New TV-Box design under the name TOX1. An Android device that has an interesting hardware for his price. It also has some cuts as we will see in terms of connectivity, and it seems that you can not have everything.
SoC, RAM and storage
The TOX1 Smart Box includes the AMlogic S905X3 SoC, a 12nm Quad Core that goes up to 1.9 GHz and integrates a Mali-G31 MP2 GPU, you can see the power of this SoC in a comparative article of the S905X3. This chip has 4 ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores that reach 1.5 GHz. The VPU is an Amlogic Video Engine 10 with HDR Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG support.
This box mounts on board 4 GB of DDR4 RAM base memory and 32 GB of eMMc storage memory that can be expanded from the micro SD card reader included on one side of the box quad. The box surprises us by its amount of holes that will perfectly ventilate this hardware.
Other specifications
In the field of wireless connectivity we find integrated in a Wifi aC 2R2T Dual Band board and Bluetooth 4.2 with an internal and external antenna. The connectors included in the plastic box are quite rare, we have a USB 2.0 port, another USB 3.0, a Gigabit Ethernet connector and an HDMI 2.1 video output. In this device lacks the audio jack and the SPDIF connector.
In this TV-Box we have as an Android 9 operating system and a basic IR remote control is included as standard with which we can use this box from the first moment, it has programmable color keys.
Price and availability
- The TOX1 TV-Box can be purchased on sale at Aliexpress.com only for $49.99 ($43.12) with free shipping.
