After leaking in April, the Onn 4K Plus streamer is now listed on Walmart’s net retailer. It is not out there for buy simply but, however at $30, it seems to be prefer it is perhaps the proper Google TV field for my visitor room.

We obtained our first take a look at the Onn 4K Plus just a few weeks in the past after Home Tester Club, a community-based opinions platform, inadvertently leaked the device by publishing some early opinions forward of schedule. The leak gave us an honest take a look at the streaming field, however it did not reveal pricing or detailed specs.

Walmart’s new listing for the Onn 4K Plus units the worth at a cool $30. And, importantly, it reveals the streaming field’s specs, that are way more beneficiant than I had anticipated.

Beneath the hood, the Onn 4k Plus incorporates a quad-core Amlogic S905X5M processor with 2GB of RAM and, notably, 16GB of storage. Google TV units just like the previous Chromecast with Google TV are likely to expertise some annoying problems once they’re low on storage, so I undoubtedly recognize the 16GB capability on this unit.

I am additionally impressed to see assist for Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos, in addition to the inclusion of a Voice Distant—an important add-on for any Google TV gadget, in my view (I simply want I might do away with that big fat “Free TV” button). Walmart even carried out Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, which ought to present a slight enhance in reliability over a wi-fi connection. An Ethernet port could be good, however I can cope with Wi-Fi 6.

These specs, whereas nice for the worth, clearly fall in need of the $100 Google TV Streamer or NVIDIA Shield. However I simply want an honest, long-lasting, 4K streaming field for my visitor room.

I ought to take a second to make clear that I am a longtime Roku fan (and a half-hearted Google TV hater—sorry, however the Google TV interface kinda sucks). I simply can’t stand Roku’s ever-growing, endlessly-intrusive ad campaign, and no one can persuade me to purchase an Amazon-branded gadget, so I am selecting to tolerate Google TV. I am going to in all probability spring for an expensive Apple TV box sooner or later, however that’ll be for my lounge, since that is the place I do most of my TV watching.

The Onn 4K Plus is presently listed as “out of inventory” on the Walmart web site, and there is not any phrase on when it is going to be out there. Nevertheless, as my pal Ben Schoon at 9to5Google notes, Onn units usually seem at brick-and-mortar shops earlier than they “formally” launch on-line. So, I assume I am going to cease by Walmart this weekend.

Supply: 9to5Google