Month: March 2010

Hanvon WISEreader N618 at CeBIT 2010

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2010

Wifi, stylus touch screen input, 6″ e-reader by http://hanvon.com they may be releasing this with China Mobile with a cellular modem option instead of WiFi for the Chinese market. It comes with a very basic user interface and uses wireless modem or WiFi to access specific e-book stores to download the e-books. The stylus pen can be used for the interfaces as well as for writing annotations, inputting text and more.

Category: CeBIT, E-readers, Exclusive videos
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Archos Vision A30VC, A24VB, A18VB, A15VS and A14VG series of products at CeBIT 2010

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2010

Archos is releasing a whole bunch of new cheap Mp3 and Mp4 players at the CeBIT 2010 consumer electronics show. Here is an overview of most of the new ones. It enables Archos to position itself as a low-cost provider of Mp3 players, with really good affordable value for retailers and to position the Archos brand broader on the market, interest people in then also checking out Archos higher end Android devices.

Category: Archos, CeBIT, Exclusive videos, PMPs
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Archos Vision A43VB

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2010

Here’s a 4.3″ Archos PMP, it will playback most video formats and be sold for only 99€ in Europe. This may be one of the cheapest 4.3″ touch screen PMP devices on the European and US market.

Category: Archos, CeBIT, Exclusive videos, PMPs, Rockchip
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I will film 50 videos at CeBIT 2010

Posted by Charbax – March 1, 2010

While I still have a few videos to still upload and post from my Mobile World Congress 2010 coverage, I am just about to start filming 50 videos at the CeBIT consumer electronics show in Hannover Germany which goes from 2nd to 6th of March, so subscribe to the RSS feed, check back here at http://ARMdevices.net these next few days.

Engadget is live from CeBIT 2010! (engadget.com)

Category: CeBIT
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HTC Desire, HTC Legend and HTC HD2 Mini at Mobile World Congress 2010

Posted by Charbax – March 1, 2010

These are the latest HTC smart phones shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. This video shows how the HTC Legend is an improvement on every aspect compared to the HTC Hero and offers some talk and explanations for HTC Sense UI, and the HTC desire compared with the Google Nexus One.

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, Mobile Phones, MWC, Qualcomm, Windows
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Exclusive video: Archos 7 Home Tablet released for $179

Posted by Charbax – March 1, 2010

Check out my exclusive video of the Archos 7 Home Tablet that will be released in April/May for $179 in the USA and 149€ in Europe:

It is powered by a 600mhz Rockchip 2808 processor, does web browsing pretty well (for an ARM9 processor) and plays all video codecs at up to 720p video playback (at up to limited 2500kbit/s bitrates for 720p).

For now, this Archos 7 Home Tablet is being released this next month or by May already and at this amazingly low $179 price for the 2GB version with MicroSD card slot. There will also be a 8GB version and maybe larger capacities for slightly more expensive. It also has a mini-jack to composite video-output using the headphones jack and micro-USB to USB host features built-in. The built-in stereo speakers are very decent for movie watching and the 7″ 800×480 resistive touch-screen is just very fine and does allow for fast text input.

Archos is still working on the Android software optimizations, it comes with special video player, audio player and file explorer applications by default. My guess is that the Google Marketplace could be hacked to work onto it by the open development community at http://forum.archosfans.com

Also, my expectation is that Google will release an Android 2.2 or so version which will provide the full Google Marketplace experience on all large screen Android Tablets and even on Android Laptop form factors and also to provide such for lower cost platforms than the latest ARM Cortex based ones. See my interview with Andy Rubin and Eric Schmidt about those speculations: http://armdevices.net/2010/02/22/i-interviewed-eric-schmidt-and-andy-rubin-at-mwc-off-camera-for-now-watch-eric-schmidts-keynote-video/

Here are some pictures of this device (click to see full sized version on Picasa):