The Ooid C1: A Budget-Friendly Alternative to Raspberry Pi 2

To get started with the Ooid C1, you can simply connect it to your TV using an HDMI cable and navigate through its intuitive interface. The device features a mouse and keyboard that replace the traditional touchscreen experience, making it ideal for those who prefer the feel of a physical input device. You can also add a USB keyboard to enhance your overall user experience.

The Ooid C1 comes with several hard kernel-specific apps pre-installed, including the Ooid Utility, which allows you to set the screen resolution and clock speed. Additionally, the device is rooted by default, allowing for easy access to the Super User mode. However, it's worth noting that the supplied build of Android lacks Google Play and most of its services, although there are instructions available on how to sideload Google's apps using the Ooid Utility.

In terms of performance, the quad-core Cortex A5 processor may not be as fast as some of the latest flagship smartphones or even other single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi 2. However, it still manages to deliver respectable scores in various benchmarks. For example, the device scored 15887 on AnTuTu and managed a frame rate of 27.2 frames per second on Epic Citadel, both in full HD mode. These scores are impressive considering the device's price point.

The Ooid C1 can be configured to run at different screen resolutions, which affects its performance scores. A smaller screen resolution means less work for the GPU, resulting in better performance on games like 22 and Epic Citadel. The device scored 17,682 on AnTuTu and achieved a frame rate of 51.5 frames per second on Epic Citadel when running at 720p.

One of the standout features of the Ooid C1 is its ability to recognize USB flash drives without any issues. This means you can easily insert a microSD card and access your files, or watch videos directly from the device. The pre-installed Dice player app works seamlessly with these external storage devices, allowing you to enjoy your media content on the go.

The device also performed well in video decoding tests. We tested the Ooid C1 with our review video, which is rendered at full HD at 14.7 megabits per second. The device was able to play the video without any problems, showcasing its capabilities as a multimedia device.

One of the benefits of using Linux on the Ooid C1 is the availability of official Ubuntu 14.04 builds, which come with a lightweight LXDE desktop environment. This version of Linux offers a more polished and user-friendly experience compared to some other distributions available for single-board computers.

The Ooid C1 uses a quad-core Cortex A5 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, which is significantly faster than the Raspberry Pi 2's quad-core Cortex A7 processor clocked at 900 MHz. In our testing using Open SSL, the device outperformed the Raspberry Pi 2 by almost twice as much in terms of CPU performance alone.

In conclusion, the Ooid C1 provides a real alternative to the Raspberry Pi 2, offering comparable performance and features at an identical price point. With its gigabit Ethernet, optional eMMC module, and improved performance compared to its competitor, the Ooid C1 is definitely worth considering for those looking for a budget-friendly single-board computer solution.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe small board computer movement is going strong and with the recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 it doesn't look if it's going to be losing any of its momentum now the key thing about the Raspberry Pi 2 of course was its price it's $35 and there are many many other sbc's out there but none of them have really hit that price point though to be fair some of them do offer more functionality that's with the exception of hard kernel hard kernel has a variety of different sbcs for sale and one of them the ooid C1 also cost just $35 it comes with a quad core cortex A5 CPU a Marley 450 GPU and 1 gig of memory well I've got hold of one so let's have a look at it so take a look at the ooid C1 board as you can see it's small and compact like other single board computers are available on the market here in the middle we have the quad core processor which is clocked at 1.5 GHz there's 1 gab of ram here at the back we have the 40 gpio pins here are four USB ports gigabit Ethernet port micro HDMI micro USB here's the power connector a serial connector here is the battery backup socket for the real-time clock and here is an infrared uh receiver now if we flip the board over on the other side here we can see that the board has its SD card reader at the very bottom also below that you'll see the connector for the emmc module now emmc modules are about two or three times faster than SD card and it's an option for the odroid C1 now because this card is here in the middle it does seem that all of the weight is taken on that reader and as you can see the board does wobble slightly okay because it isn't flat along the Bottom now that is a bit worrying for me but I suppose if I bought a case that would solve all the problems now just talking about the power connector here this is how the board is powered it's not powered through the micro USB port it's powered through a more conventional socket you can buy an external power supply or the option I went with was this external cable which is a USB cable and then it has the right connector at this end for the uh board so here we can see with the connector plugged in and the USB port at the other end I would then Connect into a phone charger to get the board running as you may guess from the Droid part of O Droid Kernel's range of sbcs were originally designed to run Android this means that the ooid C1 support for Android is excellent the current officially supplied version of Android is Android 4.4 Kit Kat like other sbcs which support Android the device boots up to the standard home screen using HDMI TV or monitor use the mouse instead of your finger and click instead of tap you can also add a USB keyboard the default installation comes with a few hard kernel specific apps ooid utility which is used to set the screen resolution clockwork mod super user because the supplied build of Android is rooted by default a terminal emulator Cod and dice player unfortunately you don't get Google Play or any of Google's Services however the good news is that Google's apps can be unofficially Sid loaded using instructions which you'll find in oid's community forums in terms of performance the quad core cortex A5 isn't going to win any speed competitions when pitched against the latest generation of qu core or Octa Core processors which we find in today's Flagship smartphones however that doesn't mean that the processor is any way slow or an underperformer especially when you remember that these boards are designed primarily as embedded Solutions quickly looking at some benchmarks the ooid C1 scored 15887 on and22 and managed a frame rate of 27.2 frames per second on epic citadel both these scores are for full HD because the board can be configured to run in several different screen resolution resolutions it means that the board's scores will vary depending on the set resolution with a smaller screen resolution the GPU has less work to do and as a result and22 and epic citadel will perform better at 720p the C1 scored 17,682 on n22 and marag a frame rate of 51.5 on epic citadel clearly a big difference from the full HD scores unlike some builds of Android which I've seen on other sbcs Android on the ooid recognizes USB flash drives without any problem this means you can insert a flash disc and then watch videos or listen to music stall on that flash drive I was able to play videos via the pre-installed dice player as well as via VLC oddly the build of Codi which comes pre-installed wasn't able to access the USB drive due to a permissions error in terms of video decoding performance I tested the C1 with my ZTE star 2 review video which is rendered at full HD at 14.7 megabits a second the C1 was able to show the video video without any problems I also tested the O Droid C1 using YouTube and Netflix both again which ran without any problems overall the Android experience is excellent especially when you consider this is a $35 device now as you would expect the ooid C1 supports more than just Android you can also run Linux on it now Hardon will provide an official build of Ubuntu 14.04 running the lxde lightweight desktop and it's been really quite impressive and great using Linux on this small board all of the default apps are installed that you would need including Mozilla and chromium and and of course there are always the online repositories if you want to install other programs and other packages the ooid C1 uses a quad core cortex A5 CPU clocked at 1.5 GHz the Raspberry Pi uses a quad core cortex A7 processor but clocked only 900 MHz even from a megahertz point of view you can see that the oid C one is going to be faster than the Raspberry Pi 2 now I did some testing using open SSL and that test just the CPU performance not the CPU and GPU performance but just alone on CPU performance the Ben Mark showed me that the odroid C1 is almost twice as fast as the Raspberry Pi 2 the Cod media player is installed by default and unlike its Android counterpart this version had no problem accessing the flash drives that means if you wanted to use this board as a media player with Cody then it might be better to do it under Linux than under Android and there we have it the ooid C1 now the question is does the ooid C1 provide a real alternative to the Raspberry Pi 2o and I think it does of course the Raspberry Pi Community is enormous there are so many videos and tutorials and books and projects out there you can do it's quite amazing but the ooy community is also growing and hardcode will make sure all the tools are available that you need to fully use the board including all of the source code also the board does have have a few advantages over the Raspberry Pi too for example it has gigabit Ethernet it has the optional use of the emmc module and I reckon it offers about two times the performance all this at exactly the same price as the Raspberry Pi well my name's Gary Sims rander Authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up don't forget to leave your comments below and tell me what you think about the ooid C1 also don't forget to subscribe to Android Authority's YouTube channel and as for me I'll see you in my next video nthe small board computer movement is going strong and with the recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 it doesn't look if it's going to be losing any of its momentum now the key thing about the Raspberry Pi 2 of course was its price it's $35 and there are many many other sbc's out there but none of them have really hit that price point though to be fair some of them do offer more functionality that's with the exception of hard kernel hard kernel has a variety of different sbcs for sale and one of them the ooid C1 also cost just $35 it comes with a quad core cortex A5 CPU a Marley 450 GPU and 1 gig of memory well I've got hold of one so let's have a look at it so take a look at the ooid C1 board as you can see it's small and compact like other single board computers are available on the market here in the middle we have the quad core processor which is clocked at 1.5 GHz there's 1 gab of ram here at the back we have the 40 gpio pins here are four USB ports gigabit Ethernet port micro HDMI micro USB here's the power connector a serial connector here is the battery backup socket for the real-time clock and here is an infrared uh receiver now if we flip the board over on the other side here we can see that the board has its SD card reader at the very bottom also below that you'll see the connector for the emmc module now emmc modules are about two or three times faster than SD card and it's an option for the odroid C1 now because this card is here in the middle it does seem that all of the weight is taken on that reader and as you can see the board does wobble slightly okay because it isn't flat along the Bottom now that is a bit worrying for me but I suppose if I bought a case that would solve all the problems now just talking about the power connector here this is how the board is powered it's not powered through the micro USB port it's powered through a more conventional socket you can buy an external power supply or the option I went with was this external cable which is a USB cable and then it has the right connector at this end for the uh board so here we can see with the connector plugged in and the USB port at the other end I would then Connect into a phone charger to get the board running as you may guess from the Droid part of O Droid Kernel's range of sbcs were originally designed to run Android this means that the ooid C1 support for Android is excellent the current officially supplied version of Android is Android 4.4 Kit Kat like other sbcs which support Android the device boots up to the standard home screen using HDMI TV or monitor use the mouse instead of your finger and click instead of tap you can also add a USB keyboard the default installation comes with a few hard kernel specific apps ooid utility which is used to set the screen resolution clockwork mod super user because the supplied build of Android is rooted by default a terminal emulator Cod and dice player unfortunately you don't get Google Play or any of Google's Services however the good news is that Google's apps can be unofficially Sid loaded using instructions which you'll find in oid's community forums in terms of performance the quad core cortex A5 isn't going to win any speed competitions when pitched against the latest generation of qu core or Octa Core processors which we find in today's Flagship smartphones however that doesn't mean that the processor is any way slow or an underperformer especially when you remember that these boards are designed primarily as embedded Solutions quickly looking at some benchmarks the ooid C1 scored 15887 on and22 and managed a frame rate of 27.2 frames per second on epic citadel both these scores are for full HD because the board can be configured to run in several different screen resolution resolutions it means that the board's scores will vary depending on the set resolution with a smaller screen resolution the GPU has less work to do and as a result and22 and epic citadel will perform better at 720p the C1 scored 17,682 on n22 and marag a frame rate of 51.5 on epic citadel clearly a big difference from the full HD scores unlike some builds of Android which I've seen on other sbcs Android on the ooid recognizes USB flash drives without any problem this means you can insert a flash disc and then watch videos or listen to music stall on that flash drive I was able to play videos via the pre-installed dice player as well as via VLC oddly the build of Codi which comes pre-installed wasn't able to access the USB drive due to a permissions error in terms of video decoding performance I tested the C1 with my ZTE star 2 review video which is rendered at full HD at 14.7 megabits a second the C1 was able to show the video video without any problems I also tested the O Droid C1 using YouTube and Netflix both again which ran without any problems overall the Android experience is excellent especially when you consider this is a $35 device now as you would expect the ooid C1 supports more than just Android you can also run Linux on it now Hardon will provide an official build of Ubuntu 14.04 running the lxde lightweight desktop and it's been really quite impressive and great using Linux on this small board all of the default apps are installed that you would need including Mozilla and chromium and and of course there are always the online repositories if you want to install other programs and other packages the ooid C1 uses a quad core cortex A5 CPU clocked at 1.5 GHz the Raspberry Pi uses a quad core cortex A7 processor but clocked only 900 MHz even from a megahertz point of view you can see that the oid C one is going to be faster than the Raspberry Pi 2 now I did some testing using open SSL and that test just the CPU performance not the CPU and GPU performance but just alone on CPU performance the Ben Mark showed me that the odroid C1 is almost twice as fast as the Raspberry Pi 2 the Cod media player is installed by default and unlike its Android counterpart this version had no problem accessing the flash drives that means if you wanted to use this board as a media player with Cody then it might be better to do it under Linux than under Android and there we have it the ooid C1 now the question is does the ooid C1 provide a real alternative to the Raspberry Pi 2o and I think it does of course the Raspberry Pi Community is enormous there are so many videos and tutorials and books and projects out there you can do it's quite amazing but the ooy community is also growing and hardcode will make sure all the tools are available that you need to fully use the board including all of the source code also the board does have have a few advantages over the Raspberry Pi too for example it has gigabit Ethernet it has the optional use of the emmc module and I reckon it offers about two times the performance all this at exactly the same price as the Raspberry Pi well my name's Gary Sims rander Authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up don't forget to leave your comments below and tell me what you think about the ooid C1 also don't forget to subscribe to Android Authority's YouTube channel and as for me I'll see you in my next video n\n"