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.

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The Software Interface Part II

Inside the “Display” tab, we can change multiple settings regarding the current wallpaper, resolution, display position, font size and more:

 

 

 

The device can render a maximum resolution of 1080p:

 

 

 

The Storage section will let us see how the storage space is distributed; the device has only 512MB available for applications, which can become full really quickly if we do not offload some of them on a microSD card:

 

 

 

Inside the Apps menu, we will see the currently installed ones, which are stored onto the SD card, the ones active, along with the storage space status bar:

 

 

 

Some more settings regarding passwords, installation of non-Market apps and certificates can be found in the “Security” tab:

 

 

 

We can also adjust different Language & Input settins from the respective menu:

 

 

 

A Factory reset can be performed from the “Backup & reset” tab:

 

 

 

The “Date & time” can be also adjusted from a separate menu:

 

 

 

Miscellaneous options can be set from the Developer options section; one useful option is “Show CPU Usage” and with its help we can see if one of the installed applications is slowing down the system:

 

 

 

 

Finally, in the “About MediaBox” tab, we can see detailed information on the installed software:

 

 

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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
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Originally Posted by jmke View Post
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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