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ARM Freescale Smartbooks and Smartphones
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Steve Sperle of Freescale introduces the Freescale ARM Cortex A8 powered Smartbook by Pegatron and an Android device by Inventec IAC runing smooth video playback as well.
Qualcomm Snapdragon at Computex
Qualcomm Manager of Business Development at Qualcomm for Computing and Consumer Products, Mike Yin, is showing an impressive bunch of what they now call Smartbooks, ARM Cortex A8 based hardware accelerated netbooks runing full Android OS, Xandros ARM or some other Linux OS, launching and navigating in full web browsers, playing back full quality and bitrate videos.
Inventec ARM Laptop powered by Snapdragon
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Inventec is showing pretty smooth video playback on an ARM laptop using the Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM Cortex A8 processor.
Wistron Pbook
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Wistron is making a Sony looking ARM Snapdragon based laptop device running Red Flag linux.
Kinpo Thin Client 7inch Android Tablet
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Kinpo is making a 7 inch Android tablet powered by a Freescale processor. A bunch of engineers happened to come by the Freescale headquarters with this device while I was there filming a whole bunch of other videos. I then convinced them to show it to me and to let me film it. They installed Android on a 800×480 resolution 7″ touchscreen tablet device. It works pretty smoothly though they obviously have some tweaking that they still need to do before such a device can be sold. This device currently has some pretty obvious bugs like the video not playing correctly.
Android laptop: Compal Qualcomm powered Smartbook
Posted by – June 4, 2009
The worlds first Android laptop that runs everything awesomely well already!
Asus has an Android and Qualcomm powered smartbook as well, though Asus is hiding it at this point.
Acer, HP, all Nvidia Tegra based laptops, Texas Instruments based devices and Freescale based devices, all are launching with Android support.
In this video you can see how fast the current implementation of a browser in an Android laptop loads pages, while they still have optimizations to do, and I think they should try to get a full Google Chrome running on these, with support for an unlimited amount of tabs (though no need for all tabs to be active and heavy in the RAM memory).
Nvidia Tegra: HD streaming and Flash support demonstrated by Gordon Grigor, Director og Mobile Software
An amazing demonstration by Gordon Grigor Director og Mobile Software at Nvidia (the software engineering lead in developing Tegra solution!) of the ways Nvidia accelerates web browsing, flash, HD video decoding, HD video streaming from the Internet and more.
I was very impressed today I interviewing the Nvidia executives and engineers, they are insanely confident about their Tegra ARM implementation, even though the current demonstration of the Tegra technology does NOT use the latest ARM Cortex processor which is 4x faster for things like a browser compared to ARM11!!!! Nvidia is processing many things from the browser using the GPU! Can you believe that? Rendering of browser contents, scrolling, font antialiasing, image rendering, flash animations, flash videos, all are taken care of by the Nvidia GPU! Look for my videos of all that, being uploaded now and filming more the next couple or three of days.
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Charbax in Taipei 1: Going to Nvidia Tegra
Posted by – June 4, 2009
Walking in the streets of Taipei looking for Nvidia’s demonstration area for the Nvidia Tegra processors.
Nvidia Tegra: Overview by Michael Rayfield
Overview of Nvidia Tegra by Michael Rayfield, general manager of the mobile business unit, showing the new line of $100-$200 laptops runing Android or Windows CE on an embedded ARM11 processor and Nvidia’s awesome 1080p and advanced 3D graphics capable Nvidia Tegra chipset.
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Archos 5 TV Snap-On review
Posted by – May 25, 2009
Review of the Archos 5 TV Snap-On accessory that let’s you watch and record DVB-T (freeview) signals city-wide and country-wide for most European countries which already have good DVB-T coverage. It comes with a dual diversity antenna system that allows you to get the best reception for a mobile DVB-T receiver, it picks in real-time the best available signal while you walk around or move your device around when at the football match, at work, in school, on the bus, on the train, anywhere especially in densely populated areas which have good DVB-T coverage.
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