Unpacking and appearance
The millet box 3s packaging is still a typical millet style, open the packaging, we can see the millet box 3s real machine. The lower layer of the box is a remote control, power adapter and an HDMI cable.
The millet box 3s is small and lightweight, and uses the same rounded rectangle design as the previous millet box 3c, which is regarded as the ancestral appearance of millet. Body material, millet 3s uses ABS engineering plastics, the surface made a frosted treatment, but the plastic feeling is relatively strong, good workmanship is good, looks not too cheap. The front of the fuselage is Xiaomi's LOGO.
The back of the fuselage has a ring of non-slip aprons. This detail design is still worthy of praise, which can effectively prevent the box from slipping off the relatively smooth surface.
All the interfaces of the millet box 3s are integrated in the rear. From left to right, they are AV output, HDMI interface, USB2.0 interface and power input interface. Compared to the millet box 3s enhanced version, there is a USB 2.0 interface. However, the millet box 3s retained the traditional AV output interface this time, and it is more friendly to some older TVs without the HDMI interface.
Next, let's look at the remote control of the millet box for 3s - the remote control determines the key experience of the smart TV or the box.
The shape and layout of the millet box's 3s remote control still continues with the basic version of the millet's remote control, but it has a new integration of Bluetooth, somatosensory and other functions. These new functions can be used when playing games, which is considered a minor upgrade.
The button layout is very simple. At the top is a power button, and below it is a circle of navigation keys. In addition to pressing, it also supports touch rotation operation, followed by the HOME key, back key, and menu key, and the bottom is the volume control key. The surface of the remote control uses the same frosting as the main unit. It feels good. Unfortunately, the remote control of the millet TV box 3s does not support speech.
Xiao Lei found that although the millet box 3s was randomly presented with an HDMI cable, it did not come with an AV cable. Considering that most TVs and monitors now have built-in HDMI interfaces, this problem is not a big deal. In addition, millet box 3s, although the power input standard is 5V/2.1A, but its power interface is not a universal Micro USB, but a round jack, Xiaolei suggested that Xiaomi directly switch to the more versatile Micro in the next generation of products. USB interface.
Powerful hardware configurationAfter watching the appearance, we talk about the hardware configuration, this millet box 3s hardware is also considered one of its biggest bright spots. It uses a new chip, its main frequency is 2.0GHz, eight-core Cortex-A53 architecture, built Mali-450GPU, frequency is 750MHz. 2GB of DDR3 memory is also doubled from the previous millet box 3c, and the 8GB ROM is also upgraded to high-speed eMMC5.1 flash memory. The powerful performance of this chip also lays a solid foundation for the good video decoding performance of the millet box 3s.
According to the Little Thunder experience, the millet box is really smooth during use.
Millet Box 3s claims to support 4K video decoding and output in multiple encoding formats, including VP9, ​​H265, H264 and MPEG1/2/4, etc. Among them, VP9 decoding is a unique skill in the 3s of the millet box, and the even higher positioning of the millet box is enhanced in 3s. Edition does not support. Xiaolei measured and decoded many 4K resolution videos, all without any pause. Even if it is fast-forward, it is very smooth. Xiaomi box 3s also added support for HDR function. HDR function can automatically optimize the light and shadow in the video. Effect, restore more picture details. These upgrades are due to the new Amlogic S905X chip.
In addition to having a powerful decoder chip, Xiaomi box 3s other hardware is also very good, it supports 2.4G and 5G dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1 wireless connection, you can connect handles, headphones and speakers a variety of devices, which makes it a lot of scalability Enhanced. Xiao Lei tried to connect a Bluetooth mouse, experience OK, control efficiency is much higher than the remote control.
Rich video resourcesHaving said the hardware, let's look at the software again. As a TV box, having good hardware is not enough, and the most important thing is content.
Only with a wealth of video resources and a good system can bring excellent experience to users.
Millet Box 3s is equipped with a Patch Wall user interface based on Android 6.0. Xiaomi calls it the artificial intelligence interface. Its biggest feature is that it will continue to conduct in-depth self-learning according to the user's habits and understand the user's preferences. To better recommend the user's video resources. Xiaomi claims that this method is more efficient than traditional video classification methods, which greatly shortens the time for users to search for film sources.
From the actual situation, millet box 3s still retains the traditional classification, Xiaomi said the smart recommendation is actually built on this basis. According to Xiaolei’s actual experience, this interface is still very friendly and very quick to get started.
In terms of film and television resources, Xiaomi’s weakness has been previously, but since last year, Xiaomi’s investment in this area has increased and the situation has improved. Xiao Lei found that recently broadcast hit TV dramas such as "Feng Xiu Wei Yang" and so on have been provided, updated more timely.
In addition to the domestic hit TV series, the millet box 3s also contains many classic American dramas and Korean dramas, which meet the needs of different users.
US drama film and television resources
Korean movie and television resources
During his use, Xiao Lei discovered that some resources in the millet box 3s need to be paid for viewing, and these paid content are mainly foreign films and television dramas. Xiaomi provided 4 kinds of purchase programs, namely, 49.8 yuan monthly package, 120 yuan package season, 210 yuan package six months and 360 yuan package year. Taking into account that Xiaomi spent a lot of money to purchase copyrights of various film and television resources, part of the charge is understandable, but Xiaolei feels that the cost is still a bit high, and there is room for price cuts.
In addition to film and television resources, Xiaomi Box 3s can also install third-party applications and games. It has built-in application stores and game centers. However, the number of applications is not very rich. We hope that Xiaomi can make up for the shortcomings of the application as soon as possible.
Of course, a friend in need can install various applications through an external U disk. Xiaobian successfully installs Tencent video. Some applications also need to connect a Bluetooth mouse to achieve full functionality. As for games, you need to connect millet's Bluetooth controller to be happy. Play.
Xiao Lei found some defects in the millet box 3s software. In the two days of Xiao Lei's use, the system software of the millet box 3s appeared to stop running for many times, and the sleep function was not perfect. Case. The emergence of such problems still affects the user experience. I hope that Xiaomi will upgrade the firmware as soon as possible to solve this problem.
Finally, Xiao Lei came to tell you about some of the advantages and disadvantages of the millet box 3s.
advantage:
Small size, easy to use, 299 yuan price is still reasonable.
Has a powerful video decoding and output capabilities.
Built-in rich video resources.
insufficient:
Some movie and television resources need to pay, and the price is more expensive.
The number of exclusive applications is not very rich.
The lack of system stability affects the use experience.
Xiao Lei thinks that the millet box 3s is still good overall, it has a good hardware base, and video resources are also abundant. As for the above-mentioned shortcomings, the vast majority of them can be improved through software in the future. Xiaobian recommends that all friends who are ready to start can wait and wait until the firmware is improved.
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