Rikomagic has been selling MK802III LE and MK802IV LE dual and quad core HDMI TV sticks based on RK3066 and RK3188 running Linux (PicUntu) for a little over half a year. The company has now announced a full size box with MK902 LE powered by Rockchip RK3188 with 2GB RAM and up to 16 GB Flash.

The specifications appear to be the same as MK902 Android TV box:

SoC – Rockchip RK3188 quad core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Mali-400MP4

System Memory – 2GB RAM

Storage – 8GB or 16GB NAND Flash + microSD slot up to 32GB

Video Output – HDMI, AV out

Audio – HDMI, AV, optical S/PDIF

Connectivity – 802.11n WiFi, 10/100M Ethernet

Camera – 5MP

USB – 4x USB host ports

The device is sold with HDMI and AV cables, a power adapter, and a user’s manual. The 8GB version costs £94.99 (~$158), and the 16GB version £99.99 (~$167) on Cloudsto, or £5 more (~$8) than the same devices with Android.

You could also save some money and install PicUntu 4.5, or even other Linux distributions, by yourself by getting the device from shops like Geekbuying, or DealExtreme for $100 and up. However, if you plan to use to device as a media player/center, you should really keep using Android, as 2D/3D graphics acceleration, and hardware video decoding are not working at all in RK3188 based devices because Rockchip is not interested in Linux, so games, video playback, YouTube, and anything using Adobe Flash are basically unusable, or mind-blowingly slow.

Via Liliputing