Martin Riddiford talks about the Psion, which he designed in the 90ies it was a ground-breaking PDA design with a full mechanical qwerty keyboard. Trying to combine laptop functions in a pocketable size. In partnership with Planet Computers, Martin Riddiford is happy to have been able to bring back the full keyboard design in with Android on the Gemini PDA and now into the upcoming Cosmo Communicator design that is now being crowdfunded for $549 on https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator
Category: Exclusive videos
Martin Riddiford interview, designer of Psion, Gemini PDA, Cosmo Communicator
Posted by – November 6, 2018
$549 Cosmo Communicator interview, now on Indiegogo
Posted by – November 6, 2018
Planet Computers launches the Cosmo Communicator for $549 for early backers at Indiegogo, powered by MediaTek P70 Octa-core quad ARM Cortex-A73, quad ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-G72 MP3 GPU, on TSMC 12nm FinFET. It comes with WorldMode LTE dual-SIM (one is likely eSIM) support. Strong antenna with good signal, and now it also comes with a second 2″ touchscreen display, a toggle switch with fingerprint reader, a 24 megapixel high quality front facing camera with flash, and a backlit keyboard. The CPU is thus a performance upgrade over Gemini PDA, it also comes with 6GB RAM, 128GB Flash, MicroSD card slot, headphone jack, dual Type-C ports, dual speakers and microphones and a 4220mAh battery. Planet Computers shipped over 9500 Gemini PDAs to their backers over the past several months which I filmed here previously I have been using Gemini PDA as my main phone over the past 7 months and it has been an awesome experience. The backlight keyboard, fingerprint authentication, high quality back facing camera, improved phone calls support, better signal reception with a stronger processor, all these things are very welcome in their new flagship. Planet Computers intends to continue selling both Gemini PDA and Osmo Communicator as two in their range of devices available for 2019, with continued support and software updates coming on both. In this video they show a working Android 8.0.1 firmware on Gemini PDA and they are talking about Project Trebble, Android 9, new Sailfish releases to be supported, hopefully hardware accelerated improved Debian and other Linux distributions also to be supported throughout. Within less than a day, they have already reached more than 200% funding on crowdfunding here on Indiegogo with shipments scheduled for May 2019, as they optimize and develop everything, impressive working samples are going to be shown in the months to come.
World’s Most Powerful ARM Desktop: Marvell ThunderXStation ThunderX2 Workstation
Posted by – November 5, 2018
Gigabyte announces the industry’s first ARMv8 workstation based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARM64 multi-core processor. This 4U workstation is called the ThunderXStation. GIGABYTE has designed and is manufacturing the ThunderXStation. The 4U tower is 27″ (D) x 17″ (H) x 7″ (W) and designed for floor mounting. The power supply included is a 800W PSU with a 1+1 redundant option. The motherboard is a standard GIGABYTE motherboard form factor.
The motherboard includes:
Dual or single ThunderX2 processor support. Optionally with LGA 4077 socket.
Integrated chipset.
8x DIMMs per CPU.
DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz DIMMs.
1x Management LAN 10/100/1000 Mbps.
Integrated VGA, 1920×1200.
ASPEED AST2500 BMC.
2x PCIe Gen 3.0 slots per CPU. (1x x16/x8/x4/x1 AND 1x x8).
1x Type-1 OCP PCIe Gen 3.0 x16 slot per CPU.
2x NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 ports with on board SAS slim line connectors per CPU.
2x SATAIII on board connectors.
2x U.2 or SATAIII 2.5″ drive bay, supports any combination of NVMe and SATAIII SSDs.
1x RS-232 port.
4x USB 3.0 ports.
2x 8-pin GPU power connectors.
Each CPU can support upto 8 DDR4 DIMMs. The front 2.5″ drive bay supports upto 2 drives. An optional 3.5″ storage bay holds 4 drives. Initially, 2.2GHz 32-core 4-threads per core. Other SKUs will be available depending on demand. Various nVidia video cards have been tested with the open source Nouveau driver. Initial shipments include the nVidia GeForce 710 with dual monitor support. The AMDGPU driver has been tested with various AMD GPUs. Additional AMD and nVidia GPUs are being tested. Initial shipments include a 1 GbE PCIe adapter. If standard PCIe slots are in short supply a QLogic dual port 1/10 GBaseT RJ45 OCP adapter and driver are available. Units ship with Ubuntu 17.10. CentOS 7.4 and OpenSUSE are also available. Pricing is competitive with high end single and dual socket workstations from leading name brand workstation vendors with comparable Gold/Platinum processors. For the most upto date pricing and sales information on ThunderXStation please contact: http://www.phoenicselectronics.com
EBBR: Embedded Base Boot Requirements at Linaro Connect
Posted by – November 5, 2018
Standard pre-boot environment and boot sequence for embedded platforms, featuring:
– Upstream support in U-Boot
– UEFI ABI
– Firmware-provided system description (DT)
– Boots generic OS images
By standardizing the boot interfacei, platform specific details don’t need to be encoded into the OS, and the ABI supports portable pre-boot applications for test and boot control, future work will be on the more standard UEFI featured (e.g. Secure Boot).
Android Treble on Texas Instruments Beagle-X15 at Linaro Connect
Posted by – November 5, 2018
Android Treble implemented on TI Beagle-X15 development board which is ARM Cortex-A15, making the upgrade process easier. So there is no need to communicate with the vendor to upgrade a device.
Internet of Tiny Linux, Google IoT on ARM Cortex-A5 memory constrained device
Posted by – November 5, 2018
Nicolas Pitre of Linaro and his team have worked to reduce the size of the Linux kernel and user space binaries to make them suitable for very small IoT applications to enable the Internet of Tiny Linux. Here at Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018, Linaro shows mainline Linux kernel for IoT devices, running with as little as 4MB of RAM here for example Google IoT.
Kodi Playback with Standard V4L2 Stack
Posted by – October 29, 2018
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, AmLogic, Qualcomm, NXP, Broadcom, Linaro Connect
Full upstream implementation of Hardware accelerated video decoding (mainly H264) with the generic V4L2 Mem2Mem API, Zero-copy rendering with DRM Atomic kernel Drivers, DMA-BUF transferred from V4L2 to DRM, FFmpeg V4L2 Mem2Mem integration with Kodi, Kodi GBM Display for Atomic Direct to plane rendering.
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip Unisoc in UCRobotics IVY5661 IoT Edition 96Boards development board
Posted by – October 29, 2018
This is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip solution IoT Edition 96Boards, it can be used as a Wi-Fi Repeater, for Bluetooth on-boarding, Bluetooth 5 Mesh Network. It’s an ARM Cortex-M4 dual core, runs Zephyr. You can read more about it here
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$499 Essential PH-1, the first Bezel-Less Smartphone
Posted by – October 29, 2018
Essential‘s PH-1 Smartphone : Display: Resolution: 2560 x 1312 QHD. Aspect Ratio: 19:10.Diagonal Size: 5.71” Material used: Titanium body Ceramic back, Corning Gorilla Glass 5 cover glass. System: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835.CPU: Kryo 280 Octa-core (2.45GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad), 64 bit, 10nm processor GPU: Adreno 540, 710MHz, 64bit. Battery: 3040mAh Front Camera: 8MP resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio f/2.20 fixed hyper focal lens 4K and 1080p HD video recording at 30fps.OS:8.1 Memory & Storage: RAM: 4GB Storage: 128GB UFS 2.1. Water and Dust Resistant: IP54
360 Camera for Essential Phone: Essential 360 Camera is the world’s smallest 4k 360° camera and captures 3D spatial audio using four built-in microphones. Model Name: Essential 360 Camera. Dimensions Height: 67mmWidth: 32mmThickness: 12mm (body) Weight: 35grams Audio Microphone: 4x microphones in 3D, ambisonic tetrahedral arrangement Dual Cameras Sensor Resolution: Dual 12MP fisheye imagers Lens aperture: f1.8 FOV: 210° (each) Video Resolutions:360° UHD (3840 x 1920) at 30fps Ports: 60GHz Wireless, Super Speed USB 2x accessory power pins System Architecture OS Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$229 MyKronoz Zee-Time Hybrid Smartwatch, $97 Zee Circle Activity Tracker
Posted by – October 24, 2018
MyKronoz is a Swiss company headquartered in Geneva that designs and develops wearable devices intended to improve our increasingly mobile, connected and digital lifestyles. MyKronoz products in categories: Activity Trackers, Smart watches, Hybrid Smart Watches and Watch phones. ZeTime, the world’s most funded hybrid smart watch.The world’s first hybrid smart watch combining mechanical hands with a round color touchscreen – black silver. With up to 30-days battery for the analog movement*, ZeTime shows you the time even when the screen is turned off. Sphere glass, touch panel, Mechanicals hands, TFT color Display. Optical heart rate sensor, 5 ATM water resistant. Battery 200mAh up to 30 days stand by life. Charging contactor. Display TFT Color touch screen with hole. Andriod 5.0+. https://www.mykronoz.com/uk/en/ (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$150 KONKA Laptop, $40 Tablet, $300 Dancing Robot, $90 Smartphone
Posted by – October 24, 2018
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Intel, China Sourcing Fair, Android, Windows
$150 http://www.konka.com.hk Kogan Ultra Slim Pro laptop. 13.3-inch, matte screen, 2560 x 1440, non-touchscreen IPS LCD; 900MHz-2.2GHz Intel M3-6Y30 processor; 8GB RAM; 256GB SSD; Intel HD Graphics 515; 802.11AC WiFi; 37.1Wh battery; 1.15KG. https://ift.tt/2PYDJkM $40 Tablets MQWG101. With Screen size 9:7”(4:3) Resolution 1024*768, MTK8392 Quard Core A7 1.7Ghz,RAM 512MB ROM8GB,OS Andriod 4.4 with USB, Battery 4000Mah. $300 Dancing robot. Arm featuring 7-DOF + 1-DOF interchangeable gripper hand including tools, 2-DOF torso, 2-DOF head equipped with 3D camera and 5MP 2D camera, 2-DOF base for horizontal and vertical movement, high-performance AI embedded CPU/CGU, 802.11 ac WiFi + Bluetooth, 2.5 kg payload, Aeolus ROS operating system. $40 Konka AR magic guns real mobile games augmented reality smart children’s toy. Size 311*162*46, Battery 2 section 1.5V AAA bettary OS 4.4. https://ift.tt/2D1QYPa $40Android SmartWatches . 2.5 D curved surface KONKA Smartwatch OLED Screen 0.96 display, 60 days Standby IP68 50m Waterproof Swimming Sport Activity Tracker Smart Watch for Android 4.4 IOS.$90 KONKA 711 Fingerprint 4G Smart phone. CPU: MT6737T 1.45GHz, Display: 5.5″ In-Cell FHD Screen, Front camera: 8.0MP, Rear camera: 13.0MP, RAM: 3GB, ROM: 32GB, OS: Android 7.0, Battery:3000mAh.
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Realtek RTD1395 TV Box Android & RDK, RTD1296 for Media Hub, Google Home, Synology DS418
Posted by – October 23, 2018
Realtek recently introduced its new SoC RTD1395 (SoC – single-chip system), which includes support for HVEC 4K @ 60fs, VP9.2, H.264, HDR, HDR10, Dolby Vision, HLG, Technicolor Prime and Dolby MS12 v1 audio certification .3 Config A. Novelty designed for use in new TV set-top boxes, compatible with Android TV 8.1, although it is expected that through . SoC – Realtek RTD1395 quad core Cortex-A53 processor, Arm Mali-470 MP4 GPU.System Memory – 2GB DDR4 (4x 512MB x 16bit).Storage – 8GB eMMC Flash.Video & Audio Output – HDMI 2.0.Video Codec – HEVC 4Kp60+2Kp60, VP9.2 4Kp60, HDR10.Connectivity,802.11 ac/abgn Dual Band 2.4G/5G 2×2, Wave-2 compatible with MU-MIMO (Optional External Antenna Available).Bluetooth 4.1.Power Supply – 5V DC/1A through MicroUSB port Synology: Synology DS418 comes with a new 64-bit quad-core processor, delivering excellent data transfer speed, large storage volume management, and 10-bit 4K H.265 video transcoding on the fly. https://www.dove.co.nz/products/networking-and-adsl/network-storage/16120 (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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20TB Seagate HAMR hard drive, 14TB Iron Wolf NAS drive
Posted by – October 23, 2018
Jason product marketing manager for Seagate introducing new Hard Drive HAMR(Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) volume shipments of 20TB. SEAGATE HAMR Dard (20TB): Manufacturability: Built over 40,000 HAMR drives; pilot volume in 2018, volume shipments of 20TB+ drives in 2019; drives are built on the same automated assembly line as current products Capacity: Achieved 2 Tbpsi areal density; 30% annual density growth on HAMR over past nine years. Reliability: Tests proved single-head data transfers of over 2PB, exceeds real-world specifications. Simplicity: HAMR is transparent to host; passed customer testing using standard code. Cost: Supply chain fully established and ready to launch; projected cost-per-TB path beats legacy PMR technology. Exos 7E8: Generation: V.5; Capacity 8TB With internal NOR flash. Exos X12 and X10: Capacity; 12TB, 10TB and 8TB, Operating Power (SATA/SAS): 7.8/9.3, 8.4/9.4, Limited Warranty; 5 years Iron Wolf NAS Hard Drive: Generation: V.5; Capacity 14TB, Interface; SATA 6Gb/s (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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SEAGATE Nytro 3000 SAS SSD, Nytro 5000 NVMe SSD
Posted by – October 20, 2018
Category: Exclusive videos, Computex
Up to 3.2 TB Capacity, 1.6 TB, 800 GB, 400 GBEndurance: 3 DWPD Sequential Read 2100 MB/s,SequentialWrite:up to 1,400 MB/s Random Read up to 250K IOPSRandom Write:up to 80K IOPS Warranty 5 years. https://www.seagate.com/in/en/enterprise-storage/nytro-drives/nytro-sas-ssd/ SEAGATENytro 5000 NVMe SSD Hard Drives: Form Factor:2.5 in × 7 mmInterface:PCIe Gen3 x4, NVMe 1.2Capacity:1.9 TB, 1.6 TB, 960 GB, 800 GBSequential Read: 2000 MB/sSequential Write: 1200 MB/Random Read Up to 245K IOPRandom Write:Up to 67K IOPWarranty:5 years https://www.seagate.com/in/en/enterprise-storage/nytro-drives/nytro-data-center-nvme/ (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$179 Pixhawk 4, $300 Pixhack v5 Autopilot Open Source Development kit for Drones and Robots
Posted by – October 20, 2018
Pixhawk 4 is an advanced autopilot designed and made in collaboration with Holybro and the PX4 team. It is optimized to run PX4 version 1.7, suitable for academic and commercial developers.
Main FMU Processor: STM32F76532 Bit Arm Cortex-M7, 216MHz, 2MB memory, 512KB RAMIO Processor: STM32F10032 Bit Arm Cortex-M3, 24MHz, 8KB SRAM.Magnetometer: IST8310.GPS: ublox Neo-M8N GPS/GLONASS receiver; integrated magnetometer. https://www.getfpv.com/pixhawk-4-autopilot.html Pixhack v5 is an advanced autopilot designed and made by CUAV®. The board is based on the Pixhawk-project FMUv5 open hardware design. It runs PX4 on the NuttX OS, and is fully compatible with PX4 firmware. It is intended primarily for academic and commercial developers. Main FMU Processor: STM32F76532 Bit Arm® Cortex®-M7, 216MHz, 2MB memory, 512KB RAM .IO Processor: STM32F100.32 Bit Arm® Cortex-M3, 24MHz, 8KB SRAM.Magnetometer: IST8310.Barometer: MS5611.Interfaces:8-14 PWM outputs (6 from IO, 8 from FMU) Aliexpress (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$170 ROBOBLOQ Programmable Metal Robot Qoopers Kit, $90 Q-Scout and Q-Elephant
Posted by – October 20, 2018
JERRY WANG, CEO talking about products of Robobloq. Which is a new high tech player in STEM* education solution development. Robobloq robot construction platforms are mechanics, electronics and software & application. Robobloq two years old company but this already sales in Australia, New-Zeeland, France, Ukraine, Russia, Canada and United State. Products: Robobloq Qoopers Programmable Metal Robot Kit: Metal body, transformable and drag-and-drop programming: connect with robobloq app and enjoy playing with sensors and electronic modules in a fun way! remote control, line tracking, obstacle avoiding, music playing and rgb lights. drag and drop, and code, explore the metal building platform, cross-subject learning for future talents Robobloq Q-scout Take you beyond imagination: Metal blocks for a smiling robot:the use of aluminum delivers a true feel of robot; big eyes and a smile brings you close to the robotic world.Connect with Robobloq app and enjoy playing with sensors and electronic modules in a fun way! Drag-and-drop, code easily, cross-subject education solution: Robobloq q-scout is a hardware platform designed for stem* education. The future world needs a multi-skilled you. Robobloq Q-Elephant and Q-Dino : With 260+ pieces of metal parts and electronic modules you can build a majestic elephant which seems it travelled through time. The 8-legged structure added to the fun of building and playing! One little surprise – it can transform to a unicorn form with flapping wings. Q-dino strikes you as one of the cutest robot dinosaurs with its wiggling arms and biting jaw. An embedded DC motor driver brings extra fun to coding with it. Q-dino has an crocodile iteration with long tail, enjoy building. https://www.robobloq.com/product/animals (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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DTCO Blockchain for Healthcare phrOS Operating System
Posted by – October 20, 2018
DTCO (Digital Treasury Corporation) consisting of blockchain experts along with professionals from the fields of finance, ICT, and biopharma industries. DTCO serves as a bridge between business and blockchain for wide range of applications including biopharma, healthcare, e-identity and crypto finance. Through industry collaborations, we are confident blockchain technology can bring great value to society. phrOS https://phros.io is a blockchain operating system designed for the healthcare industry. By integrating the blockchain technology and using the distributed database architecture, the system allows hospitals, care providers, medical device developers, App developers, financial companies and big data analysts to jointly create ecosystem applications for areas such as personal health records, data lakes, disease prediction and monitoring, precision medicine R&D, automatic insurance reimbursement, online health management, long-distance care, clinical data analysis, etc To allow everyone in the society to enjoy the healthcare block chain services and own personal health records which can be accessed worldwide so as to create a healthy and civilized new society. To allow every doctor and researcher to make medical advance by using block chain services and data lakes. To solve the problem of privacy, data security and interoperability, and to promote healthcare industry collaboration. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$120 KXD K30, $26 El W40 Smartphone Retina HD
Posted by – October 20, 2018
KENXINDA Smartphones K30 and EL W40. KXD K30 Retina HD Display 5.7” MTK6750/MTK6757 Octa-Core 1.5GhZ/2.5GhZ CPU.RAM 2GB and ROM 16GB,Display 5.7” HD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1440*720, Android 8.0, Battery 3280mAh.Back fingerprint. http://en.kenxinda.com/kxd-k30/ EL W40 Cheaper in price $26” MTK6580T Quad Core 1.5 GHz CPU .RAM 512MB and ROM 4GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 854*480,Front Camera 2.0mp back camera 5.0mp, Android 6.0, Battery 1500mAh Non Removable, Back fingerprint. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$220 KIEMO S6001 Bezel-less 6″, $26 KIEMO 4062
Posted by – October 20, 2018
KIEMO S6001 6-inch Curved Glass HD 1440*720p IPS Bezel-less Big Battery Fast Charging Smart Mobile Phone: Memory: ROM 64GB+RAM 4GB , Camera5MP+13MP back camera8MP front camera ,MT6757 Octa Core, 6.0″ curved glass HD 1440*720 IPS, Battery 3150mAh,Android 7.0 4G KIEMO 4.0-inch Cheaper Price Smartphone 4.0″ flat glass WVGA 800*480TN Os:Android 7.0, ROM 4GB+RAM 512MB Camera: 0.3MP front camera 2MP back camera MT6580/6737/SC7731/9832 CPU: Battery 1450mAh (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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$179 MELE PCG02 PC Stick Fan-less, PCHD26 GML3 with Intel Gemini and PCC65 Video Conference
Posted by – October 20, 2018
MELE Fan-less PCHD26 GML3Computer stick with Intel:
Processor Intel Appllolake N3350:/N3450 with 2.4/2.2 Quad core and dual core. Cache 2MB L2,OS Ubuntu Linux or Windows 10,©/4GB/6GB LPDR, Storage 32GB;Connectivity 100/1000Mbps LAN; HDMI2.0 output 4K@60fpsUSB3.0 at Aliexpress MELE PCC65 Video Conference System: OS; Widnows 10 Pro, Display 1080 FHD+, Zoom: 12X Angle 72.5 degree wide, Speed 1000 mbps 5MP sensor with a 72.5 °field of view , built-in noise canceling microphone that can rotate both vertically and horizontally. up to 8GB of DDR3L RAM and 64GB of eMMC with optional SSD from 128GB to 512GB, most expensive will have Intel Kaby Lake-U chips from 15W with (up to) 32GB of DDR4 memory and up to 64GB of on-board eMMC with optional SSD M.2 in various denominations. at Mele (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)
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