Qube review
Ryan and Shane helped their clients with their finances and routinely suggested the cash envelope system. Ryan Clark and Shane Walker founded Qube Money in 2016 during their time as financial planners. Their idea is a modern solution to spending digital cash while staying on budget.īefore I get further into why I love Qube Money, let’s learn more about the company and its founders. In the most simplistic terms, Qube Money offers a digital version of the cash envelope budgeting method by utilizing a debit card attached to their app. Qube Money was a startup company in the beginning stages but I absolutely loved their business concept. I first learned about Qube Money from Fincon 2018. However, the only alternatives have been credit cards and debit cards that are easy to blow past your budget. I have speculated for the past year or so for the need for a cash envelope alternative.
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In fact, I wrote a detailed post about how to budget with a cash envelope wallet to keep you on track with your spending. I have seen numerous signs state, “ credit or debit only” as a form of payment.įor those of us who have struggled with debt, we have grown to love our cash envelope budgeting system which keeps us from overspending. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers have been reluctant to accept cash for services or products. As financial technology (fintech) continues to move forward in the app space, Qube Money is a smart banking solution by moving “cash is king” to the digital world. We’ll be keeping an eye out for word of a UK release of the Asus Qube.Qube Money is turning the traditional cash envelope system on its head by creating digital cash envelopes. For now at least, the Qube is only going to launch in the US, where it’ll sell for $150. We hope to one day dig further into the Asus Qube’s abilities, but it’s not at all certain we’ll get the chance to. We find that simpler, quicker interfaces are much more efficient to use in the long run, and we’re hoping there’s an option to turn the 3D-animated cube off. Underneath this animated area, though, you’ll find the rather simpler “flat” apps and content browser. The main menu is mapped across a rotating 3D cube.
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Asus Qube Software and InterfaceĬonsistent with the cuboid theme, the Google TV 3.0 software of the Asus Qube features a cube-based custom interface.
The recently-unveiled Archos TV Connect uses a TV-mounted camera to judge motion, but there’s thankfully no mention of such gimmicks here. We didn’t get to try motion control in action, but it’s expected to be based around an accelerometer built into the controller.
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The underside of the Asus Qube’s remote features a full Qwerty keyboard, required to make any form of searching any quicker than molasses-slow (assuming you don’t fancy talking to your TV). There’s also a dedicated Netflix button, coloured in the signature Netflix red. It has a trackpad area to function as a mouse-style controller and a selection of playback buttons. The front side of the remote looks fairly commonplace. What’s far more important than the look and feel of the box is the look and feel of the Asus Qube’s remote control. The Armada 1500 SoC was designed with Google TVs in mind, and is a dual-core 1.2GHz chipset. Powering the show is the Armada 1500 chipset by Marvell, and 1GB of RAM. On the Asus Qube box itself you’ll find two USB ports, one on the rear and another on the side, two HDMI outputs and an Ethernet port. The key new feature implemented by this edition of the software is voice search. It’s a cube of corrugated black plastic, 12.5cm high – 12.5cm in all directions in fact – and among the first Google TV boxes to launch with version 3.0 of the Google TV software. Looking a little like the puzzle box from the Hellraiser films, the Asus Qube is not your average black rectangle set–top box. It may be confined to the US for now, but we thought we’d get up close and personal with one to find out if it really is better than using a Smart TV portal. Google TV boxes like the Asus Qube continue to appear, though. Google TV boxes are yet to catch on in the UK – we get the impression many don’t know what they’d do with one, especially now that services like BBC iPlayer, LoveFilm and Netflix are available through games consoles and many TVs.