Amazon Fire TV Cube, all the power in your television [Analysis]

Amazon continues to bet heavily on its Fire TV range, while just a few days ago we were talking about the new Fire TV Stick (2020) Just launched by Jeff Bezos' company, today we are here with the 'high end' alternative. The one that is positioned as the rival of Apple TV in a market dominated by the company of the bitten apple, the high-performance multimedia centers.

The Amazon Fire TV Cube arrives in Spain, a 4K HDR multimedia center that will provide functionalities that you distrust to your television. Stay with us and discover how the Amazon Fire TV Cube can come into your home and dominate the living room.

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Materials and design

Unlike what the new Echo range raises, this Fire is extremely angled and aggressive, it has a simple cube shape with an LED at the top as an activity indicator for both Alexa and the rest of its functionalities.

We have four main buttons at the top that serve to mute the microphones, invoke Alexa, and raise and lower the volume. We did not find any color alternatives, black is the predominant one in this Amazon product It has a non-slip base at the bottom and, due to its few fanfare, it is attractive to any decoration.

It is in the back where we have a port microUSB, un port for control via IR, a port HDMI and the port of feeding. Regarding the measures we have 86 x 86 x 74 millimeters for a total weight of 456 grams.

A clear minimalist bet by Amazon that has been quite interesting for us. It's built in 'piano black', which you either love or hate. It is true that it is visually attractive, but it has facilities to accumulate dust or to be scratched, however, due to its position, we are hardly going to interact with it to that point.

Technical characteristics

We focus on the guts of this Amazon Fire TV Cube, which has a processor Hexa-Core (Quad-Core 2,2 GHz maximum and Dual-Core 1,9 GHz maximum) of which we do not know the manufacturer. Yes we know it from the GPU, in this case ARM Mali G52-MP2 (3EE), 800MHz.

As for RAM we will have 2GB (twice as much as its little brother the Fire TV Stick) and 16 GB total storage (also double that of the rest of the devices in the range). Perhaps inferior in the technical section to other devices of the competition, but clearly benefited by its customized Operating System.

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We have dual band WiFi and MIMO antenna which makes it compatible with both 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz networks. Bluetooth We have version 5.0 for standard transfers and Bluetooth Low Energy to interact with accessories such as the remote.

An advantage of this Amazon Fire TV Cube is that it has a built-in 40mm speaker so we can interact with Alexa even when the TV is off. It will emit responses as long as we don't have its built-in microphones muted.

Designed for entertainment

This Amazon Fire TV Cube has all the technical sections that we could miss. At the image level we will have Dolby Vision, HDR 10, HDR 10+ and Dolby Atmos, which will allow us to take advantage of 7.1 surround sound through the HDMI port.

Regarding the resolution of the image, without limitations we will be able to achieve the UDH 4K with a maximum rate of 60 FPS. This does not mean that we will indeed be able to enjoy the rest of the content in other resolutions that we are able to reproduce, as is the case with the HBO application.

The result in our tests with the main streaming audiovisual content providers has been favorable. Netflix reaches levels of 4K HDR resolution without problems and as we have seen offering slightly sharper results than through other systems such as Samsung TV (Tizen OS).

The own and personalized Operating System helps him a lot. It works slightly faster than the rest of the Fire range, even with really heavy applications like Movistar + that tend to show bugs on all platforms. Our overall experience has been exceptionally good.

One controller to dominate them all

The epicenter of the device is the command, our way of contacting it. In this case, it bets on the Alexa voice control that we have already been able to use on other devices and that has grown in both functionalities and buttons. However, we will be able to operate the Fire TV Cube also with the TV remote through HDMI.

This new command allows us to turn off the television directly without turning off the Fire TV Cube however conflicts directly with some televisions such as Samsung's, as these directly invoke their own HUB every time we turn it off and on, or for example the «Home» button does not respond according to expectations since the interactions are not the same.

For its part, the control continues to offer a bittersweet sensations since its finishes and the route of the buttons are not what you would expect from a product over one hundred euros. This directly conflicts with, for example, the mid-range and high-end controls from Samsung or LG and produces a strange sensation to the change.

There are alternatives and there are customization possibilities, but from my point of view the command is relatively improvable.

You can do with it Amazon Fire TV Cube from 119 euros on Amazon (link)In the video at the top you will be able to see its simple configuration and the exceptional performance it offers. Without a doubt, this Fire TV Cube is planted as a serious alternative to Apple TV and has reached the Spanish market.