preface

When it comes to titanium, many people may be a little strange, but when it comes to Sky Li Xiaofeng, I think that anyone who has played War3 or paid attention to video game competition is no stranger. As the first Chinese champion in the history of WCG Warcraft 3, it has given Chinese E-sports people infinite hope, and since then, China E-sports has truly stood in the ranks of world champion competitors.

And TiDu is the surrounding brand of E-sports launched by Sky after retirement.

With the increasing performance of mobile phones, more games with better experience and more gorgeous pictures emerge as the times require.

When mobile games were supposed to be played on mobile phones and TV games were the only tasks, Tidu launched the Mini Station micro game machine.

Unpacking

Those who are familiar with titanium products may be familiar with the color matching of this package. The package is still mainly red, which makes people feel warm when they see it.

The outer contour of the Mini Station main engine is an ordinary cube that can't be more ordinary. At the top, an equally scaled square ring is made in the middle of the square, and a metal sheet is used to decorate the ring body, which makes the originally monotonous square look more layered.

The small square in the middle of the square ring is the only touch "button" on the entire Mini Station. Of course, the function is also relatively simple. It can only be controlled by long pressing. However, the experience is better. During the switch switching process, there will be vibration feedback.

On one side of the Mini Station host is a titanium logo, and the silver part is still made of metal.

It's just different from the metal ring on the top. The logo part adopts a process similar to relief, and the texture is very good.

On the other side, there is a logo designed by Tidu for Mini Station. The icon is an enlarged "M", and it has a sense of pixelization. The concept of game console is beyond expression.

The bottom of Mini Station is assembled by several pieces, which is convenient for maintenance in later use.

Four anti-skid and anti-wear foot stickers are respectively placed at the four corners of the bottom. The foot stickers are made of soft black rubber, which can prevent the bottom of the fuselage from scratching the plane it contacts due to long-term use. The protection is in place.

At this point, you may think that the appearance of Mini Station has been introduced, but in fact, it has just begun.

You should know that the appearance design of Mini Station won the "German IF2016 Appearance Design Award", and the secret of winning the award is the hollow design.

The entire middle of the Mini Station is designed to be hollow, decorated with light strips on three sides, and covered with acrylic plates, which shows a strong sense of design when it is turned off.

When lit, the light strip will emit blue light, and under the reflection of various acrylic panels, it will form crisscross visual special effects. The sense of technology is very strong, and this black box is filled with many colors.

In terms of body interface, Mini Station is configured with an RJ-45 network cable interface, HDMI HD interface, USB2.0 interface and power interface respectively. In the process of use, it can only meet the general needs, especially the USB interface. We often have to choose whether to plug in the handle receiver or an external storage. We hope that in the subsequent iterative products, one more USB3.0 interface can be configured for the connection of external storage. After all, when the game is growing larger, The storage capacity of 16G fuselage will soon be insufficient.

After introducing the elder brother, it's time for the younger brother to appear.

This time, there is also a game controller matching with Mini Station.

The key layout of the game console is still based on the XBOX360 architecture, but some matching keys for the Mini Station are added on this basis.

At the same time, the game controller is also equipped with a connection cable (USB Micro USB), which can realize wired connection and wireless connection.

Anti slip adhesive sticker is made on the outside of the handle holding part to ensure a good holding feeling even in the fierce game process.

The front of the handle adopts a large area of skin like layer, which maintains a good touch, but also eliminates the possibility of becoming a fingerprint collector

In terms of keys, two processes are adopted.

One is the soft rubber material on the rocker, which ensures the anti-skid effect in the use process.

The other is a simple plastic polishing process used on all kinds of keys. In fact, in many manufacturers' handles, most of the keys use injection molding technology, which may not make any difference in the actual use of the press effect, but the advantage of the injection molding process is that it can effectively reduce the font wear of keys after long-term use.

Like other handles, the wireless receiver of Mini Station handle also adopts a hidden design, and the cover plate cannot be completely removed, which is a good anti loss measure.

After introducing so many advantages, I would rather complain about the power supply mode of this handle, dry battery power supply! In the case that most manufacturers adopt the built-in battery power supply mode, titanium still uses dry batteries, which greatly increases our battery costs in later use.

What's more friendly is that the cost of the first use of titanium is that titanium is invested for users.

Looking back, the Mini Station is undoubtedly successful in appearance. Although some people may think that compared with most TV box products, its host is a little big and its portability is not good, we should see that, The Mini Station is a game console. Compared with the TV box product, it has greater performance demand and heat. At the same time, it sacrifices its size to bring a sense of technology to the monotonous home environment. I don't object to it anyway, or even like it.

experience

With a pleasing look, what about performance and gaming experience? Let's experience it together.

From the perspective of overall configuration, whether it is processor, GPU or 2G memory, it is not a flagship configuration. At the beginning, I also worried about running large games for this configuration in advance.

Here I first selected the now popular mobile game Glory of the King. Thanks to the built-in dual antenna design, the game download speed is still fast after connecting to wifi.

In terms of loading speed, the Mini Station did not disappoint me. It was on a par with mainstream mobile phones.

After officially entering the game, the Mini Station was able to cope with the busy line or group battle calmly without any jam.

When I held the handle and opened the endless sword with confidence, disappointment followed. In such games that rely on sliding touch for real-time combat, the handle has no use at all.

But when you pick up the phone, you will find that in most cases, our eyes still have to stay on the phone, but there is no time to watch the large screen effect of TV, and the experience is slightly poor.

At the same time, I don't know whether the somatosensory game in the promotion has not been adapted yet. I haven't seen it. Well, the dream of losing weight through games is broken again.

What else can Mini Station do besides games? The answer is: All TV boxes can do, it can do.

The online video app of Mini Station is "Shiyun Cinema", which is generally rich in resources, including movies, TV dramas, entertainment programs, sports and children's programs. However, perhaps due to the influence of copyright, most of the latest resources have become charging resources. Compared with video apps such as "TV Cats" and "CIBN", they have obvious disadvantages.

Fortunately, Mini Station can install third-party apps through external storage. The Sword of the Third Young Master can finally get rid of the trouble of payment, and the picture quality is completely OK.

In this way, Mini Station has taken up the part-time job of TV box.

summary

Generally speaking, Mini Station, although known as an intelligent game console, has a great tendency to become a home entertainment multimedia center, and many of them have been adapted to game consoles 's game , which can really bring great game fun, and the support for third-party applications has greatly increased the scalability; However, in those games that cannot be adapted to the game controller and still need to rely on the mobile phone for operation, you need both the look and feel of the large screen and the operation of the mobile phone. After all, blind play is a bit of a problem, So it gave me a feeling that I could not have it both ways, but I lost the original intention of the product if I abandoned either.

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