Xiaomi unveils MiBox 3s Enhanced Edition TV box

Xiaomi has revamped the Mi Box s and is launching it as a MiBox 3s Enhanced Edition. In addition to the slight spec bump, the box gets a new remote control that will undoubtedly remind you of the Wii Remote that made Nintendo's gaming console quite popular back in the days.

Xiaomi’s latest TV box will be available in China starting March 18th 2016.  The MiBox 3s Enhanced Edition has some pretty powerful hardware.

This Mi Box 3 Enhanced Edition is extremely fast? But how fast could it be?

Under the hood, the processor has been upgraded to a MediaTek MT8693, a 64-bit hexa-core processor running at 2 GHz max, up from the quad-core setup of last year. RAM has also been doubled to 2 GB LPDDR3 and storage is now 8 GB of eMMC 5.0 flash.

Together with the PowerVR GX6250 graphics chip, the Mi Box 3s Enhanced Edition is promised to be 80% faster in CPU processes and a whopping 240% better when it comes to the GPU. Besides that it also support OpenGL ES 3.1

The MiBox 3s Enhanced Edition features a MediaTek MT8693 hexa-core processor with two ARM Cortex-A72 CPU cores and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores and PowerVR GX6250 graphics.

It also has 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, two USB 2.0 ports, and HDMI 2.0 output with support for 4K video at 60 Hz.  802.11ac 2X2 WiFi improved the transfer speed up to 300 Mbps

Mi Box 3 Enhanced Edition is using 4.1 Bluetooth which has a low power consumption

Mibox 3s supports H.265 10bit 4K@60 FPS with Dolby and DTS Sound

All of us like to compare a device's performance by using Antutu. Mi Box 3 Enhanced edition scored up to 66,016 which almost doubled the Mi Box 3

The box measures about 4″ x 4″ x 1″, which makes it a lot bigger than last year’s MiBox Mini… but that makes sense, since the new model is also a lot more powerful.

The MiBox 3s Enhanced Edition is still an Android box, though not an Android TV one. It naturally uses the OEM's Android-based MIUI TV, which is based on Android 5.1. That could give it at an advantage of having access to apps that would normally be blocked on Android TVs because they weren't designed for it.

We know that heating will slow and affect the performance of a gadget or device. In this MiBox 3s Enhanced Edition we have our own unique cooling system which automatically adjust the speed of fan
Xiaomi thinks that the upgrade is so hot, figuratively and literally, that it put its own "unique cooling system", that adjusts the speed of the fan. Yes, this small TV box has a small fan inside.

Perhaps the next, or probably even more, interesting upgrade is the remote control. Xiaomi has added a sensor inside, it says, that you can use to play games. Presumably, it means a motion sensor, which pretty much makes it like a Wiimote. The strap makes that even more evident. That said, there really aren't many Android games that could take advantage of swinging motions.