High performance, low power, low cost. Tarantino style.
Source: ARMflix
Month: October 2010
PandaBoard, OMAP4430 open-source ARM Cortex-A9 development board!
Posted by – October 3, 2010
It’s shipping to selected few developers starting this month. This is Texas Instrument’s Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 OMAP4 development board, the successor of the ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3 based BeagleBoard.org project, they are to launch the PandaBoard.org community now, for powerful embedded open source Linux development. Development of the kind of software that we could be seeing on upcoming ARM Powered laptops, tablets, set-top-boxes, desktop replacements and not only on smart phones!
This type of development board could provide one the worlds fastest and smoothest Ubuntu and Chromium on ARM development platforms yet with high resolution 1080p output and a whole bunch of exciting stuff.
If you are a hard core ARM developer, you can apply on PandaBoard.org to get an early access to this development board.
Source: PandaBoard.org and OMAPpedia.org
Found via: blogarm.net (really cool french blog on ARM related news)
Archos $99-$149 MiniTablet platform videoed
Posted by – October 1, 2010
In this video, I try to show you the quality and to demonstrate the value of the Archos 32 Internet Tablet with Android. It’s the 3.2″ $149 8GB big brother of Archos 28 Internet Tablet which is to be sold below $99 with 4GB of storage and a slightly smaller 2.8″ screen, of about the same size as the HTC Tatoo, Sony Ericsson X10 Mini, Acer beTouch 110/120/130. This video shows how the experience is on such WQVGA resolution small screen Android device.
What do you think about this Archos Android WiFi-connected PMP, at 2.3x cheaper than the iPod Touch? Don’t you think it will be a no brainer for mass market consumers, if given the choice in stores, that they will choose this type of Android alternative to the iPod Touch?
Archos 43 Internet Tablet compared to Archos 5 Internet Tablet
Posted by – October 1, 2010
An overview of the difference in screen size, touch screen quality, web browsing speed. More on video playback support including a test on streaming video over Samba file sharing.
netbooknews.com: Malata T9000 Laptop for education runs on Marvell 166 ARM processor
Posted by – October 1, 2010
It is being said in this video that this ARM Powered laptop is customized with Linux software for education in China and comes with built-in SIM card reader for wireless Internet access.
Here are some specifications of the Armada 166 processor according to Marvell.com:
| Attributes | ARMADA166 |
|---|---|
| Frequency (MHz) | 800 |
| Core | Sheeva PJ1 w/WMMX2 |
| ISA | ARMv5/XScale |
| L1 Caches | 32KB/32KB |
| L2 Cache | 128KB |
| Memory | LP-DDR 200 MHz DDR2 400 MHz (DDR2-800) x16 |
| LCD Controller | Up to WUXGA |
| Graphics | 2D/Scaler |
| Video | Up to D1 using WMMX2 |
| Additional Blocks | QdeoTM ICR |
| Key Peripherals | FE, 5:1 Card Reader, USB, EPD Ctrl (166E) |
| Process, Package | 55nm, BGA |
| Application | E-Book |
Source: netbooknews.com
Found via: engadget.com
Nicholas Negroponte keynote at the Mobilize conference: Give Every Child a Tablet
Posted by – October 1, 2010
OLPC‘s founder Nicholas Negroponte discusses educational use of the tablet form factor followed by a discussion with Marvell’s co-founder Weili Dai. They are building the $75 XO-3 Tablet for education, to be showcased as prototype within 3 months by next CES. Possibly that the first prototypes may even get to be using the latest wide-view capacitive Pixel Qi LCD screens and the Marvell Armada 628 processor.
To be productive using a tablet, I think plugging a $2 USB keyboard and mouse could still be the best solution. As text entry can hardly be as fast on a tablet, even using haptic feedback or web based voice recognition technology. If the USB keyboard/mouse can be developed to cost $2-3 maximum, then I think it would make sense to provide each child with the $75 tablet and the $2-3 keyboard/mouse combo as well as some kind of cheap bag that holds them together or perhaps even better, the keyboard/touchpad could double as a thin, cheap and light screen protector for the tablet when carrying it around and could as well be clipped onto the back of the tablet when only using the tablet mode.
Filmed at the Mobilize conference organized by gigaom: http://gigaom.com/2010/09/30/mobilize-2010-negroponte-sees-tablets-as-creative-tool/