Zinwell is one of the worlds top-5 Realtek based media player box makers, after Western Digital, Xstreamer, now they want to support full Android and eventually Google TV for ARM, so they take the Marvell Berlin (Armada 1000?) processor platform, even add DVB tuner and e-Sata ports, to provide full HD web browsing speed and the performance needed for full Flash and all Web videos and the like.
Category: Chip provider
Hanvon HPad A116 7″ capacitive Android Tablet
Posted by – March 2, 2011
Hanvon is the leading e-ink e-reader maker in the Chinese market with 70% market share, now they are also moving into making Android tablets. This one has a Samsung Hummingbird 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 512MB RAM, 7″ capacitive screen, and Hanvon has designed some custom home replacement user interface.
x86 vs ARM for Tablets, hahaha
Posted by – March 2, 2011
This is what I found at a booth at CeBIT:
Shenzhen AUDE Technology Co Ltd is showing their tablets at CeBIT 2011, the Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet is 0.4Kg can retail at below $200 while the x86 one is 0.9Kg and could retail for above $400.
Gigabyte Tegra2 Tablet GN-TB100
Posted by – March 2, 2011
This is a 10.1″ 1280×800 capacitive new Tegra2 tablet made by Gigabyte. This is not a final design, they’ll tweak and improve the design before mass production to be selling this by July this year around there.
Gigabyte NAS GR-EZM02H
Posted by – March 2, 2011
Gigabyte is launching this dual-hard drive NAS product, powered by a Marvell ARM processor, it has dual-LAN and a bunch of embedded software features.
Telstar Android Tablets
Posted by – March 2, 2011
The MID Q7128 is Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 based, and even cheaper is the Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet, both in the same design.
$60 Android Cortex-A8 Set-top-box
Posted by – March 1, 2011
Shenzhen Ider Technology is showing two designs for Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 powered Android Set-top-boxes. One even has a built-in 2.5″ hard drive compartment. This type of box could potentially soon run Google TV experience OS!
3Gnet $70 Android Set-top-box
Posted by – March 1, 2011
This one could run the Google TV for ARM OS, it’s a Skyviia ARM9 based Android Set-top-box, with 3 USB host, up to 1080p video playback support, the UI is being worked on. They also have a Ziilab ARM Cortex-A8 version to be available for about $20 more.
Bresser MID-7, 7″ 3G Android Tablet
Posted by – March 1, 2011
This one is a Rockchip RK2818 based, resistive Android tablet, sold about 299€ with 3G built-in.
Netronix 9.7″ Freescale i.MX51 Android Tablet
Posted by – March 1, 2011
Netronix is one of the major e-ink based e-reader makers from Taiwan, they are now also making Android LCD tablets. This one is basically as good as an iPad, with exactly the same LG 9.7″ capacitive LCD as on the iPad1, but it can be sold at half the price, around $250.