Freescale announced their ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-Core and Quad-Core processor platform. Here´s an interview with Freescale about their performance and features.
Category: MWC
Freescale talks i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 platform at Mobile World Congress 2011
Posted by – February 16, 2011
Dialog Semiconductor real-time 2D to 3D conversion
Posted by – February 16, 2011
This is the first real-time 2D to 3D video conversion in silicon presented by Dialog Semiconductor at Mobile World Congress 2011, it may be useful for the upcoming glasses free 3D screen devices that are coming out. I am not sure though how they analyse the video to “guess” the 3D features in the images, do they analyse each static image or do they process frames before and after to determine 3D space based on the motion?
ST Ericsson A9500 ARM Cortex-A9 Development Board
Posted by – February 16, 2011
This is the SKY-S9500-ULP-CXX aka SNOWBALL, the ST Ericsson ARM Cortex-A9 development board, they put in there all the memory and everything needed to hack together end user products. It will be sold for about $200 from around April or May, it runs Android, Ubuntu and Meego thus far. You can find more information at http://igloocommunity.org
Blackberry Playbook to get Android Dalvik engine support?
Posted by – February 16, 2011
Here’s an interview with Blackberry about the Playbook, topics include the QNX software, the potentiallity for Android apps support through integrating the Dalvik engine, productivity apps on tablets, and a brief history of Blackberry and where it’s going.
Hoccer app at Mobile World Congress 2011
Posted by – February 16, 2011
App to send stuff from one device to another using swipes or movements.
Meego on Freescale i.MX51
Posted by – February 16, 2011
This is my first experience with Meego, it´s running on the Freescale i.MX51 development board presented by Nomovok at Mobile World Congress 2011, it may be one of the first ARM Powered Meego implementations to take advantage of hardware acceleration.
LG Optimus Pad
Posted by – February 16, 2011
The new tablet from LG, Honeycomb on Tegra2 powered, comes with LG´s built-in 3D camera, to allow consumers to make more 3D contents for their 3D HDTVs. It uses a 8.9″ capacitive touch screen, hdmi output, no usb host.
Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL)
Posted by – February 15, 2011
New standard first used in the Samsung Galaxy S2 to output HD and charge at the same time through the Micro-USB connector, it also allows for some data to be sent back from HDTVs such as using the TVs standard remote control to also remote control the device. The MHL 1.0 spec for now does not transmit Gigabit Ethernet or USB 3.0 Host functionality.
Sub-$200 4.3″ capacitive Android Smartphone
Posted by – February 15, 2011
Yuhua Teltech released this Marvell powered Android Smartphone they call the Touchstone. It’s basically like one of those HTC HD, Droid X, except it costs less than $200 instead of the $500+ that the big brands such as HTC and Motorola are selling those form factors for. It runs on the Marvell PXA935 processor (also known as Tavor P65), same as in the Dual SIM clam-shell Dion MID from Shenzhen ACT that I filmed at CES and which Yuhua Teltech is also manufacturing as well. This device has been sold in China, India and some other emerging markets for 6 months already, Yuhua Teltech wants to bring this device to the European and US market, and they are announcing their next generation Gemstone design which will have a faster Marvell processor and dual-sim support.
Malata releases new Tegra2 Tablets
Posted by – February 15, 2011
Their designs are used by ViewSonic, Interpad, HiSense and others. Now they use a better screen with 1280×800 resolution and wider viewing angles. They are also making a version with a new 9.7″ 4:3 aspect ratio.