How does Anker's Android TV device compare to Amazon Fire TV?

Strength of official Google support

The first step in using this unit is to pair it with the remote controller. Since this is an English menu, many people may be confused, but as shown in the figure, if you bring the remote control within 20 cm of the main unit and press the "Home" and "Back" buttons at the same time for 10 seconds, pairing will be performed. Complete.

After that, if you set the language setting to Japanese, the setting will proceed in Japanese. After that, if you link it with your Google account, you will be able to use functions such as Google Assistant.

Speaking of Anker's Android TV, in 2019 it reviewed the projector's Nebula Capsule II. It's a portable projector, but it's a product that runs on an Android TV. However, the Google Play Store could not be used, and I had to take an irregular method of installing via another application.

On the other hand, this unit has passed Google certification, and you can install apps from the Google Play Store. I feel that it has finally become what it should be.

After completing the network settings, the remote control function will be set. You can skip here, but if you want to operate the TV with this remote control, set it.

After completing all the settings, the home screen will appear. However, there are differences such as the UI of the home screen being renewed on Android TV 10.0, so it is better to go to the setting screen first and update the application.

The old version of the home screen had a style in which services were lined up on the left side, but this has been abolished in the new UI, and the menu [Home]-[Recommended]-[Apps] is now displayed at the top of the screen. ..

On the home screen, favorite apps are lined up in the upper row as before, but thumbnails of recommended videos are lined up for each available service.

Thumbnail scrolling is also pretty fast. Last week's Fire TV Stick 4K Max responded that it was "slimy and fast," but in the case of this unit, the impression is that it is "smooth and fast." There are places where the thumbnail display is skipped, but there is no impression that it is sluggish. However, the number of thumbnails displayed by scrolling is about half that of the Fire TV Stick 4K Max. This is probably the difference in OS rather than the difference in aircraft performance.

The highlight of this time is the "Recommended" screen. If you select this, thumbnails will be organized by content type. What's interesting about this method is that the content is lined up through, regardless of which distribution platform it is.

If the content you're looking at is scattered across Amazon and Netflix, you may forget which service is being delivered. After joining Netflix, I tend to turn back, saying, "Oh, it wasn't here." The recommendation screen should prevent such confusion.

For content distributed across multiple services, it is possible to select which service to watch.

Such a penetrating search started from the UI of cable TV in the United States, and although it is adopted in some cable TV in Japan, it is not widely recognized. If content viewing spans multiple services, these features will be emphasized, and this is Google's strength.

The service may include Abema TV and hulu, giving you plenty of anime choices.