Steve Sperle of Freescale introduces the Freescale ARM Cortex A8 powered Smartbook by Pegatron and an Android device by Inventec IAC runing smooth video playback as well.
Day: Friday, June 5, 2009
ARM Director of Mobile Computing about ARM Laptops with Android and Ubuntu
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Bob Morris, Director of Mobile Computing at ARM Holdings introduces the new type of ARM based products such as ARM in Laptops/Netbooks/Smartbooks, ARM based Android smartphones.
Qualcomm Snapdragon at Computex
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Qualcomm Manager of Business Development at Qualcomm for Computing and Consumer Products, Mike Yin, is showing an impressive bunch of what they now call Smartbooks, ARM Cortex A8 based hardware accelerated netbooks runing full Android OS, Xandros ARM or some other Linux OS, launching and navigating in full web browsers, playing back full quality and bitrate videos.
Inventec ARM Laptop powered by Snapdragon
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Inventec is showing pretty smooth video playback on an ARM laptop using the Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM Cortex A8 processor.
Wistron Pbook
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Wistron is making a Sony looking ARM Snapdragon based laptop device running Red Flag linux.
Kinpo Thin Client 7inch Android Tablet
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Kinpo is making a 7 inch Android tablet powered by a Freescale processor. A bunch of engineers happened to come by the Freescale headquarters with this device while I was there filming a whole bunch of other videos. I then convinced them to show it to me and to let me film it. They installed Android on a 800×480 resolution 7″ touchscreen tablet device. It works pretty smoothly though they obviously have some tweaking that they still need to do before such a device can be sold. This device currently has some pretty obvious bugs like the video not playing correctly.