Fire TV Stick Lite with all-new Alexa Voice Remote Lite (no TV controls), HD streaming device | Now with App controls

Good for normal tv to convert into smart tv

Good product

No doubt that Amazon FireTV Stick LITE is a great product 👍🏻, since it is very affordable, easily setup, intuitive interface, up and running 🏃🏻 without any mandatory 🔗 subscriptions, great quality WiFi receiver 📶 etc.

One can easily go through this product’s own feature-list 📰, and also go though many praises in user reviews 📝. Amazon’s FireTV Stick Developers did a great job. Hats 🤠 off to the team.

However 🤔, within 2-3 weeks of use, I did stumble upon a few short comings which are worth noting to be fair ⚖️. These are:

👉🏻 Not Android apps Library:
FireTV has its own OS. So all the Android apps that you find on your Mobile’s Google Play Store are not magically available for FireTV.
✨ I wish FireTV had an easy way for the app developers to port their apps from Android OS to FireTV OS.

👉🏻 Resolution Scaling:
Even if FireTV LITE is HD, and your TV is HD, since you desire to make your old TV smart, chances are that there’s an aspect ratio mismatch. A picture 🖼️ is worth a thousand words, so I am simply demonstrating it in the attached 📎 pic. and leaving it to your understanding.
✨ I wish that there was no resolution scaling resulting in Full HD experience to all Full HD TV owners.

👉🏻 WiFi-Network Switching not Seamless:
If you have two WiFis 📶📶, or more practically speaking 🙊, one 1️⃣ Home-WiFi and second 2️⃣ Mobile-Hotspot. Now, in case, your Home-WiFi goes down and within a few seconds you switch-ON the Mobile-Hotspot, you’ll find yourself waiting ⌛ and hoping 🙏🏻 that the FireTV OS switches to the available Hotspot in time.
✨ I wish that the WiFi-Network switching was Seamless and Quick.

👉🏻 Many Suggested Apps not yet India 🇮🇳🛺 Ready:
Amongst top 20 or so entertainment (TV shows) apps that FireTV interface suggested me, and after installing 2-3 of those, I found 🧐 that those were simply not allowing me to watch the content – as if those apps were blocking the content by country’s IP – may be those work fine in the USA 🇺🇲🗽.
✨ I wish that such apps clearly indicate the reason for not showing the content, and are filtered out for India by default.

👉🏻 Home Screen personalization has a lot of Scope for Improvement:
After viewing/using a couple or so apps much more frequently than other apps, the 1st row of home 🏡 screen 🖥️ always displays the same apps as defined by Amazon.
Also, 50% of the Home Screen real estate is occupied by advertisements.
✨ I wish that the advertisements on the home screen occupied less space, and the 1st row of home screen apps prioritised my recent+most-used apps.

👉🏻 Remote too Fragile:
✨ I wish that the outer material used for the remote was somewhat more shatter-proof 🔨🚫 material, and the outer corners ↖️↗️ had some rubber/silicon padding.

👉🏻 Expensive Remote Replacement:
Upon searching 🔎 on Amazon itself for the FireTV’s spare remote, so far I only found 3rd party (after market) products. While the cost of old TV remotes start at around ₹300 or so, and AC remotes with LCD display start at around ₹400, FireTV Stick LITE replacement remotes start at around ₹1,500.
✨ I wish that it was possible to buy replacement remotes from Amazon itself, and at a reasonable price – even if Amazon wants to verify the customer as past FireTV buyer.

👉🏻 FireTV Stick Mobile app Quality:
The quality of Mobile 📱 app of FireTV Stick app is so basic that you would wish that it was never available in the first place.
✨ I wish that at minimum, the app provides a touch ‘n tap functionality for a pointer navigation on the TV since using arrow-keys on the remote is too cumbersome. In addition, it would be great if the Mobile app made it possible to search and install FireTV Stick apps – categorised in a Google Play Store style.

For the above shortcomings, I am withholding only 1-star, and generously awarding 4-stars to FiteTV Stick LITE ⭐🌟⭐🌟.

Finally, here are some tips, which I hope the users would find useful:

💡 TIP: I find HDMI Port always ON as long as TVs power cord is plugged-in and switched-ON, even when the TV is switched OFF from the remote. Also, I am guessing that most of the users might be leaving the USB adaptor switched ON at the same time. Eventually the FireTV Stick LITE is going to have a shorter life. Please plan on switching OFF the TV and the FireTV USB adaptor each time you are not viewing the TV.

💡 TIP: Ease of Installation at the Cost of some Security Risk.
Not so long ago, the WiFi/login details of some customers of a home security camera of a popular brand (Google it and you’ll be shocked) were misused by handful of employees of the manufacturer. Eventually those employees were fired. The lesson learnt is that never over-trust company servers to store passwords/credentials that they are not meant to – and remember those passwords by heart.

💡 TIP: If the Speaker Sound Quality of the old TV doesn’t feel satisfactory, one can always connect a separate Bluetooth Speaker to FireTV Stick LITE.

💡 TIP: FireTV Stick LITE also allows many other compatible Bluetooth devices to be connected. For example you can connect a Bluetooth Mouse, and have an enhanced experience with many apps.

💡 TIP: Flexible, Shock-absorbant Remote Covers with Strap are available on Amazon – will prove to be good protection ☂️ for this investment.

💡 TIP: Always follow on-screen and/or printed instructions 📃 provided with the FireTV Stick, instead of following any 3rd person 🦜 with possibly outdated or inaccurate instructions.

Remote not woeking in start, pairing issue, after resetting from customer suport started working, pls send resseted remotes to customers and add some bubble warps or packing fillers to courier so that product dosent get damage