Ugoos X2 Cube Review
So this an unusual design for a TV box, or should I call it a dongle. The Ugoos X2 Cube is not a dongle nor is it meant to be a full-fledged TV box, It is a crossover of the two. With all the ports aligned in the same fashion as a TV dongle, all it is missing is HDMI port sticking out of it. But it’s too big for a dongle. So the length of the HDMI cable baffled me, why was it so short and how would the user use that cable. Then it struck me that because it was too big to be a dongle and fit snugly behind your TV, they gave you a short HDMI extension cable. Well for me it’s a TV box and I used with another long HDMI cable. This is a great performing little Andriod device running on the latest Amlogic S905X2 hardware.
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Ugoos X2 Cube Hardware:
CPU – Amlogic S905X2 1.8GHz
GPU – ARM Mali G31 750MHz
RAM – 2GB DDR4
ROM – 16GB eMMc
WiFi – 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4GHz + 5Ghz
LAN – 1000Mbps
Bluetooth – 4.2
Ugoos X2 Cube IO Ports:
- 1 HDMI 2.1
- 1 USB 2.0
- 1 USB 3.0
- 1 LAN RJ54
- 1 AV out
- 1 TF card reader
- 1 Optical SPDIF
- 1 5V DC input
- 1 External antenna
Ugoos X2 Cube Special features
- Regular OTA updates
- Advanced launcher
- Alternative launchers work
- Advanced Root switch, with a silent root feature
- New hardware monitor feature.
- New gamepad key mapping feature.
- Mobile remote control feature.
- Navigation bar and Status bar switch.
- Built-in advanced screen rotation control.
- Advanced CEC options.
- Dolby Vision, Dolby Audio, and DTS audio settings.
Ugoos X2 Cube Performance Benchmarks
- Antutu – 61,135
- Geekbench4 – 765 Single-Core | 2135 Multi-core
- Ice Storm Extreme – 5,484
- Sling Shot – 520
- RAM Copy – 3629 MB/s
- Internal Storage Speed – 105MB/s Read | 53MB/s write
- WiFi Speed – MAX speed on 5GHz WiFi band and LAN only
NEW !!! Dolby ATMOS Sound Test
Conclusion
Its over performance is great, you have good hardware, smoothe streaming, feature-rich interface, innovative features, good benchmarks placing 8th on the chart, and gaming with keymapping also good. My areas of concern are the low speed on the 2.4GHz band, no DRM for Netflix in 4K, limited RAM internal storage, and the CPU temperature and spike depending on where you have it.
