This is where we are now. The 9″ 16:9 capacitive Android tablet is $61. Based on the super cheap Allwinner A13 (no hdmi) system on chip, this is the assembly and boxing line at the Jia Chuang Bo factory in Shenzhen China. Make sure to watch all my Shenzhen Factory videos in my Shenzhen Factory blog category.
Here’s Kingdom’s i.MX6 tablet, this one is on a 1024×600 screen, they also have a 1280×800 IPS version for $10 more. They also do $102 7″ 1024×600 RK3066 and $126 10.1″ 1024×600 and the 1280×800 IPS version for $10 more.
Foldable bluetooth keyboards are really useful when used with tablets and smartphones, text input on this keyboard is 4x faster than on-screen keyboard, at least for me. So if I need to write medium to long texts, I’d always rather use a foldable bluetooth keyboard like this. In this video, Vicro shows their newest thinner foldable bluetooth keyboard. Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair.
A Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 in an HDMI stick like the Hi-802 is high performance stuff! The trick is to try to demonstrate how to get use of that extra power. Here we try to show off some XBMC (even though it seems or we guess video codecs in xbmc aren’t hardware accelerated on i.MX6 yet), we show the cool Mele RF remote (that can be bought as an option eventually), we show some of the advanced display settings and more. This device is to be available for $89 including worldwide Hong Kong Air Post (5-10 day) shipping on the ARMdevice.net Members Store when this device becomes available by the end of the month.
Hiapad’s Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core tablet on 10.1″ 1280×800 IPS screen is ready! This device is to be available for $199 excluding $30 worldwide DHL/EMS fast shipping on the ARMdevice.net Members Store when it starts to become available by the end of the month.
Here’s another new ARM Processor, the UVchip UV6131, I’m not sure if it’s ARM Cortex-A8 or A9, please let me know in the comments if you can find more information about this processor. This Android set-top-box also includes a battery to function as a power bank.
This is perhaps the market’s first Qualcomm MSM8225 dual-core ARM Cortex-A5 S4 Play tablet on the market. It’s to be available for $249 including worldwide DHL fast shipping on the ARMdevices.net Members Store.
Here’s a discussion with Rockchip’s TV Division Sales Manager demonstrating the range of different styles for HDMI Sticks based on the Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 and RK2908 single core ARM Cortex-A8 processors.
Skyworth sold over 800 thousand (600 thousand in consumers hands, 200 thousand in transit) of this Rockchip RK2918 Android Tablet to the Indonesian market, it comes with EVDO 3G support on an Indonesian carrier. It’s sold for about $150 as retail price.