wraggster
June 13th, 2013, 00:33
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/6-12-2013unulead_620x340.jpgAnother Android gaming console at this year's E3? Kind of, sort of, yeah. But Unu's (née Snakebyte (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/snakebyte-gamepad-evolves-into-unu-android-tablet/)) looking to set itself apart from the OUYAs (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/03/ouya-review-founding-backer-edition/), Gamesticks (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/27/gamestick-hands-on-gdc-2013/) and M.O.J.O.s (http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/11/mad-catz-m-o-j-o-hands/)of the world (to name but a few) by becoming the "Swiss Army knife" of the space. The device isn't so much a console as tablet that plugs into your TV, meaning that you can do pretty much whatever you can do on a standard Android slate (which, arguably, you can also do with Mad Catz's device, but we digress).
The tablet itself runs Android 4.2, display through a seven-inch, 1280 x 800 IPS screen. The rear sports a brushed aluminum surface and a 5-megapixel camera (with a 2.0 module on the front). Inside, you've got 8GB of storage and a 1.6GHz quad-core chip. Unu does Bluetooth 4.0 and has two micro-USB ports, a microSD slot and, most importantly, a mini-HDMI port, which lets you turn the thing into a living room console of sorts, by connecting it to your HDTV. If you're feeling fancy, you can go in for the docking station, which does video out and charging -- and also props the tablet up nicely, so you can watch the same thing on two displays at the same time.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/12/unu-android-tablet-console-hands-on-video/
The tablet itself runs Android 4.2, display through a seven-inch, 1280 x 800 IPS screen. The rear sports a brushed aluminum surface and a 5-megapixel camera (with a 2.0 module on the front). Inside, you've got 8GB of storage and a 1.6GHz quad-core chip. Unu does Bluetooth 4.0 and has two micro-USB ports, a microSD slot and, most importantly, a mini-HDMI port, which lets you turn the thing into a living room console of sorts, by connecting it to your HDTV. If you're feeling fancy, you can go in for the docking station, which does video out and charging -- and also props the tablet up nicely, so you can watch the same thing on two displays at the same time.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/12/unu-android-tablet-console-hands-on-video/