You can do almost anything on your smartphone. Whether it’s streaming videos, checking social media, handling your finances, or firing angry birds at a target, if there’s an app for it, anything’s possible. Today, all of that functionality is available for your big screen too, and you don’t need a brand new TV to enjoy it. The Matricom G-Box Q3w media streaming box turns almost any TV into a smart TV by delivering an endless supply of Android-powered apps and a simple user interface to navigate them all. Read on to learn more about how this clever device opens the door to limitless content, and then enter this contest for a chance to win the G-Box Q3w as a gift for a loved one. And yes, that loved one can include yourself!
Matricom G-Box — the smart gift that keeps on giving
Christmas shopping can be tricky, but when you leave it until the last minute, it can be a nightmare! Thoughtful gift ideas don’t always spring to mind spontaneously. They require some serious thinking. You need to search your memories and try to recall every conversation you’ve had with your loved one over the last 12 months. Maybe you can decrypt something they said in passing—a clue to the greatest gift they never got. If memory fails, here’s another solution: Think of what they love to do, and figure out a way to enhance it. Here’s a suggestion: Nearly everyone likes TV. Maybe Santa is bringing a new one in the near future? Maybe a premium media streaming box would go along perfectly with that TV?
Whether you or your loved one is a fervent cord cutter, cinephile, gamer, or sports fan, the Matricom G-Box Q3w makes an ideal gift for all kinds of leisure pursuits and lifestyles. It lets you stream TV shows, movies, videos, and music. You can play any game available in the Google Play Store and connect a wireless controller via Bluetooth. You can watch live TV. You can even browse the internet and check social media and e-mail. Whatever you use your smartphone for, the G-Box delivers the apps that let you do it on your big screen!
Wirelessly connecting to your home network, and featuring a low profile design at just 1″ thick, this slim box packs serious power under the hood with an Amlogic s905X quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and Penta-Core Mali-450 graphics. With muscle like this, it’s no wonder the Q3w is able to stream 3D and 4K content from the internet! It’s powered by Android 7.1 Nougat, and comes with 16GB of flash memory, as well as an SD card slot, so you can expand the memory with ease. The Q3w G-Box comes with a backlit keyboard remote with touchpad, so you can find what you’re looking for faster than ever and take full advantage of every app available.
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One of our tech journalists, Gadjo Sevilla, reviewed this media streaming box and you can read about his experience. He found installation to be completely effortless. You simply plug the device in, connect the HDMI cable, select your wireless network, and you’re done!
When you get to the home screen, you’ll notice there are two app stores (Google Play Store and Matricom Store), so you can immediately start downloading your favourite applications such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Kodi, and much more. The user interface is a breeze to navigate. It categorizes your apps by game, video, music, and live TV. In typical Android fashion, each section is easily customizable too, so you can personalize your layout and make it quick and easy to find your favourite content every time you sit down. The question is, what app will you launch first on your big screen?
HOW TO ENTER:
You can only submit one entry for this contest. In a comment below this article, tell us what app you would launch with your G-Box that would work especially well on the big screen? A lot of you will instantly think of Netflix or YouTube, but try to think outside the box (pun intended). For inspiration, check out all the apps available in the Google Play Store. Tell us about one app you would use frequently and why that app would work great on your big screen.
WHAT YOU CAN WIN:
We will randomly draw one winner, and that winner will win this Matricom G-Box Q3w media streaming box. The prize is outlined in the Rules and Regulations posted below.
This contest runs from December 13th until December 27th.
Remember, you can only enter once. However, you probably know someone who would love to enhance their home entertainment setup, so please share this contest and they too will have a chance to win this great prize.
Matricom Q3w Media Streaming Box Rules and Regulations
Good Luck. Â
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I know it’s not very creative but I would probably use it mostly for Netflix and youtube
After checking out the apps I’d still choose YouTube!
Netflix
For Netflix
Kodi and Netflix
i would use kodi for sure
I would use it for KODI…
I’d use it for YouTube
hbo
I would put the Netflix app on it.
I would put Kodi on the box. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would put Kodi on it as soon as I could
I think I would like to try some of the photo editing apps. It would be cool to zoom in on photos on a big screen TV, and I have been self-teaching myself Photoshop so this would be better for detailed editing. Thanks!
I would put Kodi on the box
Maybe you tube? Smile
YouTube for me
It would make streaming Netflix easier.
Definitely use it for Netflix and you tube
I would use the Crave app frequently!
Netflix!
I would put the Netflix app on it.
I would try YouTube
Netflix
I would launch Netflix for sure.
Netflix
I would put Kodi on it
I would us the CBC app to watch my Coronation Street on.
HBO Now would be my choice because I am addicted to HBO and would love to see it on the big screen!!
Youtube
YouTube!!
I would try YouTube !
Autism Language and Cognitive Therapy with MITA. My son is autistic and would enjoy this better on a big screen.
Google Play Music & Apple Music
I would use it to launch Youtube! Happy Holidays!
I would like to install Kodi and use it. I’ve read several reviews that say it works well with the Matricom G-Box
This unit would turn my TV set into a smart TV for a not so smart operator
I would use it to stream the twitch.tv app
Kodi
I’ll use it for Youtube
Crave so I can watch Game of Thrones
Either NHL streaming or playing movies or shows from Netflix, big screen for hockey is only the best way to watch in today’s world without being there.
KODI
I would try Crave
Perfect to stream all those videos my husband watches about turning bowls. Now he is scrunched up against his computer screen, trying to see what the people are doing.
You tube
I would use it for YouTube
I was going to say YouTube because I could stream yoga/exercise videos, but the request to think “outside the box” made me think of my Libby app. Libby is a free reading app for borrowing digital books from subscribing library’s OverDrive collection. It’d be great to “read” a children’s e-book to my grandson on the big screen!
YouTube. I have my own videos there.
Crave!
I would use it for netflixs
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