Qualcomm talks about their Open Source Software Strategy, getting upstream support in the Linux Kernel for the Qualcomm based Development Boards like the Dragonboard 410c. Supporting Linux, Android, supporting Freedreno the Open Source GPU driver for Qualcomm processors, working towards support of OpenCL and more.
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Rockchip Light Biz OS official video
Posted by – October 31, 2015
Rockchip’s Light Biz OS is Android 5.1 modified and with a Launcher optimized for Productivity, Multi-tasking, for Android Laptops, Android Desktops, Android Projectors, any Android device for doing work.
$37 iPhone 6S clone, $25 cheapest Android phone, $44-49 Quad-core SC7731/MT6580, $81 MT6735 LTE
Posted by – October 25, 2015
These are some of the latest cheap Smartphones in China based on the MediaTek MT6580, MT6735, Spreadtrum SC7731 and SC7715. Here’s a $37 iPhone 6S clone with a removable back case to support removable battery, 3G dual-sim, it runs a 5″ qHD display on a Spreadtrum SC7731 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 (I say A5 in the video by mistake, it’s actually A7). 512MB RAM and 4GB Flash but expandable by MicroSD slot. One of the world’s cheapest Android phones is the $25 SC7715 single-core ARM Cortex-A7 phone with 3.5″ display. A little higher specced are Huawei Mate 7 and Huawei P8 clones at $44 on Spreadtrum SC7731 and for $49 you get 5.5″ qHD and 5″ HD phones on the MediaTek MT6580 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7. For LTE I found a 5.5″ qHD IPS on 64bit MediaTek MT6735 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with 1GB RAM and 8GB Flash. Sorry I didn’t prepare this video well I say many wrong things about the CPUs, prices, Android versions etc check the annotations I try to fix it there.
Reeman Robot on RK3288 Android with Artificial Intelligence, 10″ touchscreen, sensors
Posted by – October 25, 2015
Reeman is a Robotics startup in Shenzhen making a $500 Robot for kids to play, to video-chat with their parents at work, for parents to video-monitor their kids at any time remotely, for kids to learn and play. Reeman Robot has advanced features based on the Rockchip RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with ARM Mali-T760 GPU, it also has 3 micro-controllers, motors, sonar and infrared sensors, 3D camera sensors (to map and recognize where it is in rooms and spaces!), stereo microphones (to know where sound is coming from!), built-in speakers, camera, a 10.1″ capacitive touch-screen, it’s able to go back to the charger to charge itself automatically! An ex-employee from IBM is developing an artificial intelligence system for it to learn and react intelligently to an unlimited number of situations, questions and sentences in Chinese. Reeman has a team of 20 engineers now working hard to ship this robot on the Chinese market at $500 (2999rmb) in the first quarter of next year!
Reeman is very interested to find a partner to help develop English-language AI system with English voice-recognition, apps and educational/gaming content so this robot can be sold outside of China also! (hello Google/Alphabet? Can you make them a Robotics APK for Android with APIs for all sensors etc?) Interested partners, developers, distributors can contact Reeman below:
Jerry Gao, CEO
Jerry.Gao@reeman.cn
Mobile: +86 18902468056
Phone: +86 75586239429
http://www.reeman.cn/?_l=en
96Boards IoT Starter Kit with UART and Arduino-compatible Sensors Platform
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Grant Likely of Linaro introduces the http://96Boards.org IoT Starter Kit with retail price aimed at around $45 which includes the 96Boards UART also available at http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/96Boards-UART-p-2525.html and the Arduino-compatible 96Boards Sensors adapter board.
$79 Android Wear on MTK2601 (mockup), MT6753 XTouch, MT6735 X550 by Bluboo
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Category: Smartphones, Wearables, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android
Bluboo shows mockup of their upcoming Android Wear smartwatch to be powered by MediaTek MTK2601 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, with a round shape display, 512MB RAM and 4GB ROM, supports SIM cards, bluetooth 4.0 to be priced at $79, mass production will be ready on November. Bluboo also shows their full Smartphone product line from MT6735 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 to MT6753 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53, Full HD screens, big batteries up to 5300mAh. Prices ranging from $120 to $149.
You can contact Blueboo for more info (let them know you watched my video):
Candy, Sales Director
Candy@bluboo.com.cn
Mobile: +86 136 31535501
Skype: candywong68
$62 MT2502 Smartwatches at EZtechnic
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Eztechnic shows their smartwatches, they have 20 years experience selling traditional watches, now starting to design and manufacture smartwatches, with different styles, from stainless steel to plastic. Compatible with Android and iOS, displays notifications from phone call, message and different apps, heartrate monitoring is included, step tracking also. The EZtechnic smart watch is waterproof down to 30 meters, 3 days battery life, it does wireless magnet charging.
Distributors can contact:
Jason Liu General Manager
Jason@eztechnic.com
Mobile:+86 138 6931 2163
http://www.eztechnic.com
Anposi Smart Doorbell and other IoT Smart Home appliances
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Anposi shows their latest smart doorbell, easy-to-install, Compatible with any existing doorbell wire, with built-in 720P camera stream, WiFi and Ethernet port, Supports answer and locking/unlocking the door via phone or tablet through app. It also supports 720P H.264 video recording and storage via cloud. This system could be useful for Airbnb hosts, when Airbnb guests arrive to the apartment, The Anposi smart doorbell can connect the hosts phone directly to unlock remotely.
You can contact Anposi here, we will be appreciate if you tell them you watched Charbax Video.
Hong Zhi Hui, General Manger
Email:hong@anposi.com
Http://www.anposi.com
NewTek TriCaster Mini HD-4sdi, Live networked TV production
Posted by – October 19, 2015
Category: Exclusive videos
NewTek produces live and post-production video hardware and visual imaging software software based on Intel PC, here introducing their platform with a software upgrade for real-time video producers to collaborate on live video-editing through the network. NewTek claims to be the leader in live to Internet video production worldwide, with tens of thousands of live channel producers around the world using the NewTek live production system.
Open Source GPU driver Freedreno
Posted by – October 18, 2015
Bernhard Rosenkränzer on the Android team at Linaro and Rob Clark of Red Hat who works on the open source GPU driver called Freedreno for Qualcomm’s ARM processors Adreno GPU. This open source GPU driver enables better open source software such as for example all kinds of Linux for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 powered Dragonboard 410c which I have filmed here: http://138.2.152.197/?s=410c
Sunchip VR Glass on Allwinner H8 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7
Posted by – October 18, 2015
Sunchip makes a VR Glass powered by Allwinner H8 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 partnering with Nibiru to accelerate development of 360 video and games content to the VR market. Sunchip VR on Allwinner H8 sells at $169.
HOMiDO VR headset for smartphones
Posted by – October 18, 2015
HOMiDO Virtual Reality headset for smartphones with a custom made VR lense with up to 100° FOV, it’s for 360 degree video and gaming, compatible with most recent smart phones, retail price is 69€ in Europe and $89 in the USA.
Geniatech 64bit AmLogic S905 HDMI stick plays 4K@60fps over HDMI2.0
Posted by – October 18, 2015
Geniatech shows their newest HDMI Stick on 64bit AmLogic S905 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53, it supports real 4K@60fps H.265 10-bit video decode on HDMI 2.0 output. It runs Android 5.1, Dual-band 802.11A/C WiFi, mass production to be ready on November.
Distributors can contact Geniatech at:
http://geniatech.com
sales@geniatech.com
faytech Capacitive 55” Touch-PC, industrial Touch Monitor, embedded touch devices
Posted by – October 18, 2015
Category: Displays, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Intel, HKTDC Electronics Fair, faytech, Android, Windows
faytech shows world´s first 55” capacitive Touch as conference table, as single POS-information display, for industry automation or even as interactive information and Video Wall. faytech talks about them being industrial touch device specialist combining German engineering with price efficient Chinese production showing off a 15,360 x 8,640 pixel interactive video wall with up to 256 simultaneous touch points, set up from eight capacitive Full-HD 42” capacitive Touch Monitors connected to a single PC. The interactive information wall was developed by faytech for a German defense company as prototype for submarine simulators.
More highlights from the tour presented by Arne, the managing founder of faytech, is faytech´s new capacitive Touchscreen PC series from 7” to 21.5” with their patented rubber sealed IP65-front protecting the panels from water, dust and vandalism and faytech´s own capacitive chemical etched anti glare touch panel making them the first choice for Industry 4.0 applications, the Internet of Things and any POS usage. A slim 15.6” embedded Touch PC represented faytech´s embedded portfolio of 7” to 55” embedded resistive and capacitive Touch PCs running already as Taxi-application, in industry automatization or the point of sale. The presentation is completed by faytech´s first complete UL certified 19” Touchscreen Monitor and an optical bonded 11.6” Full HD capacitive TPC with features like light sensor, sunlight readable outdoor panel, full IP65 enclosure, RFID, MiFare, NFC card reader and even an integrated yoctoboard to open and close doors, an ultimate solution for entrance system and building automation.
Customers and distributors who need touch devices with a large stock of standard touch devices and the flexibility and competence to realize any touch device project can contact faytech at http://www.faytech.com or by e-mail to sales@faytech.com
Lattice USB Type-C SuperMHL for Smartphone productivity, high-speed data
Posted by – October 17, 2015
Lattice recently acquired Silicon Image, makers of MHL, here showing the awesome features of upcoming SuperMHL Smartphones with USB Type-C, where the one USB Type-C connector can transfer 4K video, audio and 5gbitps data over USB 3.1 standard. Here showing off the solution using a Qualcomm development kit and some demonstration boards made by Lattice to show off their SuperMHL processor. In the future output at up to 8K at 120fps will be possible. Charging will be ultra fast at up to 20volts and at up to 5A.
Remix Mini, Android PC for productivity! $69 (retail) 64bit Allwinner A64 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53
Posted by – October 17, 2015
With $1.6 Million successful Kickstarter funding, shipping to their backers within weeks, Jide shows Remix Mini, a 64bit ARM Desktop PC TV Box! It’s real, I am publishing this video using a review sample of it (let me know in the comments what I should test in my review video!) They sold some at $40 to their early backers on Kickstarter, in total 21 thousand people have ordered it. The Remix team is based in Beijing, they have worked on a beautiful and amazing Desktop-like UI for Android, it really feels like a Desktop computer. Remix Mini supports every Android app. Apps open in windows in the UI, some apps open by default in full screen but mostly can be set to only open as a window (right click on app and change app to open in window). Remix Mini ships with Allwinner’s new 64bit ARMv8 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 capable of playing back HEVC H265 in 4K. This is the beginning of Android being used for productivity!
CERN CMS tests 64bit ARM Servers for worldwide grid scientific computing
Posted by – October 16, 2015
David Abdurachmanov of Fermilab works in Geneva at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, testing all the latest different 64bit ARM Server platforms to measure when they may be recommended to be used by up to hundreds of computing centers around the world, potentially deployed to hundreds of thousands of servers to crunch large amounts of scientific data worldwide. The GRID of Computing resources analyses scientific data for experiments in high energy physics, to find proof that the Higgs Boson exists, at the core of understanding how the world is made. These scientific server grids must be built at optimal cost to consume the least amount of power as more and more scientific experiments require to analyse more and more data. CERN is where the Web was born, it might also be where the ARM Server will get kickstarted. As computing centers around the world have the requirement to use the least amount of power. David Abdurachmanov is eager to test and potentially to implement mass production ready ARM 64bit Server hardware.
You can also watch David Abdurachmanov’s keynote at Linaro Connect here:
In 2007, I filmed some videos at CERN LHC which you can see here: My 2007 CERN LHC Atlas tour
My 2007 CERN Grid computing video
$230 Google Glass by Shenzhen Topsky, Android 4.3, Kopin 640×400, Ingenic
Posted by – October 15, 2015
Topsky is the only supplier of headmounted micro-display based devices that I have seen at Hong Kong tradeshows who may be able to provide a Google Glass like experience starting at $230 per unit for a 100-unit minimum order quantity. The only negative things about it is the Ingenic MIPS dual-core processor (instead of using Rockchip or Allwinner ARM solutions), and the software is “not yet” provided by Google, this doesn’t run Google Glass UI, it doesn’t run Android Wear UI, it runs Topsky’s custom UI on top of Android, which looks good, but is not quite the same as having Google’s support. What could happen though, is Google people watch this video and contact Topsky below, or maybe some hackers get it and improve it somehow. I look forward to try it out some more to see about the voice-control capabilities, if it hooks into Google Now yet or some other voice command Android app, and how in general it may or may not manage to use any other Android app that may work good for this user interface. My dream is still (since CeBIT 2005) to live-stream from my face and see a live chat from anyone watching about which questions to ask the people that I interview in 4K. Crucial for this “vision” is for affordable Google Glass type devices to become available. These need to be mass produced, the price can be lowered further, then the software platform should be open and fully supported by Google and by everyone! Let’s make headmounted computing happen!
You can contact Topsky here (thanks for telling them you watched my video!)
Sofia Huang, Sales Manager
sofia@hktopsky.com
Mobile: +86 15815527996
Skype: sofiatopsky
$49 Android Smartwatch platform on Intel/Rockchip RK6321 dual-core ARM Cortex-A5
Posted by – October 15, 2015
Rockchip shows the cheapest Android Smartwatch platform, can potentially run Android 5 Android Wear (depending on Google’s approval) for now it’s just running Android 4.4.4 with Rockchip’s custom Android Smartwatch UI. This is an ARM Processor with an Intel logo on it! (which previously I filmed at http://138.2.152.197/?s=6321) To compete with MediaTek MT2601 it’ll bring ultra-affordable Android Smartwatches to the mass market with built-in dual-SIM card slots with dual-standby possible depending on Smartwatch design (most of the Smartwatch designs will probably only have 1 SIM card slot) , with A-GPS, GPS, GLONASS, with 3G/2G quad-band, supports displays of up to FWVGA, can record 720p videos at 30fps or take 8megapixel pictures from the Smartwatch camera! Meizu is probably going to be one of the brands to release this Smartwatch platform at a good price. The smart tracking possibilities for Kids trackers, Old people smart heart monitoring, Advanced fitness watches and a whole Smartwatch category in general, Rockchip with Intel wants to have a big part in that!
To develop and bring this to market, distributors and brands can contact design houses who work with Rockchip to make this Smartwatch platform, one of them is T-Chip, the info is here:
T-Chip PCB Design House (I filmed them here http://138.2.152.197/2014/09/17/129-firefly-rk3288-development-board-release/)
West
Email: mqy@t-chip.com.cn
Mobile: +86 13723459415
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BOE shows 110″ world’s largest 8K display, 5.5″ world’s smallest 4K for Smartphones and even 10K!
Posted by – October 15, 2015
BOE is one of the largest LCD manufacturers in the world, they show the world’s largest 8K display at 110″, and they also show the world’s smallest 4K display at 5.5″ and 6.8″ for Smartphones and Phablets to come out, they also show a beautiful 4K display at 10.1″ and their transparent display for fridge concept. BOE also is the first to show a 10K display, shown here horizhontally and vertically, it’s like an 8K display but with a bit wider aspect ratio to add 2K more pixels on the side. Is it possible yet to get a 4K display at 65″ for sub-$1000? Maybe!
