What's up guys Chigz here from Chigz Tech Reviews.
Well today I've got my hands on the brand new H96 mini.
Now this is a new compact full Android TV box with a very funky design.
It does say 6K Ultra HD box.
Now inside the box you will find a user manual an HDMI cable
a UK power socket and I'll give you the voltage it's 5 volts to a you also get a
standard remote control this box is powered by the very familiar allwinner
h6 quad-core CPU with the Mali T 7 xx will for kicks of ddr3 RAM 32 gigs of
internal storage dual band Wi-Fi AC you have a hundred megabyte LAN port on
Bluetooth version 4 this is running full Android version 9 PI supports 4k HDR at
60 frames per second with HDMI version 2.0 a and your 5.1 surround sound now
the box itself has a colorful shiny finish on the front we have nothing on
the side we have a standard USB 2 and a USB 3 port if we keep going you've got
an AV port 100 megabyte LAN HDMI out and your power socket and if we keep going
we've got nothing on this side and that brings us back to the front of the box
and this is what the bottom of the box looks like so without further ado let's
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 21 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 lined with
a brand new H 96 skin on top so in the top right hand corner you have your
connection information for Wi-Fi Bluetooth USB etc thereafter all the
large icons you see are fixed and cannot be changed but you do have a row of
small icons at the bottom which can be customized by hitting the plus sign and
selecting your favorite apps now let's quickly go over to the main
settings and check out the system storage info now this box has 32 gigs of
internal storage from which you have 25 gigs for you to use and if we have a
quick looking about you will see that we are running android version 9 pi now
let's take a look at the app drawer here are all the apps available on this box
our standard I have not installed anything yet and you do have quite a few
apps to get you started including Netflix Amazon Prime YouTube and of
course the full version of the Google Play Store and this box also comes with
miracast and air pin Pro which means you can screen mirror both iOS and Android
devices and I have tested this out with my p30 pro and as you can see it works
absolutely fine so now I'm going to play some 4k video samples from a USB Drive
and I will be doing this with the included kt media player which is
basically just like Kodi Media Player but if you want the official version of
Kodi just uninstall this version go to the Play Store and go ahead and download
the official Kodi version so first off we are testing the 4k high bitrate
jellyfish demo and this one is actually the 160 megabits per second file and the
playback is actually quite laggy and slow so moving on to a 4k at 60 frames
per second h.265 test and both videos that you're about to see are also
struggling to play smoothly you've got a very laggy and slow experience so moving
on now to the YouTube test you can stream a maximum of 4k but unfortunately
when you do try to play 4k it basically freezes so it seems like at this stage
that 4k video is not supported on this box this box is actually not capable or
not powerful enough to stream in 4k so now we are going to drop it down to
1080p streaming and we will see what happens
you say you're what like allergic to the world's right I guess you could say that
as we discussed 500 for the hardware and the five-man crew the other one mill
will be delivered upon receipt of the case so who are they furthermore Netflix
does seem to be working absolutely fine but you are limited to a maximum
resolution of 480 P and I also tested our Amazon Prime video and again the
maximum resolution is 480p moving on now to the gaming test
so most asphalt 8 does appear to play fine we've got an audio glitch here so
you've ever hear constant clicks or drive again so for you advanced users
DRM info shows Google Widevine level 3 and here is cpu-z
where you can check out the clock speeds and GPU information and this box does
come routed as standard in the Wi-Fi speed test we've got download speeds of
67 and upload speeds of 17 megabits per second and the top speeds we are
currently getting in our office is between 67 to 70 megabits per second so
that brings us to our benchmarks beginning with Geekbench multi score of
14 51 now the latest version of an 2 2 7 was not available at all to download
from the Play Store so I went ahead and side loaded version 6 of an T 2 which
did work and we achieved a total score of 35 K so let's see how this compares
with the others and here is 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 H 96 Mini has taken position 42 on this chart with a rating of 4 out of
10 now you can view the full versions of all my charts online at chick's tech
comm and read them at your leisure so there you have it guys that was the new
H 96 Mini now I've not reviewed a cheap TV box in a while so I thought I'd give
this one a shot well this TV box claims to be a 6k Ultra
HD box but unfortunately it cannot even play 4k video properly now you can see
the long list of cons so I'm just going to jump straight into the conclusion
bottom line this box costs around 36 dollars and for the price you're getting
a 1080p YouTube streamer with 480p on Netflix and prime you have the added
benefit of of airplay and miracast and USB 3 along
with decent Wi-Fi speeds now if you can do with those cons than fair enough it
could be the right budget box for you but personally I would spend a little
bit more money and get something with at least the s90 5 X 2 CPU 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 see you guys in the next one