Why It’s Time to Update Your Old Chromecast
It’s been six long years since Google first unveiled their Chromecast streaming stick. Although most of you probably have already moved on to something better – for example, a more powerful “puck” in the form of aChromecast third generation or Chromecast Ultra, – if you have not already done so, you now have another reason to make the switch: Google More is not going to update your old Chromecast.
There is a small caveat in this proposal. While it looks like your first generation Chromecast won’t get any extra features as it currently uses firmware version 1.36.157768 and all other Chromecast devices (for now) are version 1.40.156414, Google will update your old device anyway. with critical fixes as needed. As the company told 9to5Google :
“Chromecast recently celebrated its sixth birthday. We are very pleased that some of our early adopters are still using the first generation device and we continue to update it with fixes and security fixes. ”
Usually at this point, we also recommend checking out any previews or beta versions of new Chromecast updates in the hopes that this might be your ticket to the newest and best features. However, even this option is missing as the previewer for the original Chromecast only has OS version 1.36.159268, which is still well behind the software version available for all modern Chromecast.
In other words, it might be time to ditch the old Chromecast for good if you’re a big fan of features. If you don’t care about these things (like weather news or speaker groups ) and just want to keep streaming as usual, your old Chromecast will work fine. Google doesn’t kill it . However, the $ 35 Google latest update – for the same price as the original Chromecast – gives you software updates and advanced hardware features like 1080p streaming at 60fps (not 30fps), wireless network adapter and support for faster 5GHz connections, and a completely new design.