I just received a new Fire TV cube gen 3, because my old one is malfunctioning. I know, I hate these devices myself, but it’s the only option right now, since a new version of the Nvidia shield isn’t coming in the foreseeable future.
So, I plugged in the power chord and the HDMI cable into the cube.
When it booted up it showed a screen that it’s downloading the newest update. At first I thought this must be some typo-bug on the initial boot steps, because I haven’t even connected it to the internet yet, neither via cable nor did I go through the wifi setup.
After the update has finished, I was greeted with my real name and the cube indeed had the actual WiFi settings!
WTF?! How’s that even possible?
Possibly.
A) has amazon actually implemented such a system?
B) do you trust it’s functioning correctly? Both now and for the foreseeable future.(would/could you even know if it wasn’t?)
Side note: does this feature work with factory reset and/or re-sold devices?