China's Hisense bakes Teams into Android-powered commercial displays

Would you be happy staging a Teams-powered videoconference on a hefty Android-powered touchscreen commercial display? Chinese appliance giant Hisense is betting you will be – today it announced a deal with Microsoft China to make that sort of thing possible. Hisense makes tellies, audio kit, kitchen and laundry appliances, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Quick - Ban them

Can't have evil Chinese Companies possibly getting access to teams meetings, can we?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Quick - Ban them

I'd rather ban Teams - much more beneficial to mankind.

[teknopaul]

Re: Quick - Ban them

Don't worry, everyone turns off video in Teams meetings or fakes the video, if it doesn't have a keyboard nothing interesting will be available, just your manglement's monolog: unlikely anything said will reveal any secrets, or even basic understanding.

[Anonymous Coward]

Er.... Nope.

When the screen will probably send all the audio and sound to the monster DC in China as a matter of course. Oh, and there is the slurping that Android does on behalf of Google.

Then there is the little matter of updates. As we all know from our so-called smart TV's, the apps seldom get updated and suddenly, you find that they no longer work.

So, to summarise:-

- Send data to China? Yep

- Send data to Google? Yep

- Send data to Microsoft? Yep.

That is a big failure in my eyes. It is up to Hisense to prove that they don't slurp anything.

But I'll give them a bronze star for effort.

[Michael Strorm]

Yo dawg, I heard you like "slurp" [etc]

> there is the slurping [..] It is up to Hisense to prove that they don't slurp anything.

Last night I heard my touchscreen singing a song

Ooh wee, slurpy, slurpy, cheep, cheep

Woke up this morning and my data was gone

Ooh wee, slurpy, slurpy, cheep, cheep

Slurpy, slurpy, cheep, cheep, slurp

[Tubz]

China + Microsoft + Google, talk about all your privacy spying eggs in one basket.

[Captain Scarlet]

Thinking about it

Makes sense as most solutions either have a glorified Android Tablet or a Dedicated Computer. Would prefer another vendor though.

[mikus]

At least until they end up on the next list of US import ban lists, but then they'll just become OUSKSHYTSA99 on amazon with 500k reviews.

[Anonymous Coward]

You can take Teams and put it where the Sun never shines.

[Paul Crawford]

Teams and Android together - a marriage made in hell for sure.

[JoeCool]

How integrated ?

Is it a display sized android tablet with the teams app down loaded, or does it ask you about call quality after every youtube video stream play ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not put Teams on their air conditioners?

The sound quality might be an improvement.