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iconBIT Toucan SX Android Mini PC Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2012-12-05

The Toucan SX is a small and cute Media Center based on Android ICS, which features enough USB ports for fitting different storage devices and/or peripherals, is powered by a single core ARM CPU at 1GHz and on it we can install thousands of apps from the Google Play Store. The internal memory for applications is quite small (512MB), but if we migrate the installed apps onto a separate microSD card, most of the "Insufficient memory" issues will be gone.

A Closer Look Contd.

A thin jack plug is used to power the device:

The iconBIT remote is pretty simple and easy to use; it does not feature a lot of buttons like the more advanced and expensive models (Toucan Nano SX Plus comes with a gyro QWERTY remote and the Toucan Nano SX Pro has a gyro S-Control remote):

On the bottom side we can see the battery compartment:

The lateral side of the remote comes with the Volume controls, which are quite easy to access:

The Mini PC chassis is covered with a plastic rubberized texture, which is pleasant to the touch, but scratches (mostly in the area of the ports) can be seen quite easily:

The front comes with two activity LEDs, one which signals network activity and the other Status LED tells us the current state of the device:

On the right side we'll find a TF card reader for storage space expansion and two USB 2.0 ports:

On the back, we can locate a LAN port, the third USB 2.0 port, one HDMI and the DC-in port; here we can also find an On/Off button (which is necessary since with the remote we can only place the PC in standby):

The bottom side is covered with rubber material; on the left we can spot a small Reset button:

Comment from jmke @ 2012/12/07

any chance to try XBMC on this?

http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/12/0...-with-android/

would make for an excellent media player

Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2012/12/07

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmke

any chance to try XBMC on this?

http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/12/0...-with-android/

would make for an excellent media player

Will see what I can do since I have very limited internal space (this is quite a big apk) and would need to migrate the app after installation.

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