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$82 13.3″ VIA 8850 Laptop (Macbook Air clone) and Allwinner A10S HDMI Stick by Wabook

Posted by Charbax – October 27, 2012
Category: Laptops, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, VIA, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Wabook shows their newest products, a 13.3″ Macbook Air clone running on the VIA 8850 ARM Cortex-A9 processor to be sold for $82 in bulk and one of the first $32 Allwinner A10S HDMI Sticks I’ve seen shown at a trade show, the A10S is the new customized A10 processor by Allwinner specifically optimized for HDMI Sticks, thus consuming less power and enabling further lowering of the cost.

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ArndaleBoard, $249 Exynos5250 ARM Cortex-A15 Mali-T604 development board launched

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Samsung, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu

The ArndaleBoard is the first ARM Cortex-A15 development board, featuring the Samsung Exynos5250 dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor on 32nm process with the quad-core Mali-T604 GPU.

ArndaleBoard ARM Cortex-A15 development board

World’s First Cortex-A15 Dual core
World’s Best 3D Performance with ARM Mali T-604 GPU
World’s first 12.8 Gbytes/sec Memory Bandwidth with 2-port 800MHz DDR3L
Ultimate WQXGA Display Solution with Low-Power eDP
1080p 60fps Video Performance and VP8 Decoder
USB 3.0 DRD Solution for Faster PC Sync UP and LTE

Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Arndale Board
CPU Board
Cortex-A15@1.7 GHz dual core subsystem with 64/128 bit SIMD NEON
32KB(instruction)/32KB(DATA)L1 Cache and 1MB l2 Cache
32-bit 800 MHz LPDDR3/LPDDR2 2GB
Base Board
Sensor
Accelerator : Invensence MPU-6050
Gyro : Invensence MPU-6050
e-Compass : AKM -AK8963C
ITU 601 camera Interface
HDMI 1.4 interfaces with on-chip PHY
One channel eDP output Single WQXGA
MIPI DSI Standard Specification V1.01r11
MIPI CSI Standard Specification V1.0 Two ports
USB3.0 Host or Device 1-channel that supports SS(5Gbps) with on-chip PHY
USB2.0 Host or Device 1-channel that supports LS/FS/HS with on-chip PHY
USB HSIC 2-channel that supports 480Mbps with on-chip PHY
SATA 1.0/2.0/3.0 interface
One channel eMMC 4.5
One channel SDIO 3.0
Two channel SD 2.0
Four channel high-speed UART
(up to 3Mbps data rate for Bluetooth 2.0 EDR and IrDA 1.0SIR)
Three channel high-speed SPI
Three channel 24-bit I2S audio interface
Four channel I2C interface support , up to 400kbps
Four channel HS-I2C up to 3.1Mps

Read more about it at: http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
found via: muktware.com

HiMedia Q5 Smart TV Box, advanced HiSilicon Android Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2012
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, China Sourcing Fair, Android

HiMedia makes some really cool set-top-boxes, until last year they were doing realtek mips based boxes that are quite popular in China and Hong Kong markets, now they are releasing ARM Powered Android set-top-boxes, here launching the HiMedia Q5 based on the HiSilicon Hi3716C ARM Cortex-A9 solution, it’s a single-core 1Ghz with full video codecs support. This box has an awesome range of features including a very impressive HiControl application, similar to wifi mirroring, it lets you use any Android device to remote control your Q5 set-top-box while seeing a real-time screengrab on your Android device while you remote control it. I’ll post a further video-review of this product during the next couple of days, check back.

Here are some of the specs:
– HiSilicon Hi3716C 1GHZ ARM Cortex A9 single-core (Set-top-box optimized SoC)
– 1GB DDR RAM
– 4GB Flash
– Android 4.0.3 ICS
– 33 second bootup time
– own launcher UI with virtual-mouse support on IR remote
– full video playback compatibility claimed (“even better than last year’s Realtek 1185-based media players”), including DTS-HDMA, Dolby TUREHD 7.1 Passthrough, BDMV, BDISO with BD-Lite Navigation menu, Samba, NFS, HLS/HTML5 for IPTV STB mode.
– HiControl App for Android by HiMedia, use any Android smartphone or/and tablet as Touch-screen for the set-top-box and as a Remote-controller. Thus mouse, remote control, and mirrorring-like support of full Android UI. Accelerometer can also be used for games that use it.
– Hishare App for Android by HiMedia, similar to DLNA (or actually using DLNA protocol), stream your pictures, video, audio from your Android phone or tablet to your Himedia Q5 set-top-box over WiFi.
– Apple Airplay compatible, for streaming pictures, video and audio from iPhone/iPad.

Find more informations and the official pictures at: http://www.himedia-tech.cn/product_show.php?id=37

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$2 Tablet cases at the Shenzhen Tablet Market

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2012
Category: Tablets, Other, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Android

They have lots of tablet cases on sale at cheap prices.

Business cards with contacts to these sellers are available for members here:

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Smartphones repair centers at the Huaqiangbei Smartphone market

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Other, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Android

Here are some of the smartphone repair booths that you can find backstage at the Huaqiangbei Shenzhen smartphone market.

Communication Technology shows new Core i7 compact desktop

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, China Sourcing Fair, Ubuntu, Windows

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$40 A13 7″, $137 MT6577 5.3″ at SECCW Shenzhen

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Rockchip, MediaTek, Android

Here’s a store selling tablets and phones at the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei market.

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MT6577 phones at Huaqiangbei Shenzhen market

Posted by Charbax – October 25, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, MediaTek, Android

Check out these cool looking Android phones based on the pretty powerful MediaTek MT6577 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor being sold on the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei market. Some look like Samsung Galaxy S3, other like the HTC One X, some have original sizes like a 6″ qHD device, you can also get a 7″ MT6575 Tablet for $122.

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Wandboard $69 Freescale i.MX6 realworld pictures are online

Posted by Charbax – October 25, 2012
Category: Development Boards, Freescale, Android

The $69 i.MX6 single-core, $89 i.MX6 dual-core wandboard Freescale i.MX6 single and dual-core development board is now being shown in some real world pictures, it should start shipping from the middle of November. Linux/angstrom on a 3.x kernel reportedly is running nicely. They are currently working on smoothening Android ICS support and also looking at JB to see what they can have for people to play with in early December.

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Source: http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/blog

Oregon Scientific Bluetooth Smart Watch at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 25, 2012
Category: Wearables, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, Members Content, HKTDC Electronics Fair

Oregon Scientific shows their newest Bluetooth wrist watch that connects to Android, iPhones, iPads over bluetooth to send and receive information, this one sounds optimized for sports, fitness and play applications. This video was filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair.

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$271 Zopo ZP900 5.3″ qHD IPS MT6577, $271 Zopo ZP300+ 4.5″ 1280×720 MT6577

Posted by Charbax – October 25, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, MediaTek, Android

6 months ago, I bought the $174 Zopo ZP100, at that time one of the first MT6575 single-core ARM Cortex-A9 phone on the market. Since then, it got updated to Android 4.0 ICS, here are some of Zopo’s latest MT6577 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 phones now being sold on the Chinese market and worldwide wherever Zopo gets exported.

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Innoio Innocube pico projector at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 25, 2012
Category: Projectors, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Texas Instruments, HKTDC Electronics Fair

Check out this cubic pico projector, the Innocube from Innoio.

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$49 RK2928 7″, $95 RK3066 8″ and other tablets by Firstview

Posted by Charbax – October 25, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

I show around some of the latest tablets by Firstview.

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$78 RK3066 7″, $135 RK3066 9.7″ and more tablets by Chitech

Posted by Charbax – October 24, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, Freescale, China Sourcing Fair, Android

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$74 7″ 1024×600 and other tablets by MUZ at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 24, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

This video was filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair.

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Z and J Auspicious tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 24, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

This video was filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair.

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Thomson Digital Technology Co Ltd shows tablets

Posted by Charbax – October 24, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

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Become a $20/year Member of ARMdevices.net

Posted by Charbax – October 21, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Projectors, Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Factory Tours, Gaming, Robots, Exclusive videos, Android, Chrome OS, Google TV, Ubuntu

You can now become a Member of ARMdevices.net for $20/year.

For that you get:

1. Pictures/scans of business cards to all the companies that I video interview at trade shows around the world.

2. Buy some of the best value ARM Powered devices that I find, when I can get the manufacturer to agree to sell them at a good price directly to members. Consider those sample sales, but you can buy many also, and contact the manufacturer directly if you’d like to import a larger quantity. I expect to be able to provide members with some of the worlds most interesting ARM Powered tablets, laptops, HDMI Sticks, Set-top-boxes, E-readers, game players, development boards, robots, and more. Check for a status on available devices in the Members Store.

Thanks for supporting my work.

Read more about why you should become a Member of ARMdevices.net here.

How I think that the ARM Powered Chromebook is a big deal for the industry

Posted by Charbax – October 21, 2012
Category: Laptops, Opinions, Samsung, Chrome OS

I’ve been talking about ARM Powered Chrome OS for years now here on this blog (2, 3, 4, 5, 6). So you can imagine how happy I was to hear that Google and Samsung are launching the ARM Cortex-A15 Exynos5250 Powered Chromebook now today on Monday for $249!!! Here are some of the points that I think one can consider for how the ARM Powered Chromebook is a very big deal for the industry:

1. Chrome on ARM gets optimized, to use full hardware acceleration. It’s important to have a web browsing experience on ARM in a 720p, 768p, 1080p resolution that be satisfactory to most users.

2. Chrome OS on ARM gets open sourced, means here’s an OS to run on all ARM SoCs, this means that the $89 13.3″ and $75 10.1″ ARM Cortex-A9 Powered laptops, even single-core using VIA WM8850 for example, can soon ship with Chromium OS pre-installed.

3. Full Chrome on Android, with all plugins (including Flash, Java, etc), extensions, full tabs support, user interface for mouse and keyboard. This means a merger of Chrome OS and Android. The Chrome experience on Android should be as good as on a pure Chrome OS device. You can even have resume and boot-to-Chrome as a choice on Android, if you are using a device where you just want to use Chrome and that you may not care much about the rest of Android.

4. Gives a new purpose to ARM Powered Laptops, HDMI Sticks, Set-top-boxes and more. You can get a sub-$100 HDMI Stick to use as a Chromebox on your HDTV or PC Monitor. If you’d like to use the HDMI stick in Entertainment mode, it should be able to switch to Google TV mode.

5. Chromebooks are now sub-$250. This makes them very attractive to a majority of new Laptop buyers worldwide. I think that Chrome OS is going to dominate as the main OS for laptops and desktops worldwide. Though for that to easily happen, 13.3″ ARM Cortex-A15 Chromebooks need to be sold for well below $200, the 11.6″ ones should be sold towards below $150.

6. Combine the ARM Powered Chromebook with an 11.6″ or 13.3″ Pixel Qi screen, also wait for eventual full hardware optimizations to be automatically added to Chrome OS on ARM to take advantage of the Mali-T604 GPU and much else deep level ARM Cortex-A15 optimizations and you could have a battery life on your super thin ARM Powered Chromebook above 20 hours. This is game-changing for a super thin laptop.

7. Chrome OS forces App Developers to think Web First. That means better quality web apps. Expect high-quality online video-editing, photo-editing, word processing, FTP, programming and even gaming to work awesomely on the Web pretty quickly. That means web apps with full offline support, full cached acceleration for instant web app load times regardless of connection speed, Web GL for full GPU advanced 3D gaming including streaming of game info, remote 3D rendering and streaming of the highest quality 3D games, once all app developers think first about how to use the web to improve their apps, that brings the worlds best apps to everyone.

8. Upgrading the PC/Laptop is redefined. Consumers won’t need to think about upgrading their PC/Laptop, unless they find one with a nicer design and style, with a different screen size or screen type which they may prefer. Upgrading a PC/Laptop for faster performance is going to be less and less of a reason for people to upgrade their computer. The most important specification is going to be battery life and screen technology. That is, if one can expect all web apps to load instantly on the ARM Powered Laptop, with unlimited simultaneous tabs opened smoothly at the same time, which is something we can expect on this ARM Cortex-A15 Chromebook.

9. You may think that this ARM Chromebook may not have yet an optimal performance. Consider that the web browser is perhaps one of the most advanced and complicated application on a PC/Laptop. Chrome on x86 is 50x faster than Internet Explorer was on x86 just 3 years ago. ARM Cortex-A15 is all new, so is Chrome on ARM, expect tons of optimizations to be beamed over the next weeks and months to come, as Google, Samsung and open source Chrome project engineers fully optimize the software on ARM.

10. You may think that the quoted 6.5 hours battery life on this initial ARM Chromebook may not sound like a whole lot. Consider that the power consumption governors may be cranked up to the maximum power consumption by Google and Samsung to prevent any slowdowns before Chrome for ARM gets optimized. As ARM optimizations are fully integrated in Chrome OS on ARM, you can perhaps expect this ARM Chromebook to magically suddenly be able to last more than 10 hours on the same thin and light battery.

Let me know in the comments if you have any other informations about how optimized Google and Samsung have made Chrome OS on ARM yet, if Google has announced much more about their plans to open source Chrome OS on ARM, if it’s already open source, what you think we can expect for Chrome OS on lower power cheaper ARM SoCs such as RK3066, VIA 8850, Allwinner A10 and other processors that can be used in making much cheaper ARM Powered Chromebooks. Write also in the comments how many ARM Chromebooks you plan to buy, you are welcome to use my amazon link!

Factory Tour: Allwinner A10 PCB SMT line at the Jia Chuang Bo factory

Posted by Charbax – October 21, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Android

This video shows how the Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 PCBs are being finalized, fixed, checked before they are inserted in the $61 9″ and the $152 9.7″ 3G Android tablets on the floor above.

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