China-based ZTE has launched its first Wi-Fi 6 set-top box — ZTE ZXV10 B860AV6 in its home country. Thanks to the built-in support for the Wi-Fi 6 technology, it offers high-speed internet access along with high stability and low latency.

Additionally, it also comes with support for Wi-Fi 6 Transmission QoS solution as well as the Smart Networking Solution for the whole house. The device aims to offer a clear and smooth viewing experience to the users.

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The ZTE set-top box comes in a black-colored square-shaped box with sharp corners. On the top, there’s ZTE branding. The company has also shared that the device also won the 2019 iF Design Award.

The development comes soon after the company announced the launch of the industry’s first 5G converged set-top box. It offers a three-in-one design that offers a gigabit gateway, router, and set-top box.

For those who are unaware, the Wi-Fi 6 or 802.11ax is a new generation or the sixth generation of wireless LAN standard. It has certain advantages, including high bandwidth, low latency, and multiple access. With the technology being used in this set-top box from ZTE, it offers ultra-high-definition video, zero lag games, and ultra-rich applications for a new user experience.

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ZTE Corporation, one of the leading telecommunication equipment provider and a major player in enterprise and consumer technology, has today announced a partnership with Netflix, the leading online media streaming platform.

The partnership is for the Hailstorm, which is an Android TV-powered hybrid Set-Top Box (STB) device scaling program that enables Pay-TV operators and consumer electronics partners a low-cost and faster way to integrate Netflix on their devices.

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As per the company, ZTE has been working with Netflix since last year for the set-top box projects around the world. Now, with this partnership over the Hailstorm program, the company will work to create a better TV content ecosystem.

The company adds that it is also looking forward to helping entertainment content consumers to get easy access to Netflix’s catalog of movies and TV shows.

ZTE further says that the company has deployed its set-top boxes in more than 120 45 countries around the world in a partnership with over 120 companies. It adds that the company is committed to high-quality product Research & Development and its application.

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Amazon is now released their forst set-top box Fire TV device, this is the one of content services that offers from Amazon, this television box is offers for only $99 US.

The user who get the Amazon Fire TV services will get ore than 200,000 films and television series, and according to foreign media, the device, which is on sale immediately, will link to Amazon Instant Video’s large library of films and TV series, which has new and classic titles to download or stream, rent or buy, as well as hosting media players from Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu.

The devics is built on Android software, which should make it easier for developers’s designs, Fire TV can also display photos, play music and host games.

Fire TV set-top boxes is powered by quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, some closer to the high-end smart phones in the configuration are better than the current market many mainstream streaming media devices. More importantly this Fire TV has thinner and smaller design, it also includes the back of a conventional HDMI interface, and Optical Audio and Ethernet interface.

The Fire TV is also support to operate with remote control and the user can playing the game using wireless joystick.

The device can playing the content so smooth and no laggy effect, the system is quite responsive, the movie or the TV show started immediately – no delay or lag, not even loading screen on the current set-top box products, is really quite remarkable.

This products is ready to compete with  Apple TV box, which offers films to rent or own from the iTunes library, plus YouTube and Netflix.

The interesting point is this Fire TV is offers with only $99 USD or about $614 yuan.

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Huawei is not only producing smartphone and mobile phone, but now they ready to introducing their new products, is called Huawei MediaQ M310.

The new Huawei MediaQ M310 is a set-top-box device, which running with Android operating system and can be used as a smart TV box. The interesting point is this device is powered by Quad-core ARM-based chipset.

The new Huawei MediaQ M310 is powered by HiSilicon K3V3 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core chipset, sports with 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. If you want to upgrade the storage capacity you can add a microSD card slot for extra storage.

This device is packed with HDMI input and output, two ports of USB 2.0, 3.5mm audio jack, and Vivante GC4000 GPU. This device also support for WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0.

While this device is running Android OS but Huawei has been equipped their own interface for user, and the important thing is, this device is not a Google TV box, which means you should be able running most Android aplications and also optimized for Google TV platform.

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