I really love to have this gadget from smart broand called SmartBro Surf TV is Smart’s attempt to create a market from those who cannot still afford to buy a brand new PC.

Very few Filipino households have a PC at home. The numbers could be in the range of 1.5 – 2 million households so there’s a huge opportunity to sell more.

It have a beautiful white box contains an embedded processor that connects to a SmartBro Plug-it via USB and broadcasts the video to a monitor or a TV. As such, it has a number of limitations:

also Surf TV is a revolutionary device that converts your favorite TV (audio/video inputs) into an internet hub! Imagine that you can also hook this device to your car LCD and surf the net on the go as well! The device uses a built-in operating system see?, which has Pinoycentric apps and webapps installed. Since Smart hasn’t given me this shiznity-gadget for review purposes yet, I cannot comment on its multitasking and memory capabilities.One of the imminent topics that may be brought out when it comes to SmartBro’s service though is its reliability. Related questions like ” How’s the speed of video and audio streaming?”, “What is the ‘future’ of SurfTV?” or “Is the firmware even upgradable?’ are likely for interested buyers.

• No internal storage. Saving files may be made via an external storage like a Flash drive or an external HDD.
• The built-in browser is Opera but there are no installed plugins so Flash is not supported.
• Supported display resolution is low and probably just 800×600 pixels.
• The over-all system performance seems a bit slow.

Smart company is offering the Surf TV for about Php4,500 which includes the box, keyboard, mouse, remote and the SmartBro Plug-it. If you break it down per item, the box alone might cost about Php3,500 (since the 3G dongle is around Php1k). so it is on your decision to choose if buy the package or break it... so i plan to buy this gadget soon as i have enough money