A Tiny Stick PC for $74, Android Included (Video)

It was only four days ago that we reported on the existence of a $49 VIA android mini PC and now we get to describe another such item, from Chinese brand rikomagic.

This small device measures 8.8 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm, which is the same as 3.46 x 1.37 x 0.47 inches. Quite a small package for a computer, but we lost the ability to be surprised by things like this because of the Raspberry Pi. Anyway, the new mini PC is called MK802 and relies on an Allwinner 10 processor (1GHz Cortex-A8 CPU), as well as 512 MB of RAM (random access memory). The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system is loaded on the built-in storage, which is 4 GB NAND Flash.

What's more, an USB port is present, for connecting a keyboard or a mouse. It wouldn't do not to have any means of controlling the PC after all. Besides the above, for establishing the connection to a TV or monitor, an HDMI port was made part of the contraption. All in all, the MK802 is the sort of thing that will be able to turn any TV or monitor into a Smart TV with full PC capabilities. Sure, there won't be any way to play games, but web browsing will work just fine, as will Android apps and the like.

Other specifications that the Chinese company decided to include in the mini PC are support for 2.4G wireless keyboards, Wireless 802.11b/g/n, WAPI (Ralink8188), a memory card slot (Micro TF 2-32GB) and a nice collection of codecs. For those seeking a list, there are both audio (AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A) and video codecs (WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2M4V, AVI, MJPEG, RV10, DivX, VC-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, 1280 x 720P HD 30 fps, 1080P/720 x 480 D1 30fps). Pre-orders can be made here and it won't take more than $74 to place one (59 Euro). Shipments will begin on June 10.

Posted in: Hardware, Preview