Category: Tablets

Windows 8 RT on a $68 7″ VIA 8850 ARM Cortex-A9 Tablet by Eken

Posted by – June 7, 2012

Check out Windows 8 on a $68 VIA 8850 Powered 7″ capacitive tablet! (just a home replacement) What is the difference in performance and potential features between an optimized Android Home Replacement and a “real” native Windows RT machine?

I think it is obviously meaningless for Microsoft to insist on making Windows 8 a separate closed/proprietary/incompatible ecosystem to Android. And it’d be even more wrong if Microsoft wants to forbid tablet and laptop makers to dual-boot Android with Windows RT.


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Telstar 7″ 1024×600 Qualcomm MSM7227A ARM Cortex-A5 tablet with 3G

Posted by – June 7, 2012


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$44 capacitive Rk2906 ICS tablet by Sawink at Computex 2012

Posted by – June 7, 2012


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Shenzhen Sanxo Technology Development Co Ltd at Computex 2012

Posted by – June 7, 2012


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RFtech at Computex 2012


80$ish RFTech 7″ Tablet w/ ICS feat. Allwinner A10 IPS 1024×600 1GB, Bluetooth included 100$ish MediaTek version w/ 3g built in


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Feihong Industry Co Ltd at Computex 2012

Posted by – June 7, 2012


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Shenzhen Cheng Fong Digital-Tech Ltd



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Rightfriend at Computex 2012

Posted by – June 7, 2012


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Seshu Madhavapeddy, General Manager, Mobile Devices Business Unit at Texas Instruments at Computex 2012

Posted by – June 5, 2012

Seshu Madhavapeddy talks about how Texas Instruments works on their OMAP4 and OMAP5 processors to be in the Galaxy Nexus and in a whole range of other high-end smartphone and tablet devices.

$78 Telechips TCC8923 1.2Ghz ARM Cortex-A5 tablets with DVB-T/ISDBT by Xon Technology

Posted by – June 5, 2012

Here’s a tablet with a $8 option to include DVB-T or ISDBT, the ICS Telechips TCC8923 tablet costs $70 in bulk without the digital TV option.

Rovi DivX Plus Streaming

Posted by – June 5, 2012

Rovi acquired Sonic Solutions which owned DivX, they are now launching DivX Plus Streaming as a platform for multi-bitrate, multi-resolution, smooth adaptive variable bitrate video streaming for video-on-demand services around the world. DivX Plus Streaming is supported on a range of ARM Processors for example the Freescale i.MX6 supports it.

I’m being interviewed about how I started video-blogging and announcing a new feature for ARMdevices.net


Here’s a 15 minute interview of me filmed by the Novacut guys using multiple high quality DSLR camera angles (you can watch it in 1080p!). I’m showing off some of the latest gadgets that I found in Shenzhen, I talk about why and how I video-blog from all the worlds consumer electronics trade shows since 2004, and I announce my next big feature on ARMdevices.net which is a $20/year Membership system to get access to buy all the best gadgets that I find at the trade shows all over the world, sourcing directly from the factories in Shenzhen and to get access to scans or pictures of the business cards of the people/distributors/suppliers that I video-interview (great for the buyers from around the world watching my videos and interested in having the best contact informations to the companies that I film). Look forward to the $20/year ARMdevices.net Membership system to be launched here in the days to come if I can find enough time to set it up while video-blogging here at Computex until June 10th.

Windows 8 RT on the Qualcomm S4 Snadragon development platform

Posted by – June 5, 2012

This demo of Windows 8 RT on Qualcomm S4 seems to be very smooth. There are a few bugs here or there, but overall, it looks quite smooth to me. I think Windows 8 on ARM is going to be more popular than Windows 8 on x86, yet I think that Android will remain far more popular than all forms of Windows.

Asus Tablet 600 with Windows 8 RT on ARM Tegra3

Posted by – June 4, 2012

This new Windows 8 RT on ARM device is a bit like the Asus Transformer Prime but Asus does not want to call it a Transformer Book, it’s running Windows on ARM only, no dual-boot with Android for now (my guess is maybe they change their mind by the release of this device in October or whenever Windows 8 is released). This is kind of a prototype, although the hardware is pretty much the same as the Asus Transformer Prime with Tegra3, this one has 2GB of RAM.

Asus AiO ARM/Intel Android/Windows 8 18.4″ 1080p all-in-one

Posted by – June 4, 2012

This huge 18.4″ Asus capacitive tablet runs on an ARM Processor (yet unannounced) and when docked, it can switch to Windows 8 on Intel Windows 8 and switch back to ARM Android.

AllWinner Boxchip software engineers at Linaro Connect

Posted by – May 28, 2012

3 engineers from http://www.allwinnertech.com talk about how they are using Linaro, what they are looking to get from Linaro, how they want to work with Linaro at the Linaro Connect Q2 2012 conference.

$55 AllWinner Boxchip A13 Tablet Factory Tour

Posted by – May 27, 2012

Watch this 7-minute Shenzhen factory tour, see how they are assembling the $55 (soon $49) Boxchip A13 7″ Capacitive tablet. This Shenzhen factory assembly line currently cranks out about 4000 such tablets in a days work. If you like this video, you should also watch my Shenzhen Speakers Factory video that I posted last month.

$55 7″ capacitive Boxchip A13 SMT line, mass producing the Boxchip A13 PCB

Posted by – May 27, 2012

Here they are cranking out a few thousand Boxchip A13 and Boxchip A10 motherboards every day.

Yooe F4, Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core 9.7″ Tablet, $220-$250, mass manufacturing next month

Posted by – May 27, 2012

The new Quad-core ARM Corte-A9 processor from Freescale is about to be launched in devices, as shown here at the PCB design house in Shenzhen that is currently working on the PCB optimizations/finalizations before mass manufacturing of this i.MX6 Quad-core based ICS Android tablet. Yooe plans to sell it for somewhere between $220-$250 depending on their final target manufacturing price. 100 samples are to be manufactured in June, and at least 5000 should be made in July. You’ll soon be able to buy samples of this device on ARMdevices.net, check back for info on that.

Gemei G9T, 9.7″ AmLogic AML8726-MX ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400

Posted by – May 27, 2012

This new Dual-core 9.7″ tablet sells now for around $200 in Shenzhen.