What's up guys Chigz here from Chigz Tech Reviews.
Today I got my hands on the brand new X2 Pro. NNow this is a new mini full Android TV box with a very
unique design very portable and small in size but it's powered by my favorite s9
0 5 X 2 quad-core CPU with a mallet g3 1 you've got 4 gigs of DDR 4 RAM 32 gigs
of internal storage with dual band Wi-Fi AC you have a Gigabit LAN a Bluetooth
version 4.2 this is running full Android version 9 PI supports 4k HDR at 60
frames per second with HDMI version 2.0 and 5.1 surround sound now the box
itself has a shiny finish on the top with chrome bezels looks quite nice
x2 Pro logo on the top now on the front of the box you got micro SD card slot a
standard USB port and a USB 3 port and I do like the convenience of having
expansion ports on the front of the box now if we keep going and on the side we
have a micro USB power port an AV out infrared port and looks like a power
indicator just there on the back we've got a reset hole a plugin for your
antenna and I'll show you you've got a small antenna which I'm just going to
plug in so we've got an external Wi-Fi antenna it's kind of tiny but we will
see how it performs in a bit Gigabit LAN very happy to see that you've got your
optical in for your audio some ventilation and HDMI is on the side so
that brings us back to the front totally different design quite excited to see
how this one performs now inside the box you will find user manual a short HDMI
cable here is your infrared cable for the remote control now this is an
optional cable as the TV box already has an infrared port built in for the remote
control micro USB power socket and I'll give you the voltage it's 5 volts 2500 M
a European socket and here is your remote control standard remote here
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 box really is I'll be right back so first of
all I run a boot up speed test and this TV box took 28 seconds to fully load the
home screen from a cold start and here is the home screen for this box we have
full Android version 9 desktop setup as you would find on a tablet and the first
good thing to mention is you do have your drop down status menu at the top
and bottom now let's quickly go over to the main settings and check-out system
storage info so this box has 32 gigs of internal storage from which you have 27
gigs free to use and if we have a quick looking about you will see that we are
running Android version 9 pi so let's have a quick look at some of the new
features you've got USB mode where you can change the USB to host OTG MTP etc
you can also customize how the device powers on so you have the option to
allow it to go automatically to standby until the user wakes it up now here are
the X 2 settings beginning with the root switch so you can actually install and
uninstall route as you wish and you can also see the route status on the status
bar at the top you also have a file server client option where you can
configure a Samba NFS or CFS you got playback settings thereafter which will
give you automatic framerate you also have hardware monitor which is one of my
recent favorite options it allows you to see on the status bar at the top
information on your network IP address MAC addresses CPU temperatures and lots
more and these switches are very simple to turn on and off as required there is
also a wireless assistant app which allows you to control the TV box from
your smartphone and if that's not enough you also have your gamepad settings
along with debug and user scripts and an option to add and remove the system bars
and finally input device settings now let's have a look at the complete system
apps here are all the apps available on this box as standard and there aren't
many popular apps to begin with but you do have the most important full version
of the Google Play Store where you can go ahead
download any app or game you like now this TV box does not come with any
option for screen mirroring but you do have the option to download air screen
which is a free app available from the Play Store so now I'm going to play some
4k video samples from a USB Drive and I will be doing this with Kodi media
player which I am about to download and install from the Play Store so let's
jump straight to the 4k video test and first of all we're going to begin with a
high bitrate 4k jellyfish demo and this one is a hundred and sixty megabits per
second and as you can see the playback is very smooth as expected
now this TV box comes pre-installed with the standard tablet version of YouTube
it's basically limited to 1080p at 60 frames per second and this is what the
quality looks like
now if you want YouTube 4k and also Netflix which is not available from the
Play Store then you need to download aptoide TV app and then you need to go
ahead and install YouTube TV and Netflix and when installing Netflix you do need
to install an older version which is 6.25 dated February 6 so first of all
we're going to test out the YouTube TV version we just downloaded which
supports 4k video
the world burns you have no idea of what men are capable of is this where it
happens
welcome America's favorite game show should she go Netflix is working
absolutely fine but with a maximum resolution of 480p
and Amazon Prime video is also working at a maximum resolution of 480 P so
moving on now to the gaming test beginning with
and pub t-mobile's has detected medium settings for this device so for your
advanced users DRM info shows google-wide vind level 3 and here is
cpu-z where you can check out the clock speeds
and you can see that this is running the Mallee g3 1 and this box does have a
route switch so it's up to you to decide whether your box is routed or not and in
the Wi-Fi speed test we've got download speeds of 65 and upload speeds of 18
megabits per second and the top speeds we currently get in our office is
between 67 to 70 megabits per second so that brings us to our benchmarks
beginning with a Geekbench multi score of 21 21 and in the antutu benchmark
test we achieved 61 K so let's see how this compares with the others so here is
my top performing 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 new x2 Pro
has taken position 6 on this chart with a rating of eight point nine out of ten
now the top 10 of this chart has been slightly reshuffled if you have a box
which would give you a licensed Netflix 4k experience that box definitely
deserves to be ranked higher and these boxes are Nvidia shield TV the Shamy box
S and the fire TV stick 4k these boxes will give you a licensed official
experience for Netflix 4k YouTube and Amazon Prime video now you can view the
full versions of all my charts online at chick's techcom and read them at your
leisure so there you have it guys that was the new x2 Pro so this is another
solid performing s90 5 X 2 box now using the default apps this box will give you
1080p YouTube no Netflix support an Amazon Prime video at 480p after
downloading aptoide TV and installing the necess
apps you can then have 4k streaming on YouTube which was very nice and smooth
and working Netflix and Amazon Prime video at 480p max gaming wise you can
play any game you like nice and smooth with no lag or frame drops you also have
very good Wi-Fi and land speeds supports USB 3 micro SD and bluetooth version 4.2
bottom line a newly designed compact TV box which offers a great performance
with great Wi-Fi speeds lots of customization options such as roots
which auto framerate hardware status monitor full Android version 9 desktop
mode and lots more and with that being said I'll 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 I'll see you guys in the
next one
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