CuBox-i is an interesting mini PC from SolidRun which supports both Android and Linux and it offers great amount of flexibility too. A single board computer (SBC) like CuBox-i is excellent for commercial uses in prototyping and as as a rapid development platform.
It's a marvellous outcome of engineering. Its one side has a set of ports like power socket, HDMI, Ethernet and two USB ports. Rest of the device has some labels, logos and LEDs. It uses Freescale’s i.MX 6 series of processor, just like SolidRun's HummingBoard-i2eX. i.MX 6 range is based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 design, and scales from single- to quad-core. The CuBox-i comes in two variants, a dual-core version (CuBox-i2eX) and a quad-core version (CuBox-i4Pro).
While CuBox-i2eX features 1GHz i.MX6 dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, GC2000 GPU, 1GB memory, SD card slot, two USB ports, HDMI, Ethernet, Wi-Fi (optional), Bluetooth (optional), CuBox-i4Pro has 2GB memory, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth by default instead of being optional, and the other features are same. Both the variants run on XBMC/Kodi and Linux, Android operating systems. CuBox-i can be used as a media player and it runs on GeexBox XBMC and OpenELEC or Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center.
The CuBox-i is compatible with Android and currently runs Android 4.4 KitKat. The CuBox-i version of Android includes Google apps and Google services like Gmail, G+, YouTube and so on. There are several Linux distributions available for the CuBox-i like Debian, Arch and OpenSUSE. A special firmware called Ignition allows you to easily download new firmwares. While CuBox-i2eX costs $120, CuBox-i4Pro is tagged with the price of $150.
It's a marvellous outcome of engineering. Its one side has a set of ports like power socket, HDMI, Ethernet and two USB ports. Rest of the device has some labels, logos and LEDs. It uses Freescale’s i.MX 6 series of processor, just like SolidRun's HummingBoard-i2eX. i.MX 6 range is based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 design, and scales from single- to quad-core. The CuBox-i comes in two variants, a dual-core version (CuBox-i2eX) and a quad-core version (CuBox-i4Pro).
While CuBox-i2eX features 1GHz i.MX6 dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, GC2000 GPU, 1GB memory, SD card slot, two USB ports, HDMI, Ethernet, Wi-Fi (optional), Bluetooth (optional), CuBox-i4Pro has 2GB memory, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth by default instead of being optional, and the other features are same. Both the variants run on XBMC/Kodi and Linux, Android operating systems. CuBox-i can be used as a media player and it runs on GeexBox XBMC and OpenELEC or Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center.
The CuBox-i is compatible with Android and currently runs Android 4.4 KitKat. The CuBox-i version of Android includes Google apps and Google services like Gmail, G+, YouTube and so on. There are several Linux distributions available for the CuBox-i like Debian, Arch and OpenSUSE. A special firmware called Ignition allows you to easily download new firmwares. While CuBox-i2eX costs $120, CuBox-i4Pro is tagged with the price of $150.
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