Millet box 3 light evaluation voice somatosensory operation is more convenient

On October 27th, Xiaomi also released a millet box 3 and a millet TV 3 55 inches. Millet box 3 is fully upgraded to a quad-core 64-bit S905 chip, supports powerful decoding capabilities of H.2654K@60 frames, and comes standard with millet Bluetooth voice somatosensory remote control, priced at 299 yuan. Today Xiao Bian received the millet box 3, let me take everyone to see how this product in the end.


The millet box 3 has a thick millet style in terms of outer packaging, and the delicate kraft paper shell forms a contrast with the simple style. Only Xiaomi's English LOGO is on the front, and the back of the box should have many parameters of the product.


The appearance of the millet box 3 has not changed much before. The shell is made of polycarbonate and the front and back sides are frosted.


Come to a family portrait with a box containing millet, power supply, HDMI cable, remote control, hand strap, manual, and a pair of AAA batteries. The upgrading of the millet box 3 mainly focuses on the overall improvement of performance. The millet box 3 uses a Cortex-A53 quad-core 2.0GHz 64-bit S905 chip as a flagship processor, and has a powerful decoding capability of H.265 10bit 4K@60 frames, with HDMI. 2.0 Lossless Transmission Realize true 4K decoding output, let HD decoding become standard, and support up to 1.07 billion colors, up to 16.7 million colors compared to the previous generation, 60 times higher, with 3+2 nuclear high-frequency GPU, single GPU The frequency is increased by 25%, which improves the game performance. In addition, it supports dual-band flagship hardware configurations such as 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, and HDMI 2.0.


It is worth noting that the new millet box 3 also comes standard with the millet Bluetooth sound sensor remote control, support somatosensory games, voice search, voice control, etc., remote control assembly 6-axis sensor, precision sensor performance can capture every player A detailed action, you can play somatosensory games at home; pre-installed with the SDK provided by the team, support voice search, 440,000 hours of content that is "say" that is; voice control supports timing shutdown, fast forward rewind, open applications, Quick changes and other operations. From voice to action, change the way and television exchanges.


From the front, we do not see any difference between the millet box 3 remote control and the millet normal remote control, but if we look behind, we will find out. Because the millet's remote control has printed functional labels on the backboard, the remote control of this millet box 3 is printed with Bluetooth, microphone, and somatosensory controls. Description This Bluetooth remote control also supports somatosensory operation and voice control.


Millet Box 3 added voice search function this time. On the remote control of the millet box 3, the function of the previous HOME key is now divided into two: a short press to return to the home page, long press on the outgoing voice search. In particular, it is worth mentioning that Xiaomi Box 3's speech recognition accuracy is also quite good. And both Chinese and English can be quickly identified. During the video playback, the user can also control the movie's fast forward and rewind by voice, such as "fast forward for five minutes" to accurately airborne skip titles.


The connection method of the box is similar, no power button is provided, and the power is turned on automatically when connected to the power supply. For the first time use, a simple pairing of the remote controller is required, and then the WiFi network is accessed, and then it can be used. Millet Box 3 has built-in MIUI TV version of the TV system, with an overall upgrade of 83% in terms of content, gathering iCNTV, GITV, Mango TV, and China TV's four resources, as well as Millet's $1 billion to build a major league of 100 video sites. Content upgrades To 440,000 hours. The main interface category of the millet box 3 is still relatively clear. The most prominent place on the left is the online video content viewing history and news highlighting recommendation. The right side is the application store, game center, and smart home. Then the rightmost side is the product setting. , local video playback, photo albums and Internet radio, notification center, wireless display and other functions.


If you want to see more content then you must install a third-party application. Relatively speaking, the millet box is not bad in this regard, the official launch of an app called "cast screen artifact" app, after the mobile phone is installed, in addition to the literal screen-casting function, also supports the push application installation and remote control Features, simple and convenient.


to sum up:
The millet box 3 hardware is equipped with a 64-bit A53 quad-core processor, with powerful performance and good game performance. And support for 4K video playback, support for H.265 decoding is also quite outstanding in video capabilities. Especially worth mentioning is that the remote control of the millet box 3 not only increases the somatosensory game function, but also supports the operation of the voice remote control, allowing the user to have a more perfect use of the TV box. Therefore, users who have higher requirements for the overall performance of the TV box may wish to consider this box.