Category: Tradeshows

Qualcomm Life 2net platform

Posted by – March 4, 2013

The Qualcomm Life 2net platform transmits medical data back to the web and to physicians.

myTaxi app

Posted by – March 4, 2013

The taxi drivers install an app, the taxi users install the app to hail taxies, myTaxi has over 20 thousand taxies registered, 3 million downloads of the app.

Lenovo S6000 10.1″ MediaTek MT8389

Posted by – March 4, 2013

Here’s Lenovo’s MediaTek MT8389 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 tablet.

InvenSense gyroscopes

Posted by – March 4, 2013

Invensense is the leader in motion processing, MEMS gyroscope, and motion processing technologies for consumer electronics. They did the gyroscope in Wii Motion Plus, in the Nintendo 3DS, and their gyroscopes are now being integrated in smartphones, smart watches and more.

Lenovo A1000, 7″ 1024×600, MediaTek dual-core MT8377

Posted by – March 4, 2013

Lenovo releases this cheap MediaTek dual-core based tablet.

Gemtek FreePP voice-over-ip

Posted by – March 4, 2013

Gemtek is showing off their FreePP hardware for free peer-to-peer VOIP.

Immersion haptic feedback on smartphones

Posted by – March 4, 2013

Immersion shows some of their latest haptic feedback technologies embedded in smartphones. It requires the right kind of vibrator motors to be used in the right kind of way.

ARM Mali-T604 GPU Compute Renderscript and Open GL


ARM demonstrates GPU Computing on the new ARM Mali-T604 GPU, rendering graphical features, filters, encoding, processing certain things much faster and using much less power by processing those things on the GPU instead of on the CPU.

ARM Mali-T604 Graphics performance beyond 1080p


ARM runs the Epic Citadel benchmark at 55fps at 2560×1600 (4 megapixels = 2x 1080p) on the Mali-T604 while on Intel’s latest mobile platform, that same benchmark runs 10fps slower at a resolution of only 1280×720 (less than 4x lower resolution?). ARM also shows the improvements when using the Mali-T604 with Open GL ES 3.0 which hopefully is soon going to be added in Android, providing higher quality 3D graphics features.

FXI Technologies, on the history and status of inventing the HDMI Stick

Posted by – March 3, 2013

FXI Technologies invented the HDMI Stick, first having shown their Cotton Candy for the first time in November 2011. Here running on the Samsung Exynos 4 processor. They now have 250 partners working on the device, integrating their ideas, technology and applications, providing and upgrading their own solutions, they have hundreds of developers developing solutions and applications for it. They expect to have the Ubuntu platform ready by the end of March. FXI Tech inspired all other SoC vendors and device makers to integrate all other SoCs into HDMI sticks since then.

Dell Project Ophelia HDMI Stick for Cloud Computing

Posted by – March 3, 2013

Dell is launching their first HDMI Stick. Dell is to release this sub-$100 Android PC on a stick on the Rockchip RK3066 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, which seems to be quite a big change for Dell if this possibly is the form of the future of the Dell Desktop PCs. Dell markets this for an access device towards Dell’s enterprise and personal cloud software and services.

My interview on nomobile.ru


At Mobile World Congress 2013 the nomobile.ru guys interviewed me showing off my video-blogging setup and my latest gadgets. I wasn’t able to use the Kopin Golden-i 3.8 to live augment my video-blogging at MWC because it was stuck in customs.

See more about how I video on my How I video-blog page.

Posted at: nomobile.ru on the nomobile YouTube channel

Asus PadFone Infinity

Posted by – March 3, 2013

The newest 5″ 1080p Smartphone from Asus runs on the 1.7Ghz Qualcomm S600 processor and docks into a 1080p 10.1″ Tablet to instantly transform the smartphone into a tablet.

Viewsonic VSD241 24″ and VSD220 22″ All-in-one Android Computers

Posted by – March 3, 2013

You get the full Android 4.1 Jelly Bean experience on the 24″ Viewsonic VSD241 1080p display running on a Tegra3 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the 22″ Viewsonic VSD220 1080p display running on the OMAP4430 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9. The price of integrating the ARM SoC with Android is perhaps not much more than selling the touch screen display by itself, and with the HDMI input and USB you can connect any Windows 8 Laptop or Desktop to this screen to thus use the same large touch screen to also use Windows 8.

WildTangent game monetization and distribution

Posted by – March 3, 2013

WildTangent is distributed on around 100 million devices around the world, on PCs and mobile devices. They provide a game store monetization and distribution system for games.

iReadyGo Much i5, Exynos4412 and MT6589 portable gaming console

Posted by – March 3, 2013

iReadyGo already has the Much i4 on the market with a 5″ 800×480 and Exynos4412 processor, their next generation is to have a 5″ 960×540 and the quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor. They say that they have sold 10 thousand units of the Exynos4412 device at about $250 street price in China.

Cupp computing hardware secured mobility

Posted by – March 3, 2013

Cupp computing demonstrates how they make ARM based PCI modules that add full hardware based security for Windows/Mac/Linux laptops, running the full security suite on the Cupp computing module, quicker and safer than an anti-virus. Cupp computing hopes to provide a +400Mb solution based on a quad core ARM processor later this year for a bit over $200.

Pixavi wireless video-conferencing

Posted by – March 3, 2013

Pixavi sells a wireless video-conferencing device to use in hazardous conditions such as oil sites, mining etc.

Marvell PXA1801 modem with LTE/TDD/FDD/3G/2G support

Posted by – March 3, 2013

Marvell demonstrates their latest PXA1801 and PXA1802 modem for LTE/4G/3G/2G support.

Marvell PXA1088 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 smartphone reference design

Posted by – March 3, 2013

Marvell shows their new PXA1088 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, here in a reference design smartphone. They also show the dual-core PXA968 with CDMA and with TD-SCDMA both pin-compatible in a 7″ tablet reference design.

You can read more about the PXA1088 here: http://www.marvell.com/communication-processors/pxa1088/assets/Marvell_PXA1088-02_product_brief.pdf