Cube has been offering some of the better Chinese tablets I’ve seen in recent months. Now the company is planning to enter the TV box space with a new Android media player called the Cube A1. It’s a small box that looks like a WiFi router, but which is designed to let you run Android […]
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Nuvola NP-1 is a $299 Android media player with a Tegra 4 chip
Digital entertainment company NanoTech plans to launch an Android-powered device that you can use to stream 4K Ultra HD movies to your TV. It’s called the Nuvola NP-1, and it’s expected to ship in August. NanoTech is taking pre-orders for $299, but your card won’t be charged until the box ships. The Nuvola NP-1 is […]
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Cube unveils kit that turns Android tablets into TV boxes
Chinese tablet maker Cube is branching out into the set-top-box space… kind of. Rather than introduce a standalone box that lets you run Android apps on a big-screen TV, the company is introducing a new accessory that turns your existing tablet into a TV box. The kit includes a wireless remote control and an adapter […]
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MINIX Neo X7 Android TV box coming soon for around $140
There’s no shortage of companies producing small Android-powered boxes which let you run apps on your TV. But MINIX has earned a bit of a reputation for delivering models which perform better than most. And now the company’s back with a new model that seems to have best-in-class hardware. The MINIX Neo X7 is due […]
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Archos TV Connect now available in Europe for €150
The Archos TV Connect is an Android box that you stick on top of your TV to run games, stream videos, or interact with other Android apps on your TV. It also comes with a wireless remote which you can use as a keyboard, game controller, or media remote. Archos introduced the TV Connect in […]
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JW-11 is a cheap, Linux-friendly ARM PC with a 2.5″ drive bay
Like the idea of using a small ARM-based device as a low-power desktop or media center computer, but don’t want to rely on the 4GB to 16GB of storage that usually comes with an Android TV box? The JW-11 is a box with an low-power processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of built-in storage, and a […]
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Ubuntu up and running on Android mini PCs with RK3188 chips
Rockchip’s RK3188 quad-core processor is one of the fastest ARM Cortex-A9 chips on the market. But up until now if you’ve had a tablet, TV stick, or other devices with an RK3188 chip, you’ve probably only been able to run Android on it. Now you can also run Ubuntu, and possibly other Linux-based operating systems […]
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Jynxbox adds 4 new Android TV boxes to its lineup
Jynxbox offers a line of Android-powered devices that let you run apps on your TV. There are a lot of those around, but the Jynxbox Android HD stood out from the crowd a bit, since it was designed specifically to run the XBMC media center app. Now the folks at XBMC Android report that Jynxbox […]
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$123 Pandora TV Box brings Android games, video chat, more to your TV
The Pandora TV Box is a device that sits on top of your TV and turns it into an Android-powered computer. It has a camera that faces forward, letting you use the device to make video calls. You can stream internet video or surf the web. What makes this model special is that it comes […]
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Kingnovel K-R42-1 Android TV box with RK3188 CPU, Ethernet jack
A growing number of companies are using the powerful Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core processor in small boxes designed to run Android apps on your TV. But many of those small boxes are so small that there’s only room for a few USB ports, a microSD card slot,  HDMI output, and not much else. The Tronsmart […]
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Xiaomi Box Android TV box now available outside of China… sort of
The Xiaomi Box is an inexpensive device which you can plug into a TV to run Android apps and stream internet video on a TV. We’ve seen a lot of those in the past year or so. But this one is the first to come from Xiaomi, a Chinese hardware and software company known for […]
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A19 Android TV box with dual-core CPU, VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, more
Boxes that let you run Android apps on your TV aren’t hard to find these days. But it can be a bit tougher to find one with an Ethernet jack… especially one that also has a VGA port, S/PDIF output, an HDMI port, and A/V jack for composite cables. The Jesurun A19 Android TV box […]