TheAmazon Fire Stick for sale at Amazon is only a hair wider than the previous version, at 3.4 by 1.1 by 0.5 inches (HWD), but otherwise appear identical. It is a plain black plastic rectangle using an HDMI plug on one side plus a micro USB port on a single side. As Amazon Fire Stick free channels meant to plug in the back of your television, it does not need to appear impressive or possess any real controls or screen.
The included voice distant seems to be the exact same remote which was available for the previous stick. It is a 5.9-inch horizontal black plastic wand with a glossy circle near the top that functions as a navigation pad, using a clickable Confirm button in the middle. A Microphone button sits over the mat, using a pinhole microphone above that for speaking into. Menu and playback controls sit below the navigation pad.
App and Accessories
You can use the Amazon Fire Stick jailbroken with Kodi program for Android and iOS if you would rather control the Amazon Fire Stick with Kodi with your smartphone or tablet. It's much simpler than the distant app used with Roku apparatus, mostly supplying a touchpad for menu navigation, a handful of playback controls, a voice search function with your device's mic, and (much useful if you need to enter login information) an onscreen keyboard. It doesn't offer personal listening such as the Roku program does, which flows audio through your smartphone or tablet so that you can listen to what you're watching with a pair of headphones plugged into it. Considering that the Amazon Fire Stick Kodi supports Bluetooth, nevertheless, it's possible to simply pair a set of Bluetooth headphones directly with the stick to get a similar purpose.
Besides the voice remote, the Amazon Fire Stick unlocked has a short Amazon Fire Stick fully loaded extender cable (handy if the HDMI ports on your tv are recessed), a micro USB cable, a USB power adapter, and a pair of AAA batteries for the remote. It is everything you will need to begin streaming media, brief of the TV itself.
