Here’s an interview with Nico Zhao (President) and Brian Xia (CEO), the co-founders of Shenzhen MELE Digital Technology Ltd. They talk about how they started Mele making ARM7 and embedded Linux in hard drive based portable media players for the Aigo brand in 2004, after 2006/2007, Mele enabled the Realtek MIPS based Set-top-box market by adopting that Realtek processor for the multimedia player box (switching from Sigma Designs) and then how they’ve shifted to using ARM processors in the last year or two to run Android on their latest series of TV Set-top-boxes and bringing a whole range of new features with that.
Gennie Peng of Mele shows around the Mele Shenzhen Headquarters Management Offices as well as Mele’s research and development, hardware, software, mechanical design, graphic design, testing, quality control and more. Also showing the CEO, President, Sales Manager offices, HR, Finance and everything else. Mele is a lead Allwinner A31/A20/A10 TV Box maker, probably one of the worldwide leaders in that ARM Powered Set-top-box segment.
Mele is probably one of the worlds biggest ARM Powered Android Set-top-box makers in the world. They manufacture up to 500 thousand Android ARM Set-top-boxes per month. On this Mele factory tour, 8 floors, 10 thousand square meters, One floor is for Management, one floor is for R&D the other floors are for the Factory. This tour shows the SMT lines that are gearing up to mass produce Allwinner A31, A20 PCBs that go in Mele’s next generation Android Set-top-boxes. The next floor tour features the factory assembly lines, where the Mele factory workers are assembling the latest Mele Android set-top-boxes. Finally, this tour also shows Mele’s storage area for packed Set-top-boxes to ship as well as storage area for components before assembly.
Euro Maestro shows around the Next Berlin conference and talks about some of the latest topics in technology that he posts about on Google+ and on his other social networks.
Innex shows a whole range of licensed designs for small toys featuring Nintendo characters, Hello Kitty, Star Wars and many other, game consoles that play original NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, wireless N64 and SNES remotes, portable SNES and Sega Genesis player and they are teasing a new home console that they’ll release at E3 next month.
Here’s a tour of the ICOO Tablet factory, it’s on a Saturday so their 150 workers are at home. They make Rockchip RK3066, Allwinner A31, A31S, A20, A13 for $48, ATM7029 and many other devices in this factory, they can output up to 2000 tablets per day.
Shenzhen Jia Chuang Bo Technology Ltd. provides professional OEM and ODM services to the tablet industry. They have a number of Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Lines, some of which are constantly dedicated to the manufacture of well-known namebrands. The video provides a nice visual overview of the company’s manufacuring process – beginning with SMT lines to make the PCBA, After Welding (ie. soldering), PCBA Testing, Assembly Line, Packaging Line, QA Testing, and a final Aging Area. They were showing a number of their products – including an Actions 7029 quad-core with an IPS screen (1024 x 800), with an MOQ of 1K pieces it sells for $130. Another device incorporating 3G with an Allwinner A10 processor and IPS screen for $143 at an MOQ of 1K. Going forward, they are primarily focusing on Dual and Quad core designs. A 7″ design with 3G, IPS, Allwinner A10 and a similar configuration was quoted at $96. They offered sleek, sturdy looking metal case designs. The company’s customer base is heavily concentrated in Asia, with secondary sales to Europe. The company has a good description of their products and services at http://www.jcbkj.com/.
Sunlike (H.K.) International Electronic Limited are showing their own custom Android user interface, made for education and game purposes.
This custom UI will also be available on their VIA 8850 Android HDMI-stick costing $31 with the custom UI, $25 without the UI. The company also produces 8” tablet equipped with Actions Quad-Core processor, costing $100.
The company also sells Android laptops based on the VIA 8850 processor, 17,3” laptops based on Intel solution and Android game tablet based on Sunplus processor.
Other types of products the company is developing are music players designed for children and all kinds of speaker products.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
iBen shows their Game Pad L1-C, their latest Android based Game console based on A31 at $150 and MOQ is 5k pcs, they claim to sold more than 20k pcs to Europe, Russia and other asian countries.It has Emulator built-in to play many other platform games too.they also have game console with two left/right joysticks too to explore many more control games too at around 150 usd and may be available to sell by May/June 2013. They are also planning to launch with Allwinner A31S quad-core based game console.They have 7inch A20 dual core at $110 right now and A10 for $100.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
Hong kong based WAVIM shows Android/iOS operated wireless Tanks with camera which has 2 hours of back and wifi and bluetooth built in and can view camera from you mobile phone and tablet from android or apple ios.they also offered bleutooth based tank but that is without camera .they have nano miniature video monitor tanks too.also offers baby monitor with wifi and bluetooth.they are currently selling Europe for 119-149€.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
Singapore based Gajah technology shows 5 new product line includes power charger ,wireless chargers and power banks.they have R&D center in shenzhen and have wireless speaker,alerm clock speaker, bluetooth speaker with NFC function. as others they have also Allwinner A31 based tablet pc with special UI.they claim they have their own UI for tablet PC.they have quad-core chipset starting range from 98 to 130 usd with IPS screen. and 1GB RAM .They also have 7inch dual core MTK with 3G and GPS for 97USD.they have 200 people in shenzhen office.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
Danijel Kurincic designs interactions between people and systems. Officialy a freelancer now. Still works for D.Labs, but also on a gamedev project talks about his UX Design Workshop at Next Berlin.
Germany’s largest TV station Pro7/Sat.1 invests in what they find to be promising web start-ups by providing those start-ups in Germany TV ad space in exchange for a minority share in the start-up company stock.
Check here for some very cheap Camera accessories. Shenzhen Number King Tech Co. (NBK) makes inexpensively priced camera accessories including batteries, microphones (wired and wireless), as well as flashes. Their (non-exploding) universal battery charger handles camcorder batteries, AA, AAA and sells for less than $10. This is a MUST see video if you are into cameras.
Especially useful during the transition to Windows 8 on Laptops and Desktops, Yifang has developed a digital pen to turn your regular screen into a touch screen. The pen sends signals to a receiver, which simulates touch screen interactions. The units have been mass produced since October 2012. The product sells in Japan, Europe and the United States. The price is $80 and works for screens smaller than 26″.
Shenzhen adreamer technology co.ltd. shows latest cortex A7 Allwinner A31s quad core tablet with new slimmer design and also shows Allwinner A10 based 7inch tablet for education purpose and specially for kids,they called it as CAT but do not know why, .they are producing 30k pcs tablet per month mainly sell to European and south america and they only do OEM.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013