Powerful UGOOS AM8 Full Android 4K TV BOX - S928XJ - 4GB+32GB - Any Good?

foreign what's up guys brand new streaming box in the house this is the new hugos am8 [Music] now when this company yugos launches a brand new TV box I get excited because they always push out new technology new features and in this case we have a brand new amlogic chipset to play with and it might just be one of the most powerful chipsets we have seen in an Android TV box so far okay so quickly run through the specs so this box is powered by a brand new chipset it is the amlogic s928xj it's a pentacle processor clocked at 2.0 gigahertz for graphics we have the integrated Mali g57 this box has four gigs of LP ddr4 RAM and 32 gigs of emmc storage there is MicroSD expansion up to 32 gigs you've got Wi-Fi six gigabit Lan and Bluetooth 5.3 this is running full Android version 11. we've got HDMI version 2.1 a this box supports up to 8K at 60fps it also supports the av1 codec and you do have pass-through support for 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound and this does come with a Bluetooth Bluetooth remote with voice and Gyro let's have a quick look at what you get inside the Box so we get a user manual we've got dual external antennas for Wi-Fi a hugos branded HDMI cable we've got a hugos branded type c to type c cable a type c power brick a Bluetooth remote control which also has a built-in microphone for your voice searches it is powered by two AAA batteries which are not included in the box and last but not least the TV box itself so the box is actually made from a metal case with a matte finish you've got the hugos logo finished in white on the front we've got an infrared for the remote control so it is a hybrid remote it's infrared and Bluetooth if we keep going we've got our two connections for the antennas which I'm about to connect right now so dual external antennas if we keep going we've got type c port for power we've got type c port for data transfer we've got an HDMI 2.1 a port gigabit Lan spdif and you've got a 3.5 millimeter port for audio if we keep going we've got three USB 3 ports and a Micro SD card slot which and that will bring us back to the front of the box and this is how the bottom of the Box looks like so you can see we've got two holes there one for recovery and one for mask ROM and there is some ventilation in the center so that is how the Box looks with the antennas to the side so very excited to test the capabilities of this TV box and we are going to put this thing to the test to see what it's capable of I'll be right back first of all I've ran a boot up speed test and I'm amazed to see that this box took only 7.97 seconds to fully load the home screen from a cold start and here is the home screen we have a full Android desktop tablet layout and it's completely customizable just like a tablet and you can navigate with a remote or a mouse and it's also nice to see that we have a navigation status bar at the bottom which you can bring up by just swiping up on the mouse now if we head over to the main system settings then go to device preferences and check out the system storage info you will see that this box has 32 gigs of internal storage from which there are 27 gigs free to use and and if we have a quick look in about you will see that this is running Android version 11 and you can see the firmware version kernel and build numbers Etc now other features to mention under input and devices we have our HDMI CEC settings and there are a number of options to play around with under this section if we go back we've got button manager menu button customizer it's a single press double press triple press or long press so if we just press enter and these are all your customization options per button now we've got Mouse settings so you can actually change the pointer speed or even enlarge the mouse pointer we've got USB settings and check this if we tap on USB 3 Port you can actually switch the speeds from super speed to high speed so you can drop the speed up or down I'm not sure why you would want to drop the speed down of the USB port under display and sound we have resolution color position orientation and a few more options if I tap on resolution I just want to show you quickly 4K 60 if we go back you've got color mode HDR policy and then you've got HDR to SDR we've got position orientation automatic frame rate is another cool feature it's off by default but you can switch it on if you need to or go to the bottom Advanced sound settings and you can see some of the formats that are supported if we select formats it's set on auto but you have some other options here if you want to switch now under panels in interface we have system bars recent application window hardware monitor home screen voice input and animations so system bars is your status bar at the top and bottom recent applications hardware monitor so if I activate it just to give you an example you will see an overlay appear on the left and that will be displayed on top so hardware monitor can be enabled if you're doing some system testing I'm going to keep it off for now and we've got a home screen so they're actually two different home screens you can select the one I've shown you the tablet design and then you've got the UL launcher if I just select it so that is the secondary home screen so you've got a simple icon layout you can add more icons by hitting the plus sign and just selecting any app you like and all your favorite apps you'll find in one line right at the end you have settings and right at the start you've got a app drawer so very minimalistic home screen I actually prefer the other look but two options are there in case you guys want it okay we've got voice input applications it's set on usage I'm going to switch that to Google of course and then you've got your animation options this is usually found in developer options but they've moved it to here to make things easier now under power settings we've got power indicator I'll show you what that is so power indicator can be switched on or off and you can actually choose different colors based on what the status is so active sleep or hibernate there is a screen saver energy saver power key and timer action is set to sleep but you have a few other options there wake up from motion power on from Bluetooth and maximum performance mode so lock the CPU and GPU clock at the highest speed I'm definitely going to do that maximum performance mode active and for those who know what this is you've got super user access so you can activate root from here should you wish to do so now we've got Google settings location accessibility quick look if there's anything interesting and then we've got additional settings at the bottom open it up and you will see the full Android settings as you would normally see it on a tablet so those are all your settings and there were quite a few settings to play around with hugos likes to give us more customization options with their boxes and that is one of the highlights of this box alright so now it's time to check out the complete system apps these are all the apps available on this box as standard I have not actually installed anything yet so these are your default apps so you've got quite a few apps here you've got two file managers Gallery air screen Miracast you've got the Google Play Store as well which is going to come in handy because there are many apps not available as standard so whereas YouTube where is Netflix where is Prime so I'm about to download all of those from the Play store okay so I've just downloaded all my usual favorite apps so you can see Netflix YouTube Prime Disney plus is not available from the play store but everything else I found so one of the first things I like to test is screen mirroring and we have Miracast and air screen so that's Android and iOS screen mirroring included so let's open up Miracast and test the Android screen mirroring okay so I've actually tried connecting to Miracast with at least three different phones to a Samsung one was a Poco none of them work so screen mirroring for Android for some reason is not working now let's try screen mirroring for iOS so we have air screen pre-installed let's open it up so any second now my iPhone 14 pro screen should be mirrored and as you guys can see it's worked absolutely fine so screen mirroring for Android doesn't work but screen mirroring for iOS is working absolutely fine now the play 4K videos from a USB drive and I'm going to do this with the included default media player which is movie player okay so we're going to start off with the high bitrate jellyfish demo first file is 160 megabits per second and you can see it's playing back nice and smooth second file we are testing is the 180 megabits per second jellyfish demo and against playback is very smooth the real test 400 megabits per second High bitric jellyfish demo and whilst it is trying to play back you can see it's struggling with this sample now we're going to play some regular 4K 60. audio not supported let's go back so there is a codec issue it means I need to download VLC player [Music] so thereafter I tested some 4k60 samples with various HDR formats and they all played back to super smooth all right and just to see what happens I also tested out an av1 clip and you can see it's playing back fine so av1 codec is also supported now let's move on to the 4K YouTube test and you can see YouTube supports a maximum of 4K 60 with HDR so let's see how it plays back [Music] it was said this child would stop the madness of War illness and perhaps an open hole I needed to tell you how sorry I am for um about what happened okay so now it's time to test Netflix and I downloaded Netflix straight from the Play Store legit and you can see maximum streaming quality possible is 540p I also tested out Amazon Prime video and again we have SD quality streaming Max we are now moving on to the gaming test and we're going to start off with some asphalt 8. now unfortunately during the gaming tests my audio messed up on my capture card nothing to do with the TV box itself the Box played all the games perfectly fine with great audio so for the rest of the games you're just going to hear background music [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so for you Advanced users DRM info shows Google wide Vine level three and here is CPU Zed where you can check out the clock speeds and as you can see all CPU cores are completely maxed out and that is because we have this box on top performance mode and just to confirm the Android version is 11 and there is a root switch in settings that you decide whether this box is rooted or not and in the Wi-Fi speed test we achieve download speeds of 379 and upload speeds of 33 megabits per second and just for some context I ran the same test on the same Wi-Fi with my iPhone 14 pro and I achieved a score slightly lower than what the box gave me now I usually get around 500 megabits per second in this office and that is typical speeds but it looks like my connection itself is only achieving under 400 today on all my devices so that means this box has a pretty decent Wi-Fi and it is capable of achieving my top speed when my ISP lets it so that brings us to our benchmarks beginning with geekbench single core score of 402 and multi-core score of 747. and in the antitude benchmark test we achieved a pretty decent 216k so let's see how that compares with the others so here is my top Android TV box performance chart for 2023 showing you the latest TV boxes and seeing how they compare with each other and the ranking is based on antutu benchmark scores and based on that you can see the hugos am8 has achieved a respectful position 5 on this chart with a benchmark score of 216k now I've also given this box an overall rating of 4 out of five now you can read the full versions of all my charts online at chigztec.com and read them at your leisure so there you have it guys that was the new yugos am8 now I know what you guys are thinking this box is powerful it's streamed YouTube 4K OS and UI it's fantastic you get great connectivity with three USB 3 ports MicroSD slot you've got a gigabit Lan dual external Wi-Fi you can even play av1 codec which is a bonus and you definitely can't forget the extensive customization settings and tweaks so why did it only get a four out of 5 in my charts well Netflix and Prime are limited to SD quality Disney plus is not available to download from the Play Store native Miracast did not work for me and the remote controls gyro Mouse function also did not work now that being said I do appreciate the effort yugos makes with their new TV boxes they're always trying out new chipsets and offering new features and tweaks which you don't usually get in other TV boxes but to sum this one up I do recommend you pay extra and pick up the Nvidia Shield which is still more powerful than this box blocks and most other boxes out there it does 4K across the board including Dolby vision and Atmos the am8 does not support Vision or Atmos or even 4K across the board a cheaper alternative but still quite powerful is the Fire TV Cube 4K third generation which is also pretty good at kicking ass when it comes to 4K streaming so needless to say the hugos am8 is priced quite high it's slightly cheaper than the shield but saying this if you go to the website you will see that they're nearly sold out already that's even before me publishing this video so that is how good their boxes sell so bottom line a pretty Advanced box but you do need to consider those caveats I think this box is more designed and orientated towards the advanced user who can take advantage of all of those extensive features that's all for this video any questions you guys know what to do don't forget to hit the like and sub button to support the channel thank you so much for watching and I catch you all in the next one peace [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music]

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Published: Mon Sep 04 2023