chinese firm is running a
competition that asks the general public to come up with something
catchy.
The OnePlus team itself will be choosing what it considers the best
entries. The top ten favorites will make it through to the next round,
and each person will receive a pair of OnePlus Bullet Wireless
earphones.
OnePlus is also choosing ten entries from its Chinese community. A
grand-prize winner will be picked from these twenty combined finalists,
with the lucky person receiving the first OnePlus TV, when it’s ready,
and an all-expenses-paid trip to the television’s launch event. You can
enter the competition, which closes on October 17, here. The ten
finalists will be announced on October 31, with the overall winner set
to be revealed before December 17.
Since Lau announced the TV, new details have been revealed in his
interview with PCMag. We now know it will be a 4K LED model that runs
another company’s OS, rather than one created by OnePlus. Lau wouldn’t
say who this “big, mainstream provider” would be, but Android TV seems
likely. He also described it as including far-field microphones that
allow the television to answer questions and control compatible devices
from anywhere in the house, making it both a virtual assistant and a
television.
"In my mobile phone, I have my calendar agenda. When I get up in the
morning, the agenda will pop up in the TV with the local time, weather,
temperature, my hotel information, and recommendations for how to
dress," he told the publication.
This isn’t the only competition OnePlus is running right now. The
company has teamed up with Google for mobile web game Crackables, where
one person can win a gaming setup worth $30,000.
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