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Walmart has a new $15 streaming stick with Google TV
The Chromecast competitor lets you stream everything from Disney+ to Netflix in full HD
If you’re rolling with an older TV, you likely need an external streaming device in order to watch content via services like Disney+ and Netflix. Luckily, there are now streaming sticks that can help you access multiple services at once — no need to use up all of your TV’s valuable connection ports. The latest one of these is the Google TV Full HD Streaming Device, which Walmart is now selling at a budget-friendly price in time for the holiday season.
Walmart's incredibly affordable 4K Android TV box just got even cheaper
At this price, why wouldn't you buy one?
Walmart released a 4K-capable streaming box under its Onn brand earlier this year, and to our surprise, it was actually pretty great. It undercut Google’s latest Chromecast by $20 while featuring excellent image quality and performance — the two most important factors for any TV-focused gadget. It was already comfortably in the “impulse buy” zone, but if you’ve been waiting for it to drop even lower, your time has finally come.
Review: Forget the Chromecast, Walmart's Onn Android TV is cheaper and just as good
It's practically the same thing, but almost half the price
While smartphones regularly threaten to get more expensive every year, somehow the market for set-top boxes and HDMI dongles is dropping to seemingly impossible lows. When we were introduced to the Chromecast with Google TV last year, with 4K HDR support and the full capabilities of Android TV, it felt like a $50 gadget would be the best we could ask for. As it turns out, a new contender with similar specs and an even lower price has come from an unlikely source: Walmart... And it's pretty damn good.
Walmart's new 4K Android TV box is out, and it's $20 less than a Chromecast with Google TV
Alongside an even cheaper 1080p streaming stick
Android TV continues to grow as a platform, spurred on by the success of last year's Chromecast with Google TV. That device managed to undercut the old 4K-ready Chromecast Ultra by $20, making it an easy way to grab a streaming stick for your television without paying an arm and a leg. If that price is still too steep to justify throwing a media player in your spare bedroom, Walmart has the gadget for you. Its new Onn-branded 4K Android TV device is officially on sale for just $29.
Walmart is known to offer products at jaw-droppingly low prices, and it has chalked out a similar strategy for its upcoming Android TV box. The 4K Onn-branded device looks set to undercut popular offerings like the Chromecast with Google TV and Tivo Stream 4K.
Onn is Walmart's in-house brand of electronics, and it currently offers a wide range of products, including TVs, headphones, speakers, and even tablets that compete with Amazon's Fire lineup. Further expanding its scope, the brand is preparing to release a seemingly affordable Android TV stick that may prove to be competition for the Amazon Fire TV Stick and the Google Chromecast 3rd Gen.
Last year, Walmart released the surprisingly competent Onn 8 Android tablet. A year later, Walmart is launching more Onn tablets, but these are Onn Pro. How "pro" are we talking here? USB-C, Android 10, and higher screen resolutions. Calling that "pro" might be a stretch, but this is Walmart.
Black Friday has come and gone, but we're not done with pre-holiday deals by a long shot. Cyber Monday is upon us, and the deals refuse to quit. A whole bunch of what we're seeing today is an extension of sales that have been running since last week, but there's plenty of new stuff, too. Here, for your convenience, we've rounded up all the best deals we've spotted.We always try to give you a sense of how good a deal really is by avoiding comparisons to MSRP where they're not useful; if an item's MSRP is $300 but it usually sells for $250, a sale price of $200 is $50 off, not $100. This list is no different: sales are compared to street prices wherever possible, and we explicitly label comparisons to MSRP when we can't.
Amazon has mastered the art of selling cheap Android tablets. The company shipped roughly 11.9 million tablets in 2018, passed only by Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. The combination of decent performance, Alexa integration, and low prices have made the success of the Fire lineup difficult to copy.Walmart is already competing with Amazon on several fronts, so it only makes sense that the company would try to make tablets too. The Walmart "Onn" comes in two sizes, 8 inches and 10 inches, intended to compete with the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10, respectively. I bought the $65 8-inch model for review, and while it won't break any speed records, it undercuts the Fire HD 8 and has a better software experience to boot.