Qintex Q9S Smart TV Box – First impressions & Quick Review
You can buy Qintex Q9S Smart TV Box from www.qintexworld.com & alibaba.com (wholesale) or aliexpress.com (end users).
Qintex Q9S TV Box has an elegant and compact design, with aluminium case and a front power button & digital display. On the right side it has the SD/MMC card reader and 2 full size USB ports. In the rear you can find the WiFi external antenna, reset button, another full size USB port, HDMI 2.0 out, Ethernet LAN RJ45 Gigabit 1000M port, AV out, 3,5 mm audio out, Optical audio out and power port. The overall impression is very good, the device looks to be constructed with big care to details.Qintex Q9S TV Box comes with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. The model adopts the latest quad core S905 chipset from Amlogic. For connectivity the device includes wired Ethernet RJ45 Gigabit 1000M, 802.11 a/b/g/n Dual Band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and Infra Red receiver on board.
Firmware tested: stock Android Lollipop 5.1.1
Kernel version: 3.14.29
Build number: userdebug 5.1.1 LMY47V 20160224 test-keys
You can download this latest stock firmware version from OTAUpgrade application and flash firmware according to this video tutorial.
Root: Good News. The firmware is rooted, you just have to install SuperSU or Super User from Playstore.Full photo album here.
In Antutu Video Tester 3.0 Qintex Q9S Smart TV Box scores 913 points, an impressive score in this test ranking. It played smoothly almost all video file types; this firmware version fully supports 27 video & audio format files and it partially supports 3 video & audio format files. In Antutu Benchmark 6.0.4 the device achieves also an amazing score, over 36.000 points.
As you can see, Qintex Q9S Smart TV Box is a very good and powerful multimedia player giving you the power to transform your living room into a real 4k Home Theater.
Internet speed tested on both WiFi & Ethernet gets good values too. For WiFi connection, the download speed was 27 Mbps and the upload speed 30 Mbps (5 Ghz) and 9 Mbps in download and the upload speed 7 Mbps (2.4 Ghz). Wired, on Gigabit Ethernet connection, the download speed was 53 Mbps and the upload speed 53 Mbps. The router used in this test is Xiaomi Mi WiFi Router.
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