Welcome viewers, thanks for tuning in to my channel, It's your host Nick here once again
and I'm glad that you took the time to join with me today during this festive season for
yet another TV box stop review.
In today's video, Alfawise takes the spotlight once again with their latest surprising TV
box release, this box carries some new hardware, it carries a new TV chip and it will surprise
you when you see what it can do.
I'm always excited to see what new boxes brings to the industry.
This box is the Alfawise H96 mini, Amlogic T962E, quad core Android 7.1 4K TV box.
After the break, we have a full review of its hardware and features, so stay tuned,
we have more in a moment.
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So I'm back, and to get things started, here I have the box that the H96 mini comes in.
Because it's an Alfawise model, it comes in the same package design as the H96 Pro+ and
the H96 max.
There are no specifications printed anywhere on the outside, so I'll just take minute to
do a quick unboxing.
So here's what you get in the box.
You get the H96 Mini itself.
You get this infrared remote.
The remote is similar to other remotes we've seen in previous Alfawise models, and though
it might work well to control and navigate the basic functions of the box, a mini touchpad
keyboard or a wireless air mouse would be a better option.
You get one HDMI cable.
A 5 volts 2 amps universal DC power adapter.
And a users setup guide.
Let's take a look at what ports we get on this box.
If we look to the back, here you can see you have two HDMI ports, an HDMI input and an
HDMI output.
There is 1 RJ45 Ethernet port, an optical audio port, and a DC power input.
To the side, you have 2 USB 2.0 ports 1 audio video port, and a micro SD card slot.
There's nothing on the other side.
To the front, you have a blue LED power light strip that's not very visible.
To the top, you have the Alfawise logo.
And to the bottom, there are lots of ventilation holes.
So I'll now set this box up on my TV, and let's see what the box can do.
So here we are at the startup of the H96 mini, and the box starts with the H96 mini logo,
this is then followed by an Mbox animation which takes a few seconds.
And then you're taken to the launcher.
The design and layout of the launcher has not changed, it's the same launcher used in
all their H96 models.
It comes with a standard navigation bar at the bottom, and a status bar at the top for
easy navigation and multitasking.
The launcher is easy to navigate with large buttons and the option to add and remove shortcuts
to the launcher.
In the apps section, here we have your normal set of system and browsing applications, and
additional apps like Miracast Netflix and KDMC.
There's a new application here which is TV app.
This is simply a secondary display from another media output which utilizes the HDMI input
port on the box.
Here you can see that I plugged in another TV box, however, that's its only feature,
there are no options to record or adjust the screen, or use picture in picture display.
So I'll install my usual set of system and benchmarking applications and then I'll move
on to the next segment.
Welcome back, and to start this segment, let's check to see if the box is rooted.
And it shows that the box is rooted, running on Android 7.1.2 Nougat operating system.
With this root access you have the freedom to download and install any app you like from
the Google Play store without restrictions.
I'll also be testing the root permissions later on in this video to see if my gamepad
key mapping application works.
Next we have the DRM information.
The results remain the same as in other boxes, the H96 mini only has support for Google Widevine
and CENC clear key support.
This allows paid subscription apps like Netflix and others to only show in standard quality.
Let's now take a look at some system and hardware information.
It shows that the manufacturer is Amlogic, and the model here is the H96 mini as we already
know.
The box has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage; What is shown here is the remaining
RAM and internal storage after the Android installation and apps installed on the box.
The CPU is a 64bit quad core ARM cortex A53 processor, with a CPU clock range of up to
1.4 GHz.
This is lower than expected, because most boxes run up to 1.5 GHz, this decrease in
clock speed is due to the Amlogic T962E quad core CPU used in this box.
However, the box only has support for 32bit ABIs, which limits the box to 32Bit applications.
The display is powered by the ARM Mali 450 GPU, with a refresh rate of 60hz.
It has support for dual band WiFi, and WiFi direct is supported.
The version of Android is 7.1.2 Nougat.
The box runs cool around 50 to 60° Celsius on normal room temperature, and around 44
to 50° on passive cooling.
The box comes with codecs like H.264 HEVC and VP9 Decoding, codecs needed to play 4K
videos.
That's all for system and hardware information, an I now move on to the benchmarks.
First I have the results of the memory read and write speeds.
The H96 Mini has a Ram copy speed of 2679 MB/s.
The internal storage has a read speed of 67 MB/s and a write speed of 48.
And the SD card slot has a read speed of 14 MB/s and a write speed of 12.
I have the results of the WiFi speed test.
On the 2.4 and 5.8 GHz band, the speeds fell a bit below my maximum Internet connection
of 40MB.
However, the Ethernet LAN connection hit the maximum speed with every try, which means
that this box runs faster on Ethernet connection.
I now show the results of the Antutu benchmark.
And it shows that the H96 Mini got a score of 33717.
This score is a little below average, don't be alarmed by this, keep watching to the end
of the video and you'll see what I mean.
Now the results of the GeekBench 4 CPU benchmark.
The H96 Mini has a GeekBench 4 score of 624 single core, and 1809 multi core.
This score remains consistent with other boxes in its class.
And last I have the results of the Ice storm extreme GPU benchmark.
And it shows that the box got a score of 4151, which is not quite as high, but keep watching
and you be the judge.
That's it for the benchmarks.
I now turn to the streaming applications and the many ways to stream free movies and TV
shows for maximum entertainment.
I'll start with the Kodi application.
The H96 Mini comes pre installed with a custom version of Kodi called KDMC.
And if I go to system information, here you can see the version of Kodi is 17.3.
You can also uninstall KDMC and install the latest version of Kodi from the Google Play
Store if you'd like.
If I go back to the addons section, here you can see that the custom version also comes
with some addons for streaming free movies and TV shows for unlimited entertainment.
Making waves in the industry is movie streaming APKs.
These APKs are separate applications from Kodi, and they provide free movies and TV
shows even better than Kodi in recent times.
Some of these include Terrarium TV.
Show Box.
Mega Box HD.
and MobDro.
Another alternative streaming application is an app called Stremio.
Stremio is a movie streaming application much like an APK but there's a difference, it can
install third party addons.
This feature allows the user to install third party addons in a similar way to the Kodi
application.
The process of installing addons is much easier than how it is done in the Kodi application,
So be sure to check this out, as it could be the next biggest thing in the world of
streaming.
Another form of entertainment on this box is the ability to play 4K videos.
I'll now play a couple of 4K video samples to test the box's 4k playback capabilities.
The 4K video samples ran quite OK, which is really surprising, given that the benchmark
scores are a bit lower than expected, I give the thumbs up for good software optimization
on this box.
I'll now open the YouTube application and run a 4K video sample to see what's the highest
resolution we can get on this box.
The highest resolution you can get on the YouTube application is up to 1080p quality.
For my final demonstration I'm running a high end graphics game.
This game is called God fire rise of Prometheus.
This game uses a lot of system resources, and it's the game I would choose to run on
one of those Rockchip RK3399 boxes.
I decided to run it on this box because I saw the performance earlier in the 4K video
test that got my attention.
So with the graphics set to maximum quality detail, let's take in some gaming action.
Please note, this game contains fighting and blood so parental discretion is advised.
As you can clearly see, I'm just as surprised you are, the H96 Mini played that game flawlessly,
even better than all the TV boxes with much higher benchmarks.
I'm starting to see TV boxes perform much better on less resources and I give the H96
Mini high user experience scores for achieving this level of performance.
I almost forgot, my key mapping application worked well on this box which I also used
to play this game.
And for those of you who also use webcams, they too have permissions and work well on
this box.
So in summary, I would have to say that the new CPU in the H96 Mini surprised me and performed
so well, I am impressed with how well the user experience is on this box on the new
TV chip.
For the third time we have seen a TV box with much lower benchmarks than those high end
boxes, and outperform them in 3D gaming and playing 4K videos.
The root access and permissions allowed me to use both key mapping applications and mirroring
apps, as well as USB webcams work without any problems.
On the flip side, the only issue I had with this box is that it cannot play YouTube in
2K or 4K quality, and the box comes with an infrared remote which really isn't anything
to complain about.
The WiFi hardware used and the reception in this box could have been better.
So as I end my review of the H96 Mini, I would like to say what better way to end 2017 with
a TV box that cost just $59 and can deliver and outperform other high end boxes we have
seen earlier this year.
So I'm giving the H96 Mini two thumbs up and the OK to purchase for performance, user experience
and price.
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