[Sofa Network] cool AK16 smart TV box evaluation: low-key reserved, practical first


The smart TV box market is surging. You and your vendors are rushing to catch up. Today a quad-core, an eight-core tomorrow, a 2G today, a 64-bit tomorrow... But for the vast majority of users, smart TV boxes are easy to use or not. What is the most cost-effective? Today, the brand of the smart TV box to be introduced by the sofa series Xiaobian may be slightly niche, but Xiao Bian found out after using the overall experience that it is a simple and easy-to-use smart TV box device. It does not require too many complicated functions to recommend to everyone here, focusing on the users who use it everyday.



· Product knowledge and unpacking experience

The cool CUIGI-AK16 smart TV box was produced by Shenzhen Dream Talent Technology Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Dream Talent Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech company engaged in R&D and sales of smart consumer electronics products. The team is mainly composed of Dr. Returnees and industry veterans. Based on the domestic market, it is dedicated to smart home and living room entertainment equipment and other families. The development of network terminal products, adhere to the original and artistic route of home appliances, determined to establish its own brand “cool feeling” as a leading brand of modern home furnishing technology excellence. The cool feeling had only released a smart TV box called "Cool AK9" in the second half of last year. It was not conspicuous in many smart TV box brands, but it was also harvested with practical functions and a smooth experience. A group of loyal users. This cool AK16 is its latest upgrade in 2015. Compared to the previous work, the cool AK16's hardware parameters have been greatly improved, but the price is still close to the people.



Cool AK16's packaging is mainly red, with the official "CUIGI" cool AK16 logo on the front and side, as well as the TV content authorized by China TV. At the bottom of the package, Cool AK16 also lists the main hardware parameters of the device, including quad-core ARM Cortex CPU, ARM Mail450 GPU, built-in support for wireless network cards, and more.


Compared to the cool AK9, the appearance of the cool AK16 has greatly improved. Not only will the original plastic shell be upgraded to a metal texture shell, but the number of antennas will also increase to 2. The cool AK16 engineering machine received by Xiao Bian will be used nowadays. The popular "local gold" color scheme looks very atmospheric.


Interface, cool AK16 is equipped with AV video interface, 2 USB 2.0, Ethernet LAN interface, HDMI high-definition output, power supply, and RESET button. It is worth mentioning that, cool AK16 is also added a physical power button on the side of the fuselage, you can completely power off when not in use, which is a good news for some users who used to watch the shutdown.


In order to facilitate the heat dissipation, cool AK16 also uses a metal bottom plate at the bottom, the four corners of the box are four rubber pads, with the hollow heat exhaust port on the main heating module, making cool AK16 can be relatively cool when used temperature.



In terms of remote control, Cool AK16 adopts a more traditional design, but it also has certain streamlining and optimization. The layout of the remote control panel keys is refreshing, including digital, navigation, mouse, TV remote control (switching machine, volume, source Etc.) These few commonly used functions have cut out some of the unusable functional buttons of the traditional remote control.


Although the AK16's remote control is not outstanding from the outside, Xiaobian found that its button feedback and grip feel were very good when it was actually used, and the control response to the cool AK16 was also very rapid.


· Hardware configuration and local playback

In terms of hardware, U disk is installed on the highest quality smart TV application market - sofa butler. In the device information, the AK16 gets a score of 8498, while the 512M memory and quad-core processor are slightly lower than the mainstream. , But the specific experience depends on the product's system customization and optimization. It is more than enough to deal with everyday use.


Through two USB ports, Cool AK16 can conveniently play downloaded video files through U disk. Cool AK16 does not support 4K video playback, but support for 1080P and the following content is in place. In the local play test of Xiao Bian, the cool AK16 has a good playback experience for various common formats of video and audio files. The fast forward and rewind response speeds are extremely fast, and the amount of heat that is viewed for a long time is extremely limited.



The cool AK16's native system also integrates game sections, providing a large number of various types of smart TV games. Users can use the USB interface to use the handle to play the game, faster and more convenient than the Bluetooth controller. The game experience is also very smooth.




UI and video resources



how about it? Did you find this interface a little familiar? Yes, cool AK16 uses the same YUNOS system interface as the Tmall box, but it has a bit of customization and optimization in the details. Its "shopping" section is exactly the same as the Lynx box. Users can also log in their own Taobao account on the system. This is very convenient for people who are shopping.



In the top of the main interface, "recommended", "video", "game", "shopping", "child" and "application" are listed. At the bottom of the interface are "search", "application", "settings", "Personal Center", "Push Message", "WiFi Link" and other commonly used tools, in the middle of the main interface is the recommended content of each section, similar to the Win 8 Metro style interface looks very refreshing simplicity, young and old.


In the Cool Sense AK16's “Apps” section, the best quality smart TV application market is recommended by default – the sofa butler, which allows users to install directly, which greatly facilitates the use of smart TV users. After installing the sofa butler (), the user can install various types of third-party software to expand their video resources, install the sofa network Xiaobian carefully recommended video on demand broadcast software. Specific installation tutorials can also be viewed by clicking on the Cool Box AK16 How to Install Third Party Application Tutorial on the U Disk (http://GzvUqhvWCDMt1bz.html).


After the sofa butler is installed, you can quickly install all kinds of video, music, games, early education and other applications directly on the TV. The sofa butler → recommendation → TV must have many common applications, such as HDP on-demand, on-demand pudding video.


As for the TV and TV resources provided by China TV, it is not necessary to say more. The content of the hit TV dramas is updated very promptly. Xiaobian has tested the "great time" and the popular variety show "Let's cross it" that are being hit so far. The latest update progress.




· to sum up

In general, the cool AK16 is moderately configured and has a smooth experience. The performance of normal video playback and game applications is also very satisfying. The most important thing is that the current price of ¥169 makes it a good value for money. The cool AK16 is enough for general smart TV use, complete interface, simple and elegant appearance; software, cool AK16 system optimization is good, built-optimized YUNOS system, user-friendly control.

In today's serious homogenization of Internet set-top boxes, the cool AK16 smart TV box launched by the Dream Talents team has allowed us to see a lot of innovations, and it has also played a catalytic role in the development of the entire industry. If you are A friend who is good at adopting fresh, so cool AK16 is a good choice!

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