They have enabled the Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 (Snapdragon 600) with Linaro’s Linaro OpenEmbedded based Ubuntu release. They have optimized it for video/audio capture encode/decode through software based encoding and optimizing HD resolution with hardware acceleration for video-chat.
Category: Qualcomm
Sony Booth Tour with my 12-year old cousin
Posted by – January 28, 2015
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Gaming, Smartwatch, Smart Glass, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, IFA, Android
Sony 4K World Cup TVs and cameras, Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet, Sony Smart Glass, Sony E Ink SmartBand Talk, Sony Smartwatch 3 with Android Wear, 4K Camcorder with Sony Xperia Z3 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805, Sony Playstation 4 demos, Sony Action Camera, Sony RX100 and more.
superMHL 8K 120fps, USB Type-C, 40W, more bandwidth
Posted by – January 20, 2015
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Projectors, Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Gaming, 4K UHD, Cars, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Samsung, CES, Android
The MHL Consortium has outdone itself with their latest technology mega specification, now perhaps setting the spec at a very future proof level (shall we say at least until 2020?), supporting up to 8K at 120fps, with up to 40W for power charge, delivering higher resolution, faster frame rates, support for the upcoming USB Type-C (dual side reversible) connector for up to 8K 60fps output from a phone (wow wow!). For the first time, MHL also introduces a new superMHL connector for 8K TVs (as in the first 8K TV from Samsung shown at CES). The SuperMHL spec is for mobile devices, set-top boxes (STBs), Blu-ray players, Audio/video recorders, HDMI sticks and other source devices to TVs and monitors, as SuperMHL should be included in most future FHD/4K/8K TVs, PC Monitors, MHL has shipped in over 750 Million devices thus far. The new SuperMHL spec is also offering wider color gamut, deeper colors (to reduce color banding), high dynamic range (HDR) supported through signaling and through higher bandwidth.
Archos 50 Diamond Lollipop on Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa-Core ARM Cortex-A53
Posted by – January 13, 2015
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Internet of Things, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, Qualcomm, CES, Archos, Android, Windows
At $199/199€ with 5″ FHD, runs Android 5.0 Lollipop on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 which Archos says is about 25% more performance than an Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 smartphone. It has LTE dual-sim, NFC, MicroSD, 2GB RAM, removable 2700mAh battery. Archos also shows their 69€ Windows Phone, 119€ MT6582 Archos 50b Platinum, Archos 101 Oxygen with FHD 10.1″ aluminium casing on RK3288 with 7000mAh at 199€. Archos 101 Platinum 10.1″ HD and their 7″ Windows Intel Tablet at 119€.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Smartphone and Tablet Development Platform reference designs
Posted by – January 5, 2015
6″ 2K OLED, Octa-core 64bit quad-A57 quad-A53, fingerprint, 13megapixel camera, it’s a special development phone for developers to optimize their apps for 64bit big.LITTLE ARM by Qualcomm, with Snapdragon 810 devices to be available soon (check back for more on Snapdragon 810 soon), Qualcomm also has a reference Snapdragon 810 Tablet with a 4K display, with 4 speakers, 9 microphones, ultrasound, HDMI, USB3, dual-3D infrared gesture cam for 3D scanning, first mobile device with DDR4 ultra high speed RAM memory. This is the Snapdragon 810 Mobile Development Platform for $999. You can read more about the 810 Smartphone and Tablet development platform here: https://developer.qualcomm.com/mdp-810-tablet-mdp-810-smartphone
Qualcomm 805/600 Development Boards by Inforce Computing
Posted by – January 5, 2015
Inforce Computing is a Qualcomm partner who makes small form factor single board computers (SBCs) and system on modules (SoM) for the embedded space with Snapdragon 805 and Snapdragon 600 processors, here showing some of the boards that they do. You can read more about their $149 Snapragon 600 development board here: http://www.inforcecomputing.com/products/moreinfo/inforce6410.html and their $249 Snapdragon 805 development board here: http://www.inforcecomputing.com/products/moreinfo/inforce6540.html
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Development Board by Intrinsyc for $499
Posted by – January 5, 2015
Qualcomm launches their Snapdragon 810 64bit APQ8094 octa-core with Quad ARM Cortex-A57 and Quad ARM Cortex-A53 in big.LITTLE. This development board has USB 3, USB 2, HDMI, UFS, audio, bluetooth antennas, GPS antennas, seria ATA, PCI Express, etc. You can read more about it here: http://shop.intrinsyc.com/products/dragonboard-development-kit-based-on-the-qualcomm-snapdragon-810-apq8094-processor
Mantis Vision MV4D 3D engine in Google Project Tango
Posted by – December 12, 2014
This is possibly the future of Android. Mantis Vision shows their amazing technology creating 3D from cameras with infrared beam/sensors in real-time using the Nvidia Tegra K1 powered Project Tango based tablet as Google’s development platform. Mantis Vision is changing the way the world creates, uses, and experiences in 3D. Imagine transforming everything you film with your smartphone into a 3D model and adding it all in real-time to a user-generated streetview of the world indoor and outdoor. Mantis Vision provides the 3D sensing platform, consisting of flash projector hardware components and Mantis Vision’s core MV4D technology which includes structured light-based depth sensing algorithms, bringing this amazing technology to the mass market. Through Project Tango, can be used for indoor navigation, augmented reality, indoor position estimation and more.
Charbax on Camel in Marrakech Desert
I take the Camel across the desert outside of Marrakech Morocco, here are two video samples filmed in 4K using the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Powered by MHL 3
4K sample filmed with Samsung Galaxy Note 4 outputting 4K using MHL 3
Posted by – December 4, 2014
This video was filmed using the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 that records 4K video, this is the built-in 4K encode at 50mbitps, using the built-in microphone. Perhaps there is some good Bluetooth Microphone system that could be used for lapel-microphone and for handheld microphone, perhaps also a good shotgun microphone. Let me know in the comments if you know any good of these that could be used with 4K smartphones to record highest quality audio. I also would like to upgrade my camera on the steadicam to 4K, I like the idea of perhaps trying out the Samsung NX1 that can encode 4K in H265 at 40mbitps, or perhaps I’ll wait for some other high performance 4K H265 camera, the idea being for the 4K footage to be compressed well enough in the camera so that the videos can be uploaded to YouTube directly. It seems though that http://youtube.com/editor doesn’t support 4K rendering yet (meaning that when someone tries to join/split 4K videos with YouTube editor, it outputs only a 1080p maximum file? Can someone please report this to Google? Otherwise perhaps there would be a camera to offer native 4K H265 in-camera basic join/split editing, perhaps even also with support to automatically add intros, outros, overlay transparent watermark branding (even animated watermark branding). Dual SD card recording for backup (when SD cards break, which has happened too often for me).
Cubot S308 MT6582, Cubot S222 5.5″ and 4G with Qualcomm and MediaTek
Posted by – October 26, 2014
Cubot S308 is 5″ HD IPS MT6582 with 2GB RAM. Cubot S222 is 5.5″ HD IPS OGS with 1GB RAM. Then they have a 4G Qualcomm based smartphone and they will also start selling MediaTek’s 4G solutions next month. Cubot sell about 100 thousand phones per month.
You can contact Cubot here:
Shenzhen HuaFuRui Technology Co.Ltd.
Cykey, Sales Manager
zhouchuanyang@cubot.net
Mobile: +86 18566232495
Phone: +86 755 23612065
Skype: cykey08
http://www.cubot.net
$77 6.98″ MT8382, $135 7″ FHD MSM8926 4G by Transtar
Posted by – October 23, 2014
Transtar shows some of their latest tablets based on MT8382 for 3G and Qualcomm MSM8926 for LTE. They also do Intel x86.
You can contact Transtar here:
Shenzhen Transtar Technology Co Ltd
Tina Lau, Overseas Sales Manager
sales-002@transtartech.cn
Mobile: +86 13421842748
Phone: +86 755 86338295 ext.8013
Skype: tinaliu1003
http://www.transtartech.cn
Sony M2, the mid-end phone from Sony
Posted by – October 22, 2014
Sony’s second generation of mid-end smartphones is the M series which has two models, the M1 and the new M2. Sony M2 features a 4.8inch 540×960 resolution display, 1Gb of RAM and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 quad-core CPU. The camera is 8MP and this phone comes with 8Gb of storage. Its design is “Omni-Balance”, according to Sony, which is focused on creating balance and symmetry in all directions. It comes in black, white and purple colors. This phone has been in market since April.
Sharp AQUOS Crystal X, smallest bezel 5.5″ FHD with Snapdragon 801
Posted by – October 9, 2014
A really impressive small bezel, makes this 5.5″ phone fit within about the same size as a regular 5″ phone’s dimensions, using its S-CG Silicon based LCD at 1080p, it uses a prism lens type of glass that refracts the display towards the edge of the device.
Fujitsu Arrows Tab F-03G lightest 433gr 10.1″ 2560×1400
Posted by – October 9, 2014
With a 7840mAh battery on Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, with a built-in and Japanese TV antenna. It’s waterproof and dustproof. Selling on the NTT Docomo network.
Fujitsu Arrows NX F-02G 5.2″ 2560×1440 on Snapdragon 801
Posted by – October 9, 2014
Fujitsu launches their 2560×1440 based 5.2″ Smartphone on the Japanese market. It’s waterproof, dust proof.
LG Booth Tour with my 12-year old cousin
Posted by – October 8, 2014
LG G Watch R with Android Wear, Curved 4K OLED, 98″ 4K IPS, 5K 105″ 21:9, World’s First Flexible 77″ 4K OLED (you can change the display from flat to curved), harman kardon sound, web OS TVs (with Android apps support), DLP LED projectors, 3D TV wall, LG Smart micro-oven and the LG Smart fridge, curved 21:9 PC monitor, LG Smart washing machine and the LG G3 Smartphone (with 2560×1440 display), LG child tracker, LG G Pad 10.1″ 1280×800, LG G Pad 8″, LG G Pad 7″ 1280×800 and more.
ZTE Nubia X6, Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, 6.44″ FHD Flagship Phone
Posted by – April 15, 2014
ZTE’s Nubia brand just launched the X6, a 1080p 6.44-inch Smart Phone. This Phone features top-notch specs and premium design with built-in storage up to 128Gb. Because of the big screen the phone might be nicknamed from some as “phablet”, a mix of tablet and phone.
The Nubia X6 phablet has a 7.9mm thin metal body with narrow bezels. The 6.44inches LCD screen has 1080p resolution that sets the pixel density at 344ppi. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 801 chipset running at 2.3GHz. The chipset is paired with 3GB RAM. ZTE Nubia X6 scores 27966 in AnTuTu Benchmark.
The rear camera features an 13MP sensor with OIS (Optical Image Stabilization). The front-facing camera also has a 13MP sensor. You also can use premium phone cases produced by ZTE for this phone in multiple colors. The phone itself is available in 2 colors: silver and gold. The phone has a 4,250mAh battery and built-in storage with 32Gb storage that costs 3,000 RMB($485), the 64Gb option for 3,500 RMB($565) or the 128Gb option for 4,000 RMB($645). There isn’t a microSD card memory expansion option.
Nokia X Android Developer Conference, operator billing in 60 countries with over 161 operators
Posted by – April 11, 2014
Heres’ a thousand Android developers at the Nokia X Android Developer conference, Nokia providing quick tools to port all Android apps over to using the Nokia Services for Maps, Notifications and Payments, with Nokia supporting payment in emerging markets through operator billing, available in 60 countries with over 161 operators. Most people in these markets don’t have credit cards, making it the only method of payment.
Nokia X Android Store, Nokia services replace Google Maps, Notifications and In-app Payments
Posted by – April 10, 2014
All Android app developers are invited by Nokia to change a few things (swaping Google services with Nokia services) to submit all Android apps in the Nokia Android App Store. For now Nokia is avoiding to try to support the Google Mobile Services (GMS), and instead requires that all Android apps be ported to Nokia’s Services for Location using Nokia Here Maps instead of Google Maps, for Notifications also going through Nokia Notifications system instead of the Google Notifications system and then for in-app payments Nokia has its own non-Google payment system that app developers are required to use if they want their apps to work on Nokia X Android Store.
