Onn Full HD Streaming Stick Price Doubles: Discontinued or Replaced?
The Onn Full HD streaming stick, a $15 Google TV dongle that turns any HDMI-equipped television into a capable smart TV, has become harder to find and more expensive to buy. Its standard retail price has climbed to $30, double its 2023 launch price, with in-store stock running thin at many locations, according to Cord Cutters News and Android Police. For cord-cutters who relied on the Onn Full HD streaming stick as the cheapest entry point into Google TV, the question is immediate: buy now at $30, wait, or move on?
The situation is less clean than a straightforward discontinuation. An FCC filing from two months ago reveals a new "Onn Full HD Streaming Device" that cleared regulatory approval with nearly identical specs to the 2023 original, built by a different manufacturer and assembled in a different country, as reported by AFTVnews, Android Authority, and Lowpass. That filing is the most important piece of context for anyone trying to make a purchasing decision today.
Is the Onn Full HD streaming stick discontinued? What's actually happening
The device is available, but constrained. The Full HD stick is still listed for delivery on Walmart's website, but in-store availability is very low, Android Police noted in late June. That's a meaningful distinction from a discontinued product: the listing hasn't been pulled, but the shelf presence is thin and inconsistent.
The pricing picture is also messier than a clean doubling. While the standard public-facing price has moved to $30, some logged-in Walmart account holders are still seeing promotional pricing near $15, Cord Cutters News observed earlier this month. Whether that reflects targeted promotions, remaining discounted inventory, or a temporary rollback is unknown.
The strongest argument against discontinuation is the FCC filing itself. A new Onn Full HD Streaming Device with near-identical specs cleared regulatory approval two months ago, as first spotted by a Reddit user and reported by AFTVnews. The incoming device appears to share the same Amlogic S805X2 chip, 1.5GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage as the 2023 original. Companies retiring a product don't typically push a functionally identical successor through regulatory approval weeks beforehand.
What Walmart has not done is explain any of this publicly. No confirmed launch date, no retail price, no statement on the stock shortages or the price change. Those remain open questions.
Why observers think price and stock are both under pressure
The most widely reported explanation for the price jump is component cost inflation. Rising RAM prices, part of a broader memory shortage that had been flagged for months, are now hitting retail shelves, and the Onn Full HD stick appears to be bearing the impact, Android Police reported in late June. That analysis comes from industry observers, not from Walmart directly; it's the best available interpretation, not a confirmed company statement.
The Full HD stick isn't the only device under pressure. The Onn 4K Plus saw its price rise by $10, from roughly $30 to $40, earlier this year, and the 2023 Onn 4K box has gone completely out of stock, according to Android Police. When the same pattern appears across multiple devices in a single lineup, it suggests a supply-side problem rather than a deliberate repositioning of any one product.
The FCC filing adds a separate but complementary layer. The 2023 Full HD stick was manufactured by Luxshare in Vietnam. The new version cleared through Skyworth, which builds Mecool's streaming hardware, and is being assembled in Mexico, per Android Authority and Lowpass. Shifting manufacturers and production locations is consistent with sourcing constraints; it's not the pattern of a product on the way out.
AFTVnews concluded that Walmart is likely switching to Skyworth, or running both manufacturers simultaneously, specifically to relieve pressure on the current model. That reading fits the FCC evidence, but it remains inference rather than confirmed strategy.
To be clear about what's confirmed versus what's interpretation: the price increase, the low stock, the FCC filing, and the manufacturer and country shift are all documented facts. The RAM shortage as the root cause, and supplier diversification as the deliberate response, are the best available explanations from informed observers. Walmart has confirmed none of it.
Budget Google TV is getting scarcer, and that shapes this story
Affordable Google TV hardware has fewer sources than it did two years ago. Google canceled the Chromecast line in 2024 and replaced it with the $99.99 Google TV Streamer, a meaningful step up in both capability and price. Amazon, meanwhile, moved Fire TV sticks off Android and onto its own proprietary Vega OS, as Android Police noted. That narrows the field considerably for buyers who want a budget Google TV device at mainstream retail.
Despite acquiring Vizio in 2024, Walmart appears content treating Vizio as a house brand for televisions, with no indication of bridging Vizio's operating system to new streaming hardware, Lowpass and Android Authority both observed two months ago. The Onn line remains a Google TV line.
At $30, the Full HD stick still undercuts Google's own hardware by $70. An FCC-approved replacement arriving near the original price would restore that gap further. Even at the top of the Onn lineup, the value orientation holds: the 2026 Onn 4K Pro carries Dolby Vision and Atmos support, Wi-Fi 6, and 32GB of storage for $60, roughly half the price of the Google TV Streamer, Android Authority's mid-June review found. Walmart has strategic reasons to keep a low-cost anchor in this lineup, a product that draws first-time cord-cutters into an ecosystem where more capable Onn devices are waiting.
What this means if you're shopping now
The combined evidence, a price hike, stock gaps across the Onn lineup, and an FCC-approved near-identical successor from a new manufacturer, points to a supply and sourcing transition rather than a product exit. The evidence points to a replacement rather than a clean discontinuation, but Walmart hasn't confirmed its plans.
Three unresolved questions will shape what comes next: whether the FCC-approved replacement launches at or near $15, whether the current $30 listing represents a permanent floor or temporary pressure, and when the new device actually reaches shelves. None have public answers.
For buyers making a decision today, the options break down as follows:
- If you need the cheapest Google TV device available now and can't wait, the Full HD stick at $30 is still functional. It runs the full Google TV operating system with voice-controlled navigation, access to major services including Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, and Hulu, and Google Assistant support, Cord Cutters News notes. It's just no longer the remarkable deal it was at launch.
- If a few months of patience is feasible, the FCC filing suggests a refreshed version may be coming. Whether it arrives at $15 or closer to $30 is the unanswered question that matters most.
- If your TV supports 4K and your budget allows, the $40 Onn 4K Plus is now back in stock after weeks of availability issues, per Android Police. The $60 Onn 4K Pro brings Dolby Vision/Atmos support, Wi-Fi 6, and 32GB of storage at roughly half the price of the Google TV Streamer, according to Android Authority.
The Onn Full HD streaming device's future is unclear in its specifics but plausible in its direction: the FCC evidence suggests a replacement is coming, the timeline and pricing remain unknown, and Walmart has said nothing publicly to settle either question.
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