Category: Factory Tours

Alldocube RK3188 Tablet Factory Tour Part 3/3: Assembly

Posted by Charbax – April 9, 2013
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, Android

Welcome on this 23-minute tour at the Alldocube RK3188 Tablet assembly line. See how Shenzhen Cube assembles about 2-3 million Android Rockchip tablets a year, expecting to double their output each year.

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Be sure to have seen all my 21 Shenzhen Factory videos in my YouTube playlist for Shenzhen Factory videos, more to come in the days/weeks to come! Check back!

Alldocube Tablet Factory Tour Part 2/3: SMT workshop

Posted by Charbax – April 9, 2013
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, Android

Here’s a look at Alldocube‘s SMT line in their Shenzhen Headquarters.

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Alldocube RK3188 Tablet Factory Tour Part 1/3: Headquarters

Posted by Charbax – April 2, 2013
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Factory Tours, PCB Design House, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, Android

Welcome on my full tour (Part 1 of 3) at the Alldocube Tablet Factory in Shenzhen China. This is the tour at the Alldo Cube Headquarters, featuring their R&D office, design, testing, component storage, component quality control and the device repair/support area. Alldocube in Shenzhen is finalizing the testing and is beginning mass production of the Rockchip RK3188 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 28nm HKMG based tablets. Full mass production of the new RK3188 Quad-core Tablets is expected for the middle of April 2013. Check back in the next days for the Parts 2 and 3 of this Factory Tour, to feature the Alldocube SMT Line and Assembly lines next.

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Allwinner A31 9.7″ Retina factory tour at Celeb Tech

Posted by Charbax – March 18, 2013
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Android

Here is a tour of the Celeb Tech factory in Shenzhen China. This is their touchpanel assembly line, they also have a more general tablet assembly factory in another part of Shenzhen (Dongguan) which I may go to and film at the next time I visit Shenzhen. They are in full swing producing the pretty awesome 9.7″ Retina Allwinner A31 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 tablet that sells at some pretty amazing prices on the Chinese market.

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Become a $20/year Member of ARMdevices.net

Posted by Charbax – October 21, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Projectors, Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Factory Tours, Gaming, Robots, Exclusive videos, Android, Chrome OS, Google TV, Ubuntu

You can now become a Member of ARMdevices.net for $20/year.

For that you get:

1. Pictures/scans of business cards to all the companies that I video interview at trade shows around the world.

2. Buy some of the best value ARM Powered devices that I find, when I can get the manufacturer to agree to sell them at a good price directly to members. Consider those sample sales, but you can buy many also, and contact the manufacturer directly if you’d like to import a larger quantity. I expect to be able to provide members with some of the worlds most interesting ARM Powered tablets, laptops, HDMI Sticks, Set-top-boxes, E-readers, game players, development boards, robots, and more. Check for a status on available devices in the Members Store.

Thanks for supporting my work.

Read more about why you should become a Member of ARMdevices.net here.

Factory Tour: Allwinner A10 PCB SMT line at the Jia Chuang Bo factory

Posted by Charbax – October 21, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Android

This video shows how the Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 PCBs are being finalized, fixed, checked before they are inserted in the $61 9″ and the $152 9.7″ 3G Android tablets on the floor above.

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Factory Tour: $61 Allwinner A13 9″ Tablet being assembled at Jia Chuang Bo

Posted by Charbax – October 20, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Android

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.

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Factory Tour: 9.7″ IPS 3G Allwinner A10 Tablet for $152 being assembled by Jia Chuang Bo

Posted by Charbax – October 20, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Android

They are assembling right now some 10.1″ and 9.7″ Allwinner A10 tablets on this assembly 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.

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JWD 7″ AllWinner A10 Tablet Factory Tour

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

Here’s a 8-minute video tour of the JWD 7″ AllWinner A10 Factory.

JWD 10.1″ AllWinner Factory Tour

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

Here they are assembling 10.1″ AllWinner A10 based tablets.

Entering the JWD Factory

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

This is a large factory making AllWinner based tablets and more. This is the largest best organized factory I have visited yet in Shenzhen, it features the bunny suits, dust control etc. They manufacture AllWinner A10/A13 Tablets, pocket audio recorders and some other things.

MK802 Android 4.0 Mini PC AllWinner A10 HDMI Stick Factory Tour

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

Check how the now famous MK802 Android 4.0 Mini PC AllWinner A10 HDMI Stick is being manufactured in Shenzhen China. This is the factory that likely manufactures for all the different brands that have gotten blog coverage over the past few weeks featuring this same design.

Eken Camera Factory Tour

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: Cameras, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos

Eken is one of the leaders in Tablet and in-Vehicle Dash Camera Recorders. Here’s a tour of their Camera recorders factory.

YF Technology Factory SMT

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

See how they manufacture AllWinner A10 Tablet motherboards.

YF Technology Factory Assembly

Posted by Charbax – June 18, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

They are assembling AllWinner A10/13 Tablets and MediaTek phones.

$55 AllWinner Boxchip A13 Tablet Factory Tour

Posted by Charbax – May 27, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

Watch this 7-minute Shenzhen factory tour, see how they are assembling the $55 (soon $49) Boxchip A13 7″ Capacitive tablet. This Shenzhen factory assembly line currently cranks out about 4000 such tablets in a days work. If you like this video, you should also watch my Shenzhen Speakers Factory video that I posted last month.

$55 7″ capacitive Boxchip A13 SMT line, mass producing the Boxchip A13 PCB

Posted by Charbax – May 27, 2012
Category: Tablets, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Android

Here they are cranking out a few thousand Boxchip A13 and Boxchip A10 motherboards every day.

The Shenzhen Speakers Factory

Posted by Charbax – April 23, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Factory Tours, Speakers, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Android

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.

Shenzhen Factory Tour, exclusive video at the Hongda Laptop Factory

Posted by Charbax – April 10, 2012
Category: Laptops, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Windows

Here is a video filmed in one of the many small to medium sized Shenzhen factories. This one is able to output thousands of laptops and tablets per day. The Hongda factory manufactures for http://www.yooe.com.cn among others.

Huaqiangbei Shenzhen Smartphones Market

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Factory Tours, Other, Exclusive videos, Android

Here is my first 2012 video at the Shenzhen Smartphones Market! This market is so awesome, huge, fantastic, compressed, action packed, full of devices, walking around the Shenzhen Smartphones market is hugely impressive. Check back in the days to come as I’ll post videos of the coolest devices that I can find here.