CloudnetGo CR-M200 Low cost Miracast Adapter

Low cost Miracast dongles are finally coming to market. Rockchip demonstrated a $10 (BoM price?) Miracast dongle running Linux at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair earlier this month, and it seems CloudnetGo will bring a device, possibly based on this RK2928 design, with its “CR-M200 WiFi Display Dongle”. Connect this device to the HDMI port of your TV, and you’ll be able to mirror your Miracast-enabled Android smartphone or tablet display on the big screen, as well as use it as a smart video controller.

CloudnetGo_CR-M200

CloudnetGo Miracast Adapter Specifications:

  • SoC – ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz with Mali 400 GPU.
  • Flash – 16 MB Nor Flash
  • System Memory – 256MB DDR3
  • WiFi – WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
  • Miracast and DLNA support
  • HDMI port and micro USB for power
  • Dimensions – 61mm x 31mm x 8mm

This adapter will come with a USB cable, and an optional 5V/500mA power adapter, which may not be needed if you TV comes with a USB port. This device can be used with Android 4.2, Windows8, and Linux computers and devices. Bear in mind I’ve been told it’s not enough to have a device running Android 4.2.2 to be able to use it as a Miracast source, and you have to make sure your device is Miracast Certified. The compatible models listed on CloudnetGo’s Alibaba page are LG Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S3, XiaoMi 2/2s and Sony Xperia.

The SoC specifications makes me believe it could be based on Rockchip RK2928, but a Rockchip representative  said the prototype we saw at the HK fair just features 16 MB RAM and a small NOR flash, so it could be another platform, or he just mixed up flash and RAM in the interview…

So if it’s indeed based on RK2928, I suspect the retail price to be $25 to $30, but there’s currently no official pricing or availability information, except it’s listed on CloudnetGo’s Alibaba page, so the wait should not be too long.

Via AndroidPC.es

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onebir
onebir
11 years ago

The death of the Android TV stick…?
But he’s so young….

onebir
onebir
11 years ago


Maybe it’ll depend on the use case? Any noticeable lag / packet loss etc would interfere with gaming/video use. But wouldn’t matter for websurfing etc. & how common is Miracast certification (/uncertified compatability)?

But my guess is these sticks will get cheaper pretty fast; the hardware requirements seem quite minimal; not so much more than wireless routers, which will surely hit $10 pretty soon at the low end…

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