What review from eTeknix would be complete without some technical specifications so you know what we are working with. The Pivos XIOS DS Media Play! is by no means a power house but it certainly has enough hardware to get things done – being based around the tried and trusted ARM Cortex A9 processor. There are two hardware revisions of this product the old M1 and the new M3, you should only find the new M3 in the market now since the M1 is very old, but just bare this in mind as the M3 revision has much better specs:
- ARM Cortex A9 Single Core CPU at 1GHz (M3 Revision) or 900MHz (Old M1 Revision)
- ARM Mali 400 GPU
- 1GB (M3 Revision) or 512MB (Old M1 Revision) of Hynix DDR2 RAM
- 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi Module
- 10/100 Ethernet LAN RJ45 controller
- 2GB Storage
- USB 2.0 controller
- IR sensor
- Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (rooted)
- Firmware used: XIOS_DS-ICS-010813-M3
It seems like a very good plug & play product.
And another good review, Ryan. :)
Question: what’s the described speed of wifi? I mean is it 150N or 300N?
Cause, one should need 300N for live streaming of HD media from their PC/ media server.
good question, I am actually not entirely sure. You don’t need 300N to stream HD content. I have a 30mbps internet connection and I can stream HD content. I would hazard a guess and say it was more likely to be 150mbps bgn WIFI as opposed to 300mbps bgn but I cannot be sure.
ok. I also think it is a 150N adapter. As you have said there is problem related to the transfer speed, a descent enough 300N adapter can’t just have them. But some really bad, old 150N wifi adapter can have.
Well it will be at least 54mbps as that is WiFi 802.11 b/g/n specs. In reality 54mbps is more than enough for streaming a single content channel at 1080p in any format, MKV/MP4/AVI etc
Ah, those old draft n adapters.. Those were popular back in 2007-08. :P