As expected, Xiaomi has officially launched Mi Box 4S in China for only 289 yuan ($43). Yesterday, the company revealed only certain highlights of this product but today, its entire specifications are out. Unfortunately, just as we predicted, it does not bring any hardware upgrade.

The newly unveiled Mi Box 4S is identical to the original Mi Box 4 from 2018. The latter is sold as Mi Box S and Mi Box 4K in global markets.

That means it is powered by the same 64-bit quad-core Amlogic S905X chipset with 4 x ARM Cortex-A53 cores and Mali 450 GPU. The amount of RAM and internal storage is also similar at 2GB and 8GB respectively.

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The latest streaming box from the Chinese tech giant supports video playback up to 4K 60fps (H.265), HDR, Dolby Audio, and DTS Sound. The remote control is the same minimal one included with all the Mi TV products with a voice assistant key and microphone.

As for connectivity, the device comes with dual-band WiFi 5, Bluetooth 4.3, 1 x  HMDI 2.0, 1 x  USB 2.0, 3.5mm headphone jack, and power input. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with PatchWall UI on top of it. 

If this product ever makes its way to global markets, it will run Android TV Pie like the Mi Box S/Mi Box 4K. Anyway, it probably won’t launch outside China as the new model does not make sense over the previous model.

Having said that, in its home country, Xiaomi sells Mi Boxes in White color. In fact, the new Mi Box 4S only comes in White color. The company should bring this color option to other regions as well.

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