Xiaomi has made a few announcements today, one of which includes a rather interesting new media streaming set-top box, sort of, device called the Mi Box Mini. The Mi Box Mini is a small square box that plugs directly into your wall or power outlet. That alone makes it a bit different from the Chromecast or Fire TV Stick which plug into your TV and then require you to connect power to it. The Mi Box mini offers up a HDMI out port to connect it to your TV.
Hardware wise the Mi Box Mini packs a quad-core Cortex-A7 processor at 1.3GHz, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of storage and offers 1080p video playback with Dolby and DTS audio sound. To control the unit Xiaomi will include a Bluetooth remote that offers up all the buttons you would need for navigation. It does offer up both 2.4 and 5 Ghz Wi-Fi connections, DLNA service and Intel WiDi.
Whether or not it is coming to the sates is another thing. It will launch in China at 199 Yuan, which translates to about $33. The System is Android based and runs MIUI TV. Basically a MIUI skinned TV screen, think Amazon Fire TV type of skinning. At least that is where my brain goes.
If these do make it over to the sates in some fashion, is anyone interested in looking it over, or are you all pretty set with your Nexus Player, Chromecast, Roku and Fire TV’s?
Source: Liliputing | Giga.de (translated)
