Dick Chan, the first online seller to sell the famous MK802 (MK802 factory tour) is back with a new Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 HDMI Stick, now being sold at $55 (+$5 worldwide shipping) here on the ARMdevices.net Members Store.
Here’s possibly the worlds most powerful HDMI Stick yet. It’s got a Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor inside with 1GB RAM, Bluetooth and more. Here’s a first demonstration of what it can do. Software is being optimized while manufacturing is starting, it should be released by the end of this month. Members of ARMdevices.net will be able to buy it for $89 with free worldwide shipping in the ARMdevices.net Members Store.
This is awesome. Check out this sunlight readable Android phone with a 1-week battery life (not 1-month as said in the video). It’s E Ink! E Ink Android smartphone prototype! As you can see in my half-hour long interview with E Ink at IFA last month, E Ink is preparing their smartphone-sized plastics based unbreakable screens to be used on the back of smartphones. Here’s an awesome-looking sub-100gr (maybe it’s only 70 grams! I’m getting a weight confirmation imminently, check back) E Ink smartphone. Check it out, the UI is usable on this E Ink phone even though the Android UI used is optimized for LCD, it doesn’t take much for Google and others to re-optimize Android for E Ink use! Something to do with requiring the least possible UI refreshes to add/change on-screen info. The battery life is roughly ONE WEEK not one month as is said at the end of the video. I guess it depends how much you refresh infos, load data and make phone calls with it, though the screen basically always stays on, potentially always displaying relevant info all the time. It’s running on an ARM Cortex-A5 processor, maybe the Qualcomm MSM7227A, to be confirmed.
Check this out. You can have a bluetooth headset in your sunglasses now, just pull down the earpiece from the side of the glasses to your ear when you receive a call and that the glasses vibrate. Anole also makes an encrypted Bluetooth USB stick storage device, it only activates your secure encrypted USB storage once you approach your USB stick with your Bluetooth smartphone and authorize the access to the data.
Texas Instrument’s pico projector technology is about to reach into my and more smartphones and tablets, here demonstrated by SCT integrated into an MT6577 smartphone. The price of the DLP pico projector module ads about $50 to 60 to the bill of materials of the smartphone. Battery consumption can possibly be decent depending on the brightness of the lumen output, perhaps not using much more power than the backlight of the same phone.
Here’s how you can include the ARM Powered computer/set-top-box right inside the webcam and sell it for $80 all inclusive. Thus this include Skype HD video-calls, Video-chat, if bandwidth is sufficient this device may support smooth 720p 2-way video-conferencing, and it can process all other smart TV and desktop functionality.
Rockchip Vice-President Chen Feng presents their new single-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC for cheaper, faster, lower power consuming tablets! They call it the Single-core Terminator. They simplify to lower the cost of the SoC thus of the entry-level ARM Powered device all the while improving the performance to provide for better entry-levels tablets.
Here’s one of the latest interesting ARM Powered laptops by Hivision, powered on VIA’s latest single-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. With Ethernet, HDMI out, 2 USB Host and more.
Westin talks about their $190 Samsung Exynos 4412 9.7″ 1024×768 and $160 Rockchip RK3066 9.7″ 2048×1536 tablets and MT6577 Smartphones at the HKTDC Electronics Fair.