This 6″ e-reader by the Taiwanese company ViewSonic is called Jin Yong after a famous author and will be released in Taiwan in july 2010 for about 150 US$. It uses a new touchscreen technology called RFID touch, made by a swedish company, that uses a light detector makes it feel like a capacitive touchscreen. It has Wifi, 2GB internal memory (expandable) and supports common formats. It is powered by the Marvell Armada 166E processor.
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Exclusive: Pegatron 10″ capacitive Android Tablet
Posted by – June 2, 2010
This 10′ Tablet is manufactured by Pegatron and has a Freescale i.MX 51 processor.
Here are some of the specifications:
LVDS 10.1 1024×600 16:9
Camera (1.3Mpix)
Wifi n,
3G optional
BlueTooth
HDMI output
2 USB,
Sim slot
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Shogo Tablet update from Daniel Schneersohn
Posted by – June 2, 2010
After my previous video unveiling the Shogo tablet, Daniel Schneersohn, representative of Realease is adressing some of the user comments that were in the youtube video and on the blog posts.
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Hard Kernel ODROID-T 10″ Android Tablet
Posted by – June 2, 2010
Here’s a pre mass production sample of the new 10″ capacitive Android Tablet by Hard Kernel. Find more informations and specs at http://hardkernel.com. Check how nicely it outputs the Android user interfaces on the huge HDTV and can also be used for pretty advanced 3D games.
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ARM Mali400 for 3D user interfaces and games
Posted by – June 2, 2010
This STMicroelectronics STi7108 development platform demonstrates what the future of set top box user interfaces will look like, with support for multiple live video views and pretty advanced 720p or even 1080p playing on the HDTV of 3D games like Quake 3.
Asus Eee Note EA800
Posted by – June 1, 2010
A new TFT LCD based ultra high resolution wacom touch e-reader. With long battery runtime as no backlights are needed.
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$129 Android 2.1 HD Set Top Box
Posted by – June 1, 2010
Keenhigh mediatech is showing this awesome looking Telechips based Android 2.1 set-top-box at Computex. This is close to what the ARM Powerd Google TV devices might look like. Add to it the HDMI pass-through and IR blaster of the Google TV spec, and add perhaps an ARM Cortex A9 processor, and you will have the potentially $99 Android set-top-box.
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Android Phone “f910” by FirstOne
Posted by – June 1, 2010
Customized Android (1.6), 3,2′ resistive screen (480×320), 5 megapixel camera, Qalcomm ARM 11, available soon
Asus Eee Pad runs Windows Embedded Compact 7
Posted by – May 31, 2010
Here is one very cool looking, ultra thin and ultra light tablet by Asus powered by Windows CE7 and running on an NVidia Tegra processor. It’s only 0,48 inches (1,21cm) thick, sports a touchscreen and a built in camera, supports Adobe Flash and is said to have 10hrs of battery life. Asus announced its release for end of 2010/beginning of 2011 but did not reveal the price. According to rumours it will start at $399.
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QOOQ tablet culinary coach
Posted by – May 28, 2010
This is the QOOQ tablet, perhaps worlds first commercially available consumer 10.1″ capacitive tablet, has been available only in France since October 2009 (many months before the iPad), it uses a glass panel which is also useful for it to resist the attacks of ingredients in the kitchen as it is water and smudge proof. This product features many interactive recipes, some of them from Frances top chefs, with step-by-step videos. The content is streamed from the QOOQ Akamai servers, over Wifi or Ethernet, with additional recipes being added over the Internet.
The QOOQ is released by the French company Unowhy, the first such customized design released on the Shogo tablet platform from Hong-Kong company Realease, and runs on a Freescale i.MX37 processor with Linux. It currently is sold only in France for 349€.
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I’m testing Chromium OS on ARM Cortex A8, Freescale i.MX51
Posted by – May 27, 2010
Here’s a recent build of Chromium OS running on the ARM Cortex A8 Freescale i.MX51 processor platform in a desktop form factor, using a keyboard and mouse on a DVI monitor.
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Ubuntu 10.4 optimized for the ARM Processor
Posted by – May 27, 2010
Ubuntu has been working over these past couple of years with ARM and ARM partners such as Freescale to optimize the Ubuntu OS for ARM Processors. Here’s a demonstration of the latest version of Ubuntu 10.4 running on a Freescale i.MX51 development board. In theory this Ubuntu desktop could be sold for below $100 without the screen, keyboard and mouse.
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Marvell makes OLPC XO-3 Tablet, now official
I predicted it in my article on 18th March, Marvell’s Moby Tablet announcement is the beginning of the new OLPC XO-3 project.
This is great news! It means XO-3 is coming earlier than 2012 as originally planned. It’ll basically start coming as soon as the next generation Marvell Armada 61X processor is ready. Check my video of Marvell Armada 610 and my video of the Marvell Armada 618 to have an idea how impressive this processor is. This means that prototypes of XO-3 could be showcased today and I’m guessing mass manufacturing can start before the end of year.
This also means the 5000+ people at Marvell are now working towards reaching the goals of the OLPC project. Cheaper access to learning, information, web, online entertainment, e-books, worldwide communications, all this is great!
Read the press release: http://www.marvell.com/company/news/press_detail.html?releaseID=1418
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Exclusive: Shogo 10-inch capacitive open-source Linux Tablet
Posted by – May 26, 2010
Realease is launching this Freescale i.MX37 (ARM11) and i.MX51 (ARM Cortex A8) based Linux open-source Tablet. With a whole range of customized features, on an open HTML5, Qt, Flash even Android-compatible development platform, customizable designs, 1 external USB, 2 internal USB (for adding internal USB 3G dongle and other), motion sensor, camera, ambient light sensor, and more.
It is meant for software developers who want a platform to develop or port their solutions for B2B usages like medical, planes, hotels, or any niche consumer markets where a closed solution is required (unlike the iPad) check for instance the QOOQ culinary coach, a tablet that is derived from the Shogo predecessor.
Qt on Freescale i.MX51 and i.MX233
Posted by – May 26, 2010
Category: Exclusive videos, Freescale
You may have seen my recent video of Qt demonstrated at Mobile World Congress. Here’s a demonstration of Qt 4.6 running on two Freescale processors.
Freescale Futuremark 3D benchmark
Posted by – May 26, 2010
A Freescale graphics expert shows a benchmark from Futuremark running on Freescale i.MX51, leveraging the processor’s OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU.
Freescale 3D video
Posted by – May 26, 2010
Category: Exclusive videos, Freescale
This video shows how to leverage a Video processor and a Graphics processor (GPU) to show 3D videos. This is done on the Freescale i.MX51 System-on-chip, that integrates an ARM Cortex A8 processor + a video processor + 2 GPUs.
Quake 3 on Freescale i.MX51
Posted by – May 25, 2010
Freescale is demonstrating Quake 3 on Android 2.1 running on their ARM Cortex A8 Freescale i.MX51 processor platform. It seems to run pretty smoothly with a decent frame rate outputted on this 800×480 medium density screen. This degree of success in 3D hardware acceleration for advanced 3D games on ARM devices with Android, as well as the achievements by the Unreal Engine group (watch my video Interview with Unreal Engine founder of Epic Games talking about Unreal Engine on Android), can give us a pretty good idea of how extremely advanced and fun 3D gaming can quickly become on these new Android devices.
Realize this, Quake 3 and even Unreal Tournament is running smoothly on our pocketable ARM Powered devices!
OpenVG hardware acceleration by Freescale
Posted by – May 25, 2010
Category: Exclusive videos, Freescale
You may be familiar with OpenGL hardware acceleration in all the recent ARM Processors, but check this recent API from the Khronos group: OpenVG. It is meant at rendering Vector Graphics, where basically the images are stored not in bitmaps (a sum of pixels) but in maths formulaes. Each time you need to re-draw the image, you just have to re-calculate the vectors to show high quality pictures and animations. This is what pdf and postscripts use, and this is especially useful for zooming. All cool user interfaces should use OpenVG at some point, which is easier and more flexible than OpenGL thus for certain graphics and animations to be used in all kinds of user interfaces as well as content.
So far, most processors could support OpenVG on top of the OpenGL hardware accelerator. But Freescale added a second GPU in its i.MX processors. So for instance their i.MX51 has a GPU for OpenGL and a second GPU for OpenVG.
carrypad.com: Compaq Airlife 100 video-review
You may have seen my previous videos of the HP Compaq Airlife 100 as I filmed it at consumer electronics trade shows these past few months at CES and at Mobile World Congress.
Carrypad.com has got one from HP Spain and have posted this video review.
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