Let’s start with the launch of the hardware, which can make the Android TV will settle soon and more viewers. The group of TV manufacturers starters joined the Chinese Xiaomi reflecting an increasing toll on the market of mobile devices, especially smartphones. Mi Box 4K, because that is the name of a new set top box, is a small black box with dimensions of 10 x 10 x 2 centimeters. There is a device drawing attention to himself, as Nvidia product, but probably many people will be responding. In the package you get remote control with built-in microphone cooperating with an attachment using Bluetooth, and powered by two AAA batteries – This is another difference to the Shield TV because both controllers Nvidia (pilot and pad) have built-in batteries and micro USB ports. It is worth mentioning that Xiaomi also prepared their own falls into games.
This is what the Xiaomi Mi Box 4K is delight, you can already read the name of the device. Chinese manufacturer will not be the first company to offer such features as introduced to the market almost exactly a year ago Shield TV also offers ultra high resolution 4K. Besides, it is planned to support for HDR video and playback at 60 frames per second and the presence of the port HDMI 2.0a. For efficiency Mi Box 4K will correspond to 4-core Cortex-A53 processor 2.0GHz to a pair of graphics chip Mali 450 750MHz. The whole will be supported by 2 GB of DDR3 RAM, and the user will have a (nearly) 8GB built-in memory. The specification is not currently mention of the slot for a microSD card, but no problem we can use the extra USB storage, such as USB flash drive or hard disk.
Xiaomi is famous for preparing good equipment at a low price, so it should be otherwise, and in the case of a snap Mi Box 4K. Sorry, we do not know yet when the starter goes to the markets, but we can be sure that at last it will be marketed outside China – previous versions of the set top box Xiaomi were not available anywhere else.
The second novelty is the emergence of Spotify application for Android TV – long awaited by me. It is hard to believe that so far it was not available, especially considering the rapid response team at Spotify appearance Chromecast audio, for which the support was quite quickly added to the application. Spotify for Android TV works exactly as you would expect it – it is possible independent of other devices to play music and control it, and the second of the options available is to use the services Cast and control everything from your smartphone, tablet or other gadgets. If you have a solid set of audio video, which is more than the built-in TV speakers is a way of listening to Spotify you can appeal to.
And what news will appear in the same platform Android TV at Google I / O? Probably the most important feature is picture-in-picture, which allows viewing of two materials simultaneously. Of course, one of them will be displayed in a smaller window in one corner of the screen. My expectations for the Android TV, however, are slightly larger, and besides expanding portfolio Google Play I wish, for example, the introduction of use webcams and USB applications of Hangouts or Skype. Apparently simple, convenient and engaging way to conduct video calls is not, however, currently on the list of upcoming features.
Already on the Polish market are TVs Sony and Phillips operating system based on Google, so it is worth noting, that Android TV in the near future will go on TV the following companies: Beko, Grundig and Vestel – products of these three manufacturers will be sold in Europe.
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