The flood of news from the Google I / O 2016 developer event will not stop quickly, and yesterday's presentation led by Sundar Pichai is just a preview of all that will be revealed. An example is that a new player with Android TV has been made official there: Xiaomi Mi Box, a device with the most interesting features.
Throughout yesterday it was commented that the Chinese company, led by a former Google employee for everything that has to do with the international market (Hugo Barra), would be part of the Mountain View event. And so it has been, but not with a television as many believed, but with a “set-top box” that it uses inside Android TV with the same applications.
In addition to the commented operating system of Xiaomi Mi Box, which already indicates where the shots go, this model has some characteristics that make it the most interesting, such as that the image quality it allows is 4K (with HDR, so we speak that it is the best on the market), and always with an HDMI connection. But, in addition, the remote control that it includes uses Bluetooth technology, which makes it possible to voice control of the actions carried out with the applications that can be used in the player from the Play Store - in the purest Apple TV style.
High quality sound
This is another element that is important to comment on about Xiaomi Mi Box, since the new device that comes from the Chinese company, is that the DTS 2.0 compatibility it's confirmed. And, in addition, the number of channels it supports is 7.1, so it can be used with advanced speaker sets that are now had in homes.
Other characteristics of Xiaomi Mi Box that should be known are those that we list below and that demonstrate that it is a well finished device:
- 2 GHz quad-core processor with Cortex-A53 architecture
- Mali-450 GPU at 700 MHz
- 2 GB of RAM
- Dimensions: 101 x 101 x 19,5 mm
- Weight: 176,5 grams
- 8GB storage expandable using USB sticks
- Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI 2.0a and USB 2.0
- Dual Band WiFi
A very interesting player is this Xiaomi Mi Box, which comes with Android TV version 6.0, and which is compatible with accessories such as a game controller from the company itself called My Game Controller. A small model but compatible with 4K HDR quality this one that has been known at the Google developers event, so if its price is not very high - it is unknown at the moment - it can be an excellent purchase option. Its arrival on the market has been indicated that it will take place at the end of this year 2016.