Xiaomi has teamed with Google to bring the Mi Box 4K Android TV. Xiaomi has also announced it will also be the first OEM to team up with Google for its new VR platform called Daydream which you click the link to learn more about that.
This new box will be HDR TV-ready(High Dynamic Range) and 4K compatible. It will be able to feed UHD (4K) video content at 60fps for the sharpest and smoothest video playback quality. For I/O HDMI 2.0a, a new standard of HDTV that’ll be enabled with the release of Android N.Services like YouTube, Netflix, Vudu, and FandangoNOW are onboard for the new HDMI standard and HDR10 standard.
The Mi Box will be Android TV powered, so you’ll have the Google Play store in order to consume and install the best Android games and apps for TVs that developed for. The box will have a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and Mali 450 GPU with 2GB of DDR3 RAM to work with (likly to mediatek or broadcom chip) and 8GB of onboard storage. You’ll be able to insert a USB flash-drive in order to increase the amount of onboard storage or to consume other media.
Accessories would include a Bluetooth voice remote like the Amazon Fire TV or new Apple TV with Siri. There is also talk of a Mi Game Controller which could be Bluetooth, to play games directly on your TV via your Android TV powered by Mi Box. The Xiaomi Mi Box is launching in the US, which is a bigger deal because this could be Xiaomi’s big entry into the US market. There is no release date or price just yet, but you can expect it to be reasonable given Xiaomi’s history of providing affordable devices.