Category: Chip provider

7″ A23 for $42 and other from Dafong

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 27, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Intel, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Dafong is a Chinese company that makes Android tablets. These Android tablet are primarly powered by Allwinner, Rockchip and Mediatek chipsets. A 7inch Allwinner A23 tablet costs around $42. Android tablet with 7.85inch 1024 x 768 resolution IPS screen and supposedly powered by Intel chipset costs around $86. Another new tablet from Dafong has 7.85inch 1024 x 768 resolution IPS screen and Allwinner A31S quad-core CPU. For prices and availability you have to contact Dafong. Dafong factory has more than 350 workers and they sell around 200K units per month.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

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$169 Vido M11Pro, RK3288 Retina Tablet, MHL support

Posted by Charbax – April 26, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Vido Yuandao presents their Rockchip RK3288 Tablet, the Vido M11Pro, it will ship to distributors for around $169 for minimum order quantity of 1000 units.

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$160 RK3188 11.6″ Ultrabook, RK3188 9″ FHD 4G Tablet by Firstview

Posted by Charbax – April 26, 2014
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Firstview is showing some interesting devices, one is their 11.6″ Rockchip RK3188 based Touch-screen Ultrabook, selling at $160 in bulk, the other is their $155 (bulk) 9″ FHD RK3188 Tablet with built-in 4G LTE. They also have $110 MediaTek 9.7″, 10.1″, 8″ IPS and more. They can manufacture about 1500 tablets per day with 800 people in their factory. And the $160 MT6592 FHD large phone.

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Russian Robot Company rbot.com presents Android Telepresence Robot

Posted by Charbax – April 25, 2014
Category: Robots, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

R.BOT presents a Telepresence Robot, just insert whatever Android device you want with USB Host support in it’s stand, phone or tablet, and your Android device becomes the brain and the display for this telepresence robot, which can drive around and extend or retract and turn it’s head based on either manual remote telepresence control or also by voice recognition, gesture recognition and autonomous algorithms and AI response. RBOT.COM R.BOT has Synergy Swan, Synergy Mime and R.BOT Mini, can be used at stores, restaurants, schools, shopping centers, trade shows and at companies who want to for example let the CEO remotely roam around the office.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

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Topwise Broadcom BCM23550 Phones/Tablets, Spreadtrum SC7715 cheapest 3G phone in the world

Posted by Charbax – April 25, 2014
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Spreadtrum, Broadcom, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Topwise uses IPS + OGS Touch Panels for high-end, 5″ qHD/720p/FHD using the Broadcom BCM23550 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Broadcom’s VideoCore425 GPU. Broadcom comes with dual-WiFi 5Ghz and using Broadcom’s modem. Topwise also shows the 3G single-core Spreadtrum SC7715 single-core ARM Cortex-A7, perhaps the cheapest 3G phone in the world. Topwise ships 800K phones per month with more than 1300 people in their factory. They also have the EDGE Spreadtrum SC6925C single core ARM Cortex-A5. Topwise also uses Broadcom BCM23550 in their 3G dual-sim Tablet with 1024×600 IPS 1GB/8GB. Broadcom thus here shows with Topwise how they are trying to aggressively compete with MediaTek for the entry-level Smartphone market, providing strong multi-core performance with some advanced SoC features integrated.

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AmLogic S805 quad-core Android TV Box for $40 and more from Goolan

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 24, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Goolan shows their latest set-top-boxes. Most of Goolan’s set-top-boxes are powered by AmLogic chipsets. Set-top-boxes shown here are powered by different chipsets generations of AmLogic like S802, S805, S812, M3 and MX. Android smart box with AmLogic S805 chipset costs $40 for MOQ 1K which is their cheapest quad-core smart box. Some of their smart boxes have DVB support and some others have a disc reader that can read discs directly from the device. Goolan is based in Shenzhen and sells more than 50000 smart box units per month.

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Goclever INSIGNIA 785 PRO, Windows 8.1 Intel tablet

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 24, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Intel, GoClever, Windows

Goclever shows their latest Intel powered ipad-mini style tablet, the INSIGNIA 785 PRO. The INSIGNIA 785 PRO is powered by a 2.0Ghz dual-core Intel Atom Z2580 CPU, has a 7.85″ 1024 x 768 resolution IPS display and costs 199 euro. The other Goclever Intel tablet introduced in this video is an 10.1″ tablet powered by Intel Processor. The tablet comes with a magnetic detachable origami-style case with keyboard and touchpad.

Huawei Set-top-box User Interface Concept

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 24, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, TV Connect, Android

Huawei is working on making an innovation interface concept for set-top-boxes and Smart TV solutions. Huawei already has many set-top-boxes in the market with standard User Interface design but they are planning to integrate this new technology to beyond coming devices. Users may have the ability to switch different content for different ages and groups of people easily. This software interface is mainly targeted for set-top-box solutions but has similar design for mobile devices since it is generally based on android. You can stream content from the TV or Android Box to the smartphone or vice versa. The design concept is still in its first steps and is the main user interface for the set-top-box and its based in Android operating system but it can be done also over Linux-based or general web-based.

$98 pcDuino Allwinner A20 development board at Maker Space Shenzhen

Posted by Charbax – April 23, 2014
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Pcduino, Android, Ubuntu

pcDuino is an Allwinner A20-based development board targetted at education and hackers, it can run Android and Ubuntu among other. It has HDMI, Wi-Fi, 1GB RAM, 4GB Flash, and hardware headers interface compatible with Arduino (14xGPIO, 2xPWM, 6xADC, 1xUART, 1xSPI, 1xI2C). pcDuino can be used to teach Python, C and other things. pcDuino provides a Maker Space in Shenzhen where hackers and enthusiasts can come to hack some things based on the pcDuino. The pcDuino team will also be releasing an Allwinner A80 based development board in May. You can learn more about it at http://pcduino.com and http://learn.linksprite.com

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick and Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – April 22, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Sunchip, Android

Shenzhen Sunchip shows their RK3288 based HDMI Stick and Set-top-box PCB, the hardware is ready, they just need another month or so for the software to be ready and optimized. We’re talking Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 (according to Rockchip and posters), Mali-T674 GPU. Sunchip sells about 30K HDMI Sticks and Set-top-boxes per month. I will look for the Chrome OS based RK3288 HDMI Stick, check http://ARMdevices.net for news on that. You can also watch my videos filmed at the Sunchip HDMI Stick heaquarters in Shenzhen (2, 3, 4)

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick Sunchip RK3288 Set-top-box Sunchip RK3288 Set-top-box

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

You can contact Sunchip here:
Kobe Chen
kobe@sunchip-tech.com
http://sunchip-tech.com

Shenzhen Tena RK3288 HDMI Stick

Posted by Charbax – April 22, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Shenzhen Tena shows the mockup for their upcoming RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 HDMI Stick. For now this is just a mockup, but the RK3288 HDMI Stick should get ready by around next month. With 2 USB Ports, IR remote control, MicroSD card. Shenzhen Tena will also provide a RK3288 based Set-top-box. Tena has a RK2928 Miracast dongle with 5Ghz WiFi. You can also watch my Factory Tour at Shenzhen Tena HDMI Stick maker filmed last year (2).

Contact info (please only contact them if you are serious about buying/importing large quantities of these devices):
Shenzhen Tena Ltd
http://www.sztena.com
Sales manager: Calvin Huang
calvin@sztena.com

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

Tecomax smartwatch for $34.7 and 2G Android smartwatch for $65.5

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 22, 2014
Category: Wearables, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, Members Content, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Tecomax announces their smartwatch with bluetooth that can communicate with the phone to perform multiple operations. This smartwatch costs $37.7 for MOQ 1K. They have been working in smart wearables industry for less than an year because this industry is quite new. They have other smart wearable devices available for sale like an Android smartwatch with MTK MT6577 CPU and 2G connectivity that costs $65.5 . Tecomax is based in ShenZhen, has 400 workers and sells around 10000 devices per month.

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arm-soc git pull

Posted by Charbax – April 21, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos, Broadcom, Linaro Connect

Arnd Bergmann explains how platform maintainers create git pull requests and how the arm-soc team merges those requests into the arm-soc tree. In this video, Arnd walks Matt Porter through creation and posting of a pull request for the mach-bcm/ platform. Arnd then demonstrates how the branch is merged into the publish arm-soc next branches.

Unuiga SMT Production Line Tour

Posted by Charbax – April 21, 2014
Category: Tablets, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Unuiga, Android

Unuiga shows around their SMT Production Line, outputting PCBs for their Set-top-box and HDMI Sticks and outputting PCBs for Tablets also. You can also watch the video from Unuiga’s PCB design house, Unuiga’s Product Porfolio and the Unuiga Company History video.

Contact informations:

Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976

$109 7.85″ MTK8382, $138 9.7″ Retina RK3188 from Luckystar

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 18, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Luckystar shows their latest tablets. A Luckystar 3G tablet with 7.85inch IPS display, 1Gb of RAM and powered by Mediatek MTK8382 quad-core CPU costs around $109. The tablet comes in different colors and has 8Gb of internal storage expendable by SD Card. Another new Luckystar successful tablet has a 9.7inch Retina IPS display, 2Gb of RAM and powered by Rockchip RK3188 quad-core CPU. This tablet has 16Gb of internal storage expendable by SD Card. This tablet with the 3G calling function costs $158 and without 3G calling function costs $138. Luckystar sells more than 300k devices per month. You can also watch my 40-minute tour at the Luckystar factory here.

Aprolink shows RK3168 SmartGlass

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 18, 2014
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair

Aprolink is a Taiwanese company that is currently working on smart watch and smart glasses solutions. They are showing their new smart glasses along with a smart watch with a small OLED display. The smart glasses module is detachable that can be put on and off even in your prescription glasses. The smart glasses are powered by a Rockchip RK3168 CPU. The device has a HD micro display by Himax and runs Android 4.2. The smart glasses can be connected with other devices with its Bluetooth 4.0 and has a battery life expected up to 3 hours with its 500mAh battery. Aprolink smart glasses can be controlled by a touchpad that is located on the right side of the device and the retail price is expected to be under $500.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

Pipo shows RK3288 Tablet, 6.4″ FHD MT6592 and more

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 17, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, Intel, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Pipo, Android, Windows

Pipo P1 is one of the world’s first Rockchip RK3288 Tablets yet shown features Retina, , to be released perhaps as soon as the end of this month. Pipo also shows some Phablet 6.4″ FHD and other large MT6592 devices, PIpo also shows some Intel powered tablet and tablet with Surface-style keyboard.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

AmLogic M805, S805, M806 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A5 with Mali-450

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 17, 2014
Category: Tablets, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair

AmLogic shows off their new Quad-core ARM Cortex-A5 processors, optimized for lower power consumption and still providing high multimedia support. In this videos, AmLogic is showing their new M805, S805 and M806. They have been developing their new generations of chipsets by optimizing performance and reducing power consumption. AmLogic uses this technology to be used in future devices to offer more efficiency and productivity. Difference between the 805 and 806 is that the 805 has MIPI-DSI support and the 806 has TTL support. The M series may be used in tablet and other mobile devices while the S series can be used in devices such as Android Boxes and Hdmi Sticks. Here at the booth, AmLogic is showing some devices for reference showing where their semiconductor solution can be used such as Set-up Boxes, Hdmi Sticks, Android Smart TVs, Android Tablets, Smartphones and AIO computers which most of them are running Android KitKat at the moment. AmLogic might work in future with Chrome OS because they have bought the proper licenses.

Unuiga PCB Design House, RK3288/RK3188 for HDMI Sticks and Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, PCB Design House, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Unuiga, Android

With RK3288 designs in the ramping, Unuiga has 60 hardware/software engineers, 20 sales people, Unuiga is an ODM Android TV Box and HDMI Stick system provider in Shenzhen China specializing in Rockchip PCB solutions for Set-top-boxes and HDMI Sticks. Featuring among other Android optimizating, PCB layout, creating new designs for TV Boxes including Unuiga’s wide TV Mounted RK3188 TV Box with Camera for video-conferencing. Developing some Android home replacement user interfaces designs for customer’s custom TV usage.

Contact informations:

Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976

Gionee Elife S5.5 is the slimmest smartphone in the world

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 15, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Android

The Gionee Elife S5.5 is a smartphone that runs Gionee’s Amigo UI on top of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It features a 5-inch display with no word on its resolution and display quality. The Elife S5.5 is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-core CPU coupled with 2GB of RAM. The phone has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front camera for video calls.

The inbuilt storage on the Elife S5.5 is 16GB and there is no SD card memory expansion option available. The smartphone packs a 2300mAh non-removal battery. The Gionee Elife S5.5 has a single-SIM slot.

The Elife S5.5 measures in 145.1×70.2×5.55mm and weighs 130 grams. At just 5.5mm thickness, the smartphone is the slimmest smartphone in the world.

Connectivity options on the smartphone include 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and USB OTG. The Gionee Elife S5.5 comes in Black, White, Pink, Blue and Purple colours.

The smartphone will be launched first in China. The Gionee Elife S5.5 3G variant will be priced at around $374 in China.