Freescale is powering the Ford Sync system called MyFord Touch, there is an i.MX51 processor in there and Windows CE based user interfaces and features providing in-car system for the Ford cars. This type of ARM Powered solution for the car, voice activated, is becoming a large part of what allows car makers to differentiate their cars in the market.
Category: Exclusive videos
Honeycomb user interface demo
I’m not really supposed to try to film this, but here it is. I try to click around in this pre-release Honeycomb Motorola Xoom tablet pre-production prototype instead of only letting it play the animated prepared UI videos from the gallery. Google is doing some awesome work in making software optimized for tablets. Like Archos has been doing it, they decided there’s no need for hardware Android buttons on Tablets. Other aspects of this UI suggests UI design that’s really being designed for high resolution touch screen devices.
Nvidia Project Denver
Posted by – January 6, 2011
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announces Nvidia Project Denver. Nvidia is investing big time in ARM Processor development. As Tegra1 and Tegra2 have already been quite huge contribution to the ARM ecosystem, now Nvidia is announcing it’s next big project called Project Denver, to build ARM Processors not only for Mobile Computing applications, but also for full desktop computing, cloud computing servers and even for super computers.
Related articles
- Project Denver: Nvidia Is Finally Making Its Own Processor [Nvidia] (gizmodo.com)
- Nvidia unveils ‘Denver,’ its first CPU for PCs (infoworld.com)
- Project Denver puts Windows on Nvidia chips (ces.cnet.com)
- NVIDIA chief confirms Windows coming to ARM chips (electronista.com)
- NVIDIA’s “Project Denver” to Build Custom CPU Cores for Personal Computers & Supercomputers (slashgear.com)
Nvidia’s Mike Rayfield talks Project Denver, Tegra2 devices
Posted by – January 6, 2011
Do you wonder what’s the status of software on the Toshiba AC100, what delayed Tegra2 devices, what to expect from Nvidia Project Denver? Mike Rayfield, General Product Manager of the mobile business unit at Nvidia provides some informations on these things and more. I’ll look for much more informations at the manufacturers booths in the coming days.
Samsung Infuse 4G at CES 2011
Posted by – January 6, 2011
For now they don’t want to show the new Super Amoled Plus screen yet. And they don’t say on this video if this uses a new Honeycomb or the ARM Cortex-A9 Orion processor already.
LG Smart TV to be ARM Powered
Posted by – January 6, 2011
Interview with a product manager of LG Smart TV about the processor used and software features of LG Smart TV. It may be priced closer to the ARM Powered Apple TV than the Intel Powered Google TV, to be confirmed.
Parrot Asteroid Android powered car radio/hands-free Bluetooth kit
Posted by – January 5, 2011
Here’s a new hands-free Bluetooth kit, voice activated, with 4 USB hosts and a line in audio jack, high quality audio, support for USB 3G dongles, it runs a customized version of Android on an ARM9 processor, uses a 3.2″ screen, it support installing third party applications. They are also showing a version of their Android in-car system on a 4.3″ touch screen for in-car navigation support as well.
Lenovo LePad Qualcomm Snapdragon Tablet U1 that docks in Intel core i5 laptop
The Lenovo ARM Powered tablet is $500 and the optional Intel laptop dock part is something like $800. Lenovo had shown this last year with a previous Snapdragon and Thunderbird’s customized Ubuntu Linux on the ARM part which I filmed then, but now they updated the ARM part to Android 2.2 on Qualcomm’s 8X50A is 1.3ghz 45nm processor (which they might upgrade to Qualcomm’s dual-core processor by the time this tablet comes out with Android Honeycomb), they say it’ll upgrade to Honeycomb, and it uses Lenovo’s LeAndroid UI layer (similar to LePhone UI that is available on the Chinese market, notice Paul Otelinni at Lenovo’s Aquanox party in the background of my last year’s LePhone video) as default home replacement.
Related articles
- Lenovo to Show First Tablets at CES (pcworld.com)
- Lenovo tablet line to be out in full force at CES (arstechnica.com)
- Lenovo to show first tablets at CES (infoworld.com)
- Lenovo bringing two tablets to CES 2011: U1 Hybrid resurrected? (slashgear.com)
Toshiba Tegra2 Tablet at CES 2011
Posted by – January 5, 2011
Unnamed for now, it’ll be released once Honeycomb is open sourced and available for others than Motorola for implementation. It’s got a 1280×800 capacitive 10.1″ touch screen, 5 megapixel camera and more. It’s being developed by a different group at Toshiba than the one working on the Folio-100 tablet that I filmed at IFA about 4 months ago.
Related articles
- Toshiba Announces Tegra 2-Powered Honeycomb Tablet, Lets Its Name Remain A Mystery (androidpolice.com)
- Toshiba Tegra 2 Tablet Gears up for CES 2011; Release Likely During First Half of This Year (devicemag.com)
- Toshiba Hasn’t Finished With Its Tegra 2 Android Tablets [Tablets] (gizmodo.com)
- Toshiba announces unnamed Tegra 2-powered Android tablet, waits only for Honeycomb (engadget.com)
- Toshiba Tegra 2 Android Honeycomb tablet gets pre-CES preview (slashgear.com)
- Toshiba previews Honeycomb tablet, won’t ship until June (electronista.com)
Welcome to Las Vegas CES 2011 coverage
Posted by – January 5, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, CES
Subscribe to my YouTube channel and refresh my RSS feed for lots of awesome upcoming CES 2011 video coverage of the best ARM Powered devices to be shown. The CES Unveiled event starts in a few minutes, expect a bunch of videos from there.
Rockchip RK2818 and RK29 demonstrated and explained
Posted by – December 27, 2010
Rockchip released their next generation of ARM9 based processor RK2818 and are teasing their next generation ARM Cortex-A8 RK29 to be shown by CES. RK2818 can be made with up to 1ghz frequency, supports more and faster RAM memory, comes with a fast DSP and GPU core to accelerate graphics and user interfaces. This new Rockchip processor makes it possible to run up to Android 2.1 on cheaper tablets such as the new $149 (possibly $179 with margins) capacitive Archos 7 Home Tablet v2, and have them perform better for web browsing than their previous generation ARM9 RK2808 processor, video playback and other things are also improved. Rockchip’s next gen RK29, to be showcased at CES, they say is ARM Cortex-A8 better than Apple A4, with 1080p encode/decode, 30 million triangles.
Salim Ismail, Executive Director of the Singularity University at LeWeb 2010
Posted by – December 26, 2010
At the Singularity University in Silicon Valley, 80 students in 2010 (picked out of 1600 worldwide applicants) study futures, law, finance, networks, biotechnology, nanotechnology, medicine, robotics, energy and space to prepare for that point of singularity when artificial intelligence meets human intelligence.
Find out exactly what is going on at the Singularity University at http://youtube.com/singularityu and http://singularityu.org you can also watch Salim Ismail presentation at LeWeb here.
John Ham, Founder of Ustream.tv at LeWeb 2010
Posted by – December 26, 2010
John Ham discusses interactivity for live video streaming, infrastructure scaling for high quality video streaming and other upcoming features of http://ustream.tv such as pay-per-view.
Joe Green, Co-Founder and President of Causes.com at LeWeb 2010
Posted by – December 25, 2010
Joe Green co-founded Causes.com with Sean Parker who founded Napster, the guy played by Justin Timberlake in the recent Facebook movie “The Social Network”. Causes.com allows anyone to use their Facebook and Twitter friends and followers to raise funds for any kinds of organizations. You can also watch his presentation of causes.com on stage at LeWeb with Loic LeMeur.
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com at LeWeb 2010
Posted by – December 15, 2010
If you have an idea to create a competitor to Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia or Google, but you lack the programming talent, you can still do like Kevin Rose did to start Digg.com, what Steve Jobs did to start Apple and what Bill Gates did to start Microsoft, you can just have someone else do all the programming work for you for cheap! Now that we have the Internet, why not hire someone to do it for those $500 or so that you have been saving up?
Digg.com was started for $200, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer bought DOS for $50’000 from some guy which basically founded Microsoft, Steve Jobs convinced his programming friend Steve Wozniak to code the Apple OS inspired by ideas they got from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for “free”, some claim Mark Zuckerberg was hired as a freelance programmer for $1000 to program facebook (then possibly to have been called harvardconnection) before he decided it was too good and kept it for himself (something like that).
What do you think of the potential of outsourcing work using Freelancer.com or other such online freelancing sites? Can those sites also be used to connect freelancers in your local areas if you want to actually meet the freelancer face to face? What do you think is the potential to create a successful startup based on a small investment through freelancer.com or such site? What do you think is the value of an idea compared to the programming talent necessary to build it? What do you think is the risk of you potentially loosing your idea to a freelancer (like Mark Zuckerberg) if they find out that the idea is too good and they decide to keep it or duplicate it?
Super-Marmite.com is a Social Marketplace for homemade Meals
Posted by – December 13, 2010
What if you could buy a cheap meal from someone cooking extra portions of some healthy meal in your neighborhood instead of having to go to an unhealthy fast food restaurant? This startup won the “1st Prize for Originality” at LeWeb 2010 in Paris. The public also likes the idea a lot.
Renault Twizy electric car presented by Matthieu Tenenbaum at LeWeb 2010
Posted by – December 13, 2010
This compact french-design electric car is to be released about a year from now, it has a range enough for use in cities, and the size is in between scooter and small car, easy to park, it’s actually a two-seater. It can even be configured to be driven without a drivers licence. This is an interview with Matthieu Tenenbaum who is Renault’s deputy program director for all of Renault’s electric vehicles including the Twizy.
Pierre Chappaz on what is going on with Wikileaks
Posted by – December 13, 2010
At LeWeb 2010 there was an interesting Media Panel about the status of Wikileaks. This video features more from the point of view of French entrepreneur Pierre Chappaz who founded Kelkoo and Wikio.
Shai Agassi at LeWeb 2010
Posted by – December 12, 2010
Project Better Place wants to eliminate oil within a few years, in partnership with Renault and other car makers, they are about to mass produce electric cars, Better Place is building out the infrastructure to switch batteries and to charge. You can watch the full Q&A video here. You can also watch Shai Agassi’s recent interview on the Charlie Rose show and on Morning Joe.
Test Driving a Renault Fluence Gen2 electric car in Paris!
Posted by – December 11, 2010
This is an impressive “full sized” electric car by Renault, soon to be released to hundreds of thousands of consumers in Denmark and Israel, it may be one of the first electric cars to be mass produced! I am a big fan of project Better Place, and I am really looking forward to mass adoption of electric cars all over the world. The driver in this video is Stephan Ehrhardt, race car pilot instructor consultant at Europa-First and car specialist.
