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ARM Dual-core Web browsing performance compared to Single-core
Posted by – February 20, 2011
ARM is demonstrating Dual-core usage and how it increases web browsing speed at same power consumption.
AnyData ASP320-Q, $99 Android phone
Posted by – February 20, 2011
This may be the worlds cheapest Android phone, it may be sold for below $99 unlocked to end consumers without any need for contracts, it has a 3.2″ WQVGA capacitive touch screen, dual-sim support (EDGE, not 3G), runs on the MediaTek MT6516 ARM9 SoC platform. AnyData is targetting this device to the Indian and Chinese markets first, the rest of the world is also about to get access to these cheaper Android phones.
Huawei S7 Slim and Huawei S7 Pro Android Tablets
Posted by – February 20, 2011
After the Huawei S7 released last year (check my top viewed video from last year), Huawei is upgrading their 7″ Android tablet with a slimmer design in the S7 Slim, capacitive touch screen, it may sell below $300 with or without 3G built-in. Huawei are also showing a mockup of their upcoming S7 Pro tablet that will come with a dual-core processor.
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Asus Transformer, Honeycomb Tegra2 Laptop/Tablet device
Asus made this Tegra2 Powered Laptop and Tablet combo device, where the tablet part can slide out of the bottom keyboard part. This prototype feels heavy though, perhaps it’s just because it’s a very metallic design.
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Asus Eee Pad Slider
Interesting slider design by Asus, to add a keyboard behind the tablet.
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ST-Ericsson LTE solutions
Posted by – February 20, 2011
Featuring ST-Ericsson existing and upcoming range of LTE solutions including ThorM7400, the industry’s first two chip LTE/HSPA+ modem.
ST-Ericsson HSPA+ solutions
Posted by – February 20, 2011
This video features ST-Ericsson’s second generation 21mbitps HSPA+ solution, used in the Samsung Galaxy 4G smartphone on T-Mobile. This kind of bandwidth can be used for high quality video streaming, and many other applications. ST-Ericsson is also launching the new 84mbitps Thor HSPA+ modem.
Freescale wireless chargers
Posted by – February 20, 2011
Freescale is providing the MCUs for the powermat systems made by Energizer and other companies.
Freescale Watt Saver, USB charger
Posted by – February 20, 2011
This is a smart USB charger that automatically switches off all power consumption when the phone is charged. It’s sold by AT&T for $12 right now.
Freescale powered sub-$50 home energy gateway
Posted by – February 20, 2011
The idea is to connect your smart meter, home appliances, smart electric plugs to a home energy gateway, which then hosts a power management console on the web to let you manage your home power consumption from a tablet, from a mobile phone, laptop or any other device to access the web.
Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine, Reality Display, the LCD technology for Xperia Arc and Xperia Pro
Posted by – February 20, 2011
Here’s an interview with the product manager on Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, explaining some of the technology in this new Sony manufactured BRAVIA Engine Mobile LCD display.
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Marvell’s seamless multimedia synchronization
Posted by – February 20, 2011
Marvell demonstrates seamless sharing of pictures, videos over the Internet with picture frames, HDTV slideshows, NAS and more. This demo is using the software from Funambol and Eyecon.
Moimstone MIP2000 and MIP3000 VOIP Phone with Android Tablet
Posted by – February 20, 2011
Moimstone is one of the leaders in VOIP phones for home or office use, they are now showing one that can dock an Android Tablet, for large screen overview of contacts and video conferencing.
ST-Ericsson launches Nova, Thor and NovaThor at Mobile World Congress 2011
Posted by – February 20, 2011
ST-Ericsson shows their new Nova ARM Processors and Thor modems, and combined they are the NovaThor. Those include the new ARM Cortex-A9 Single-core U4500 and Dual-core U8500 and the HSDPA+ and LTE modem solutions and they are even announcing their ARM Cortex-A15 solution. This video also includes some talk about where ST-Ericsson comes from and where the company is going.
The funky official video:
Sony-Ericsson Liveview
Posted by – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Wearables, Smartwatch, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android
The concept is pretty awesome, this small touch screen bluetooth screen that can be worn as a watch can interact with any of your Bluetooth enabled Android devices, it’s got an SDK for app developers to add Bluetooth remote functionality for their apps. I’m hoping someone make remote controlling for VOIP apps, calling contacts, and other useful Android apps on your smartphone or tablet.
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JKKmobile.com: Android MWC 2011 booth tour
I participate in JKK Mobile’s Android Smoothie tasting:
This video was posted at: youtube.com/jkkmobile
Marvell Kinoma, virtual platform for developing applications
Kinoma play is showcased on Android devices, it’s running all the apps on pure ARM processor with no need for graphics acceleration, it can come with more than 50 applications built in.
BusinessInsider.com: Microsoft has 1000 engineers working on ARM Windows 8 to be released this year
According to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt and according to a source reported by BusinessInsider.com, Microsoft is investing very heavily on accelerating their support of Windows for ARM Powered devices, targeting a release of full Windows 8 Tablets before Christmas even. This could be closer than what some people think.
At CES last month, Microsoft showed Windows 8 at their keynote (using “existing” UI) running on current Texas Instruments OMAP4430, Qualcomm Dual-core MSM8660 and Nvidia Tegra2. For sure, Windows 8 could use the next gen ARM Processors coming out later in the year even better for full performance, such as the TI OMAP4440, Qualcomm Quad-core and Nvidia Tegra3 Kal-el, all coming out in consumer devices on the market before the end of the year already.
Sub-$100 Android Smartphones shipping right now powered by ST-Ericsson U6715
Posted by – February 19, 2011
The 468Mhz ST-Ericsson U6715 ARM9 processor includes current support for Android 2.1, to be upgradable to Android 2.2 in around a month, they use tricks like a Virtualization layers on top of Android to speed some things up for the user experience on this low end hardware. Yet, the experience is very impressive considering the potential $100 unlocked retail price for these Android smartphone devices such as the K-Touch W606, Acer beTouch E130, Coolpad W711 and the GHT Maestro, they can all include 3G support and good battery runtime.
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