▼ F8 is a 64 bit eight core model promoted by Cabol last year In terms of configuration, it can be divided into two versions: high configuration 2G+16G and low configuration 1G+16G. In terms of system, it can be divided into Android 5.1.1 system and Alibaba Cloud system of Laoma Family; What I want to introduce to you today is the low configuration Alibaba Cloud version of F8. Speaking of Alibaba Cloud system, you should hear a lot of complaints! Last year's Double 11 was a bit excessive, such as forced software uninstallation and background monitoring. In fact, when I got this F8 and found that it was an Alibaba Cloud system, my first idea was to brush it. However, after thinking about it, I really didn't use the box of Alibaba Cloud system officially. I might as well take this to try. It is valuable when it exists. Alibaba Cloud always has its advantages, and I don't think about whether I am monitored by Laoma when I start up, Let's evaluate this F8 box with a neutral attitude first!

▼ Speaking of Cabol, I think we will never be unfamiliar with HD audiophiles. In 2005, Cabol launched the first domestic Blu ray player, which was considered as a domestic player at that time There was a blue ray craze in the industry. Since then, domestic blue ray players with many brands have sprung up, and China's film watching fever equipment has officially entered the blue ray era. Headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Cabol is also the first high-definition player and the first intelligent player in mainland China After years of development, Cabol has become a national high-tech enterprise that independently produces, develops and sells intelligent high-definition playback equipment. It has signed strategic agreements with many chip manufacturers, such as Amlogic, Rockchip, AllWinner, etc , China Telecom, China Unicom and other well-known brands have established long-term and sustainable partnerships, with more than 3 million users in more than 60 countries and regions around the world.



▼ Due to cost considerations, the outer packing box of Kebor F8 has nothing to attract attention. It uses ordinary public packaging. The hardness of the packing box is not high, and there has been a little deformation in the process of express transportation. The words on the packing box spell a big number 1, which not only contains the interpretation of the characteristics and functions of Kebor boxes, To a certain extent, it symbolizes Kebor's determination to become bigger and stronger in the high-definition field.

▼ The related accessories of F8 are also relatively simple. In addition to the host and the manual, there is also a remote controller, a power adapter and an HDMI HD cable.

▼ The power adapter is a qualified product with 3C certification.

▼ In terms of remote control, F8 adopts a new type of learnable remote control. Through infrared matching with the TV remote control, you can control two devices on one remote control at the same time, which is more convenient and user-friendly. But the method of learning settings is not directly displayed on the back of the remote control. For some users, it will be more or less troublesome!

▼ The appearance design of this F8 is basically similar to its predecessor Q5. It should be the same set of molds, but slightly different in the interface.

▼ On the back of the box, except for two high gain antennas, there are AV interfaces and two USB 2.0 interfaces from left to right, and between them are reset holes; Network interface, HDMI HD interface and 5V/2A power interface.

▼ At the bottom of the box, four rubber foot pads make room for the machine and the table for heat dissipation. Two rows of orderly fan shaped heat dissipation holes also better ensure the normal operation of the machine.

▼ Detailed display of Kebor F8:


Before dismantling the machine, I would like to introduce the chip scheme adopted by this Kebor F8 Ruixin micro RK3368 64 bit eight core processor. The processor has a 28 nanometer process octa architecture, and can run eight Cortex-A53 cores at the same time. The operating frequency can reach 1.5GHz. The most outstanding feature of RK3368 is that it supports 64 bit operations. Compared with 32-bit processors, the advantage of 64 bit processors is reflected in the system's control of memory. The maximum address space of 32-bit ARM processor is 4GB, which makes many large-scale data processing programs that need large capacity memory appear to be stretched out at this time, forming a bottleneck of operating efficiency.

The RK3368 processor that supports 64 bits will completely solve the bottleneck that ARM processors currently encounter in 32-bit computing systems, and can support more memory capacity. In addition, RK3368 is the second chip after RK3288 to support 4K and real-time hard solution of H.265, which can really realize 4K video output. At the same time, it also introduced a new H. 265 transcoder technology. It is mainly for high-definition video multi-channel real-time transcoding service, which can convert various input video formats into H.265 format video output in real time.

▼ The shell of Kebold F8 is relatively simple to remove, and the four fixing screws can be opened.

▼ From the manufacturing of the motherboard, it can be seen that it is relatively formal, and there is no sign of copycat.

▼ From the PCB, we can see that the RK3368 chip used by F8 is not placed on the CPU, so it seems that Cabol is confident in its own heat dissipation process.

▼ Next to the CPU, there are two K4B4G1646Q-HYK0 512M DDR3 memory, forming a dual channel 1G memory; On the lower side of the PCB is a Samsung 16G memory card with the model KLMAG2GE4A-A001.



▼ On the system interface, F8 adopts a flat block structure, which divides the main interface into six parts: recommendation, film, game, children, shopping and application. Each menu is divided into multiple sub links. To be honest, I don't like this style very much. I always feel that many repetitive things are in it, which is too cumbersome. The remote control also affects the efficiency. If it is used for the elderly at home, it must not be suitable.

▼ When you are in the first column of the menu "Recommended", you can call up the shortcut menu through the left arrow key, including application, setting, search, notification and theme.

▼ When you press the direction key to the bottom, you can call up the shortcut menu of the software.

▼ The software here can be deleted and replaced. It is easy to find some commonly used software here.

▼ In the "Recommendations" and "Applications" of the main interface, several software spaces have been reserved for you to place the most commonly used APP. Suddenly, Alibaba Cloud does not even have a commonly used file manager. Instead, it should be this "multimedia player" software!

▼ In terms of system settings, Alibaba Cloud has made targeted optimization. Compared with the Android native setting interface, it looks more comfortable, and there are not so many meaningless setting options. We can see that the setting interface is divided into four parts: network settings, account and payment, image and voice, and general settings.

▼ Cabol F8 can support WLAN hotspot function if it is wired. Although the popularity of home wireless routing is very high now, this function is better than nothing! In addition, Kebor F8 does not support the currently advanced 802.11ac protocol, that is, it does not support 5G frequency.

▼ In the account and payment function settings, it is mainly to bind your Taobao account, payment authorization management and security lock switch settings. After setting up here, it will be more convenient and safer to buy things through Taobao TV shopping.

▼ Cable F8 supports Bluetooth function, which I prefer. Watching movies in the dead of night will always disturb my family. Wired headsets are too restrictive, so Bluetooth headsets are more convenient. In addition, the Bluetooth controller can also be used for playing games. Therefore, with the addition of Bluetooth, the playability of the box has improved.

▼ Speed measurement data during wireless connection:

▼ There is still a big gap in the speed measurement data of wired connection!


▼ The following is the test result of CPU-Z. It's true that the Android version is not reliable. It's clearly RK3368, but it was tested as RK3066, and the main frequency was reduced to 1.2GHz.



▼ An Tu Tu scored 32522 points. Compared with many TV boxes at present, they still hover around 20000 points. It should be ideal. What's wrong with the two 3D performance that don't support?

▼ The hardware acceleration benchmark test result of Nenamark2 is 59.4fps, which is also a relatively high score in the TV box.




▼ For the TV box, the online resource platform is very important. The resources should not only be more, but also be updated quickly, stable, clear and smooth. Of course, for many people, the most important thing is free. Let's take a look at the built-in online platform of F8 - TAO Movie and TV, namely Tmall Cinema.

▼ The classification of TV dramas is very detailed, which is more convenient for users to search according to their preferences. In terms of update speed, it basically keeps up with the pace of major satellite TV stations. Many popular movies can be found here.

▼ There are also many movie resources, but the update is still a little slow. The 2016 movies already available on other platforms cannot be found here. For example, Mermaid and Three Beats of the White Bones have not been launched yet. Many old movies still need to be charged here, and they are drunk. However, the definition of films and TV plays on the Tmall Theater platform is good, and the playback speed is relatively smooth. Unfortunately, many of them need to be charged.

▼ In the small window playing mode, click OK to play in full screen.

▼ Screenshot of Pancake Man:

▼ Screenshot of The Biography of the Female Doctor Princess:

▼ I am very interested in the content of Qiaosuo Channel, which is also relatively rare on other platforms, but unfortunately I am not a member.

▼ E! ZONE, a well-known entertainment platform in the United States, is really rare on other resource platforms. Of course, if you like it well, you have to pay a price. You also have to be a member and pay for it.



▼ If you don't like the charging items, you can use other platforms. There are too many free ones. I won't introduce them one by one. You can download them and see which ones you like.

▼ I have always liked VST film and television aggregation, which is rich in online resources and relatively fast in updating.



▼ Screenshot of the popular play "The Legend of Green Hill Fox":

▼ Deng Chao's Breaking Up Master:

▼ Online live broadcast software - , there are many channels, and customization is also supported The live broadcast quality is also very good.





▼ F8 has also set up a children's section for children at home, which has animation, children's songs, variety shows, knowledge, and is carefully divided by age.

▼ The content is rich. My baby used to watch the Golden Eagle cartoon on TV, but now it is.

▼ There are many programs that children like on the platform, and they can learn while watching.



▼ As an excellent chip, Ruixin Micro RK3368 has an eight core 64 bit A53 architecture with a main frequency of up to 1.5GHz, and supports Blu ray 4K and H.265 coding hard solution. These parameters are still satisfactory, but the results from the test of Anthare video evaluation software are not so ideal. Only 15 of the 30 test sources are perfect, 8 do not support, and 7 have problems, It really shouldn't be. It's only because Alibaba Cloud was reincarnated!







▼ List of resources for actual test 1:

▼ List of resources for actual test 2:

▼ After some practical tests, all H.265 encoded videos can be played perfectly, and 4K movies with normal bit rate can be played normally, F8 does not support DTS and AC3 audio coding, so many films using this audio coding only have images without sound. The reality is that most 1080P films use these two audio coding, so F8 does not score high on local HD playback, but it is easy to win ordinary pseudo HD videos, It can also support most common video formats on the market, so it is more than enough to meet the needs of ordinary families.







▼ In the audio test, DTS encoded audio and WMA format audio cannot be played.



▼ The built-in game hall of F8 provides a lot of game downloads, but most games are not interesting for me to play. First, it is always strange and inconvenient to play many games with the remote control, and the other thing is that these games are not fun, but they should be very good for children's taste.

▼ The only games I play with the remote control on the TV are board games, landlords and mahjong. These games are specially optimized for the remote control. They are very convenient to operate, and many of them have prizes to take. So it's good to spend some time lying in bed with them. Maybe you can earn some money.




▼ The following are the simulator games that I have always liked to play since I was young. When I am over 30, I sometimes go to the video game city to play two games, which is very enjoyable. I downloaded the "Chicken Simulator" on F8, which I have been using for a long time, and the effect is very good. It happens that there are many game consoles at home. When I have nothing to do, I can recall the happy time in the game hall when I was a child and the scene of being caught by my father on the spot.




▼ "Fast Three", we all called this game "Yellow Hat" when we were young. Two game consoles can play doubles, but maybe because I didn't set it properly, I can only control the direction of one person. When I go to Baidu, I can take my daughter to play games together.


▼ Since it is the system of Lao Ma's, Taobao shopping is a must, and the corresponding practical operation experience is relatively convenient. It basically includes most of the shopping functions of Taobao, including Tmall Supermarket and Juhuasuan.







▼ Shopping is relatively simple. As long as your Taobao account is bound in the settings in the early stage, you can now cut your hands on TV at will. The payment can be made on the box or by scanning the mobile phone code.

▼ In addition, Alibaba Cloud system also has an "AliTV assistant", which is similar to the "Wukong remote control", and uses mobile phones to control the box. After a try, my favorite is the voice function. It is very convenient to operate the box when talking to the phone. The recognition rate is also high. You can use it to find movies, buy things, open a program, or turn off the phone.


▼ For example, if you directly say what TV or movie you want to watch, the system can directly present the search results to you and click Open to see. Is it convenient.




▼ If you want to buy something, you can also talk and go shopping directly.




▼ A variety of remote controls are available for you to choose from. The conventional key remote control, touch screen remote control, somatosensory remote control, game handle and steering wheel are all available whether you are watching movies or playing games.







▼ In addition, Alibaba TV assistant also provides home monitoring function. You only need to connect a camera to F8. In addition, the applications on the box can be directly managed on Alibaba TV assistant phones. It is also possible to share things on your mobile phone on the large screen, whether photos, music or videos.

▼ AliTV assistant also supports pushing movies and installing games and software on mobile phones.


▼ The power consumption of Cabol F8 fluctuates around 4W/S under normal working conditions. It does not support the standby function. Pressing the power key is just to turn off the screen, not really standby.

▼ F8 has been working for more than 4 hours, and the maximum temperature of the fuselage is less than 18 degrees. Of course, this is directly related to the low ambient temperature, but its excellent heat dissipation effect can also be seen.


After several days of use, I personally feel that Alibaba Cloud's system is not so bad. Although there are no highlights, it is not useless. Of course, the premise is not to delete my software or monitor me in the background. After several days of use, I didn't find that the installed software was deleted. The whole system is not comfortable to use, but there are no obvious shortcomings. Although the F8 is a low configuration version, it still has no problem with general online video, local playback and some small games. There are neither advantages nor disadvantages. Isn't that too moderate. Let's just say two. For example, Bluetooth support is one, AliTV assistant is one, and it's unexpected for the time being. Let's talk about the disadvantages. The local HD support is not high, and the built-in Tmall Cinema charges one. By the way, F8 can't really stand by. Finally, if you want to ask me whether I will change the F8 to Android version, my answer is that I don't plan to change the F8 to Android version at present. It's OK to use it, so I'd better use it first!