MK802 on the road

I went over to a family member's house for a gathering.  While there, I talked about my MK802 and how interesting the technology is.  Two family members immediately expressed interested in buying their own devices (especially when they found out it was less than 100$), but I warned them that it is the bleeding edge of technology right now.  I warned them that I am an early adopter of this technology.

I decided that I would bring my MK802 with me the next day.  I loaded it up a Micro SD card with home videos and old time Christmas specials.  When I got there, I hooked up the HDMI cable and the Android screen was up.  I started playing some of the home videos on the device just to demo them.  After getting the WiFi password, I fired up the Pandora app to play Christmas music.  After more family members arrived, I started playing the home videos.  We went back and forth between music and videos for a while, then ended with the Youtube app.  My family is very science-oriented, so I wanted to show some of the latest science videos.

The device was a huge hit.  The flexibility to move from one function to another was great.  At one point, we paused a video to play music.  A family member expressed concern over being able to continue watching it.  MX Player remembers where you are when we last played a video, so we were able to continue the video right where we left off.  Everyone was very impressed.  For an early adopter like me, it was well worth it.  The only thing that would have made it better would have been Skype video calling support for the family members that couldn't be there.