Remember that we posted a thread "Unboxing of the Smartron S805 Quad-Core Android 4.4.2 TV Box" before, the following is the full review of this great tv-box, hope you will enjoy it.


Design, ports and expansion
The Smartron S805 measures in at 10.2cm x 10.2cm x 2.2cm. It features a shiny black plastic at the top and the rest is matt plastic. The device itself is square and symmetrical, however, it has rounded corners which improve its visual appeal. The top is marked with the letter 'S' which is likely representing the Smartron brand.

The sides are covered with little 1mm holes, but the holes are purely aesthetic and do not penetrate all the way through the plastic. At the front of the device is a small window for the infrared receiver. There is also an LED alongside the infrared receiver which indicates whether the device is on or not, and it changes colors between different modes: when the device is first booting, the LED is red, but once the device is fully booted it shifts over to a more neutral blue.

On the right side of the device it features two full-sized USB 2.0 ports, as well as a Micro SD expansion port. Moving to the back of the device, it has a 3.5mm AV jack, a 10/100 Ethernet port, a full-sized HDMI port and a DC-in port for power. The AV port mentioned earlier has two functions: it can either be used as an RCA alternative for the HDMI port for older TV's that do not have HDMI-in, or it can be used as a 3.5mm audio-out port for anyone who wants to connect external 3.5mm audio. The left side of the device doesn't have any ports.


Performance
Specs

The Smartron S805 has a quad-core Amlogic S805 chipset clocked at 1.5 Ghz as well as a quad-core ARM Mali-450 GPU. It has 8 GB of on-board storage (about 5 GB of that is available for use) and it has 1GB of DDR3L RAM. It all gets filled up fairly quickly, though, so you'd definitely need to consider expanding the memory if you plan on installing many apps.



Benchmarks

The benchmarks performed and the scores are listed below:Quadrant Ice Storm Extreme: 1999AnTuTu: 9241Epic Citadel: 18.7Geek Bench: Single-core was 304 and multicore was 558.


Video playback

Video playback has been buttery smooth, especially in XBMC. I tested video content all the way up to high bitrate 1080p and it played it without a hitch.


Android OS

The Smartron S805 comes with Android 4.4.2, which is just shy of the final Kitkat release of 4.4.4. It features a customized launcher which seems to be extremely influenced by the default XBMC/Kodi menu.



Pre-installed apps

The bloatware comes with the latest version of Netflix and BBC iPlayer pre-installed, as well as v14 of XBMC. As far as I'm aware, XBMC was renamed to Kodi at v14, but for whatever reason it still identifies itself as XBMC on the device. The specific build is dated 2014-09-23.


Accessories
See from the following picture.



Connectivity

I had no issues at all connecting Bluetooth devices and they remained pretty stable.


Final thoughts

The Smartron S805 is a great device for anyone interested in a media player. Whatever video content you throw at it, from what I saw, worked without a hitch. Netflix gave some issues but I'm sure they can be attributed to connection problems rather than the app itself.

A big thank you to our friends at Gearbest who supplied the device for this review. If you are interested in picking one of these up, Gearbest has the device available for sale at $59.81 with free shipping if you use the coupon "SS805AUCN"-- Gearbest informed me that this coupon will be active until March 14th 2015.