The Xiaomi Mi Field streaming devices are among the many higher streaming bins available on the market, delivering incredible worth for cash and first rate specs. Now, it seems like international customers are getting one other product within the sequence.
9to5Google noticed a product itemizing for the Xiaomi TV Field S 2nd Gen on the worldwide Xiaomi web site. This factors to a world launch of some kind. So what must you count on from this streaming field?
The itemizing suggests you shouldn’t count on an enormous improve over earlier entries. However you’re nonetheless getting a chipset improve to a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU and Mali-G31 MC2 GPU. That’s a welcome improve from 2018’s Mi Field S, which supplied a sluggish quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and historic Mali-450 graphics. We certainly complained concerning the older gadget’s sluggish efficiency in our Mi Field S evaluation, so this silicon improve ought to enhance issues.
What else to count on from the brand new Mi Field?
The Xiaomi TV Field S 2nd Gen additionally sports activities the Google TV interface as an alternative of the Android TV UI just like the older field. In any other case, the corporate continues to be sticking with 2GB of RAM and 8GB of inside storage, so these hoping for extra RAM and storage just like the China-only Mi Field 4S Max is likely to be dissatisfied. Different specs embody Bluetooth 5.2 help, 4K/60fps playback, Dolby Imaginative and prescient help, HDR10+ integration, and a 3.5mm port. There’s no phrase on AV1 help, although.
Xiaomi’s new TV field doesn’t have microSD help, nevertheless it retains the older machine’s USB 2.0 port. Which means you may simply plug your moveable arduous drive or flash drive into the field. This may be a refreshing change from the Chromecast for Google TV, which requires a USB-C hub for storage enlargement.
We’ve requested Xiaomi a couple of US launch and international pricing particulars and can replace the article accordingly. However a US launch can be lengthy overdue provided that the Mi Field S landed within the nation roughly 5 years in the past.
