The streaming device market is slowly filling up with a few peachy options for 4K streaming media players, including the Chromecast with Google Television set 4K and Amazon Burn down Television Stick 4K. Walmart'due south ain challenger was certified on the Google Play Console a few days ago: a new 4K Onn Google Television streamer that costs only $20, significantly undercutting the competition. It appears Walmart is not the merely one introducing a new Google Telly box, as Xiaomi teases its own 4K-capable fix-tiptop box with a handful of software and hardware upgrades.

Xiaomi get-go launched the Mi Box Southward in 2018, which is even so available to purchase worldwide today. The company is now refreshing that streaming device in the grade of the Xiaomi TV Box S (second Gen). The prepare-peak box volition soon be available exterior of People's republic of china, every bit reported by 9to5Google, although the toll remains unknown for the time being.

One of the nearly notable upgrades hither is the new Google TV interface. Comparison Google Idiot box vs. Android TV, this means that y'all'll be able to keep track of multiple titles across various services in a unified interface, among other improvements. Additionally, the latest TV Box S features a bunch of Google's products, such as Google Assistant and Chromecast. Like the 2018 model, this supports 4K HDR with up to 60fps playback, besides as Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and Dolby Atmos.

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Specs-wise, the TV Box S (second Gen) is powered by a quad-core CPU with Cortex-A55 cores and an ARM Mali G31 MP2. In contrast, the previous version included Cortex-A53 cores and a Republic of mali-450 GPU. It also includes 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. Its Bluetooth connectivity has been upgraded to version 5.2 as opposed to the previous model'south Bluetooth iv.2.

Visually, the new streaming device looks like to the legacy model, except for the Xiaomi logo that replaces "Mi" in the latter (Xiaomi dropped that branding in 2021).

The remote has been redesigned as well, at present featuring four shortcut buttons for Netflix, Prime number Video, YouTube, and the app drawer. There's also a new shortcut for the Xiaomi TV+ app. Previously, it simply featured a Netflix button and a alive Telly push button. As before, the Google Assistant button is still at the top of the remote, correct below the power button.

There's no word on when it will be bachelor to buy globally, merely the device is now upward for grabs via AliExpress with a retail price of £100.99.