Perhaps the era of Android TV boxes is over because of TV Sticks of various kinds. Xiaomi has recently presented one, arrived among other things in record time for the brand in Europe: it is the My TV Stick, a direct competitor of Amazon Fire Stick. Perhaps this type of device will allow the most widespread TV Box to disappear permanently but before that happens Mi Box 3 received the first beta of Android 9 Pie and therefore is preparing to receive the building in the coming months. This happens as a result of the receiving stable version on model S.
The Xiaomi Mi Box 3 is also updated: the very first beta of Android 9 Pie arrives for her. It prepares to receive the building within a few months
If you remember the beta program for the previous version, namely the S, had passed well three stages. Each of them, however, was not exactly roses and flowers since the problems have been going on for a long time and are still not resolved. Most likely with the miniature version in the shape of a pen the bugs we talked about will no longer occur, but this will only tell us time. In any case, even the Mi Box 3, much older than the S, receives theunexpected update to Android 9 Pie.
As specified in the title, this is the first beta, recognizable by the code "OTA0 BETA0". This means that not everyone will receive this update in the next few days, as it is intended for beta tester. Possibly this old version of Xiaomi's Android TV Box will also pass for three stages, within which many problems will be found. Let's face it: it will be the same as for the next model Mi Box S. The overall weight of the update is 620.1 MB.
Among the most important news of this update there will be, as for the previous version: Amazon Prime Video already pre-installed, the possibility of capture screenshots with a long tap on the power button, the choice of different audio formats and many other nice things. Below is the video lesson for more details.
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The mi tv stick goes to 1080p, it will never replace the mi box s, which also comes in 4k, as well as having double the ram and a more powerful soc