What's up guys Chigz here from Chigz Tech Reviews
Today are for my hands on the latest MXQ Cube S10X
Now this box is running the official Android TV OS version 7.1
It's powered by the S905X Quad-Core CPU
which is the same old CPU you will find in the xiaomi box and even the packaging
reminds me of the Xiaomi box packaging now this does look like it's the
official Android TV OS but we will be confirming that a little later in the
video furthermore you have the money for 50 with 2 gigs of RAM and 16 gigs of
internal storage there is also dual band Wi-Fi with 100 megabyte LAN Bluetooth
version 4 and you have a built-in microphone and speaker 2 function that
far-field voice control so what that means is you'll be able to control this
TV box with your voice without even touching the remote control so I do look
forward to testing that out now the box also supports 4k at 60 frames per second
HDMI version 2.0 a and 5.1 surround sound now the box itself is quite
compact in size it's made completely from plastic with a matte finish mxq
logo on the top nothing on the front and on this side we have two USB ports with
a reset hole in the middle if we keep going we've got a micro SD card slot a
hundred megabyte LAN HDMI out and your power socket and on
this side there is nothing and that brings us back to the front and this is
what the bottom of the TV box looks like so inside the box you will find a user
manual HDMI cable I have a UK power adapter and the voltage is 5 volts 2 a
this also comes with a remote control which is powered by two triple A
batteries so without further ado let's go ahead and get this hooked up to my TV
and capture card and find out exactly how good this TV box really is I'll be
right back so first of all I ran a boot up speed test and this TV box took 26
seconds to fully load the home screen from a cold start and here
the homescreen for this box so this is Google's Android TV OS version 7.1 so in
the top left we have our search options and on the right you can see the local
time so the first row is your featured section showing you what to watch next
followed by a row of apps which are installed already on this box and at the
bottom you've got your settings Wi-Fi connection information and your app
drawer so first of all let's check out the settings and head straight over to
system storage info this box has 16 gigs of internal storage from which you have
11 gigs free to use now if we have a quick looking about you will see that
this is running Android version 7.1.2 now quickly going into droid settings to
show you guys something over here you can see the Netflix ESN and it says here
shall be trial followed by am logic S 10 X s 10 X is the model number of this box
but I don't understand why it says Xiaomi trial so there's a hint there
that Xiaomi is either part of MX q which is unlikely or this box is not official
so let's keep looking now another reason why this box is not running the official
version of Android TV OS is there is no Google chromecast so just above Network
it should say Google chromecast it's not there and that raises flags to me
straight away that this box is not officially Google certified now let's
have a look at the complete system apps here are all the apps available on this
box are standard I have not installed anything yet and you do have quite
minimal apps included to begin with you've got Netflix YouTube DRM info a
file manager movie player and of course the Google Play Store and this is going
to be the Android TV version of the Play Store so if I open it up just to show
you all the apps are designed to only work with Android TV OS so yes it's
quite limited range of apps and games but you can side load any app or apk you
like so now I'm going to play some 4k video samples from a USB Drive and I
will be doing this with the Kodi Media Player I just
downloaded from the Play Store so let's plate the first file
so moving on now to the YouTube test and you can stream a maximum of 4k in
YouTube so let's see how it plays
and light and overcut I'm aware your territory it's your responsibility so
fix it dealing with an expert with guns
now I'm quite pleased to say that Netflix Ultra HD 4k is supported on this
TV box so there after I had to sideload Amazon Prime video but every time I try
and play a movie or TV show I would get an error so Amazon Prime video is not
working on this box so we are now moving on to the gaming test beginning with
Crossy roads
so I have the mxq connected to my laptop via a capture card and what we're going
to be testing is the far field voice control so you'll be supposed to be able
to control your TV hands-free from across the room now that's not
completely true I have not found a way to activate that
voice control without using the remote control so usually in a Google TV box
you could just say okay Google and something would happen but as you can
see nothing has happened now what we do have here is a remote control with a
microphone button okay now this remote has a mic button but it doesn't actually
have a microphone built-in so what you do is you press this once it activates
the voice control at the bottom and then the microphone that's inside the TV box
can hear everything you're saying and you can see what happened there so far
field voice control does work but to activate it you need to press the button
once now I have used another box which uses far-field voice control it's
actually an Amazon fire cube and that box had real far-field voice control
where you don't need a remote control you can just say okay Google and it will
get activated and now I did try to go to settings and try and activate the ok
Google command but I could not find that anywhere and I did have a good look so
right now the only way to use the far field voice control is to activate it
like this first of all the latest 2019 movie trailers and you can see the
results have come up you want to do another search you press the microphone
button again what is the weather like tomorrow in London I have 24 in a low of
12 I had my I had the speaker muted so you saw that worked now another cool
feature that I have to show you is the external speaker which I've got off at
the moment so you can turn on the external speaker we got the external
speaker on so suppose you had this screen off so the television is off all
you have is your microphone in your TV box
you can actually check weather and stuff and hear everything on the speaker so
for example what is the weather like tomorrow in London tomorrow in London
it'll be mostly cloudy with a high of 24 and a low of 12 so just try something
else out tell me a joke why can't you trust in Adam because they make up
literally everything so that is what you can expect from the far field
voice-controlled it does work but it needs to be activated via the button now
for your advanced users DRM info shows Google Widevine level 1 and here is
cpu-z showing you the clock speeds firmware versions and route information
and in the Wi-Fi speed test we got download speeds of 68 and upload speeds
of 18 megabits per second and our current top speeds in our office is
between 67 to 70 megabits per second so that brings us to our benchmarks
beginning with Geekbench multi score of one zero seven nine and in the antutu
benchmark test version seven we achieved a total score of 16k but you can see the
GPU record was zero so this test as a result is inconclusive so I went ahead
and installed version 6 of anti to benchmark tests and in that version we
achieved 22 K so let's see how that compares with the others so that brings
us to my top android TV box chart of 2019 showing you the latest TV boxes and
seeing how they compare with each other and as you can see the mxq cube s 10 X
has taken position 38 at the bottom of the table with a benchmark score of 22 K
and a rating of 6 out of 10 now you can view the full versions of my charts
online at chick's tech comm and read them at your leisure so there you have
it guys that was the MX Q cube s10 X so here are my thoughts on this device you
have unofficial Android TV OS version 7 it's generally smooth in operation you
can play basic games the Box supports okay YouTube Netflix and 4k from USB
drives but personally I recommend using this box as a 1080p streamer furthermore
you have Bluetooth and great Wi-Fi speeds now the drawbacks no USB 3 not
official Android TV OS no screen mirroring option YouTube 4k is stuttery
with dropped frames as for eight is also laggy with dropped frames and Android 7
is a little outdated bottom line a modest performing box from an old s90 5x
chip this box costs around $30 and for the price you're getting a decent 1080p
streamer with a very good netflix 4k performance and to sweeten the deal you
have a great hands-free voice control system which does work very well and
with that being said I will leave the links in the description so you guys can
check this product out meanwhile thank you so much for watching and I hope you
all have a brilliant day see you in the next one guys
you