Bought the Amazon Fire TV Stick for US$39 (S$54) simply to attempt it out since I already selected shopping for the Amazon Echo (next submit) and my kitchen’s tv needs a media casting machine. Why not one other Chromecast? It is because I wanted to attempt a new gadget and I feel Chromecast is due for a refresh quickly because it has been almost 2 years because it was launched. Both the Amazon Fire TV Stick and Amazon Echo doesn’t ship to Singapore instantly, so I shipped it by way of HopShopGo and delivery from HopShoGo to Singapore costs US$29.99 (S$42) by way of DHL Express. By way of specifications, the Amazon Fire TV Stick has a dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. Compared, cable free entertainment the Google Chrome has only a single-core processor with 512MB of RAM and cable free entertainment 2GB of storage. The Wi-Fi on the Amazon Fire TV Stick can also be much faster, it helps dual band/twin antenna (MIMO) Wi-Fi and yes you'll be able to connect to a 5ghz wireless network unlike the Google Chrome.

Amazon Fire TV Stick is focused at customers who're subscribed to Amazon Prime which can cost you US$99/yr (S$138/year). If you end up an Amazon Prime member, you get access to Prime Instant Video, Prime Music and Prime Photos. Since, I'm not a primary member, all these are not really useful for me. Hence, the three features I'll in all probability be utilizing on the Amazon Fire TV Stick can be Netflix, Plex and casting my videos from my gadget to the television. This is much like what Apple does when you purchase their products along with Apple Care. Amazon Fire TV Stick has its own App Store which is principally a section beneath Amazon Appstore for Android. From there, you possibly can obtain apps like Plex or Netflix to your Amazon Fire TV Stick. A fast browse on the Appstore reveals me principally paid apps. If the app you need shouldn't be within the Amazon Appstore, you too can consider sideloading the APK.

I learn the tutorial on Sideload FireTV and it works advantageous for me. Amazon Fire TV Stick supports casting utilizing the DIAL protocol. DIAL stands for DIscovery And Launch. It is a simple protocol that second-screen devices can use to discover and launch apps on first-screen devices. This protocol was co-developed by Netflix and YouTube. Initially, Google’s Chromecast uses DIAL, but they moved away from it and now they created their own Google Cast. I can understand why Google moved away from it because it is sort of horrible. With the intention to cast something onto the Amazon Fire TV Stick, cable free entertainment each the device casting and the receiving device needs to have the app put in. I have so much problem trying to forged my YouTube videos but in the end it doesn’t work because there is no official YouTube app on Amazon Appstore! I tried sideloading the YouTube app downloaded from APKMirror nevertheless it doesn’t work as a result of Amazon Fire TV Stick doesn’t come with Google Play Services.

And after i tried to sideload Google Play Services, it says minimal API error.