Category: Samsung

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

Posted by – September 4, 2013

Samsung releases their latest Galaxy Note 10.1 with a Qualcomm S800 or an Exynos 5 processor inside.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 launch at IFA 2013

Posted by – September 4, 2013

Samsung releases latest Galaxy Note 3.

Samsung Galaxy Gear launch at IFA 2013

Posted by – September 4, 2013

Samsung’s new Smartwatch at its launch event.

Rich Electronics Android Smart TV Products


Rich Electronics is a producer of Smart Tv products that are primarily based on the Android platform.
Products Include:
Future Samsung Cortex A15 Smart Tv Box.

Rk3188 Smart Tv box. The price is around 55-60 USD 2000 units and 47-48 USD for 1,000 units.

RK3066 USB Stick for unspecified price.

Android Rockchip 3188 HDMI Stick. The price is 47 USD for 1,000 units.

Debetter Mobile Devices

Posted by – August 28, 2013

Dbetter is a producer tablet solutions that come in many shapes and sizes. The sell 150,000 tablets per month. They primarily sell Samsung based solutions but they also offer Rockchip and MTK solutions.
Products Include:
3g 7″ mtk8377 Tablet for 92 USD.

Actions 7″ wvga Android Tablet.

10″ wsvga Android tablet with Quad Core Samsung processor. The price is 170 USD.

7″ Quad core Exynoes. The price is 110 USD.

Gosund UPAD Android Tablets

Posted by – August 15, 2013

Gosund Group is a Shenzhen based producer of Android tablets and they have been around since 2007. They sell around 40,000 Tablets each month. More information about the company can be found at http://www.gosund.com/
Products Include:
7″ IPS Android tablet with Dual Core RK3066 with built in 3G. The price is 128 USD.

7″ IPS Android Tablet with Exynos 4412 without 3G. The price is 112 USD.

10.1″ 1280×800 Android Tablet with Rockchip RK3188. The price is 150 USD.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
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Smartdevices SmartQ shows latest OMAP4 and Exynos5 based Tablets


SmartQ is a producer of Android Tablets. They have produced devices in the past such as the Linux based SmartQ V5 or the T20. More information can be found at http://en.smartdevices.com.cn/
Products Include:
SmartQ U7 is a 7″ Android Tablet with Omap 4 processor and built in projector. They sell around 2,000 of these every month. The price is around 240 USD each for 1,000 units.

SmartQ T30 a 10.1″ 1280×800 Android tablet with Omap 4 processor. This t30 is around 6 months old and will be replaced with by the t40 with a 10.1 1920×1200 screen and Exynos 5 processor.

SmartQ Ten5 with 9.7″ retina screen and very thin bezel with Exynos 5 2ghz processor.

SmartQ N10 a not yet released pressure sensitive pen. SmartQ wouldn’t specify the pen type but it appears to we from N-Trig.


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ARMdevices.net Shenzhen Sourcing Service launched


Do you need help/advice sourcing bulks of devices out of Shenzhen? You can now get support and sourcing service from me at http://138.2.152.197/sourcing/ and from my new team of experts in Shenzhen to connect you with the best prices, the best quality, the most reliable Shenzhen factories making Tablets, HDMI Sticks, Smartphones, Laptops, Wearables and any of the other emerging devices from the Shenzhen tech market.

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Samsung Exynos 5420 Octa announced, Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 and ARM Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE with Six-core ARM Mali-T628 GPU

Posted by – July 23, 2013
Category: Opinions, Samsung, Android

Samsung is ready with their upgraded ARM big.LITTLE ARM Cortex-A15/A7 processor, now peaking at perhaps 1.8Ghz in A15 and 1.3Ghz in A7, perhaps peaking at 14.9Gbit/s in memory bandwidth with the ARM Mali-T628 MP6 GPU.

Samsung may use this in their next high-end products, here’s what we can hope Samsung ships it in:

1. New Samsung ARM Chromebooks, faster performance, longer battery life, better screens and priced still below $250 but some higher-end luxury Chromebook Pixel quality $400-$500 ARM Chromebooks from Samsung I think are probably also welcome. Samsung should push for major sales of $99-$149 ARM big.LITTLE Chromeboxes, to take over most of the Desktop PC market. Make it in a beautiful compact near HDMI Stick sized Chromebox, amaze everyone. Performance good enough for 95% of desktop and laptop computing needs and Chrome OS is perfect for it?

2. Galaxy S4 Plus Ultra? The diversity in S4 on Octa for “rest of world” and S4 on Qualcomm S600 for Europe/USA has been kind of confusing. How does a newer Samsung S4 perform with this chip?

3. New Galaxy Note 3?

4. New Galaxy Tabs?

5. Could Samsung possibly supply all other hardware makers with this new Octa also? I think all Laptop/Desktop makers are desperate to get a good big.LITTLE in their Chromebooks, Chromeboxes, I think competitors want big.LITTLE in phonesl, does Samsung want to supply Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Gigabyte, Quanta, Foxconn, Google Motorola, HTC, Sony, does Samsung want to supply all those companies or should they be left to use Qualcomm, Nvidia and other for their near-term ARM Cortex-A15 demand? I guess this question may have to do with Samsung’s production capacity and their corporate strategy to keep their supply for their own brand with maximized corporate exclusivity in maximizing profit margins.

I look forward to learn more about how Samsung is using the Mali-T628 GPU for this SoC, which are the possibilities for GPGPU, GPU Computing, what are the new Open GL 3.0 possibilities in Android? How can it speed up Chrome OS? What can Ubuntu do with it? What’s Samsung’s yield? When are we seeing more of their big.LITTLE? How big is it going to be?

Read more at http://www.anandtech.com/show/7164/samsung-exynos-5-octa-5420-switches-back-to-arm-gpu

$118 Kingdom SuperPad FlyTouch 9, $186 10.1″ Exynos4412, A31, RK3188 and more


Shenzhen Kingdom shows their latest range of quad-core tablets, and their SuperFly Touchpad 9 10 inch on RK3066 for $118. They show their latest RK3188 tablet also, their stable Exynos 4412 tablet, Allwinner A31 is also in there. They can peak at making 2000 tablets per day but are currently just making about 500 tablets per day, mostly selling in Europe.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

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Beneve Exynos 4412 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 Tablet for $321


Beneve shows some Exynos4412 tablets that are now selling around $321 in China. They also show an Android home replacement UI in the iOS style.

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Ramos X1 and X10 on Exynos5250 ARM Cortex-A15 and other devices with Actions quad-core, Exynos 4412 and more

Posted by – April 16, 2013

Ramos shows their latest range of tablets, including the Ramos X1 that uses the Samsung Exynos5250 ARM Cortex-A15 processor, a bunch of Actions ATM7029 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 and they even show an Intel Atom tablet.

Exynos5250 tablet from BEAN Shenzen Kehuitong Electrical

Posted by – April 14, 2013

9.7″ retina display, Samsung Exynos 5250 tablet with android 4.0.4, possible 7″ version. 9.7-10.1(?)”allwinner a31 ($155 USD) tablet. 8″ allwinner a20 ($50-60 USD). This company sell 200k tablets per month and employs 800 factory workers. thanks earl for the title/description.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

Freelander Link-Create Factory Tour, A31, Exynos4412, MT6577 tablets and phones

Posted by – April 11, 2013

Freelander Link-Create manufactures about 2000 tablets or/and phones per day in this factory in Shenzhen China. Freelander makes and sells a whole range of Allwinner A31, Exynos 4412, MediaTek MT6577/6589 and other tablets and smartphones. But they were just making some MediaTek and Exynos based tablets the day (week-end) I was there. Check back for more on Freelander at http://ARMdevices.net in the next few days. I’m going to try to visit their factory again also while there are more people working making some of these newer devices.

$400 Meizu MX2, 4.4″ 1280×800 Exynos4412

Posted by – March 11, 2013

Here is Meizu’s latest flagship smartphone, running on the Exynos4412 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and using a new 4.4″ 1280×800 LCD display.

ARM Chromebooks at Linaro Connect 2013

Posted by – March 6, 2013

Riku Voipio of Linaro, Andrew Wafaa of ARM, Olof Johannson of Google, Sonny Rao of Google and Marcin Juszkiewicz of Linaro talk about hacking and using the full performance of the ARM Powered Samsung Chromebook to run Ubuntu, Debian, Open Suse on this ARM Powered laptop, talking about how much the Mali-T604 is being used in this ARM Powered Chrome OS, which feature improvements the ARM Powered Chromebook may get to possibly improve battery life, and a bit about the possibility of running Chromium OS or Chrome OS on older/cheaper ARM Powered laptops such as ARM Cortex-A9 and previous.

ARM Mali-T604 GPU Compute Renderscript and Open GL


ARM demonstrates GPU Computing on the new ARM Mali-T604 GPU, rendering graphical features, filters, encoding, processing certain things much faster and using much less power by processing those things on the GPU instead of on the CPU.

ARM Mali-T604 Graphics performance beyond 1080p


ARM runs the Epic Citadel benchmark at 55fps at 2560×1600 (4 megapixels = 2x 1080p) on the Mali-T604 while on Intel’s latest mobile platform, that same benchmark runs 10fps slower at a resolution of only 1280×720 (less than 4x lower resolution?). ARM also shows the improvements when using the Mali-T604 with Open GL ES 3.0 which hopefully is soon going to be added in Android, providing higher quality 3D graphics features.

FXI Technologies, on the history and status of inventing the HDMI Stick

Posted by – March 3, 2013

FXI Technologies invented the HDMI Stick, first having shown their Cotton Candy for the first time in November 2011. Here running on the Samsung Exynos 4 processor. They now have 250 partners working on the device, integrating their ideas, technology and applications, providing and upgrading their own solutions, they have hundreds of developers developing solutions and applications for it. They expect to have the Ubuntu platform ready by the end of March. FXI Tech inspired all other SoC vendors and device makers to integrate all other SoCs into HDMI sticks since then.

My interview on nomobile.ru


At Mobile World Congress 2013 the nomobile.ru guys interviewed me showing off my video-blogging setup and my latest gadgets. I wasn’t able to use the Kopin Golden-i 3.8 to live augment my video-blogging at MWC because it was stuck in customs.

See more about how I video on my How I video-blog page.

Posted at: nomobile.ru on the nomobile YouTube channel