Here’s some Web browsing and keyboard typing speed/accuracy test, I load a few random websites on the press room wifi featuring some smooth two-finger scrolling and clicking (consider trade show’s thousands of people creating a bit of interference affecting the speed maybe a bit). The Hisense RK3288 Chromebook is one of the world’s best value laptops at $149 I think, with I think the best mousepad among the $149 RK3288 Chromebooks (requires least/best pressure to click it seems) and the exterior design of the Hisense with some kind of granular texture I think is the nicest to handle and hold. But the Haier has a preferable matte display compared to the glossy display that I have seen on all the other RK3288 Chromebooks. While the idea of 4GB RAM may sound appealing, even if that increases the price by something like $20 (if they make such 4GB options available), maybe one can also consider that RAM usage on this RK3288 Chromebook, and RAM usage on Chrome OS in general, may be something that Google and Rockchip have been tweaking and optimizing alot, and it’s something that is always improving with the automatic and regular software updates that we can expect to be sent out by Google to these. Please understand that I do not believe in running certain browser benchmarks to measure the usability/speed and performance of real user web browsing. To do an optimal benchmark, someone with high-speed cameras should measure how long it takes certain novice and advanced users to do a whole range of things on the web. To me the performance seems extremely good and satisfactory. But of course I would like to have one of these and to be able to use them as my main laptop, to see if it feels like the 32bit RK3288 ARM Cortex-A17 quad-core can power all my web browsing needs! Imagine a smooth enough performance already achieve, how extra smooth the performance may be when Rockchip releases perhaps a next generation Chromebook optimized 64bit processor! Using the newly announced ARM Cortex-A72 perhaps! Check back also for my tests of the RK3288 Chromebooks by Asus and Haier.
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Rockchip RK3288 Chromebooks $149 Hisense, Haier and $169 Asus
Rockchip shows their super cool new $149 Chrome OS Chromebooks on their RK3288 quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with ARM Mali-T764 GPU. The performance seems very smooth (see my other separate Hands-on Multi-Tab Web Browsing Test videos with each of the Chromebooks). Rockchip has been working for more than the past year with Google’s Chrome OS team to optimize and deliver an experience for Chrome OS on their RK3288 platform, stable enough for now launching massive mass productions with Hisense, Haier and Asus through big Laptop factories in Taiwan and China. They would like to see big volumes shipped, possibly more than 10 million units shipped, now available for pre-order the Haier RK3288 Chromebook for $149 at Amazon and the Hisense RK3288 Chromebook for $149 at Walmart
Radxa Rock2 RK3288 development board
This is the Radxa Rock2 on Rockchip RK3288 quad-core ARM Cortex-A17, still being optimized for release at http://radxa.com/Rock2 it’s configured as a SoM (System on Module) board with a choice of two base boards with more or less connectors and with that SoM module swappable. Tyler Baker of the Linaro LAVA team talks about the connectors and how Linaro is integrating this into http://kernelci.org which you can hear about at http://138.2.152.197/2015/02/28/kernelci-org-upstream-kernel-validation-project/
Rockchip RK3288
As Rockchip is ramping up the output of their new RK3288 processor, this is the official presentation video for the Rockchip RK3288 processor. Some of the advantages highlighted are 10-second boot time, Fast app loading, Multi-window UI, Fast Web browsing, up to 2560×1600 display, H265 4K playback, 4K HDMI2.0 at 60fps, Turstzone PlayReady HDCP Widevine DRM, Dolby audio, 13 Megapixel back camera and some of the Mali-T764 GPU features such as Transaction Elimination, Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression, ARM Frame Buffer Compression, Stereoscopic 3D Game Driver and the POP-Star Searching Entertainment Engine. You can read more about it at http://www.rock-chips.com/a/en/products/RK32_Series/2014/0504/484.html and you can watch all the RK3288 videos that I posted thus far at http://138.2.152.197/?s=RK3288
Rockchip RK3288 runs Android 5.0 Lollipop
Rockchip shows Android 5.0 Lollipop running on their RK3288 Quad core ARM Cortex-A17 with Mali-T764, here’s Rockchip’s press release about Android 5.0 on RK3288 (English version using Google translate). This may be an early test version of the new Android 5.0 on RK3288, I do not know how long it may take before Rockchip will be ready to update Lollipop to RK3288 devices on the market. I also expect that the work to update to Android 5 may be somewhat different on the Tablet and on the Set-top-box bringing real Android TV 5.0 to the RK3288 Android Set-top-box market!
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$149 RK3288 Chromebooks from Lenovo and Asus coming soon according to Digitimes
Potentially released as soon as next month by Lenovo, Digitimes reports that Lenovo and Asus are preparing to release $149 Chromebooks based on the Rockchip RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with Mali-T764. The rumored screen size is 11.6″ according to Digitimes.
To be seen if those include 2GB or 4GB RAM. I think 4GB RAM would be nice, even if that adds a few $ to BOM cost. Perhaps they can just let consumers choose to double RAM to 4GB if they just pay $10 or $20 more. I think it would also be nice if they also provide a larger $169 13.3″ skew. Both with 1366×768 matte displays would be good I think. At least one, or multiple SD card slots for storage, HDMI output, at least 2 USB3 would be nice.
It was here on ARMdevices.net on June 5th that I was the first post a video about the RK3288 Chromebook and back on April 13th about Chrome OS for RK3288 on the development board.
I think if the performance is smooth, if the keyboard/mousepad/display qualities are great, if the designs by Lenovo and Asus are classy “like a Macbook Air” and not purposefully cheap looking, the RK3288 Chromebooks may become more popular than RK3288 in Android Tablets, and Chrome OS on RK3288 Set-top-boxes may also be more popular than RK3288 Android Set-top-boxes. If priced right, and if mass produced at absolute maximum capacity by brands like Lenovo and Asus, I think this could potentially become one of the most popular laptops in the world, potentially overtaking Wintel laptops faster than anyone can imagine.
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$60 RK3288 Stick, $115 A80 Box, $63 S812 Box by Sunchip
Sunchip presents their latest Rockchip RK3288 HDMI Stick, Allwinner A80 Set-top-box, AmLogic S812 Set-top-box and more. Minimum orders are 500. Android 5.0 Lollipop and Chrome OS are going to be supported on most of these boxes too.
You can contact Sunchip here:
Shenzhen Sunchip Technology Co., Ltd
Kobe Chen, Sales Manager
kobe@sunchip-tech.com
Mobile: +86 13751103656
Phone: +86 755 26733959
Skype: Kobechen6132
QQ: 1191324838
http://www.sunchip-tech.com
Vido 7″, 8″, 9.7″ MT8382, 7″ FHD MT6592 and Vido M11Pro on RK3288
Vido M11Pro on RK3288 with iPad Air display with 9000mAh battery, Tablets on MediaTek and some of Vido’s Intel tablets that dual-boot Android and Windows 8.1.
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Pipo P1+ RK3288 thinner/lighter, 3D Tablet, 11.6″ Tablet, LTE, Phablets and more
Pipo shows their latest RK3288 tablets including the new Pipo P1+ with thinner lighter Retina iPad Air display and more compact form factor with 9,800mAh battery and MHL for 4K output and UltraStick for optional 3G/4G support. Pipo also shows their new 11.6″ FHD Tablet. Pipo also shows their new glasses free 3D Tablet with a quite amazing system that follows your eyes using the front facing camera to adjust the glasses free 3D effect to however far one person is looking at it when it’s displaying 3D content. They also have 4G LTE on 10.1″ MediaTek MT6592+MT6290 dual chip LTE. Pipo also shows some Marvell PXA1L88 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 LTE Phablets at 7″ and 6″ size. Then Pipo does Intel 7″, 8″, 8.9″ and 10.1″ running Windows 8.
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- The “Air” Version: Pipo P1+ Announced (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
$30 Realtek RTD1195 4K Set-top-box by Bluetimes, $50 RK3288 HDMI Stick (Mini Box) samples available
Shenzhen Bluetimes Technology Co Ltd presents their latest Set-top-boxes (contact below for samples) such as Realtek RTD1195 ($30-$60 depending on designs for samples), Rockchip RK3288 ($50 samples in HDMI Stick), AmLogic M802 ($79 on Bluetimes B2C websites (2)) and Allwinner A80 Set-top-boxes (samples to be available for $80 next month).
You can contact Bluetimes here to enquire about distribution and to buy samples of these (please only contact them if you are a serious potential distributor):
Selina Song, Sales Manager
Mobile: +86 15889676443
Phone: +86 755 27319033 ext: 8012
sales2@ebluetimes.com
skype: ebluetimes-sales2
http://ebluetimes.com
Chintek Kids Karaoke Tablet, 7.85″ at 6.5mm with RK3288
Chintek shows their Kids Karaoke Tablet, their 7.85″ 6.5mm thin RK3288 Tablet, their Smartwatch and more.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2014
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$129 Firefly RK3288 Development Board release
T-Chip launches the Firefly Development Board on RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with Mali-T764 runs Ubuntu and Android. Firefly-RK3288 provides some external expansion interface, including LCD interfaces and some other standard interfaces such as: Double MIPI, Double LVDS, ISP, EDP, PWM, SPI, UART, ADC , GPIO, I2C, I2S. Standard configuration is 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC with a high configuration version possible with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC. It has dual band Wi-Fi AC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Gigabit ethernet. In this video you can see the Ubuntu and Android demo on Firefly RK3288, and a tour of the T-Chip offices featuring their PCB Design engineers, Software engineers, sales staff and more.
The Firefly RK3288 is now available for $129 each (you can order 5/10/15/20/25 units at $129 each by sending an email to firefly@groupgadgets.com add $30/$33/$40/$45/$50 respectively for fast 3-5 day shipping to USA/Europe).
You can contact T-Chip here:
Candy Feng candy.feng@nagrace.com
West mqy@t-chip.com.cn
http://www.t-firefly.com/html/en/home/
teefirefly@gmail.com
weibo.com/teefirefly
twitter.com/TeeFirefly
facebook.com/TeeFirefly
Li Rui RK3288 Factory Tour
Li Rui is about to release a range of RK3288 Tablets at 7.85″, 10.1″ and 9.7″, now being lauched to distributors. In this video, Lirui is assembling their Rk3188 with 9.7″ Retina panel, they sold about 100K of that one, they also do 7.85″ and other. Li Rui has engineers optimizing the BOM cost, Tooling designs of the Rockchip based Tablets that they manufacture for several customers, some of them famous in the Shenzhen Tablet world.
You can contact Li Rui here:
Jason, Marketing Director
Shenzhen Li Rui Electronic Co., Ltd.
svencpw@gmail.com
sales@liruitech.com
http://liruitech.com/en/
Skype: Jasonw3390
Phone: +86 75523229903
Mobile: +86 13422896521
Pipo P8, 7.85″ Retina RK3288 with 3G ultra-stick
Pipo P8 is the first 7.85″ 2048*1536 Retina RK3288 Tablet with 3G/4G ultra-stick compartment, 8 megapixels back-camera now selling in China for $162 (999CNY) with 16GB and $179 (1099CNY) with 32GB.
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UyeSee RK3288 Android TV Box (you can buy $120 samples)
UyeSee shows their Rockchip RK3288 Android TV Box (which you can order 5/10/15/20 samples of, read further down), the most powerful MiniPC, 4K Media Player and Gaming Box on the market! With a Quad core ARM Cortex-A17(or A12) with a DMIPS of 28800, Mali-T764 Quad-core GPU, HDMI 2.0 with 4K@60fps, Android 4.4, HEVC UHS hardware decoding, Gigabit ethernet, 5.8Ghz WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. UyeSee also shows their ultra compact RK3288 PCB design and UyeSee is able to also design a RK3288 mini-pc design (if customer orders a minimum quantity) with VGA, series port, and a big capacitor stores your data when power is suddenly cut off. Audio in and audio out.
Samples (to be available for shipping by the end of September) can be purchased by sending an email to uyesee@groupgadgets.com in quantities of 5/10/15/20, to the price of $120 per unit you have to add the estimated 3-5-day shipping cost to Europe/USA: $50 for 5 units, $75 for 10 units, $100 for 15 units and $150 for 20 units.
Luckystar RK3288 Tablet shipping soon
Luckystar is about to mass produce their RK3288 Tablet, here showing their 7.85″ tablet prototype. Luckystar is a pretty big factory making millions of tablets, you can see my 40-minute Luckystar Tablet factory tour here.
You can contact Luckystar Aoson here:
Anson Yi
Mobile: +86 13510992428
Telephone: +86 755-83495999-657
ydxgps@luckystar.com.cn
http://luckystar.com.cn
http://szaoson.com
UyeSee RK3288 R&D Center PCB Design House Tour
UyeSee shows around their R&D development team with 25 engineers developing the hardware and software for Android based RK3288, MSTAR 9180 and other Set-top-box and HDMI Stick solutions, UyeSee has been working for 4 years with focused develpoment on the Android Platform for the Set-top-box.
UyeSee works on these product lines:
– Android TV Box (4K,H.265,HDMI2.0,HDMI IN,XBMC,Linux/Chrome OS on Box)
– Wireless Audio Streaming Products
– Wireless Video Streaming Products
You can also see my video with UyeSee detailing their Strategy and Roadmap.
You can contact UyeSee here:
inquiry@uyesee.com
Skype: nice__ryan
Mobile:+86 18688703923
http://www.uyesee.com
Unuiga RK3288 Smart 1080p DLP Projector
Unuiga announces that they will have an RK3288 based 1080p Android Smart Projector on the market, using DLP for projection, 2 HDMI inputs, one for 3D support and a lot of other connectors.
This Unuiga RK3288 Smart Projector is ready for development, interested distributors can just contact Unuiga for more details:
Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976
Unuiga RK3288 TV Box now shipping ($70 samples)
Unuiga releases their RK3288 Set-top-box now with samples available for $70 (minimum 5 pieces) read further down for instructions how to buy. It has Gigabit Lan, 5Ghz WiFi, HDMI 2.0 60fps H265 output, 4 USB Host ports, MicroSD card slot and more. RK3288 Quad ARM Cortex-A17, Mali-T764 GPU, 64bit DDR3 Memory.
Samples can be purchased (send email to unuiga@groupgadgets.com) in quantities of 5/10/15/20/25, to the $70 per unit you have to add the 3-5-day shipping cost to Europe/USA of: $55 for 5 units,, $80 for 10 units, $100 for 15 units, $120 for 20 units, $150 for 25 units.
UyeSee Set-top-box Roadmap: RK3288, Mstar 9180, HiSilicon 3798m
UyeSee is an A/V device maker, designing and manufacturing multimedia players, OTT boxes, WiFi Streaming Devices using RockChip, MSTAR and Hisilicon. In this video, Ryan from Uyesee describes their roadmap, including High End Android TV Boxes on RK3288, MSTAR9180 with Quad Core/4K/HEVC/HDMI input, Low End TV Box solutions using Hisilicon 3798m, featuring QuadCore A7 /4K/HEVC and also Low End in Mstar 9260 featuring QuadCore A7 /4K/HEVC also. Previously they made RK3188/RK3066 in boxes or HDMI Sticks. Uyesee also works in WiFi A/V Streaming with their SoundMate that does CD Quality wifi music streaming using FLAC and with MultiRoom streaming support.
You can contact UyeSee here:
inquiry@uyesee.com
Skype: nice__ryan
Mobile:+86 18688703923
http://www.uyesee.com
