Kopin Corporation shows their latest wearable computing microdisplay, the Pupil display module, it’s tiny and can be integrated directly into the top frame of Glasses, no need to add a layer in front of the glasses like Google Glass anymore. Pupil see-through optics, with its height smaller than the pupil of the human eye, allows see-through and see-around without obstructing the outside view. Kopin’s microdisplays with the Pupil optics provide the most compact Smartglass microdisplay modules that can show vivid and bright images, even under full sunlight.
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Nokia X Android Developer Conference, operator billing in 60 countries with over 161 operators
Posted by – April 11, 2014
Heres’ a thousand Android developers at the Nokia X Android Developer conference, Nokia providing quick tools to port all Android apps over to using the Nokia Services for Maps, Notifications and Payments, with Nokia supporting payment in emerging markets through operator billing, available in 60 countries with over 161 operators. Most people in these markets don’t have credit cards, making it the only method of payment.
Nokia X Android Store, Nokia services replace Google Maps, Notifications and In-app Payments
Posted by – April 10, 2014
All Android app developers are invited by Nokia to change a few things (swaping Google services with Nokia services) to submit all Android apps in the Nokia Android App Store. For now Nokia is avoiding to try to support the Google Mobile Services (GMS), and instead requires that all Android apps be ported to Nokia’s Services for Location using Nokia Here Maps instead of Google Maps, for Notifications also going through Nokia Notifications system instead of the Google Notifications system and then for in-app payments Nokia has its own non-Google payment system that app developers are required to use if they want their apps to work on Nokia X Android Store.
UMi X3, Shenzhen Headquarters Tour
Posted by – April 10, 2014
UMi’s sales office in Shenzhen China and an overview of the new UMi X3 MT6592 5.5″ FHD with a special dual Micro/Nano SIM card slot. You can buy it for $269 at antelife.com
ZXS Cheaptabletfactory.com Tour: 5 Tablets Giveaway!
Posted by – April 8, 2014
ZXS http://cheaptabletfactory.com shows around their world’s cheapest Android Tablet factory again, they’re delivering the $31.5 Allwinner A23 based Tablets using 7″ WVGA displays, this is about the cheapest dual core tablet in the world. With this video, Robert Wong the Overseas Sales Manager from ZXS is doing a new promotion, ZXS sells 5 samples of their world’s cheapest 7″ Android tablet for $235 including fast DHL/Fedex 3-5 day shipping to Europe and to the USA.
One lucky winner will receive 5 tablet samples sent to him or her for free. To win you have to:
1. Subscriber to their YouTube channel http://youtube.com/cheaptabletfactory
2. Circle their Google+ page https://google.com/+cheaptabletfactorycom
ZXS will draw one random lucky winner by around May 15th among their YouTube subscribers and Google+ followers (to win you have to both subscribe on their YouTube and follow their Google+ page), if they receive more than 1000 new subscribers and followers, they will pick a second lucky winner. The winner receives 5 Allwinner A23 tablets from ZXS in one fast 3-5 day shipping using DHL to anywhere in the world of a value of $235 (when shipped to Europe/USA, if you don’t live in Europe/USA and if fast shipping to your country costs much more than shipping Europe/USA, you may not be eligible).
You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:
1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
$31.50 Allwinner A23 tablet from ZXS
Posted by – April 8, 2014
http://cheaptabletfactory.com presents their $31.50 Allwinner A23 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 tablet. The price of Allwinner A23 is only $0.50 more than the older A13. ZXS can provide 12 colors and the back-case can be customized to any print designs, the MOQ is 1K. The maximum battery capacity is 3000mAh. ZXS can provide 5-samples at USD$235.00 including fast 3-5 day shipping to USA/Europe you can contact them at sales@cheaptabletfactory.com if you’re interested.
You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:
1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
7″ MT6572 3G for $53 from ZXS
Posted by – April 8, 2014
http://cheaptabletfactory.com presents their 3G enabled tablet on the MediaTek MT6572 with bluetooth/GPS and Analog TV built-in in many different colors. ZXS can sell 5 samples for USD$338.00 with fast 3-5 day DHL shipping to USA/Europe (enquire to them for details at sales@cheaptabletfactory.com if you are interested)
You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:
1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
9″ Tablet for $43.5 from cheaptabletfactory.com
http://cheaptabletfactory.com Shenzhen ZXS sells the 9″ WVGA tablet for $43.5 with Allwinner A13, Actions ATM7021 costs $1.50 extra, $2 more for Allwinner A23 and it costs $2.50 more for a 1024×600 resolution display. http://cheaptabletfactory.com sells 5 samples for $319 for the A23 with 1024×600 display ($48 per tablet + $79 fast 3-5 day DHL shipping to Europe/USA).
You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:
1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/
Arndale Octa Board, Samsung Exynos 5420 Octa-core development board
Posted by – April 5, 2014
Linaro engineers unbox and talk about the Arndale Octa Board loaded with Android enabling engineers to work with the ARM big.LITTLE platform from Samsung. You can buy the Arndale Octa Board for $179 at http://www.pyrustek.com/us/
$199€ Archos 50c Oxygen, Octa-core MT6592 5″ FHD
Posted by – April 5, 2014
Archos 50c Oxygen is an octa-core MT6592 5″ FHD phone.
HKC sells 2.2 Million Tablets per year
HKC shows their tablets, they’re selling 2.2 Million tablets per year at the moment, through stores like Walmart in the USA.
Finwe and vrAse show how the Smartphone-in-your-face powers the mass market virtual reality media of the future, it works!
Posted by – April 4, 2014
I discovered the awesomeness that are Finwe and vrAse which quite simply made me understand the whole VR segment for the first time. The idea that we will simply use our Smartphones and Tablets to power really advanced mass market heads-up augmented reality applications, this is awesome. There isn’t need for Facebook’s $2 Billion Oculus VR.
So you have been seeing all the news about Finwe and vrAse right here on ARMdevices.net consider that websites TheVerge, CNET and co don’t even know yet that this awesomeness exists.
Snapwatch flexible Smartwatch snaps around your wrist
Posted by – April 2, 2014
Snapwatch shows their latest prototype/mockup flexible Snapwatch SmartWatch, will have bi-stable E Ink or other type of display, Bluetooth, thermal, solar, sensors and more.
ARM Set-top-box industry overview by Informa analyst
Posted by – March 31, 2014
ARM overtakes MIPS in the Set-top-box market as most of the Set-top-box SoC makers are showing ARM solutions, it’s about the ecosystem, about the platform, Android, Google TV, RDK, Wyplay, all of these user interfaces are being optimized for ARM, bringing cheaper and better more advanced and more powerful devices all at the same time. The TV market is bigger than the Web, as people still spend a lot more time watching TV than browsing the web in average. And the new features enabled by ARM, Android and other platforms, enable a lot more video-on-demand and other forms of interactivity on the TV.
Entropic EN7310 ARM SoC for Set-top-box with HEVC and MoCA 2.0
Posted by – March 30, 2014
Entropic shows their latest EN7310 ARM Cortex-A9 SoC with IP-STB and HDMI Stick features, integrated multi-tuner dual DVB-S/S2 cable reception, advanced security and DRM, HEVC decode and transcoding with Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) 2.0 home networking.
Entropic is a fabless semiconductor company recognized for inventing the MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) home networking technology, creating Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Outdoor Unit (ODU) single-wire technology, and developing the industry’s first ARM processor and OpenGL graphics Set-top box (STB), System-on-a-Chip (SoC).
This video also features Eagle Kingdom Technologies (EKT) who launches DCP5205 world`s first Entropic powered hybrid PowerPlug Set-top-box combining the functionality of a Set-top-box into a plug socket, thus eliminating the need for a separate power adapter commonly required in today’s hybrid STBs.
Sigma Designs SMP8756 ARM for Android Set-top-boxes
Posted by – March 30, 2014
Sigma Designs, a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, control, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, launches its new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)-capable SMP8750 family ARM Processors for Set-top-boxes. Combining the HEVC compression standard with a high performance ARM Cortex A9, ARM Mali-400 GPU, the SMP8756 enables Sigma Designs to offer more performance, a better user experience and full video quality for the Set-top-box market.
Sigma SMP8756 features HEVC’s Main-10 profile allowing processing of up to 10 bit color samples accepted as the standard for 4Kx2K, OTT (over the top) and IPTV content. The SMP8750 family will support FHD and 4K resolutions. The new SMP8750 family offers SoCs at multiple cost and performance combinations allowing each SoC to offer optimal performance to price ratio for multiple STB platforms from zappers, PVR capable, Hybrid-broadcast and IPTV STBs.
The SMP8750 family migrates robust STB SoC components like broadcast TS processing, OTP and security infrastructure paired with an ARM A9 CPU and Mali GPU. The single-core ARM A9 CPU and 3000 DMIPS of application processing along with a Mali GPU combine to provide a dramatic performance profile for new 3D user interfaces, over-the-top and casual gaming applications. Incorporating Sigma’s industry-proven technologies such as secure media processing, multi-format Full-HD video decoding, VXP display processing, and field-proven AV software core, the SMP8756 is able to provide premium quality video experience. A software SDK is available for either Linux or Android platform development. Future certification of CAS technologies like Verimatrix and Nagravision are planned.
The chipset also demonstrates ecosystem compatibility, leveraging the widely supported ARM processing core, OpenGL ES, HTML-5 and others to ensure that a broad range of existing applications will run including a wide range of hardware and software extensions to support the system solutions; including global tuner/demodulator standards, wired and wireless network controllers, DTV middleware stacks and IPTV middleware ports, such as Wyplay and OpenTV.
The SMP8756 comes with a full Software Suite, including libraries and services packaged under both Linux and Android development kits for rapid development. It incorporates managed power consumption, developed for both US and European regulatory compliance and is developed to a minimal R-BOM to allow smaller footprint and lower cost implementations.
STMicroelectronics Set-top-box ARM Processors: STiH312 Cannes and STiH412 Monaco
Posted by – March 30, 2014
ST’s latest ARM Powered System-on-Chips supporting Android, Google TV (now Android TV), rdk, ST presents their STiH312 client-box and STiH412 server-box product families, codenamed ‘Cannes’ and ‘Monaco,’ respectively, they integrate Faroudja technology to decode and display video up to Ultra HD 4K (2160p) and the next-generation H.265 / HEVC video compression. Even supporting video transcoding (for local and remote streaming from the Set-top-box to Tablets, Smartphones, etc) STMicroelectronics presents their Dual core ARM Cortex-A9 (on 28nm process) with quad-core Mali-400 GPU does Quad-HD Ultra HD 4K HEVC video decoding, combined with Faroudja video processing technology (decoding on Cannes, decoding and transcoding on Monaco), advanced security supporting concurrent conditional access and DRM, wide connectivity, including USB 3.0, PCI-e, SATA and Gigabit Ethernet, Dedicated interfaces to a range of companion front-end solutions, including MoCA 2.0, DOCSIS 3.0, satellite and 802.11ac WiFi and more.
Zopo Headquarters Shenzhen R&D Tour
Posted by – March 29, 2014
Tour at the Zopo headquarters in Shenzhen China, where the Zopo R&D team are putting final touches to the design of the upcoming Zopo ZP1000 ultra-thin and impressive 7.2mm Octa Core MediaTek MT6592 phone.
Shenzhen ZOPO Communications-equipment Co Ltd was founded in 2012 engaging in R&D, production, marketing and service of MediaTek based smartphones. I filmed my first video with Zopo Mobile at its founding when they launched the Zopo ZP100 (2). ZOPO ZP200 was “China’s first Glasses-Free 3D dual sim smartphone”. ZOPO was the first company to manufacture and deliver a Linux Sailfish OS smartphone to the Indian market. Zopo sells a lot of phones to China, Germany, Benelux, Netherlands and a lot of other European countries.
Zopo ZP990+, 6″ FHD, MT6592 Octa Core
Posted by – March 28, 2014
Selling for $321 on the Chinese market.
Zopo ZP980+, 5″ FHD, MT6592 Octa Core
Posted by – March 28, 2014
Selling for $241 on the Chinese market.
