So today I bring you an Android Oreo upgrade video for the Xiaomi BBox 3
International version. Now this is a mid-range TV box with a great build
quality it's made by Xiaomi offers great solid Wi-Fi connection runs official
Android TV OS with Google chromecast built in if you have licensed support
for Netflix 4k and YouTube 4k along with Dolby DTS sound now this is my daily
driver I use it mainly for YouTube and Netflix 4k I love the sound and picture
quality elia produces and it runs all my third-party apps like show box and live
net TV so we are about to upgrade this box to Android version 8 in this video I
will show you what's new and we will test a performance all over again to see
if Oreo actually does give us a boost in performance so without further ado let's
begin
so first of all I ran a boot up speed test with the newly installed Oreo 8.0
and it took 31 seconds for the home screen to first appear and it took a
further 5 seconds more for all the contents to completely load so here is
the brand new home screen for the me box 3 at the top of the screen on the left
you have your search options and on the right there is notification settings and
your local time now the first row is for your apps and games combined you can add
as many shortcuts as you like and if you press on the apps icon it will show you
all the apps currently installed on the system so from here you have shortcuts
for the Play Store which remains the same this is the limited version of the
Play Store which will give you access to apps and games which are designed
specifically for Android TV OS nevertheless you can still install or
sideload any apk you want including third-party apps like share box etc the
next row is a brand new feature called play next it works similar to a playlist
so TV shows and movies which you have started watching will automatically
appear in this section and you can also manually add your favorite movie or TV
shows by long pressing the OK button over the show or movie and it will
automatically appear in the playlist so it's a very good feature I do like it
and I'm glad to see it so the next row we have is a dedicated Netflix section
showing you some recommendations on what to watch next likewise you have a
dedicated section for red wall TV YouTube Google Play Movies and a Google
music so if you hit customize you'll be able to add or remove any of these
sections so these are dedicated sections if you're not watching a Red Bull TV for
example you can switch it off or you can switch off Google music so I like the
flexibility there now here is a quick tip while we're here now if there are
sections or categories which you don't watch I would recommend you switch them
off as you only have 2 gigs of RAM and by switching off what you don't watch it
will be a much smoother experience another quick tip if you're going to
install apks or sideload them then I recommend ES File Explorer as it works
best and it's free to install from the place too
so let's test out the voice search functions search for 4k video the latest
2018 movie trailers so now we can play some 4k video samples from a USB Drive
and we're going to do that from the Kodi Media Player
so now it's time to check out the results for the various tests including
DRM Wi-Fi and benchmarks
so here is my top performing android TV box chart for 2018 showing you what's
the latest and greatest and as you can see the new upgraded Xiaomi box with
Oreo 8 has achieved position 35 on this chart which is slightly lower than the
previous firmware version 6 so the chart has certainly summed up for us the
performance with Oreo is slightly lower than the marshmallow and this is quite
noticeable when you have a number of main categories on the home screen
active and if you try scrolling through them fast you will notice it is not as
smooth as you want it to be maybe a future update will resolve this but at
the moment I recommend to keep the homescreen categories to a minimum and
then you will have no issues at all other than that this box with Oreo is
absolutely amazing Wi-Fi was stable and fast I could stream 4k or Netflix and
YouTube with no issues and the video and audio quality was superb as usual now
voice search with Google assistant makes things even better you can control
Google home gadgets around your house I was able to do all third party stuff
that we enjoy doing such as Showbox kodi builds live net TV and side loading apks
and everything works spot-on with no lag at all so overall I'm quite pleased with
the new update and I delayed the release of this video as I wanted to give it a
thorough test before going live so this box is still my daily driver so if I do
discover any further issues I will update you guys accordingly now with
that being said I'll leave the links in the description so you guys can check
this product out and if you like it you can of course go ahead and pick one up
for yourself that's all for this video don't forget to Like and subscribe thank
you so much for watching and I hope you all have a brilliant day see in the next
one guys