Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
Google has adopted a very minimalistic and streamlined approach for its Chromecast and Google TV Streamer remotes. They are small, look slick, and have only the essential buttons (along with a couple of very annoying branded streaming ones, but we shall not speak of those) with a D-pad for navigation.
For the last five years or so, I’ve been content with these official remotes on my Chromecast with Google TV and my Google TV Streamer. They’re very ergonomic and quite reliable, and the battery lasts a really long time. But I recently got an XGIMI Vibe One projector, and I instantly noticed that it had a more useful remote. Now I wish Google offered that for its official units.