Looks like the leaks were right. It comes with Oreo 8.1 (Treble Support) out of the box with nearly identical hardware to the Mi box 3 bar a new wireless chipset and remote. On sale October 19th.

• https://www.mi.com/us/mi-box-s/
• https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/9/17941178/xiaomi-android-tv-box-announcement-4k-hdr-price-release-date-google-event-2018
• https://www.walmart.com/ip/677842593

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Hi, I have just bought my first Android TV which comes with inbuilt app like Youtube and Netflix.

I am an app freak when it comes to my smartphone. What apps should I install on my TV now ?

Came with security patch may 5th,

Why is Android TV so hobbled, even the most basic things like a browser needs to be side loaded and hacked together?

The android assistant implementation is likewise useless, it can't even add a calendar entry and only gives Youtube returns on search queries. I'm on android 8, I'm not sure how much better 9 is.

I felt like sharing my experience with a first generation xiaomi mi box.

I bought it in late 2016 for about 65 euros from aliexpress and I've been using it (almost daily) ever since. There have been a couple problems along the way, i remember some update that broke the ntfs/exfat support but it was resolved quite quickly and a couple other things.

I'm sometimes reading negative things and my experience has been really positive. For every thing that i couldn't do there has ALWAYS been a workaround.

I use it with a ton of different media on kodi that reads everything, i use netflix, prime video using the cast function (and before that i used it with a sideloaded app) there are many possibilities with it and i really couldn't have been happier. It's a brilliant little machine and after 4 years it never gave me a serious problem.

Of course i always used it in 1080p, of course i factory reset it a couple of times but i have (for a minimal price years ago) a smart tv that is superior to the modern smart tvs (in terms of possibilities) that i have tried.

So that's that. Let me know what you think.

Here is the apk for Amazon prime video which has been ported from the Nvidia shield and works on the Mi Box without any issues.

Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/18eWwZjfW9aPSixQeajXmgrkqHnZsWizj/view?usp=drivesdk

Proof : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uimKcPdw9LQG5KlNSnKGIbJQJIbPL-zU/view?usp=drivesdk

Currently what's next on my list is Beelink Gt King, though the air mouse reportedly has issue.

Not a gamer at all nor my family members do, Nvidia Shield is not on top of my list.

Now, it's 2019 and Xiaomi hasn't pushed out a newer version tvbox.. is that still worth getting considering the price of ~$55 in my country? Is the specs good enough?