The Chromecast is a device manufactured by Google, and with which you can send content from your mobile phone, your tablet or your PC to the television to which it is connected. With this, if you have found a video on YouTube that you want to share with the rest of the room or see on the big screen, you can do it in an extremely simple way.
The device itself is what is called a dongle, which is very similar to a USB stick, but with an HDMI connection and a small computer inside to perform its functions. What you have to do is simply connect this HDMI stick to the TV, link it to your home WiFi connection and send content.
And these are two of its main advantages, that you do not need to connect by cable to the device from which you want to send content nor do you have to navigate through any internal operating system of the stick as happens with the Amazon Fire TV Stick and some of its alternatives. You simply press the sync button with the Chromecast on your mobile device and that’s it. But that does not mean that the Chromecast is completely wireless, since it has a power cable with which you have to connect it to a socket. Once you have done it and configured it, you can send content from Android devices starting with version 4.0.3 for mobile phones or tablets, iOS starting with version 7.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod, the Chrome browser, and computers with the system ChromeOS operating system.
