Android MK802 Mini PC

Product Description

It outputs the video to TV via HDMI, a short HDMI cable is included, it requires your TV to have a HDMI input. It has a regular USB port, you can connect your USB mouse or keyboard here, you can also connect a 2.4GHz wireless mouse and keyboard dongle here,please be noted that mouse and keyboard are not included. It also has a micro USB port which can be used to connected to your PC. You can use it to copy files from your PC to this little guy. It also has a micro SD card slot, you can insert a micro SD card with up to 32GB of movie or pictures here. It doesnt have an ethernet port, you need to use WIFI to connect it to the internet. It also no RGB port,no S-video port, no built-in IR,no built-in bluetooth.

Top Reviews

It would be good, except for one key detail...
by Amazon Customer (2 out of 5 stars)
October 3, 2013

My only big complaint with this product is that the internet connection continually dropped off, resulting in the product being unable to download any applications I tried to use it with. The internet connection would stay stable for a minute or two, but then it will drop off again. While with a full computer, this would be less of a problem since I could switch to a wired connection, this device is wireless only and so wireless capability should be one of the most reliable things about it. I have cell phones with a better wifi antennae!

I love the idea of this product, but the execution was poor. My apologies.
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Hmmmm
by Capt. Quigg (1 out of 5 stars)
November 17, 2012

Read the reviews and took a chance. The unit boots and runs android 4.0, but will not hold a wireless signal for more than 60 secs.

I hope an update will come out to fix.
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Good price, fast shipping, but sub-par performance
by Colin Winter (3 out of 5 stars)
February 25, 2013

This product is fun to play with, but it is slow, freezes a lot during simple tasks like web browsing and netflix streaming. I ended up spending a little more and getting one of the newer ones with the dual core processor and way more ram and it is much better, definitely worth the extra $20.
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Bare minimum
by Dr. Fortyseven (2 out of 5 stars)
February 7, 2013

Just going to throw out some random observations:

This thing is slow. Most apps run at a reasonable pace, but it's quite sluggish for anything involving graphic intensive operations. Most games run terribly, if they run at all -- Unity-based games won't even render anything to the screen, and when they do, it's a mess of garbage.

I can't get a Quadrant score off the thing, because the display doesn't rotate (though I'm not sure who to blame on that one). In fact, anything involving forced portrait orientation will probably result in crashing, or a blank display.

The Android Settings screen crashes often, usually with no error message...simply drops to the home screen.

This build of the OS still features plenty of references to cell phone-specific things, though I was pleasantly surprised to find proper HDMI settings.

The device does get a bit warm, but it never feels like it's 'hot'. Seems as warm as I'd expect any active device to feel. I've left it on for days with no side effects.

Audio sometimes doesn't play at first, but will on subsequent accesses. (A notification tone will be missed the first time, but will heard the next dozen times.) I have not figured out if this is the fault of the MK802, or if this is something wonky with my monitor.

There are several Chinese-specific apps relating to television programming, and an App store, but they can be uninstalled with no fuss.

It DOES include the Google Play store, much to my surprise, though a great number of the apps are marked as being incompatible.

I did not get to try Netflix, but YouTube seemed to work fine.

You can power down the device from a dedicated button on the system tray, but physically you must unplug the device. Sometimes I have to unplug the HDMI cable as well, in order to start the device up again. It's a bit weird.

There is no Bluetooth, but a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard/trackpad combo with it's USB dongle worked quite fine.

I was hoping for something a *bit* better, but unfortunately I can't really use it for anything beyond the most basic tasks. A better build of Android might alleviate some of these problems.

It's a tiny $35 Android device. You definitely get what you pay for.
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Great
by Joe H. (5 out of 5 stars)
April 8, 2013

I've purchase three of these style android tv sticks and two of the new style dual core models. These work great. I use them primarily to play movies on my tvs. They play .mkv's beautifully and all the other common video file types. I plug in my external hard drive and play the movies right off that. It even plays the 3D movies perfectly on my 3D tv. Awesome, cheap product
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Wasn't happy with it
by roger (2 out of 5 stars)
November 23, 2017

Wasn't happy with it. It couldn't load Netflix or Hulu I guess it needed to be updated but no instructions
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No go out of the box.
by SammysUncle (1 out of 5 stars)
January 22, 2013

I was very interested in this little item and eager to see what it could do. I followed the instructions and turned it on and all it does is just sit at the android screen staring me down. Now I have some experience rooting (yes, I know it's already rooted -thanks) and modding my android devices so I will tinker with it. I'm not concerned at voiding any warranty or returning it but you would have though that the seller would have made sure it booted before sending it out !
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Really awesome concept, really disappointing execution
by thequesogrande (1 out of 5 stars)
February 8, 2013

This device is really, really cool on paper. Small, cheap, runs Android - could be very useful as an alternative to a set-top box for watching Netflix in the living room. However, it doesn't deliver on its concept. The performance is beyond poor - it took me a good 20 minutes to download Chrome, which wasn't improved by a crash and poor wireless connectivity, and once I had it downloaded, the device would crash whenever I tried to load a webpage. Most other apps I had the patience to try simply entered an infinite startup loop or simply wouldn't load completely (I couldn't tell). After a good hour and a half of use, it crashed for the seventh time and the bootloader broke, leaving me with something that was too light to even be a paperweight. As cool as this product seems, I wound up returning it the next day. Definitely recommend against getting this device.
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Extra points for tiny
by Victor B. Schneider (4 out of 5 stars)
November 1, 2012

Opinion come lately, this clever device has been around for awhile. I simply had to get one to find out what it can do. Well, now I know. The 1GHZ ARM cpu is extremely slow, and the AMD gpu makes up for cpu slowness in specific areas. The reason for using flash 10.1 is that flash 10.1 can be compiled for your particular Tower of Babel version of ARM so that it uses all the acceleration features of your graphics processor. Later versions of flash plugin on other Linux-like systems don't do this, but it appears that google found a way to carry the acceleration over into a newer 11.1 flash, which is automatically updated to from google using your home wifi system and its password. Any web site that relies on a later version of flash will refuse to stream video to this device, which includes places like Hulu (mentioned by others) and even Amazon personal videos, which really refuses to stream to this gadget, as well as to Linux in general.

I ran the Peacekeeper Benchmark with it, and it got a score of 69! (The Amazon Compulab budget 1.1 GHZ Intel z510 gadget gets a score of 352 on RIPLinuX and 278 on Win7.) Meaning many of the ogg and ogg vorbis and other html5 tests simply don't work, and those that do work are extremely slow, again a sign of what the ARM cpu can and can not do. This was on my HDMI input television, with a usb keyboard plus touchpad combo plugged in to one end of the super mini ARM computer. The one test that worked well was non-fussy streaming flash full screen video from France televisions, and here it was magnificently good, with very smooth rendering of motion and sound perfectly synced with the video.

So, next I tested it as an emergency desktop computer with my DVI-D plus VGA monitor. The connecter wire coming out of the HDMI end of the device can only plug in to a full-size HDMI outlet, so I dug out an Amazon/Compulab HDMI to VGA converter and plugged that in to the monitor VGA port. I used the Amazon Basics USB extender at the USB end, with a regular USB keyboard and mouse connected, and I plugged in a USB to analog audio dongle in the hopes of getting sound from the device that way. The dongle didn't work on this machine, even with a change in settings, although it works on any recent Linux or Windows machine. So, I checked the remaining characteristics. The system does start up with the VGA inpug dongle showing colors off balance, not unusual. You can get it to do everything else it does with a television set. So, as an emergency computer, with a television set monitor, it is useable.

One more point: Web sites identify this as a tablet computer, but it is also the guts of a smart phone device, stripped of the camera and dialing code.
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Doesn't work with HDMI->DVI adapter
by DC-9949 (2 out of 5 stars)
February 7, 2013

I purchased two of the Android 4.0 Mini PC MK802 1GB through Amazon. They arrived today.

I connected power and a USB 2.0 Hub with a Keytronics USB keyboard and Microsoft USB optical mouse.

I connected one to my Sony LCD TV HDMI->DVI adapter and there was no picture or activity.

I connected it to my Viewsonic HD LCD monitor via HDMI->DVI and there was no picture or activity.

I did the same test with the second unit. No picture.

My Raspberry Pi worked fine with the same setups.

I tested the Mini PCs with a Sharp HDMI TV and they worked. I had to reset the power twice. I contacted support and they offered to replace the units. However, they said there may be a problem using an HDMI->DVI adapter with the unit.

I have not tested performance yet.

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