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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.

The Software Interface Part I

The initial firmware the device came with had some bugs so we could not use the product efficiently; with the new update, most of the things have been fixed and we can enjoy the ICS interface. The default installation has a rainbow wallpaper on the desktop and most of the applications can be found when accessing the drawer:

Besides AirDroid and App2SD, the rest of the apps come preinstalled with the firmware like Browser, Calculator, Calendar and so on:

We can navigate through the file system with the ES File Explorer application:

The MoviePlay app also comes with a file browser, through which we can navigate for finding the video files:

In the same manner, the Music app comes with an interface that helps us locate the audio files:

The Network app will allow us to find the shared folders inside the local network:

Most of the settings can be modified from the “Settings” app, which looks like on any other Android tablet; besides Wi-Fi, the device can be also be configured for LAN Ethernet:

Some of the settings in the “More” tab have remained from mobile phones like “Mobile networks”:

From the “Sound” tab we can choose the Digital audio output signal type:

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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