Xiaomi Mi Box 4K: Does it work well in poor mobile network conditions? – India Today
Smart TVs are all the hype these days and it is safe to say that there’s a smart TV for everyone at various price brackets. That said, smart TVs need good internet connectivity to offer their best and it is safe to say that the required infrastructure is mostly limited to the metro cities and a few tier 2 cities across the country. High-speed broadband is still a rarity in most of semi-urban and rural India, and mobile data speeds on 4G are still nowhere as good as what you get on big cities. Hence, when Xiaomi India sent me the Mi Box 4K for review, I was interested to see how it fares in a typical Indian home set in the semi-urban setting. For those who have missed, the Mi Box 4K is an affordable way to upgrade your existing TV to a smart Android TV, priced at Rs 3,499. The Mi Box 4K offers 90 per cent of thrills of Xiaomi’s Mi TVs at a fraction of the latter’s cost. Ever since the COVID-19 lockdown started, I have been limited to my hometown, which is a small mining town just o...