The Rockchip offices in Shenzhen are top secret, hundreds of engineers work there, I have not yet gotten the permission to film with the engineers nor to film further than the entrance, but I’ll try to get that permission again in a week or two.
Category: Exclusive videos
Yooe MT6575 phone now selling
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This is the 5″ WVGA MT6575 phone, now selling out of Shenzhen for around $200. For now it’s a bit expensive (it should be closer to $150) perhaps because it’s not yet in full mass production.
Ramos W17Pro miumiu, AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This 7″ MiuMiu tablet design seems nice featuring the new AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 procesor with a Mali-400 GPU.
Yuandao Window N90, Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core based
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This is the new dual-core RK3066 9.7″ IPS tablet from http://yuandaocn.com. I previously filmed this review of the previous RK2918 based 5″ N5Zero from the same company.
VIA WonderMedia WM8850, ARM Cortex-A9 in a Tablet
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This is the latest ARM platform from VIA, this time it’s ARM Cortex-A9, single-core up to 1.2Ghz with a Dual-core Mali-400 GPU.
MT6575 Cutepad 5″ phone
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This one does’t run ICS yet, but there may be an ICS firmware update for it somewhere online.
I’m back in Shenzhen! Here getting ICS installed on my Zopo ZP100 MT6575
Posted by – May 24, 2012
As I am going to be video-blogging the latest advances in Linux on ARM at the Linaro Connect Hong Kong conference next week, I just landed a few days early so that I can now again video-blog the latest news out of Shenzhen. It’s appropriate for me to video-blog the latest news in Shenzhen, monthly don’t you think? In this video, I got the Zopo staff at the Zopo store on Hua Qiang Bei Shenzhen to update the firmware on my Zopo ZP100 MT6575 ARM Cortex-A9 based phone because I had a hard time figuring out how to do it looking at the Chinese-only http://bbs.zopomobile.com (see how they talk on that forum about a re-upload onto Youku of my original Zopo ZP100 video) ICS seems to be extremely smooth on the MediaTek MT6575, I’m going to ask Zopo in the days to come what they expect to do about reaching the European, US markets and worldwide with this phone. Check back in the days to come for the latest news from Shenzhen as I’m hearing about an upcoming Dual-core MediaTek MT6577 to be in an upcoming Huawei 4.5″ low cost super phone (the rumor is 1499rmb = $237), the i.MX6 is being worked on by Shenzhen based PCB design houses, Rockchip is very close to take large market share for tablets out of Shenzhen with their new Dual-core RK3066 platform. Check back on http://ARMdevices.net for a lot of new videos about those. Let me know in the comments what you would like me to film and do in Shenzhen. I have some big plans to finally do something about group buys (through reliable and trusted Shenzhen based device makers and sellers) and I plan to launch some new special features here on http://ARMdevices.net during the next days and weeks so check back.
Opera Mini 7 and Opera Mobile 12
Posted by – May 13, 2012
Opera is being used by millions of people worldwide. Here’s the latest in Opera Mobile browsers technology. Opera Mini provides Internet access to hundreds of millions of feature phone users throughout the developing world, emerging economies, worldwide, and Opera Mobile is likely the third party browser of choice for smartphones. As smartphones become cheaper and cheaper, feature phones may quickly get replaced by cheap smartphones, Opera mobile merges Mini and Mobile to provide server-side web page compression and fast rendering technologies for a growing number of users worldwide.
The Shenzhen Speakers Factory
Posted by – April 23, 2012
Is this my best video yet? This is a same factory that is soon going to switch to assembling MediaTek MT6575 Android Ice Cream Sandwich phones. I hereby offer you an exclusive look inside the assembly line, see the people that build your speakers in Shenzhen China.
In the part 1 of this Shenzhen Factory Tour, I enter the Shenzhen Factory, walk around the lobby and meeting rooms before walking over to a part of the assembly line.
$49 Boxchip A10 7″ resistive tablet available now
Posted by – April 23, 2012
You can buy this tablet for $49 each at retail in Shenzhen, but it’s with a resistive dual-touch screen at that price. If you wait a month or two, the capacitive Boxchip A13 tablets will be at the same price or even lower.
Views of Hong Kong at night
Posted by – April 23, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos
Thus far I posted over 120 videos from my 2 weeks of video-blogging at the Electronics fairs in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou China. Check back for more http://ARMdevices.net news coming up!
There are lots of boats in Hong Kong. Here we’re on one that goes from the HKTDC Electronics Fair on Hong Kong Island to Tsim Sha Shui where there are more choices for restaurants.
ICS on 5″ MediaTek MT6575 Dolphin A80 phone
Posted by – April 23, 2012
I run the Antutu and Quadrant benchmarks (comparing those with my OMAP4460 Galaxy Nexus) on this 5″ MT6575 Android phone that has just gotten the latest beta Android 4 ICS firmware loaded onto it in Shenzhen China. This prototype is just pre-mass production, and the ICS software for the MediaTek MT6575 is beta for testing. Mass production and full production software may be ready by the end of this month. Check back later for more news on this phone and on the performance of ICS on MT6575 devices as I expect to have this and other MT6575 samples to do reviews of the latest MediaTek ICS performance. http://www.yooe.com.cn is selling this phone for sub-$150 when bought in bulk. The MT6575 single-core ARM Cortex-A9 with ICS support is bringing quite good performance to the cheap new Android phones coming out of China.
