Cool open A43 Review: Three highlights

On April 1, 2015, Skyworth's Internet TV brand coocaa held a press conference at Beijing Jingyuan Art Center to launch a 43-inch new cool open smart screen A43. New and new usages and concepts broke the bottleneck of traditional smart TV products. The initial listing price is RMB 1999. Cool open A43 breaks through the bottleneck of traditional smart TV, powerful performance and stunning design, creating a cost-effective smart TV, the most powerful 43-inch smart TV, the first Internet triple intelligent TV. That cool open A43 is so great in the propaganda, let's take a look at the experience.



First, appearance

Cool open A43 uses a thin body and ultra-narrow frame design, seen from the front, the panel is dark and a perfect combination of the border together (of course reflected in the picture that is because of the lighting). The base of the double-gray base with silver-gray is perfectly integrated with the silver-gray edging of the whole machine. The bracket and the fuselage are compact and there is no sign of looseness:

Hosts

From the side of the past, only 2cm body thickness is quite amazing. In contrast to the past, there is not a dollar coin that is wide in diameter. The frame of the machine has just been mentioned. It is a silver-gray metal-like CNC process, so no matter if it looks or feels, there is a noticeable metal texture:

side

In addition to a very narrow body thickness, the front of the fuselage is very narrow, only 5.9MM, or even more narrow than some of the tablet computer's border:

frame

The lower right corner of the front body is the brand logo of the Coolcard A43:

The lower left corner is the power indicator of Coocauk A43. In the power-off state, it is a red light. In the power-on state, it is a blue light:

LED

The back of the Kukai A43 TV uses a one-piece design. The whole machine does not have too many buttons, but only the power key. The interface is also concealed design, below the back of the fuselage:

Body back

Of course, the back also has 3c certification and some simple device information:

Body information

Where is the hidden interface that I just mentioned? It is here that the design is very clever. The interfaces are also very rich, from left to right are the AV cable, two HDMI ports, network ports, USB2.0 ports and debug ports:

interface

Remote control, simple and easy to use layout:

remote control

In addition to the main remote control, this cool open A43 also designed its own special remote control for the elderly and children, very good design. The old man's exclusive remote control has large buttons and large fonts. The remote controls used by children are cute, cute, or candy-colored.

remote control

Finally, focusing on the subject, take a look at the cool side of the A43 photo:

side

Second, hardware

Cool open A43 has a beautiful appearance, its hardware configuration is also good, the processor is equipped with quad-core CortexA7 CPU and Mali450 GPU, good performance. Of course, this is a TV, and the focus of the TV box on the hardware is not the same. The A43 uses the hard screen of the LG IPS display technology on the screen, and the backlight type is the LED light emitting diode. The ratio of the screen to the mainstream is also the best 16:9 aspect ratio of the viewing experience. Display technology is 10bit technology, scene change, LED light source, dynamic compensation technology, children eye protection mode. The screen refresh rate is 60Hz and the contrast ratio is 6000:1. In addition, the Cool Open A43 also supports Dolby Sound. In terms of memory, CoolOpen A43 uses 1GB of running memory and 4GB of storage space. Although the storage space is very small, the Kukai A43 supports USB expansion and supports up to 2TB of expansion.

Cool open A43 basic parameters:


parameter

Third, the system's simple experience

This is mainly the experience, cool open A43 children's model and the elderly model can take a look at this forum's A43 children's model and the elderly model assessment: cool open A43 smart TV specifically for the elderly to build!
Open Coocaa A43, the first is the boot animation:

Card machine animation

The first time you turn on, there is a boot wizard. Follow the boot wizard step by step, and by the way, scan the QR code to download the TV send privilege:

Boot

Boot

Let's take a look at the UI of the whole machine. The UI design of the machine is clear at a glance. The upper left corner is a cool open logo. The lower left corner is the official feedback channel information. The middle part of the lower part is the version number. On the right there is time, weather, QR code (TV code download QR code, if the boot wizard does not download the scan this QR code is also possible) and device information, etc.:

interface

Next is the options interface. The entire UI has a total of 5 menu options. Are set, chat, film and television, application, model source:

menu

Let's take a look at the settings, because generally the first time you turn on your phone, basically the first thing you do is set it up. There are wifi settings, eye protection settings, two-dimensional codes, and information about the machine. These are just some of the routine settings. They are simple and easy to use. There is no learning cost:

Settings

WIFI

About this machine

Then chat:

to chat with

The most important feature of TV is the ability to watch. How about the video resources of Coolcard A43? Let's take a look. Cool open A43 uses the film and television resources of the Central Broad Galaxy. The video resource interface adopts the win8 arrangement style. From left to right, there are mainly recommendations, channels, reviews, and so on. There are also historical viewing buttons and searches. The classification is also straightforward and there is no need to say more:

TV

Of course, TV is still to look at the display (in fact, the effect is very good, but the landlord's slag photographic technology, hey, you will just look at it):

buffer

display

display


display

Press the menu button on the playback interface to call out the relevant settings such as sharpness:

Settings

Settings

Application, open is the application store, there are many categories, resources are complete:

application

application

application

application

management

Cool open A43 supports the installation of third-party software, so it is very necessary to install a live broadcast software for TV to watch the live broadcast. Live broadcast software recommend HDP live, HDP live download address: http://apps.sfcdn.org/apk/hdpfans.com .

Hdp live

Hdp live

The last is the source. Cool open A43 supports automatic identification of signal sources:

signal source

Fourth, concluding speech:

Cool open A43 Future Edition Advantages: Outstanding design, UI logic, rich resources, a machine for three purposes.
Disadvantages: The body comes with too little memory.

Cool opened the A43 to the 2000 yuan into the smart TV market, 2,000 yuan, bringing fashion and unique modeling and a three-machine system UI. Can consider users of all ages this is in the smart TV field or pioneer. And after lowering the value, Kukai A43 did not reduce its own configuration and workmanship, and it is still outstanding. To talk about the regrets, that is the body comes with too little memory, some games and applications can only be installed on the body of memory, can not be installed on an external U disk or removable hard disk. In short, such a comprehensive and smart TV is already a pioneer in the smart TV field.

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