Freescale is showing the next generation i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 based in-car infotainment system. Freescale promises to provide 15 years of support for the chip, meaning that car manufacturers can feel confident using the i.MX6 in cars and airplanes, as it takes multiple years to make those, Freescale promises to still manufacture the same processor 15 years from now. They optimize features for cars such as using sensors and cameras for better car safety. Freescale is a global leader in producing processors used in cars.
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Phaeton DVIP $200 Android Watch uses MTK6516 with dual-SIM
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Shenzhen Phaeton Nice Electronic High-Tech Manufacturing Co Ltd is showing this Android Watch shown at CES 2012. It supports 2 SIM GPRS/voice cards on the MTK6516 processor, soon they’ll use the faster 3G-enabled MTK6573 processor. For now it’s Froyo, the MTK6573 may support Ice Cream Sandwich soon, to be confirmed. So this is not just an Android watch, thanks to the Mediatek processor, it can replace your smartphone. It has a built-in camera, MicroSD card slot, speaker, microphone and more. It uses a 2″ 320×240 QVGA capacitive touch screen, standby battery can be about 1 week, 36 hours active use, to be confirmed. The price is just $200 for bulk orders, minimum order quantity of 500. They also show a $70 1.5″ feature phone watch and a
Kente shows $185 Galaxy Note clone and $133 Galaxy S2 clone, mediatek MTK6573 based
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Check out these nice looking cheap Android phones, using the MTK6573 ARM11 650Mhz processor, the performance is decent and it supports HSDPA 3G as well as a second GPRS/voice 2G SIM card. The price is about $185 for the Galaxy Note clone with a 5″ LCD screen, and $133 for the Galaxy S2 clone. The company is soon going to provide the same design based on the Qualcomm MSM7227 HSPA enabled ARM11 processor. Consider those prices are only for bulk orders of 1000 units or more, can be negotiated. The quality of these new Mediatek MTK6573 based Android phones seems great for the price!
MobilTab Sleek Android Tablet
Posted by – January 17, 2012
The MobilTab Sleek uses the Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 overclocked at 1.5Ghz, 7″ capacitive 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, they are for now merging some of the UI features of Gingerbread, Honeycomb and ICS, upgrading to ICS when available for the processor. They have a WiFi-only and HSPA+ version available.
Pixel Qi at CES 2012
The 1280×800 10.1″ Pixel Qi screen is ready, here it is demonstrated under a bright spotlight simulating the sun as well as in some prototypes of upcoming Android tablets. Founder, CEO and inventor Mary Lou Jepsen talks about the latest news from Pixel Qi, where they are going, what they are up to.
Panasonic HC-X900M
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Panasonic is launching this new camcorder with a new 4K2K sensor but still recording using a 1080p engine. It has many new improved features such as the optics, rendering, colors, clarity and more.
I filmed 3 samples using different bitrate settings using the camera which you can see and download below.
1080i Highest Quality: Download the sample
1080p 60fps Highest Quality: Download the sample
1080i Lowest Bitrate: Download the sample
Status of the Raspberry Pi at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Raspberry Pi expects to have volume devices on the market by the end of the month. That means $25 and $35 (with ethernet) Broadcom ARM11 ARM Powered Desktops are thus just about to be broadly available.
Caseinity Cord-On-Board iPhone case at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Here’s a new iPhone case company, funded through Kickstarter, it includes the cable and does an ergonomic shape behind your iPhone.
Blue Times shows $50 HiSilicon 3716 and AmLogic 8726 ARM Cortex-A9 Android Set-top-box
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Blue Times uses the Huawei HiSilicon single-core 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 as well as the single-core AmLogic ARM Corte-A9 for their Android Set-top-box.
Emdoor shows $140 9.7″ and $85 7″ Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 ICS Tablets
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Emdoor Digital Technology Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich working on their Telechips based 7″ capacitive and 9.7″ IPS capacitive based Android tablets.
Augmented Video-blogging Hangout featuring the Kopin Golden-i at CES 2012
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Other, Exclusive videos, Opinions, Texas Instruments, CES, Windows
Here’s a Google+ Hangout recorded while at the Kopin Golden-i reception held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas during CES 2012. Demonstrating and talking about my Augmented Video-blogging using their device, and other uses of this headmounted display device and other news from the CES. You can fast forward to about 34 minutes 40 seconds in for the demo by Motorola Solutions’s Product Lead on the Golden-i, Nicole Tricoukes, explaining how the Golden-i headmounted computer works and what Motorola Solutions plans to target it for when they plan to mass produce it and release it in the second half of the year (you can watch her TEDx presentation)
CES 2012 Monorail Hangout day3
Posted by – January 16, 2012
On the day3 of CES, I streamed and recorded following hangout where I am joined by +Trey Ratcliff and +Samantha Villenave
E Ink On Every Smart Surface
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Exclusive 17-minute interview with E Ink’s CMO at CES, where they showed me a Triton color display for signage with color so saturated that it looked like an LCD except that it was thinner than OLED, sunlight readable, uses no backlights and uses very little power. I also saw the SURF display used in a hand drill which has not been filmed before. The 11.5″ 300DPI eDocument reader made in collaboration with Epson. The Triton color display based Ectaco eReader that had just won the CES innovation award, it is being deployed in Russian schools. New E Ink watches from Phosphor and Seiko. Finally, the Eton Ruckus music player with E Ink display that was launched this week was demonstrated, it is considered to be indestructible.
E Ink has shipped over 25 million E Ink screens for e-readers alone in 2011, that’s up from 10 million screens in 2010 and 4 million screens in 2009. Now E Ink is also working to expand into new markets, signage, appliances, everywhere. The idea is that more and more devices and surfaces may get an E Ink screen on them that thus by being bi-stable can show the informations for a long time without using any battery. While many electronic paper technology companies show samples, E Ink is actually in mass production with monochrome, color and segmented displays and they claim that no technology in the world comes close to the reading experience on E Ink’s displays and these displays are easy on the eyes since they don’t have a shiny background or light emitting backlight.
E Ink also provided me with following amazing video featuring the actual E Ink Pearl roll display material used in Nook, Sony, Kindle etc. The video was shot alongside the Charles river in Cambridge/Boston and you can see MIT (E Ink is MIT spin off) and Boston skyline in the background. The display is a few feet wide and can go one kilometer (it was 500 meters in this video):
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Zenithink shows Android 4.0 ICS on AmLogic tablets
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Zenithink shows $90 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 capacitive 7″ tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich support ($80 for resistive), minimum order is just 50 pieces, the 10.1″ is $160, 7″ 1024×600 for $120.
Feihong shows $130 ICS on Telechips 8803 1.2Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 and $48 ARM11 VIA based tablet
Feihong Industry Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich running on their Telechips 8803 based tablet. They also announce that Telechips is working on a dual-core processor to be released in tablets around March already (to be confirmed by Telechips etc).
Sharp ICC 4K Technology, 1080p to 4K upscaling on 55″ Sharp 4K TV to be released soon
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Sharp is about to mass produce a 4K2K 55″ HDTV. Their secret sauce is the ICC technology (Integrated Cognitive Creation) which is an upscaling technology, somehow sharpening and adding details to 1080p sources to make them look more amazing on the 4K HDTV. With this, people might want to consider re-watching all their Blu-ray movies to re-experience the same 1080p source files in more amazing quality. That until each of the movies are also available in the native 4K2K resolution on Blu-ray, hard drives, streaming and other potential 4K media.
ST Electronics Digisafe, secure hard drive encryption
Posted by – January 15, 2012
ST Electronics show their Digisafe 2.5″ hard drive enclosure that provides 100% secure encription to the enclosed 1.8″ hard drive.
YouTube keynote at CES 2012
Posted by – January 15, 2012
YouTube had a huge keynote by YouTube Content Partnerships manager Robert Kyncl at CES 2012, you can see it in its entirety here. The talk is about the amazing growth of YouTube, web video is about to represent 90% of all Internet bandwidth. YouTube works to monetize more and more of the web video content. I’d like them to overlay affiliated one-click purchases and price comparisons of the products video-blogged. I believe web video is a huge deal, just as it’ll consume 90% of the web’s bandwidth, it will also generate upwards 90% of the web’s and Google’s revenue, profit, learning, information, attention and time spent.
In the following clip, Stan Lee, the creator of the CSI TV show franchise, talks about user generated content on YouTube.
VMware shows smartphone virtualization on the LG Revolution
Posted by – January 15, 2012
VMware now supports a secure enterprise version of Android at the same time as you can run your personal “hackable” version of Android, both on the same device in a fully secure virtualized way.
LiftMaster shows Android and iOS powered Garage Door opener
Posted by – January 15, 2012
You install their garage door motor on your garage door and you install the Android or iOS app on your smartphone and tablets and you can then open and close your garage door over the Internet.
