Category: Chip provider

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

This one has Playstation gaming controls that slide out, there will be Playstation Suite support meaning it’ll play all kinds of Playstation games that will be added by Sony to the Android platform. This is not the Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 5″ Sony NGP PSP2, but it may satisfy some gamers until that one comes out later in the year. It includes the Qualcomm MSM8255 with Adreno 205 graphics acceleration.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

Posted by Charbax – February 21, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

This one also has the BRAVIA engine, Exmor R sensor for good camera quality, also includes a front facing camera for video-chat, HDMI output, but it’s a little bit fatter than the Xperia Arc, also includes the Qualcomm MSM8255 1Ghz processor.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro

Posted by Charbax – February 21, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

New Smartphone by Sony Ericsson, includes the new BRAVIA engine LCD and has a slide out thumb keyboard. Uses the second generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255 1Ghz processor.

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Qualcomm MSM8660 Dual-core captures and playsback 3D

Posted by Charbax – February 21, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

Qualcomm shows 18mbitps 1080p playback but also shows support of 1080p 3D playback and 1080p 3D recording. Is this really what he meant to say, that it not only playsback 18mbitps 1080p 2D, but also records and playsback 1080p 3D as well? Might it be that the 3D 1080p modes are supported only at lower bitrates? Does that mean the Qualcomm MSM8660 Dual-core platform may be the best performing video player and recorder among the recently demonstrated Dual-core processors? Please post your insights, knowledge and resources on this that you can find in the comments.

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JKKmobile.com: ARM Powered Laptop built into Macbook by CUPP

Posted by Charbax – February 21, 2011
Category: Laptops, Texas Instruments, MWC, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu

At Mobile World Congress, CUPP was showing some Macbook laptops with a switch that I guess puts OSX in sleep mode and switches over the the ARM SoC platform and Android or Ubuntu on ARM and using the same screen, keyboard and mouse for that.

This video was posted at: JKKmobile.com

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ARM Dual-core Web browsing performance compared to Single-core

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, MWC, ARM, Android

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 Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Android

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 Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

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

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, MWC, Android

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

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, MWC, Android

Interesting slider design by Asus, to add a keyboard behind the tablet.

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ST-Ericsson LTE solutions

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC

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 Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC

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 Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC

Freescale is providing the MCUs for the powermat systems made by Energizer and other companies.

Freescale Watt Saver, USB charger

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC

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 Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC

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.

Marvell’s seamless multimedia synchronization

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, Marvell, MWC, Android

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.

ST-Ericsson launches Nova, Thor and NovaThor at Mobile World Congress 2011

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC

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:

Marvell Kinoma, virtual platform for developing applications

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Marvell, MWC, Android

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.

Sub-$100 Android Smartphones shipping right now powered by ST-Ericsson U6715

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

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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3D capture and playback on the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Displays, Cameras, Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

ST-Ericsson U8500 can capture 720p 3D at 30fps and 1080p 2D at 30fps. Here’s a demo of the 3D effect captured using 2 cameras and displayed on a 3D HDTV.