The MobilTab Sleek uses the Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 overclocked at 1.5Ghz, 7″ capacitive 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, they are for now merging some of the UI features of Gingerbread, Honeycomb and ICS, upgrading to ICS when available for the processor. They have a WiFi-only and HSPA+ version available.
Category: Android
Pixel Qi at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
The 1280×800 10.1″ Pixel Qi screen is ready, here it is demonstrated under a bright spotlight simulating the sun as well as in some prototypes of upcoming Android tablets. Founder, CEO and inventor Mary Lou Jepsen talks about the latest news from Pixel Qi, where they are going, what they are up to.
Status of the Raspberry Pi at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Raspberry Pi expects to have volume devices on the market by the end of the month. That means $25 and $35 (with ethernet) Broadcom ARM11 ARM Powered Desktops are thus just about to be broadly available.
Blue Times shows $50 HiSilicon 3716 and AmLogic 8726 ARM Cortex-A9 Android Set-top-box
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Blue Times uses the Huawei HiSilicon single-core 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 as well as the single-core AmLogic ARM Corte-A9 for their Android Set-top-box.
Emdoor shows $140 9.7″ and $85 7″ Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 ICS Tablets
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Emdoor Digital Technology Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich working on their Telechips based 7″ capacitive and 9.7″ IPS capacitive based Android tablets.
Zenithink shows Android 4.0 ICS on AmLogic tablets
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Zenithink shows $90 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 capacitive 7″ tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich support ($80 for resistive), minimum order is just 50 pieces, the 10.1″ is $160, 7″ 1024×600 for $120.
Feihong shows $130 ICS on Telechips 8803 1.2Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 and $48 ARM11 VIA based tablet
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Feihong Industry Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich running on their Telechips 8803 based tablet. They also announce that Telechips is working on a dual-core processor to be released in tablets around March already (to be confirmed by Telechips etc).
VMware shows smartphone virtualization on the LG Revolution
Posted by – January 15, 2012
VMware now supports a secure enterprise version of Android at the same time as you can run your personal “hackable” version of Android, both on the same device in a fully secure virtualized way.
LiftMaster shows Android and iOS powered Garage Door opener
Posted by – January 15, 2012
You install their garage door motor on your garage door and you install the Android or iOS app on your smartphone and tablets and you can then open and close your garage door over the Internet.
Toshiba Excite X10 launched in the USA, OMAP4430 1.2Ghz thinnest lightest 10.1″ Tablet
Posted by – January 15, 2012
The Toshiba engineers use a magnesium casing and a new type of display where they are directly bonding the touch panel to the display itself, eliminating the air-gap between those two, helping them to get it to be really thin and really light.