Tronsmart Draco Review

My Tronsmart Draco Review

Tronsmart Draco AW80 TV box has octa-core CPU, up to 4GB RAM


Hi guys,
Hears my review of the Tronsmart Draco Meta
Im well impressed with this Awesome tv box its now my everyday tv box.
First off it arrived very fast indeed from geekbuying via DHL & with no customs duty to pay :BANANA
(Thanks Eric)

Specification
The case is made of Aluminium
The Draco measures 164mm x 164mm x 27.5mm.
CPU: Allwinner A80 Octa-Core ARM Cortex A15/A7
GPU: 64-Core PowerVR G6230
Android 4.4, support's OTA update
DRR3 2GB RAM + EMMC 16GB ROM,Also DRR3 4GB RAM + EMMC 32GB ROM
Dual-band Wi-Fi, Support 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth 4.0/USB 3.0/ SATA/ Gigabit Ethernet
Support 4k2k H.265 decoding
Support DLNA / Airplay / Miracast / SMB
Come's Pre rooted

First imprestions
The draco was very well packed & every item in the box was in its own little box a nice touch makes it feel more expencive i like it.
I was surprised how big the draco was compared to my other tv box's/sticks but i dont think thats a down side as i think the large Aluminium case will be great for keeping it cool so i dont think we will be getting any over heating problems, Also on the bottom of the case there is plenty of venterlation holes.

The box feels very well constructed.There’s no power button on the draco, On the front there is a little window for the remote control sensor next to that is a power LED.On the back there is the HDMI port, the Wi-Fi antenna, the 12V power connector, an Ethernet port, a Optical port,a headphone jack port, and an OTG USB3 port. There are two more full sized USB ports on the side, along with a full sized SD card slot and an e-SATA connector.
This is the first tv box that iv seen with the high speed e-SATA connector so it should make things easy for people who want to hook it up to a external hard drive.


The firmware the device comes with is quite good & very snappy.One thing I do like about
the draco is how the storage is laid out,No more stupid partitions its all one space
which is the best way to go. It comes with All cast (for iphone)Skype, Plex, XBMC, Netflix,
& Hulu, as well as some root-only apps like ES File Explorer and SuperSU..The first app i
tested was of course the ps3 sixaxis controller app & i can confirm it works perfect, lost 2
hours playing beach buggy blitz (testing it of course)

The only thing I don't like so far is the remote,May be im being too fussy It does work,But I think a tv box of this high qulaty & this money should come with a quality Air mouse remote like the Tronsmart TSM-01 Air mouse + Keyboard www.geekbuying.com/item/Tronsmart-TSM-01-Air-Mouse---Keyboard-for-TV-Box---PC---Motion-Sensing-Games-317283.html (will be reviewing that soon)

The boot time on the draco is about 45 seconds to complete
Shut down time is 3 seconds
Antutu Score of 50241 WOW MONSTER
USB logitec c270 webcam works great
External Samsung hard drive of 1TB works fine powered by the draco
XBMC Kodi is working well for me,but im no expert with Kodi i watch films via navi-x thats
about it 720 & 1080 are playing fine.Also the draco plays films stored on my pc over wifi fine.
All my tests have been done using the stock rom.Im expecting there will be an update to the stock rom very soon as there has been no up to date this box is still very new..

What's in the box?
1 x TV box
1 x Remote control
1 x SATA cable
1 x HDMI cable
1 x Male to male USB cable
1 x Power adapter
1 x User manual

Buy the Tronsmart Draco Meta hear www.geekbuying.com/item/Tronsmart-Draco-AW80-Meta-Allwinner-A80-Octa-Core-Android-4-4-Mini-TV-Box-2G-16G-2-4G-5G-WIFI-802-11AC-H-265-Bluetooth-SATA-OTA-DLNA-336152.html

Buy the Tronsmart Draco Telos hear www.geekbuying.com/item/Tronsmart-Draco-AW80-Telos-Allwinner-A80-Octa-Core-Android-4-4-Mini-TV-Box-2-4G-5G-WIFI-802-11AC-Bluetooth-OTA-DLNA-336181.html


Get the Stock rom hear
www.mediafire.com/download/ndbe6sis0456t...raco_AW80_141025.zip

Get the Finless 1.1 beta rom hear (IF you use this rom please consider a donation to freaktab)
www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?20692-NEW-Draco-AW80-Finless-ROM-1-1-BETA2&p=259326&posted=1#post259326

SD card flash methered hear
www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?19888-Alternative-Flash-Method

Tronsmart flash tool methered hear
www.tronsmart.com/forum/tronsmart-draco-aw80/211-instructions-for-firmware-updating-via-pc#.VJC2KWcqXcs