AMKETTE EVOTV 1GB
Price: Rs 11,495
The Amkette EvoTV was one of the most innovative products of 2012. For the new year, Amkette has upgraded their smart box with Android Ice-cream Sandwich, 1 GB RAM and XBMC for Android.
The interface is different - definitely cleaner - and you can now multi-task thanks to ICS. So if you have a game running in the background and you open the mail to check the inbox, it is possible to go back to the former without going to the homescreen. You can also use the notifications bar to open Wi-Fi settings, which is a crucial part of this whole set up. The other new feature that Amkette has brought it is XBMC, which is without doubt the most comprehensive and stylish media player software around.
However, XBMC is an app and we would have loved it to be incorporated into the mediaplayer itself. Also, we noticed that this app has a tendency to get stuck, something which was very rare in the first version. We were also happy with the extended battery life on the Evotouch remote. If it could last a week on a single change earlier, it can now last two and that is a major improvement. We think this has been achieved by adding a sleep mode to the device, which pushes the remote into standby it is inactive.
While the EvoTV has definitely become better, we feel there is a bit of fine-tuning that would be required in this version. Despite the small glitches in the new version, this is still the best smart box for televisions available in the Indian market.
BAG IT OR JUNK IT?
Needs some fine-tuning, but still the best
