As expected, Google has launched a remote control app for Android phones that lets you control a Google TV box with your phone. The new app is available in the Android Market, and you can use it to change channels, search for content, find a video on your phone and send it to your TV using the share button.
The mobile app also works with Android’s speech recognition features, which means you can search for content by speaking into your phone’s mic. You can also bookmark content using the app by hitting the star button at any point.
Google also plans to offer an iPhone app soon.
Related, a Google TV update improves the Netflix experience, offers a picture-in-picture “dual view” option that lets you surf the web in one window while video continues to play in a smaller window, and adds a new movie search results view.
Now if only Google could get major TV networks to stop blocking the Google TV service so you could actually watch all the web video you want using a Google TV device.