<P> On November 19, 2014, Amazon released a smaller version of the Fire TV called the Fire TV Stick . Codenamed "Montoya", it is an HDMI - port plug - in device that replicates much of the functionality of the larger Fire TV . Its hardware is slightly different, it has 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal storage, weighs 0.9 oz . (25.1 g) and it uses a Broadcom BCM28155 dual - core 1.0 GHz Cortex - A9 processor and a Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU . Wireless hardware includes a dual - band 802.11 a / b / g / n Wi - Fi with 2x2 MIMO and Bluetooth 3.0 The Fire TV Stick is bundled with a remote control, in either of two variants; one with voice search on the remote and one without . </P> <P> On October 20, 2016, Amazon released Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, codenamed "Tank". Other than the new remote, the updates include MediaTek MT8127D Quad - core ARM 1.3 GHz processor with a Mali - 450 MP4 GPU, and support for the H. 265 (HEVC) codec . Wireless hardware upgrades includes a dual - band 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac Wi - Fi with 2x2 MIMO and Bluetooth 4.1 . It retains the 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage and weighs slightly more at 1.1 oz . (32.0 g). </P> <P> The device initially ran Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean 4.2 . According to Amazon, that made it "simple for developers to port their services and games over to Fire TV ." </P> <P> In November 2017, Amazon launched the Fire TV version of the Amazon Silk web browser . In December 2017, Mozilla launched a Fire TV version of the Mozilla Firefox browser . </P>

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