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Allwinner A31 Quad Core TV Stick/Mini PC sample Review

It has been some days since we released the other quad core mini pc called F9,We get a lot of customer asking questions about that tv box, and we will release that F9 samsung quad core mini pc this week.

But today, we will introduce another quad core mini pc which base in Allwinner A31 Chip. Actually we have got this sample for some days, I play it for some days, but met some reboot bugs, and finally i make this review up, here we go:

 

 

 

Here is the basic specification for this new quad core mini pc:

  • SoC – AllWinner A31 quad core Cortex A7 + PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU
  • System Memory – 2GB DDR3 RAM
  • Storage – 8GB NAND Flash + microSD
  • Connectivity – WiFi 802.11b/g/n
  • USB – 1x USB 2.0 host port, 2x mini USB ports
  • Reset button-Build in
  • Video Output – HDMIVideo Codecs – Mpeg1/2/4.H.264,VC-1,Divx,Xvid,RM8/9/10,VP6Video Container Formats – MKV, TS, TP, M2TS, RM/RMVB, BD-ISO, AVI, MPG, VOB, DAT, ASF, TRP, FLV etc.
  • Audio Formats – MP3, OGG, WMA, WMAPRO
  • Dimensions – 97*38*12mm
  • Weight – ~32g

Inside of this quad core mini pc:

Because this is just the sample device from factory, they made this sample manually,so the board is not very good:

Software:

1 come with rooted, tested with root checker app;

2 Original Android 4.1.1 OS, no other launcher built-in:

Setting menu, no bluetooth built-in

Support Ethernet,i use the following usb ethernet, working great:

http://www.geekbuying.com/item/USB-2-0-to-RJ45-LAN-Ethernet-Network-Adapter-for-PC-Mac-Android-TV-Box-313020.html

Display choice,you can set the sleep time, the font size, and the screen here, however, i find a problem here, there is no 1080P output for me choose, when i click screen adaption, i get only 1280*720;

System information:

Google Play Store pre-installed, working great

Antutu test score

Antutu System information:

4K Movie play, it is the selling point for allwinner a10 tablet, and now it also working great on this stick;

XBMC can be installed well, but still can not play 1080p video smoothly;

Some new features i never seen in other mini pcs:

 

 

Summary : I play it around , and find the system will reboot by itself, and seems the factory has put much develop on the system, it seems, they just copy the system from tablet to tv stick. but this is just a start, i guess there will be more and more quad core mini pc coming in this month, we will try our best to get the lastest product, and find a really good device for you guys.

Enjoy!

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Mar 6, 2013Geekbuying Blog
10 years ago TV Boxes & Mini PCs, What's Newallwinner a13 mini pc, allwinner a31 quad core mini pc, allwinner a31 quad core tv box, allwinner a31 tv box15,756
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Comments: 11
  1. Derek
    10 years ago

    Can it run a real Linux os is the the question?

  2. arfy
    10 years ago

    Do you know a remote control / gamepad which will work with it ?

    Thanks for the review...

  3. Martin
    10 years ago

    I hope a new Quad Core TV Stick/Mini PC (imito or other brand) will be released soon with Rockchip RK3188 chipset.

  4. Anqi
    10 years ago

    Can you guys please test to see if this device can boot the A10/MK802 Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Linaro images from the uSD card? If so, this stick would be awesome!

    Also, I'm not that looking forward to the RK3188 HDMI sticks... Picuntu is far less stable than these A10 images; and just getting the RK3066 sticks to properly switch between Android to Linux back to Android is a black art in itself.

  5. bahramut
    10 years ago

    really interesting, you have an idea of ​​the price out?
    the bluetouth is the minimum today.
    2GB DDR3 RAM it is very well

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    Geekbuying Admin
    10 years ago

    hi, any 2.4Ghz wirless air mouse can work with this quad core mini pc, you can find them here
    http://www.geekbuying.com/item/RC11-Android-Monitor-Wireless-Keyboard-Air-Mouse-Remote-Controller-With-Gyroscope-for-Android-Google-TV-Box-306420.html

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    Geekbuying Admin
    10 years ago

    linux-sunxi community had received some leaked source code for AllWinner A20 and A31, and they started to clean up the code. This means we should eventually get Linux running on AllWinner A31.

  8. Jaycedroid
    10 years ago

    These factories have to understand, that Linux and XBMC are things that people want on their sticks!!! A good development would be for them, to contact developers pre-release. In order to ensure good hardware compatibility, with for instance linux and software like XBMC.

    Also Ethernet compatibility should be standard, or at least an adapter should be delivered per standard with all these sticks and devices.

    I am 100% certain that these small additions would boost sales exponentially!

  9. tijo
    10 years ago

    I agree with Jaycedroid... linux, XBNC and Ethernet are features people want...

  10. Artic
    10 years ago

    Yeah, I agree with Jaycedroid. Those are the requirements that I have for my next stick.

  11. na1pir
    10 years ago

    I'we ordered lap dock for this purpose, so I will have one dummy laptop and update(buy new) hdmi stick when something smart comes out (first is raspberry pi, ug802 is next). This kind of updates are impossible with classic laptops.
    I really hope that manufactures will find this niche interesting and support some sort of Linux for generic computer usage (web, mail, office, programming,...), xbmc for media (videos and music), alongside android.
    This arm cpu's are becoming just as powerful as conventional pc 10 years ago, and this is actually all power I need in day to day basics =) OK kernel compilation is a bit tricky on this kind of HW but who cares...

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