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Highlights of 2011 on ARMdevices.net

Posted by Charbax – December 31, 2011
Category: 4K UHD, Energy Harvesting, Top Video Lists, Geniatech

I posted 573 videos from 15 tradeshows, with 7.1 Million views on my YouTube channel (doubling my total view count to 14.7 Million), thank you for your 7159 comments, 7397 Likes, thank you for reading my blog, watching my videos, commenting, rating, sending news tips and sharing! Thanks to my 4520 followers on Google+! Since August, I post most of my tech opinions on my Google+. Here are some of my Highlights in ARM Powered devices that I blogged on ARMdevices.net in 2011:

January
Microsoft announces and shows Windows 8 on ARM
All-in-one Motorola Atrix 4G launched
Nvidia announces Project Denver (I think it may be their ARM Cortex-A15 project)
OLPC shows ARM Powered XO-1.75 Laptop
Google confirms ARM Powered Google TV
Pixel Qi shows 7″ and announces 9.7″ and 10.1″ 1280×800
Seco shows pico projector in a lamp concept
view top-20 CES 2011 videos
February
CERN accelerates to 3.5TeV to find Higgs Boson (7TeV in 2014)
Archos has 22% of the tablet market share in France
Samsung Galaxy S2 is launched
Mediatek powers $80 Android smartphones
LG launches first OMAP4430 phone
Google has a giant Booth and dominates at MWC
My interview with Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich designer Mathias Duarte
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 launched
TI talks OMAP5 ARM Cortex-A15
MHL is the new standard for HDMI output through the MicroUSB connector
I ask RIM when Playbook is to get Android apps support
ST Ericsson A9500 ARM Cortex-A9 development kit launched
Nvidia shows quad-core Tegra3
ST Ericsson ST6715 powers sub-$100 Android smartphones
Sony Ericsson Liveview is the first wearable Android wrist watch
view my top MWC videos
Arnova 8 launched
Arnova 10 launched
Asus Transformer Honeycomb laptop launched
March
Nintendo 3DS launched, first mass produced non-glasses 3D portable screen
Shenzhen Ider Sub-$60 Android Set-top-box launched
Zinwell shows $70 Android set-top-box
HTC Flyer with stylus launched
Beagleboard xM launched
TI DaVinci DM816x and DM814x can do 4K2K video playback
Hard Kernel Samsung Exynos 4210 tablet development kit launched
Trim Slice Tegra2 desktop launched
QNX talks about the Blackberry Playbook software
Seco ARM/x86 cross platform modules
Toradex shows Tegra2 on SO-DIMM form factor
My interview with ThePirateBay founder Peter Sunde
I’m interviewed on German Radio DRadio Wissen about my video-blogging
view top-15 CeBIT 2011 videos
view top-6 Embedded World videos
First Archos G9 rumors leak
April
Larry Page starts as Google CEO
Archos at the Shenzhen electronics fair
My review of the $95 Kinstone ARM Cortex-A9 Android tablet
My review of the $87 3.5″ capacitive Android Smartphone FG8, which I still use as my main smartphone today and it works great
Behind the scenes at a little Shenzhen Tablet/Laptop factory
Geniatech talks ARM Cortex-A9 Set-top-box
Karasnn talks cheap Mediatek Android Smartphones
My review of the $120 Android 3.5″ capacitive iphone4-clone H2000
Archos 7c Home Tablet, Rk2918 capacitive shown at Archos Shenzhen headquarters
Hello Kitty booth in Hong Kong
Arnova 10 G2 first demonstrated
AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 set-top-box tested
Ramos ARM Cortex-A9 capacitive tablets booth tour
Rockchip RK2918 in a potentially sub-$50 Android Set-top-box
$125 ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core NEC/Renesas powered capacitive tablet by Livall.cn
Honeycomb keyrings at Rockchip RK2918 booth
My Android Tablet review in the Qatari Desert 2, 3
Archos dominates Hong Kong Android tablet sales
Walking around at the huge Shenzhen Smartphones market, where the worlds cheapest Android smartphones can be found
view top videos filmed at 3 Shenzhen and Hong Kong fairs in April 2011
May
The Chrome OS Team Answers some of my ARM Powered Chromebook questions at Google I/O
Solar Impulse does first solar-powered international flight from Switzerland to Belgium
Google Wallet launched
Samsung Origen Exynos 4210 development kit launched
Pixel Qi shows 10.1″ 1280×800 screen
HD videoconferencing shown on TI OMAP4430
TI talks OMAP4 memory bandwidth
June
ZiiLabs ZMS-20 Dual-core tablet reference designs shown
Android for point-of-sale systems
Cupp computing turns any x86 laptop into an ARM Powered Laptop
Pixel Qi can be solar powered
Shizhu shows Pixel Qi tablets
Walking with Monkeys in the Taiwanese jungle
Qualcomm Dragonboard MSM8260/MSM8660 development board launched
Microsoft shows Metro UI for Windows 8 tablets
view top-20 Computex 2011 videos
My first time flying on the Airbus A380 airplane
iWave Freescale i.MX51/53/27 based PCB designs
Genesi talks ARM hardfloat hardware acceleration
Freescale launches i.MX6 Quad-core processor in tablet reference design
Genesi launches new cheaper i.MX53 based ARM Powered Laptop platform
History and status of Freescale’s Microcontrolers
Freescale i.MX53 development kit
Boundary Devices 12″ i.MX53 Android tablet launched
Linaro status in June 2011
July
My first video of the Archos G9 tablets
August
Google buys Motorola (still processing through worldwide Government regulators needing to accept it)
September
Lenovo A1 7″ Android tablet launched
Toshiba shows awesome 55″ Quad-HD 4K2K screens, I want them to sell it below $1999 now!
Galaxy Note 5.3″ Super AMOLED HD Android smartphone launched, 2, 3
Galaxy Tab 7.7 shown with large Super AMOLED screen, has yet to be released, my guess the screen is too hard/expensive to manufacture for now and they may redesign to fit jacket pockets.
E Ink for credit cards shown
Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE shown, with 4.5″ Super AMOLED Plus screen
Sharp shows 8K4K 85″ HDTV, worlds best TV
My interview with E Ink about the latest news and developments at E Ink
Sony Android tablets P and S launched
Sony PRS-T1 Android E Ink e-reader with infrared dual-touch touchscreen launched
JVC GC-PX10 camcorder launched, has since become my new 1080p camcorder, the JVC Falconbrid processor can maybe soon record 4K2K video at prosumer-prices
Samsung Galaxy Y launched, cheapest Samsung Android phone yet, also see W, Y Pro
Samsung Super Clear LCD compared with Super AMOLED Plus
Huawei Mediapad 7″ 1280×800 Honeycomb Qualcomm MSM8260 tablet launched
3M invests in Pixel Qi
Arnova 10 G2 sold for $99 with newspaper subscription
My review of the sub-$100 N5Zero 5″ capacitive Rk2918 Android tablet
October
Sharp, Toshiba and Sony launch 4K2K Quad-HD TVs and Projectors, mass produce them and sell them below $2000 now, thank you!
Texas Instruments OMAP4460 selected as Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich reference platform for Galaxy Nexus ICS launch
OLPC Summit in San Francisco discuss latest OLPC news in October 2011
Raspberry Pi $25 ARM Powered Desktop launched
I’m Watch Android wrist watch launched
Ubuntu on ARM status in October 2011
Marvell PXA2128 “Tri-Core” tablet reference design launched
Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core Tablet reference design performance demonstrated
ARM Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE announced
ARM Mali Graphics status in October 2011
ARM Cortex-A15 prototype demonstrated
My interview with ARM Inc (USA) President Simon Segars
My interview with ARM CTO Mike Muller at the launch of the ARMv8 64bit architecture, after his keynote
My hands-on with the ARM Powered OLPC XO-1.75
MHL shows the latest HDMI Android features, your smartphone becomes your desktop, your home console and your Set-top-box
November
ARMv8 Technology Preview, a highly technical presentation video
Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Powered server launched with HP Project Moonshot, to disrupt the server market
AppliedMicro X-Gene ARMv8 64bit Server processor demonstrated running on FPGA, a bit more than a year before it’s ready
Mali T-658 announced, PS3 quality graphics in your pocket
My head-mounted augmented video-blogging system demonstrated and explained, 2
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code is released, soon smoothly working on every ARM Processor, OMAP4430, ST-Ericsson A9500, Tegra3, Rockchip, ZiiLAbs ZMS-20 more coming..
Samsung announced Exynos 5250 ARM Cortex-A15
December
Archos Home Connect launched, probably best home radio alarm clock
Archos Smart Home Phone, probably best home DECT phone
Ice Cream Sandwich previewed on the Archos 101 G9 Tablet
My first video of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Test driving the Renault Twizy electric car
Archos 101 G9 1.5Ghz OMAP4460 Turbo launched, performance possibly around Tegra3 and priced $200 cheaper
Google Analytics launching social media analytics tools
My interview with Yves Behar, probably the top consumer electronics designer in the world
My interview with MG Siegler, the most influential Apple fanboy number 1
My interview with Gabe Rivera, Techmeme.com CEO, most influential tech news aggregator
I was interviewed for 10 minutes on Twit by Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane!, showcasing my head-mounted augmented video-blogging system and voicing some of my tech opinions

Thanks for watching my videos of 2011, Happy New Year!

Geniatech shows Ice Cream Sandwich Set-top-box preview

Posted by Charbax – December 31, 2011
Category: Set-top-boxes, AmLogic, Geniatech, Google TV

Geniatech sent me this video demonstrating a preview version of Ice Cream Sandwich running on one of their Set-top-boxes. The processor is not yet confirmed, I don’t know if it is ICS running on the single-core AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 AML8726-M which I filmed Genitech a few months ago demonstrating here and here. I think ICS is the version of Android to merge (passthrough or non-passthrough) Google TV features over onto ARM Powered devices with HDMI outputs, ICS set-top-box developments are to be confirmed at CES next week.

Read more about the Geniatech ARM Cortex-A9 set-top-box platform at: geniatech.com

Engadget.com text-interviews ARM co-founder John Biggs

Posted by Charbax – December 20, 2011
Category: ARM

Acorn needed more CPU power in its machines. 8-bit was no longer enough, so it was looking at 16-bit. Initially, we asked Intel for samples of their 80286 processor, but they refused. That’s funny, because ARM is now perceived as a competitive threat to Intel, and you can trace that all the way back to the seminal moment when they refused to give us those samples. We somewhat arrogantly thought ‘we can do this ourselves’ and we decided to build our own 32-bit silicon. If Intel had been more generous, Acorn might have built its Archimedes computer around the 80286 processor — it would have changed the whole landscape.

Read the whole interview at: http://engadget.com/2011/12/20/the-engadget-interview-arm-co-founder-john-biggs/

ARM Powered Server Calxeda EnergyCore launch video

Posted by Charbax – December 18, 2011
Category: Servers

Calxeda released the full keynote video presentation from the launch of the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Powered Server, in combination with the HP Project Moonshot announcement. This is about ARM taking over the $50 Billion/year server market.


Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

My Top-10 LeWeb 2011 videos

Posted by Charbax – December 17, 2011
Category: Top Video Lists, LeWeb

I filmed 43 videos at LeWeb 2011 last week in Paris! (all filmed using my new JVC GC-PX10 camcorder at 36mbitps 1080p50 with the JVC MZ-V8/MZ-V10 external microphone) Here’s my selection of my top-10 best videos filmed there:

1. I was on Twit!, I was interviewed by Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane featuring the ARM Powered devices that I use for augmented video-blogging.

2. Techmeme.com CEO Gabe Rivera interview, he runs one of the most influential tech news aggregators, I asked him if he thinks that his algorithms and editors choose too many pro-Apple stories or not.

3. Google social media Analytics interview, Google launched the beta of a tool to measure the value of social media.

4. Yves Behar interview, he’s probably one of the top consumer electronics designers in the world, he designed the OLPC laptop and upcoming OLPC tablet.

5. Google Display Advertising interview, an interview with Google’s Thomas Serval, Media and Platforms Director for SEEMEA.

6. MG Siegler interview, I only had 2 minutes to ask him a few questions, I tried to ask him a few things about Google vs Apple. MG Siegler is probably one of the top most influential Apple fanboys on the web.

7. StartupBus.com interview, an interesting project to get developers to do more startups faster

8. Windows Phone 7.5 interview, an overview of some of the latest Windows Phone devices and some of the latest news in Windows Phone land.

9. Test driving the Renault Twizy, this is a cool new 7000€ compact electric car.

10. Bill Gross interview, founder and CEO of http://idealab.com he invests in many startups and web companies, here’s his opinion on Google+, Facebook, Twitter and more.

Loic Lemeur at the end of LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Loic Lemeur and his wife Geraldine Lemeur are the organizers of LeWeb.

twanx.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

http://twanx.com tries to aggregate gratitude on the social web.

beintoo.com, winner of the startup competition at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

http://beintoo.com is a platform for mobile developers to integrate game mechanics inside of their existing applications, which can be sponsored by advertisers. You can see their presentation at http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkX4Et1vOQY

MediaHeroes.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

http://mediaheroes.com helps you write an article in less than 10 minutes.

Babelverse.com, third place startup winner at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Application for real-time voice translation, known as interpretation, available today for conferences, and in the future for anybody who need interpreteur in the market. They use a community of people that can be anywhere in the world remotely. You can see their presentation at the LeWeb 2011 Startup Competition where they won third place: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nhNhNqN5e7o

Guiavulevu.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Online community for women in South America, with city guides in Buenos Aires Argentina, Santiago Chile, Lima Peru, Bogota and Medellin Colombia.

uCoz.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

They provide a free website builder. Based in Ukraine and Russia.

Augmented-Magic.com by Moulla at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

He was showing some pretty awesome magic tricks at LeWeb, using the Kinect, 3D graphics from 3Dvia and real elements, you can find more videos featuring his magic on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fyUj1NKyw

digitalarti.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 16, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

They bring digital art to events, companies, find out more at http://digitalarti.com

i-think-it.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 14, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

One of their projects is a delivery system for fast food restaurants online.

Talkoclock.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 14, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

http://talkoclock.com is a way to make new friends from all over the world, just one phone call away.

Currioos.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 14, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Currioos is a social network dedicated to digital artists, graphic designers, illustrators, artists can showcase their work. Each month they print a selection of the artworks in a limited edition that gets sold at 50 euro or up to 200 euro per high quality poster-sized prints.

Aramex Teleportation Technology at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 13, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Online shoppers buying stuff in the middle-east sometimes need to be able to ship their purchases to a European or US address and Aramex provides a service that forwards those shipments to the middle-east.

Questli.com at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 13, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Last year I filmed Danil Kozyatnikov at LeWeb 2010 about his story about how Loic Lemeur had invited him from Siberia to be at LeWeb 2010, since then he raised half a million dollars for his startup. Here is a video about the status of Questli.com

Oleapark at LeWeb 2011

Posted by Charbax – December 13, 2011
Category: Web, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

A mobile application to replace the badge at conferences, letting conference users interact with people nearby, exchange contacts and more at a conference.