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StreamGear VidiMo stream/produce live HDMI source with any Android/iOS phone

Charbax — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:15:03 +0000

StreamGear Inc. at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, demonstrate VidiMo and showing how the new hardware‐and‐app combination provides an easier way for video and social media enthusiasts to create and stream engaging, high‐quality, live productions.
VidiMo – short for Video director on Mobile – enables anyone to become a social media video star or citizen journalist. VidiMo turns a smartphone and HDMI video source (such as a camera) into a full‐fledged, virtual production and transmission studio, enabling a single operator to produce multi‐source, television‐style shows that can be streamed live, recorded or both.
Smartphone camera quality has improved significantly in recent years, but dedicated video and DSLR cameras still provide superior creative functionality such as greater optical zoom, depth of field, tactile focus and iris control. VidiMo lets producers have the best of both worlds, bringing an HDMI video source into their iOS or Android smartphone and combining it with the phone’s camera and other sources. VidiMo users can simply capture an HDMI signal into their mobile device and stream it, or use the app’s fast, intuitive interface and advanced features to create professional‐looking live shows on the fly in real time.
The VidiMo system consists of the battery‐powered VidiMo Go hardware and VidiMo App. VidiMo Go’s innovative physical design forms a complete handheld production solution, serving as a capture device for HDMI video and analog audio signals; attaching any size of smartphone to a DSLR, sports/action or professional camera; and flexibly positioning the phone for convenient control of the app.
Meanwhile, the VidiMo App provides a complete live production toolkit on the smartphone, letting the user be the director, operator and on‐screen talent all at once. For each show, users can switch between six fully‐customizable scene layouts that mix live video and audio sources – including the HDMI source and the phone’s front or rear camera – with graphics, text and prerecorded media clips. Shows can be recorded on the smartphone or streamed live to popular third‐party services such as YouTube Live, Facebook Live and Twitch.
VidiMo’s November debut received rave reviews from attendees at the StreamGeeks Summit, with both new and experienced streaming video producers praising its rich features, simplicity and user‐focused design. With VidiMo scheduled to ship in Q1 of 2020, StreamGear is now taking applications for its Early Adopter Program and discussing retail partnerships with wireless communication service providers. Prospective users and partners are encouraged to contact StreamGear.
“VidiMo’s elegant simplicity opens the door to high‐quality, live streaming production for a vast number of potential producers who previously couldn’t access this level of capabilities,” said Darryl Spangler, CEO of StreamGear Inc. “Everyone who has seen VidiMo first‐hand has been truly impressed, and we’re looking forward to CES attendees experiencing the same ‘Aha!’ moment when they experience it in person.”
About StreamGear – StreamGear (www.streamgear.io) is hyper‐focused on developing tools that make it easy for users to create high‐quality video. The company’s leadership team has more than five decades of combined experience in the video production, digital media and live streaming markets. StreamGear’s first product, VidiMo, turns a smartphone and video source into a full‐fledged, virtual video production and transmission facility, making it easier than ever for professionals and enthusiasts to create and share engaging live video content.

1349$ ViewSonic X10-4KE 4K Projector, World’s Quietest 20db $1699 X100-4K Projector, $169 M1 Mini,M2

Charbax — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:30:36 +0000

ViewSonic X10-4KE 4K Projector ($1349 at https://amzn.to/36vrBzx) with 2,400 LED Lumens, 0.8 Throw Ratio projecting screen sizes up to 120”, in a portable design with loud integrated Harmon Kardon Bluetooth speakers, can be easily moved from room to room, Rec. 709 compatibility, Integrated smart Wi-Fi connectivity to stream and binge from content providers like Netflix and YouTube, while support for both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

ViewSonic X100-4K 4K Projector, 2,900 ANSI Lumens screen sizes up to 300”, 1.2-1.44 Throw Ratio, can be ceiling mounted in any living room or dedicated home theater, Rec. 709 compatibility, Integrated smart features for both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, Featuring built-in Harman Kardon speakers the projector runs at very low noise at only 20db.

ViewSonic M1 Mini is a compact 854 x 480 Projector ($169 at https://amzn.to/2NXgEAf), 120 LED (50 ANSI) Lumens, 1.2 Throw Ratio, pocket-sized ultra-portable LED projector that delivers big-screen entertainment in nearly any location with a built-in battery with power bank compatibility, measuring only 4” x 4”, swappable panels in three different colors – gray, yellow, and teal, integrated smart stand provides for flexible setup, while also doubling as a lens cover. A built-in JBL speaker, the USB reader port plays multimedia content from an external dongle.

ViewSonic M2 Full HD Projector ($649 at https://amzn.to/2Ub8IPV), 1,200 LED Lumens, 1.23 Throw Ratio, ideal for business travelers on the go, the ViewSonic M2 portable Full HD LED projector delivers power and performance in a portable package. Compact and lightweight, the ViewSonic M2 can be carried from office-to-office, or slipped into a briefcase or backpack and taken on the road. For convenient presentations and content sharing, a wireless screen mirroring feature allows users to easily cast content from a mobile device to the projector. The M2 projector features a shorter throw lens that can display large images in small spaces, while its LED light source provides over 30,000 hours of usage time and 1,200 lumens of brightness an adjustable kickstand design delivers simple and quick setup for easy projection in nearly any environment. An integrated Micro SD card slot and USB Type-A reader port allow users to display documents, videos, and other multimedia without having to connect to a PC. And for fast data, audio, video, and charging over a single cable, there’s a USB Type-C port. For more immersive multimedia presentations, dual Harman Kardon speakers deliver room-filling sound to keep audiences engaged.

Hachi Infinite at CES 2020 Smart Table DLP Projector, smart delivery robot, smart home and more

Charbax — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:38:04 +0000

Hachi, developed by Beijing Puppy Robotics Co., Ltd, the creator of cutting-edge robotics solutions that enable consumers and communities to build AI-enhanced smart living ecosystems, is proud to announce its exhibition at CES 2020 Las Vegas. In its second year at CES, Hachi expands its presence by debuting its refreshed corporate image and key products, showcasing its vision on smarter living in homes and residential communities.
Hachi Infinite, the first-ever touchscreen projector and smart visual assistant that provides children and adults with intuitive user interactions and immersive experiences in learning, cooking, fitness and other settings Hachi is exhibiting its robotics and smart home technology designed to make life smarter, easier and more convenient for its customers. This includes Hachi Infinite, the first-ever touchscreen projector and smart visual assistant that provides children and adults with intuitive user interactions and immersive experiences in learning, cooking, fitness and other settings. Named a CES® 2020 Innovation Awards Honoree, the new and highly anticipated smart touchscreen projector is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor and features voice control and deep learning technology.
The line also includes Hachi Delight, an intelligent logistics robot that navigates both indoors and outdoors offering an ideal logistics solution for corporate campuses and residential communities, and Hachi Homey, an all-in-one software and hardware solution implementing computer vision and facial recognition technology to provide rich services including access control along with security monitoring and management. Also being showcased is Hachi Bingo, a companion robot connecting elderly people with their children which also doubles as a smart health management system.
Hachi’s vision is to provide software, hardware and technology integration solutions to enable smart living experiences for communities, including security monitoring, intelligent logistics robotics and unmanned commuter vehicles driven by AIoT technology. Hachi brands its products and solutions as “The Spaces,” an ecosystem offering comprehensive coverage for consumers’ needs in communities: from the entrance, to every gate and door to the areas within them.
“We’re pleased to introduce our latest device and showcase our comprehensive smart living ecosystem to international audiences at CES,” said Hua Zeng, CEO of Beijing Puppy Robotics Co., Ltd, with the brand of Hachi. “Our intuitive technology integrations connect consumer journeys and streamline living experiences, serving more than 100,000 homeowners in over 150 residential communities and live-work developments to date, with future plans for international growth.”

Vuzix M4000 wave guide Smart Glass for enterprise, Vuzix Labs Smart Swim with partners and more

Charbax — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 20:47:21 +0000

Vuzix M4000 is the company’s new flagship product in its corporate M series uses Qualcomm’s 2.52Ghz Octa-core Snapdragon XR1, the same processor used in its direct predecessor the M400 and in the Google Glass 2, 6GB LPDDR4 System RAM, 64GB internal flash memory. They use their self-developed fully transparent waveguide display which has a larger field-of-view to bring vast advantages in work areas such as remote maintenance.

TI DLP 0.23” World’s Smallest 1080p Projector, $899 4K, $1499 Short-throw 4K, Touch, $999 3D Printer

Charbax — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:17:16 +0000

The DLP230NP digital micromirror device (DMD) is a digitally controlled micro-opto-electromechanical system (MOEMS) spatial light modulator (SLM). When coupled to an appropriate optical system, the DMD displays a crisp and high quality 1080p image or video. The chipset comprises this DMD and the DLPC3436 controller. The DLPA2000, DLPA2005, and DLPA3000 PMIC/LED drivers also support this chipset. The compact physical size of the device applies to portable equipment where high image quality, small form factor, and low power are important.

Feature:

Ultra Compact 0.23-Inch (5.95-mm) Diagonal Micromirror Array
Displays 1920 × 1080 Pixels On the Screen
5.4 µm Micromirror Pitch
17° Micromirror Tilt (Relative to Flat Surface)
Side Illumination for Optimal Efficiency and Optical Engine Size
Polarization Independent Aluminum Micromirror Surface
8-Bit SubLVDS Input Data Bus
Dedicated DLPC3436 Controller for Display Applications
Dedicated DLPA2000, DLPA2005, or DLPA3000 PMIC/LED Driver for Reliable Operation

Roland CES 2020 Booth Tour, Zenbeats App, Facet Grand Piano, A-88MKII, Roland Cloud and more

Charbax — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:17:08 +0000

Full tour at the Roland booth at CES 2020, featuring all their new instruments, Roland Jupiter xm, Roland Jupiter x, Roland A-88MKII Midi Controller, GO:LIVECAST Streaming setup, Roland Cloud, Roland Zenbeats Music Sequencer Music Creation App for Android, iOS, Windows and Mac, including also some performances on Roland’s latest electronic drum kit and Facet Grand Piano.

TCL 8K, Vidrian Mini-LED, QLED, IoT, TWS Earphones, Phones and more at CES 2020

Charbax — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:17:17 +0000

Booth Tour of TCL at CES 2020, presents their range of Mini-LED based Quantum Dot QLED TVs, starting at affordable range at 50/60hz, mid range at 100/120hz and their higher range with their Vidrian Mini-LED Technology with Quantum Dots on the whole range. As well as showing the TCL QLED TV 8K X915 commercial 8K TV available in the China market, this 8K TV is sold now at below $2899 in the China market. TCL’s 8K TVs are reaching the Global market at affordable prices for 8K later this year. TCL’s Vidrian Mini-LED technology introduces semi-conductor circuitry and thousands of micro-meter class mini-LEDs to push LCD LED TV picture performance to sharper contrast, higher luminance.

According to Sigmaintell, TCL’s TV shipments continued to climb in the first three quarters of 2019, globally ranking No.2, and it gained the largest growth among the world’s top three TV brands, the sales volume of TCL brand TVs in overseas markets rapidly increased by 33%, at a faster pace than that the Company had set for the whole year of 2019. Among them, sales volume growth in North America, Europe and the emerging markets remained strong, increasing by 31.7%, 24.1%, and 36.5% year-on-year, respectively.

Linux on Cosmo Communicator, Shipping Update

Charbax — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:08:23 +0000

Planet Computers CEO Dr Janko gives an update on Shipping Status to Backers of the Cosmo Communicator and he said to look out for some great offers on Gemini and possibly Cosmo on Black Friday and Cyber Monday at http://store.planetcom.co.uk/ also Dr Davide shows a preview of the upcoming easy to use Linux multi-boot support inside Recovery Mode on the main Cosmo Communicator firmware to come in a next firmware update.

Appscomm Hybrid Smartwatch AMOLED + Movement

Charbax — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:08:16 +0000

Appscomm shows their latest hybrid smartwatches, with full touch AMOLED as well as mechanical movement dials in the same watch.

Super-G Kids GPS Smartwatch

Charbax — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:41:32 +0000

Super-G Blast Hero Blue GPS watch-phone for kids. Advanced technology gives the watch more speed and accuracy. Device control is now even more convenient and simple – it is translated into 12 different languages! Better quality sound, an attractive and customizable watch interior with interchangeable flaps, a more accurate pedometer – make kids feel like real super heroes!

The latest model has an enhanced security system – all data presented is encrypted and protected against hacking. Your child will be able to call and answer phone numbers entered in the phonebook, and other numbers not entered in the address book will be blocked automatically. The SOS button helps you get in touch quickly – the clock automatically dials three specified numbers in a row. The clock works worldwide with all GSM networks.

Super-G Blast languages: English, French, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Estonian, Latvian.

FEATURES:

higher resolution screen;
higher speed;
better sound quality;
enhanced protection;
more color and choice of different screensavers;
choice of language;
unique design.
SPECIFICATION:

Calls, voice and text messages;
Calls and voice messages from the watch;
Resistance to moisture and dust;
15 numbers phone book;
1.3 ”IPS color touch screen;
240 * 240 screen resolution;
Processor: MTK2503A-ARM7;
Ultra low power consumption;
Battery life: up to 2 days (Battery life depends on selected watch update settings, watch usage and natural wear);
Nano SIM card;
Location (Navigation is based on WiFi and GPS, internally on WiFi and GSM. The positioning error may vary depending on the connection operator, location signal and other technical conditions. This is not an exact positioning device!);
Alarm clock;
SOS help button;
Non-interference mode;
Low battery messages;
Watch and phone bracelets are made of high quality and pleasant skin silicone.
PACKAGE INCLUDED:

Watch – phone;
Box;
Charger (Magnetic charger with USB connection);
Screwdriver;
Guide.

Cosmo Communicator shipping now to backers, Dual Display Backlit Keyboard Phone, MTK P70+STM32

Charbax — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:37:13 +0000

Cosmo Communicator is right now being mass produced and shipping out to the nearly 4000 backers of the nearly $2M Indiegogo project at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator#/ here is an extensive interview with Janko Mrsic-Flogel, CEO of Planet Computers, the creator of the awesome Gemini PDA Clamshell Keyboard Phone (which I used for 9 months in 2018 as my main phone) and now following that up with the Dual Display Cosmo Communicator, integrating dual-SIM 4G LTE, supports Android 9, Sailfish and other Linux operating systems to come with a multi-boot support, a full physical backlit keyboard, dual colour touchscreen displays, 24MP camera, external 1.91″ touchscreen when the phone is closed and a large 6″ internally when the phone is opened in full productivity mode. It also integrated a toggle switch with backside fingerprint reader for quick secure unlocking. In this video, Janko shows some of the features supported on that secondary 570×240, 300ppi, 1.91″ external display which runs Free RTOS separately on an STMicroelectronics STM32 processor. With supported interactions such as music control, phone dialing, quick dialing, notifications and much more. The new processor is the MediaTek P70 Quad Arm Cortex A73 with Quad
Arm Cortex A53 with an Arm Mali G72 MP3 GPU.

Domiwear 2.8″ Android Smartwatch, 2800mAh with LTE

Charbax — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:32:25 +0000

Domiwear shows some really big Smartwatches, larger screens to do more on your wrist, here featuring their 2.8″ Android Smartwatch with 2800mAh battery, LTE sim card slot, runs on an MediaTek chipset. They also have a large rounded display smartwatch and a large Apple watch style Smartwatch too.

iView DLP projector module maker, short throw, 4K, compact FHD, phone size, on table smart touch

Charbax — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:45:29 +0000

iView was founded in 2007, is a leading supplier of Pico-projector Optical Modules and a National High-tech Enterprises with modules widely used in projectors, mobile & wearable devices, HUD, advertising, 3D scanning and printing. With a worldwide market coverage, iView has established long-term relationship with many well known brands here demonstrating projectors sold in China from companies such as Alibaba, Xiaomi, JmGO, Xgimi and probably also many other from low cost devices to high end devices too which I have been filming over the past decade https://www.youtube.com/user/Charbax/search?query=DLP Also here showing some of their advanced new R&D designs they integrate DLP projection for AR, headmounted displays, heads up display, table touch, holographic view and more.

Podoor DLP projectors, FWVGA to Full HD

Charbax — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:45:28 +0000

Shenzhen Podoor shows their newest DLP pico projectors from FWVGA to Full HD, eith lumens from 70 to 400, distributors can contact them for bulk order.

Onyx Boox Note2 10.3″ Qualcomm Front light

Charbax — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:45:43 +0000

An overview of the new Onyx Boox Note2, with its new performance.
You can see behind the scenes as they show it to many Chinese media: https://youtu.be/91-ENuLUXzM

Onyx Boox Note2, Max3 with Onyx CEO

Charbax — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 21:20:28 +0000

Onyx presents the new 10.3″ Note2 with Qualcomm Octa Core ARM Cortex-A53 platform, responsive, with front-light, battery effecient, probably the most optimized and the most advanced E Ink notepad in the world at the moment. And the new 13.3″ Boox Max3 also thinner, lighter, also running on the Qualcomm Octa-core platform on an Android 9 base.

Geniatech IoT TV Box, Zigbee Gateway with OpenWRT, LoRa Gateway, Zigbee Dongle, HDMI Capture

Charbax — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:20:33 +0000

Geniatech shows their new IoT integrations for their TV Box market expertise, adding Smart Home functionality in the TV Box, introducing their Zigbee Gateway, Industrial IoT LoRa Gateway based on their Snapdragon 410 Dragonboard 96Boards Developer Board 4 Hub to do the edge computing, Zigbee Dongle adds IoT Smart Home to any Set-top-box such as the Geniatech ATX598Max and other that supports it in the software. Geniatech HDMI Capture

Sunchip Type-C Display, RK3128 Arcade Machine, TV Box, Mini PC

Charbax — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:20:31 +0000

Aikun AP-100W projector, AP-200W

Charbax — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:20:38 +0000

Amazfit Stratos 3 Smartwatch, Amazfit GTS with AMOLED, Amazfit X concept watch

Charbax — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:12:18 +0000

Huami Technology unveils the Amazfit Smart Sports Watch 3 (Amazfit Stratos 3), focusing on professional sports function, with improvements over Amazfit Smart Sports Watch 2S, featuring a 1.34″ Full Moon Display full circular reflector screen made by JDI, ideal for outdoor use, NFC, surrounded by 3.6L stainless steel with four physical buttons around the dial to allowing the user to operate as well as the touch screen too. With multiple sensors, using two master chips and two operating systems in smart mode and long-range Ultra mode on the Amazfit Smart Sports Watch 3 (Amazfit Stratos 3) can provide 7 to 14 days of battery. With 19 different motion modes, to accurately measure with the built-in BioTracker heart rate sensor, low-power Sony GNSS chip supports four positioning systems: GPS, GLONASS, Beidou and Galileo, continuous GPS positioning can reach 70 hours on the battery, enough for most professional outdoor sports usage.

Amazfit GTS 1.65 inch AMOLED with 341ppi pixel density with 100% NTSC gamut, ultra-high color saturation, real and vivid display, combined with transparent 2.5D arc glass, 9.4mm screen thickness, thinner than Apple Watch, over-the-horizon screen, available in six colors to choose from, supports 12 motion modes and GPS+GLONASSS binary positioning. 50 meters deep waterproof performance.

$999 Samsung Galaxy Book S on Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx

Charbax — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 10:12:07 +0000

Samsung use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx ARM processor on 7nm system-on-a-chip (40% faster CPU, 80% faster GPU compared to Galaxy Book 2), runs Windows 10, with 23 hours of battery, gigabit LTE, always on, always connected, touch-to-wake, instant-on feature, 0.96kg weight, 13.3″ 1080p, multi-touch display (10 points), 1TB SSD, AKG stereo sound with Dolby Atmos support, 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, MicroSD slot, 720p front-facing camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C port, and Windows Hello sign-in via a fingerprint sensor. The laptop’s dimensions are 305.2×203.2×6.2-11.8 mm.

BOE 12.3″ Rollable Phone, 7.7″ Foldable Phone, 65″ BD LCD, Printed OLED, 8K VR, Automotive, mini-LED

Charbax — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:12:47 +0000

At SID Display Week 2019, BOE shows their latest 12.3″ Rollable Phone, 7.7″ Foldable Phone, many other flexible displays, UHD displays, micro-displays, other world-leading technologies and innovative applications such as their Smart driving experience brought by flexible display for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) comprising a smart driver cabin and a spliced display screen of three units in three rows with only 0.99 mm bezels allowing visitors to experience a brand-new in-car display solution of the future. In addition to flexible display applications, BOE also displays the world-leading UHD display solution called the BD CELL UHD display which features an ultra-high static contrast ratio of up to 1,000,000:1, a bit depth of 12 bit, and a black field brightness of less than 0.003 nits, BOE also presents a host of 8K products, including 75″ 8K 120Hz display, a 3.5″ 8K VR display, and 0.39″ 8K spliced VR display. Under the “8425 Strategy” (promote 8K, popularize 4K, replace 2K and make good use of 5G), BOE is now speeding up the application of 8K in many fields. Other leading-edge technologies and solutions that BOE shows at this show include the first ever HDR notebook featuring mini-LED, the 15.6″ oxide display with an ultra-high refresh rate of 240Hz, the 55″ inkjet-printed 4K OLED display, the 0.39″ micro-OLED AR display that enjoys the world’s largest pixel density of 5,644 PPI.

In the smart Automotive cabin, the information required for smart travel becomes part of the actual scene with the help of AR technology, the head-up display (HUD) can project useful information such as speed per hour and navigation onto the front windshield for the driver’s reference. In addition, BOE replaces the conventional in-car LCD with flexible display. The 12.3″ three-unit flexible display is backed by the OLED pixel compensation circuit technology developed by BOE, which can effectively improve the brightness uniformity of mid-sized OLED displays and provide better audiovisual experience for car users, BOE applies flexible AMOLED displays to transparent A-pillars, rearview mirrors to solve the problem of driver’s blind spots in automotive design. The flexible display can perfectly match the shape of the A-pillar and show data with delay shorter than one millisecond. With the help of camera, the images blocked by the A-pillar can be shown on the flexible display, thus eliminating blind spots in the field of view. By applying flexible display, the rearview mirror can also be customized according to the interior shape of the car. BOE’s smart cabin is equipped with a 6.39″ flexible display as a built-in rearview mirror, which makes it safer to drive the car even on rainy and snowy days, BOE also exhibited some innovative applications of in-car display, such as center console solution that supports gesture-based interaction and V-shaped mini-LED for cars. BOE’s high-end in-car display panels have been supplied to automakers in the United States, Germany, the UK, Japan and South Korea.

Collabora shows Radxa ROCK Pi 4 running Panfrost open source Mali GPU driver

Charbax — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:14:17 +0000

Collabora is at Embedded World 2019, showing their infrastructure for end-to-end, embedded software production, their work on software platforms with reproducible continuous builds, automate testing on hardware to increase productivity and quality control in embedded Linux. They demonstrate Debian-based platform creation with debos and testing on a Virtual Machine – for early identification of issues and regressions, Hardware automated testing of application development through video playing on a Rockchip platform (Chromebook Plus) with VPU decoding and GPU rendering using the Panfrost Open Source driver, Graphics stack development with automated testing, to show how Graphics enablement can be integrated on a Continous Integration pipeline. They also demonstrate two NEW Open Source GPU drivers, etnaviv for Vivante GPU running on an RDU2 Inflight Multimedia Entertainment Device (based on the i.MX6 series SOCs), provided by Zodiac Inflight Innovations, and Panfrost for ARM Mali Midgard & Bifrost GPU, running on a ROCK Pi 4 SBC, provided by Radxa.

Open Source Android Kernels with Todd Kjos of Google and Bero

Charbax — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 10:40:06 +0000

Todd Kjos of the Android Kernel team at Google, and Bero of the Linaro Mobile Group, talk at Linaro Connect Vancouver, they talk about running Android on the mainline kernel, trying to get closer to mainline, enabling test boards and devices to run mainline Linux. Getting some of the Android specific things that were kept out of the tree into the Linux tree.

Samsung Galaxy S10 teardown, reveals the Samsung Exynos 9820

Charbax — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:26:38 +0000

ChipRebel has provided this video of their teardown of the Galaxy S10 (also see their Exynos 9820 photos here: https://www.chiprebel.com/exynos-9820/) which has the 8nm LPP Exynos 9820 with Samsung’s dual custom cores, dual ARM Cortex-A75 and quad ARM Cortex-A55 and Mali-G76 MP12 GPU and Samsung’s most advanced NPU. With LTE Category 20 for up to 2.0Gbps download speed with 8x carrier aggregation (CA) and up to 316Mbps upload speed support. This phone amazingly can support encoding and decoding of of up to 8K30p.

You can find the High-res images of Samsung’s Exynos 9820 SoC inside the Galaxy S10 at https://www.chiprebel.com/galaxy-s10-teardown/ and you can subscribe to ChipRebel on YouTube here

TechNexion shows i.MX8M Mini, Intel Apollo Lake, Qualcomm QCA9377, QCA6174 at Embedded World 2019

Charbax — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:42:11 +0000

TechNexion shows their lineup of new devices based on the ultra low-power NXP i.MX8M Mini in their ultra-small PICO form factor combining ARM Cortex-A53 and an M4 microcontroller at embedded world 2019, it supports Android, Linux, Yocto, Ubuntu OS is only 37 x 40 mm and at a low cost. The SoM integrates a fully certified wireless module PIXI-9377 based on Qualcomm QCA9377. They also show their Qualcomm QCA9377, QCA6174 devices and more. TechNexion announces two new SoM families: AXON and FLEX. AXON is a product family of small form factor (58 x 37 mm) modules designed for specialized embedded applications requiring another dimension of I/O flexibility. AXON-IMX8M-MINI is also based on NXP i.MX8M Mini applications processor and features AXON Fabric programmable logic, a specialized IC that provides additional functions including nearly infinite pinmuxing, allowing for true pin-to-pin compatibility between SoC versions. FLEX series, on the other hand, is a low-cost family making use of low-cost LPDDR4 SO-DIMM connector. FLEX-IMX8M-MINI (69.6 x 35 mm) offers HD multimedia streaming and integrated 3D graphics at a price point for the cost sensitive market. TechNexion launches several products based on Intel Apollo Lake processor family (Intel Atom x5-E3930, x5-E3940 or x7-E3950) that can be easily deployed in diverse industrial applications ranging from manufacturing robots and machinery, to radar and sensors on ships, trains and automobiles, to in-vehicle experience, video systems and more. TC-1010-APL and TC-1560-APL Multi Touch HMIs come in 10.1” and 15.6” sizes. On the other hand, TCK3-APL is a ruggedized box PC fully customizable to handle your projects with IoT integration. TechNexion also shows their expanded lineup of fully certified (CE / ETSI / FCC / IC / RCM / TELEC) PIXI and STIX series combo wireless communication modules based on Qualcomm QCA9377 and QCA6174 solutions. The modules are available in several M.2 and in the mini-PCIe form factor.

€2299 Huawei Mate X Flexible phone, with keynote

Charbax — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:47:53 +0000

Huawei unveiled their Huawei Mate X flexible foldable phone, the best such flexible phone demonstration yet, though they launch it way way too expensive at €2299. On the other hand they were able to position the flexible display based phone as the ultimate phone one would be able to get, pushing the industry towards making this form factor popular sooner rather than later. This might be a flexible display provided to Huawei by BOE, I filmed BOE’s flexible displays for phones here and here you can also see all my other flexible display videos that I have been filming for the past several years here

€449 Xiaomi Mi 9, Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, €599 Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G, MWC 2019 keynote

Charbax — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:36:13 +0000

Xiaomi Mi 9 is launched at €449, runs on the 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, with a 6.39″ display, triple cameras including a 2x telephoto optical zoom lens, it can record 4K60 and comes with a 3300 mAh battery. The 5G version of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is also to be available at €599. This video includes my highlights filmed at the Xiaomi Mobile World Congress 2019 keynote which you can also watch the official full video of here.

€299 Archos Diamond bezel-less, Archos Oxygen, Smart Speakers, Smart Lights and 101S Oxygen Tablet

Charbax — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:21:15 +0000

Archos Diamond has a 6.39″ HD+ 2160×1080 AMOLED display, powered by the MediaTek Helio P70 ARM Cortex-A73/A53 octa-core CPU with an ARM Mali-G72 GPU. Archos Oxygen 68 at 149eur, 63 at 129eur, 57 at 99eur. Archos also shows their Amazon Alexa smart speakers, the 19.90eur Archos Smart LED Lights that work with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Archos 101S Oxygen Tablet based on MediaTek X20 deca-core with 3GB RAM and 32GB Flash, comes with a special charging and speaker dock.

MediaTek Helio P90, dual ARM Cortex-A75, six ARM Cortex-A55

Charbax — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:32:31 +0000

MediaTek Helio P90 dual ARM Cortex-A75 with 6 ARM Cortex-A55 in an octa-core cluster, with powerful AI APU 2.0 with 1165GMACs performance, Imagination PowerVR GM 9446 GPU, LPDDR4X memory, supports up to 48MP camera sensors (44.7% larger than 8K), 48MP at up to 30FPS with zero delay (ZSD) or 480FPS in 16MP. Dual camera arrays of up to 24+16MP can do 30fps bokeh live-previews that are 6X faster and 2.25X higher resolution than competitor claims MediaTek. Upgraded triple ISP that’s now capable of 14-bit RAW and 10-bit YUV processing. CorePilot control that supports ACAO (all cores all open), AI-enhanced low-light noise reduction algorithm is 4X faster and is also the first ever AI-feature in CV (computer vision) performance. MediaTek’s latest 4G LTE WorldMode modem introduces 4×4 MIMO, 3CA and 256QAM that provides more reliable connectivity performance even in densely populated spaces such as stadiums, busy shopping districts, offices or at the airport.

$449 Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Platform Snapdragon 845 Development Board, Embedded World 2019 booth tour

Charbax — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:48:37 +0000

Qualcomm and Thundercomm launches the Robotics RB3 Platform 96Boards development board (available for $449 at Thundercomm), supports the development of smart, power-efficient, and cost-effective robots, uses heterogeneous computing and Qualcomm Artificial (AI) Engine to support on-device machine learning, computer vision, robust security, multimedia, Wi-Fi, and cellular connectivity capabilities, based on the Qualcomm SDA845/Qualcomm SDM845 SoC. It includes hardware, software, and development tools, the Qualcomm Robotics RB3 platform is designed to help manufacturers and developers create robotic products, ranging from large industrial and enterprise robots to small battery-operated ones with challenging power. This video also features a tour of the Qualcomm booth at Embedded World 2019, featuring all the LTE for IoT modems such as the MDM9206 and the MDM9205 LTE IoT modem, and development boards available from Qualcomm’s partners including Geniatech, Intrinsyc, eInfoChips, Altek, Inforce Computing, Keith and Koep, Shiratech, Basler and more.

Samsung Galaxy S10 Dex on Lapdock, faster, smoother, doesn’t take over phone display

Charbax — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 13:07:55 +0000

The new Samsung Galaxy S10/S10+/S10e/Fold enables the fastes PC Mode from a phone yet, here tested on upcoming http://lapdock.net project (check back for more videos on Lapdock and when it might be available for purchase). Galaxy S10 is powered by the extremely fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. There even is a 5G version to be available.

ST booth tour at Embedded World 2019 (Part 1), STM32MP1, STM32Cube.AI, ST60

Charbax — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 12:45:37 +0000

Welcome to the Embedded World 2019 tour (Part 1) at the STMicroelectronics booth, featuring ST Maker Lab Apple 1 and Sega 1000 emulator, the new STM32MP1 heterogeneous single or dual ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores architecture, the Cortex-A7 core provides access to open-source operating systems (Linux/Android) while the Cortex-M4 core leverages the STM32 MCU ecosystem. Featuring partners on the STM32MP1 such as Kontron, Octavo Systems, Timesys and Shiratech. Then featuring STM32Cube.AI Artificial Intelligence on STM32, ST60 60GHz RF link.

Here you can jump to each part of this video:
ST Maker Lab: 00:41
STM32MP1: 03:42 heterogeneous single or dual ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores architecture, the Cortex-A7 core provides access to open-source operating systems (Linux/Android) while the Cortex-M4 core leverages the STM32 MCU ecosystem.
STM32MP1 Kontron (System on Module): 10:00
STM32MP1 Octavo Systems (System in Package): 13:03
STM32MP1 Shiratech: 16:03 96Boards Avengers96 and IoT Cube
STM32MP1 Timesys: 18:48
STM32Cube.AI (artificial intelligenc on STM32): 21:38
ST60 60GHz RF link (sparclink): 25:48

STMicroelectronics playlist of all ST Embedded World 2019 videos you can find here.

OXI on Gemini PDA, Cosmo Communicator, PC Mode UI with Windows apps on Android on external display

Charbax — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 06:56:04 +0000

At MWC 2019, Planet Computers CEO Dr Janko Mrsic-Flogel introduces Auxens who has ported OXI OS to the Gemini PDA and same will be available on the upcoming Cosmo Communicator. While the potential for Displayport support on the Cosmo Communicator is maybe yet still to be confirmed, as the Cosmo will start shipping to their Indiegogo backers in June.

Oppo 10x Lossless Zoom and 5G phone

Charbax — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:09:33 +0000

Oppo unveiled their 10x zoom phone, with that compact 160mm telephoto lens and software for a smooth lossless zoom from 16mm-160mm in such a thin phone. Oppo also had Qualcomm guest their keynote and they are launching 5G phones at this show.

$1599 Optoma UHL55 4K LED Portable Projector

Charbax — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 04:53:45 +0000

Optoma UHL55 ($1599 at Amazon.com) is world’s first portable “pico class” 4K DLP Projector (on TI’s new 0.47″ DLP470TP chip) with 1500lumen brightness from a 30,000 hour RGBB LED light source, four HDR10 picture modes, the most compact 4K projector, yet it includes a powerful speaker for portable all-in-one use. Optoma UHL55 runs Android with a built-in 4K HDR media player with USB media playback, supports Alexa and Google Assistant for voice commands, Stereo audio through two 8-watt speakers with Dolby Digital decoding and Bluetooth audio input and output, Protective sliding lens cover, Auto focus and auto keystone for easy place and play without needing to calibrate it before each use.

Optoma 4K Ultra Short Throw Laser projector

Charbax — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:39:50 +0000

Optoma unveils their 4K UST Laser 3000 ANSI Lumen, 2M:1 contrast ratio projector. With a 0.25:1 ultra short throw ratio, it support HDR, HLG, Android OS, Alexa, Google Voice, it projects at up to 120″ also features Nuforce audio sound bar integrated. Nuforce was acquired by Optoma to provide this type of high quality sound bar style audio to their short throw projectors like this one.

Kopin Golden-i Smart Glass at CES 2019

Charbax — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 12:46:17 +0000

Golden-i is preparing to revolutionize the world of adjustable/customizable life enhancing smart glasses, at its 8th Generation (I have filmed Golden-i prototype developments since 2011 here and here), the Golden-i team has reached this yet smallest Smart Glass implementation that works with USB Type-C Displayport phones (for now on slightly modified firmwares) to output the full potential of the Smart Phone right into the hands free Smart Glass computing user interface.

10.3″ Onyx Boox Note Pro with front light

Charbax — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:42:20 +0000

10.3″ Onyx Boox Note Pro features warm and cold adjustable front lights, capacitive and Wacom touchscreens, with 4GB RAM, 64GB Flash.

$280 Onyx 7.8″ Boox Nova Pro with front light

Charbax — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:38:18 +0000

7.8″ Onyx Boox Nova Pro, comes with 2GB RAM, 32GB Flash, color-adjusting frontlight, capacitive screen and Wacom stylus input with 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity. Resolution of 1872×1404. Availability will from around April for a price of around $280.

OXI on Lapdock, runs Windows 10 apps in Android

Charbax — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 23:15:16 +0000

Laurent Alaguero of Auxens shows their latest version of OXI the Desktop productivity user interface for Android phone’s external displays, such as here demonstrating running on the BQ Aquaris X2 Pro which has Displayport USB Type-C support. Here demonstrating OXI running with the Lapdock launched on crowdfunding on Indiegogo starting at $100. OXI can bring in and run Windows 10 apps in resizable Windows inside of this Android user interface, no need to boot all the way into a Windows 10 remote desktop just pulling in the needed Windows apps over the Internet, using virtualization, streaming, with servers that can nearby and served through Enterprise’s existing Windows server infrastructure. The Windows 10 apps can feel like they are running locally on Android with minimal lag. Auxens is now reaching out to Smartphone manufacturers to try to pre-install OXI on shipping phones with Displayport USB Type-C support. Hopefully they can integrate by getting some API access with http://shadow.tech cloud PC service and hopefully OXI comes with the Cosmo Communicator that is being developed and which I filmed here

Colorii $4 USB-C to 4K HDMI adapter, Lapdock at CES 2019

Charbax — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:34:17 +0000

Colorii CH1 is the world’s smallest USB Type C to 4K 30Hz HDMI adapter, it works with phone or laptop. Colorii also shows USB 3.0 to VGA adapter, USB 3.0 to HDMI/VGA dual display adapter, USB 3.0 to HDMI/DVI adapter and more at Colorii’s CES 2019 booth. Colorii also shows the Lapdock project which is now as a working sample crowdfunding starting at $100 at http://igg.me/at/lapdock

Distributors can contact Colorii for distributor prices here:
Gennie Peng, Sales Manager
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Mobile: +8615013777080 (Wechat/Whatsapp)
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Cosmo Communicator display shown at CES 2019

Charbax — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:11:22 +0000

Planet Computers are showing their latest prototype of the Cosmo Communicator now crowdfunding for $569 on Indiegogo here which is an upgrade of their very successful Gemini PDA which I used as my main phone for the past 9 months and you can see some videos I filmed about it here the Cosmo Communicator upgraded the CPU to MediaTek P70, Memory, the keyboard gets backlit, an external OLED display is added to be able to use the phone without having to open it, a fingerprint reader is added that is a combo with being a selection button, an external high quality 24 megapixel camera is now also default. The new design also allows for better antennas for a stronger LTE signal and possibly also for a stronger Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support too.

LAPSCREEN with faytech, 12.5″ Type-C Display, runs off DP phone/laptop/anything

Charbax — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:40:59 +0000

Michél Haese shows LAPSCREEN manufactured by faytech. This video also features Arne Weber, the managing founder of faytech. Here demonstrating Lapscreen with a Huawei P20, using the Smartphone’s CPU/Memory?Connectivity and Battery to power the LAPSCREEN with its 12.5” FHD display, available both non-touch for around $200 and touch version for about $300, shipping in January. The concept is for Lapscreen to be so thin and lightweight it can fit inside an A4-envelope. LAPSCREEN displays the Huawei P20 either in work station mode with all the office tools or one can play any mobile games on a large 12.5” screen instead of the display of a tiny mobile phone. With just around 5W power consumption, the mobile phone’s battery is enough to also run the LAPSCREEN for several hours on a charge, there is also a PD Power Delivery port on the Lapscreen to power the Lapscreen and charge the mobile phone at the same time.

Michél also presents the set up of using LAPSCREEN on different macbooks, showing how one can connect up to 4 LAPSCREENS to just one macbook. There is also an HDMI input on every LAPSCREEN, to connect any HDMI source, any media player, notebook, WiFi/Miracast-dongle, even game consoles like the Nintendo Switch or the iPhone via a lightning to HDMI-cable are perfectly presented on the LAPSCREEN too.

$100 Lapdock on Indiegogo

Charbax — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:52:57 +0000

Now crowdfunding the Lapdock project on Indiegogo at http://igg.me/at/lapdock starting at $100. The future of Laptops will not have a powerful CPU in them but will be modular when you buy them, they can be powered by your phone, or you can buy a small compact ARM Powered internal or external Type-C Stick to run them off of. Laptops are all about getting a great keyboard, mouse and display, but the CPU, Memory, Connectivity, those things can be swapped according to progress in the industry. I will be posting updates on this project at http://Lapdock.net and on the Updates tab at http://igg.me/at/lapdock if this project gets funded by at least $100 thousand, then the suppliers in Shenzhen China will be able to deliver the Lapdock at this price. If Lapdocks can become a larger success with a lot of demand then prices will be able to reach sub-$100 for high quality components, high quality keyboard, mouse pad, display and batteries also that last at least 20 hours on a charge. With a lot of support, this concept will also bring high performance and affordable USB Type-C Sticks to run all sorts of productivity user interfaces based on Android (such as the OXI UI) or Linux OSes or even Microsoft can bring Windows support to the Lapdock. This form factor could also bring the developers who use development boards closer to the mass market consumers, as all work done around the development boards of the future (very compact and affordable USB Type-C Sticks) will directly be able to impact also how end consumers can use devices for actual real work and productivity. The Lapdock will also move Smartphone market more towards their “PC Mode” as Samsung and Huawei already support each their PC Modes, and that is great because Samsung and Huawei are the two biggest Smartphone manufacturers in the world, yet most consumers don’t even know that the PC Mode is there. With Lapdocks, the performance of latest 7nm ARM Processors in phones will be tuned further for multi-window, multi-tasking and for running more advanced productivity apps on Android. 2019 will hopefully be the year where ARM Powered productivity finally reaches mass adoption and the mass market and I think that the Lapdock will be at the center point of that major electronics industry upgrade.

Geniatech in 2018, Android TV, Snapdragon 820 board, NXP, RK3399, MediaTek, IoT Gateway and more

Charbax — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:49:49 +0000

Geniatech shows Google-certified Android TV boxes, development boards for the embedded market, IoT Smart Gateway solutions and more. The Geniatech Android TV Set-top-box solutions, now run a full real Android TV UI on AmLogic S905X in the Geniatch ATV495Max, the AmLogic S905D ATV598Max with the DVB-T2 and ATSC. Also selling the Android TV HDMI Sticks ATV135Max and ATV195Max with a larger Wi-Fi antennae. Geniatech also has some Smart Home Smart Gateway products to manage home IoT. Geniatech also does Snapdragon 410 based 96Boards compatible development board, they do NXP i.MX6 with HDMI input and i.MX7 SOM boards too (for the headless Smart Gateway and Smart audio market), they develop their SOM platform for IoT Gateway, Rockchip RK3399 based board with HDMI input and output with Power over Ethernet. Geniatech also does entry level MediaTek powered IoT gateways with Zigbee, Lo-Ra connecting up with Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Geniatech also shows their AmLogic T-962E powered quad 4K HDMI input with 1 HDMI output digital signage for commercial use with overlay picture in picture support.

Chromium OS on Snapdragon 845

juliusaugustus — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:17:32 +0000

At Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018, some engineers are showing the Open Source Chromium OS running on the 10nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. With some talk on the status of using Freedreno for hardware accelerated GPU support in that Chromium OS demo. Over the past few months this solution has been upstreamed into the mainline kernel, display driver, audio driver, wifi driver, all the connectivity and periferal storage drivers, all to make Chromium OS work on that chipset. Running the 4.18 kernel with very few additional patches, it has hardware accelerated video playback using the open source freedreno driver. This could be a clue towards what I think could be an ultimate ARM Powered Laptop, a Snapdragon 845 Powered Chromebook would be so awesome, with Gigabit LTE, with good ARM single thread and multi-thread performance, with smooth Android and Linux apps supported, perhaps even it would be nice if Microsoft could contribute full x86 and ARM compiled Windows 10 apps support directly on this device.

Martin Riddiford interview, designer of Psion, Gemini PDA, Cosmo Communicator

Charbax — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 05:34:42 +0000

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

$549 Cosmo Communicator interview, now on Indiegogo

Charbax — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 03:54:31 +0000

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.

Android Treble on Texas Instruments Beagle-X15 at Linaro Connect

Charbax — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:49:35 +0000

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.

$499 Essential PH-1, the first Bezel-Less Smartphone

flatslap — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:38:31 +0000

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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$150 KONKA Laptop, $40 Tablet, $300 Dancing Robot, $90 Smartphone

Charbax — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:41:54 +0000

$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

Charbax — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:41:51 +0000

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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$120 KXD K30, $26 El W40 Smartphone Retina HD

Charbax — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:03:10 +0000

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

Charbax — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:55:38 +0000

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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$169 BLUBOO S2, S3 Rotating Camera Bezel-less Smartphone

Charbax — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:26:05 +0000

Bezel-less Rotating and massive Battery power smartphones by BLUBOOS2,S3.
S2 One Rotation a mega Vision (One Camera 2 modes):
Special Rotating Camera on front for Selfie and Rear 21 MP Sony Camera. MT6763 Helio P23 Octa-Core CPU.RAM 6GB and ROM 128GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1080*2160, Android 8.1, Battery 4050mAh.Back fingerprint.
S3 (Massive Battery power with one week stands by time) comes with:
MTK6750T Octa-Core 1.5 GHz CPU .RAM 4GB and ROM 64GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1080*2160,Front Camera 13.0mp back camera 21.0mp, Android 8.1, Battery 8500mAh.Back fingerprint. Mobile Power Bank.
https://www.banggood.com/Bluboo-S3-6_0-Inch-Sharp-FHD-8500mAh-12V2A-NFC-4GB-RAM-64GB-ROM-MTK6750T-1_5GHz-4G-Smartphone-p-1283089.html?rmmds=buy&ID=224&cur_warehouse=CN
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Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X

Charbax — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:36:02 +0000

Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and Mate 20 X is the fastest phone in the world, with a 7nm Kirin 980 quad ARM Cortex-A76, quad ARM Cortex-A55, Mali-G76MP10 GPU, with Dual-NPU AI acceleration that has 6.9 Billion transistors on the SoC package. It comes with world’s first 1.4Gbit/s Cat.21 LTE Modem, supports 2133Mhz LPDDR4X. Huawei claims to be about 50% faster at loading apps compared with the latest iPhone and Galaxy Note 9, run 38% longer on its 4200mAh battery, enables 140% faster quick charge with its 40W charger, it takes only 30min to charge up 70% of the battery and has 70% faster wireless charging. Up to 120% better antenna performance compared with the new iPhone Xs Max, with its dual-frequency GPS receiver, it can have a 10x better GPS positioning accuracy. Huawei PC Mode now also works by its usual USB Type-C Displayport functionality but it also works wirelessly sending the PC Mode display over to any Miracast receiver they also provide a Huawei wireless dongle. Huawei Mate 20 X is a very large 7.2″ OLED smartphone with 5000mAh battery, world’s first vapor chamber and grephene film based cooling technology enabling higher performance when doing processor intensive tasks for long periods of time such as for gaming.

Huawei HiVision estimates calories in Food on Huawei Mate 20

Charbax — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:01:58 +0000

HiVision gives information about food, it can give an estimate on food calories by its volume to assist in having a healthy lifestyle. It can recognize landmarks, famous paintings and objects which can then be purchased directly in Huawei’s Smart Shopping feature that can recognize things and launch the purchase procedure directly based on the image or based on the camera. The Huawei Mate 20 comes with not only the world’s most powerful Arm processor in Kirin 980 built on 7nm, with quad ARM Cortex-A76 and quad ARM Cortex-A55, it also has Dual-core Neural Processing Unit offering a vast amount of AI computing performance, making up probably a large part of those 6.9 Billion transistors on the SoC. These algorithms can eventually be trained to offer more and more accurate recognition of things in the surroundings of the smartphone camera.

Bokeh video on Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Charbax — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:50:06 +0000

The Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro can take Bokeh video, they can blur the background as one of their new video AI modes in 1080p30. I shot here a sample using the phone so you can see the quality of that bokeh effect. Does it look good enough for video-blogging in a way that might have a professional look to it? I guess if the bokeh isn’t by optics it’s better not to shoot with it, right? But then the whole video is flat. This bokeh AI effect does not seem to recognize the things that are at the same distance, it blurs out anything that it considers not to be part of the face. And it might unblur any other faces that it catches in the background too which kind of defeats the purpose of blurring out the foreground and the background. It is possible though that Huawei might still yet improve on their AI algorithms here to perhaps improve their bokeh video effect further.

7.2″ giant Huawei Mate 20 X with Myriam Joire

Charbax — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:24:35 +0000

Myriam Joire of the Mobile Tech Podcast has been covering tech for over a decade and was previously Engadget’s Senior Mobile Editor, host of the Engadget Mobile Podcast, and co-host of TWiT’s All About Android. The Huawei Mate 20 X is a 7.2″ 1080×2244, Android 9.0 powered high end Android phone running on the new 7nm HiSilicon Kirin 980 quad ARM Cortex-A76, quad ARM Cortex-A55 with Mali-G76 MP10 GPU. This phone is actually targetted at the gaming market, to be launched at 899€.

$85 X-BO Max-7, bezel-less, notch-less, $77 X-6/7/8

Charbax — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:45:25 +0000

Bezel-less smartphones by X-Bo W&Obrand Max7, X8, X7 and X6. Max7 Comes with: MTK6773V Quad-Core 1.3Ghz CPU,RAM2GB and ROM 16GB,Display720*1440, Android 7.0, Battery 2800mAh, Camera 5.0mp+Rear 8.0mP. X8 4G Comes With: MTK6737H Quad-Core 1.3Ghz CPU,RAM2GB and ROM 16GB,Display720*1440, Android 8.1, Battery 2400mAh, Camera 2.0mp+Rear 8.0mP. X7 Comes With: MTK6739CV Quad-Core 1.3Ghz CPU,RAM2GB and ROM 16GB,Display720*1440, Android 8.1, Battery 2600mAh, Camera 2.0mp+Rear 8.0mP. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$120 iNew Bezel-less i11 ,X11 and X10, Notch-less

Charbax — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:39:12 +0000

Bezel-less smartphones by I-new with No Notch. i11 Comes with: MTK6750T Octa-Core CPU, 4GB RAM and 64GB F;ash, Display 1080*2160, Screen Ratio 18:9” Android 8.0, Battery 3000mAh, Camera 5.0mp (SW8.0MP)+Rear 13.0mP(SW 16MP). X11 Comes With: MTK6580H Quad-Core 1.3Ghz CPU,RAM 1GB and ROM 8GB,Display 960*480, Android 7.0, Battery 3000mAh, Camera 2.0mp+Rear 8.0mP. X10 Comes With: MTK6580H Quad-Core 1.3Ghz CPU,RAM 0.75GB and ROM 8GB,Display 960*480, Android 7.0, Battery 3000mAh, Camera 2.0mp+Rear 2.0mP. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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Jezetek E Ink with Note 7.8″, 10.3″, 13.3″, P10C, P68K-1, P78C

Charbax — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:33:45 +0000

Jezetek E-Book Reader and writer there’s the 7.8″ P78C Supporting styling writing as well so that would make it 7.8-inch E-ink 1404*1872 Capacitative Touch. With memory 8GB EMMC and Ram 1GB, battery 3000mAh. There’s also a 10.3″ P10C model with 8GB of internal storage space and 1GB of RAM, same as the P78C. The cool thing about this model is it’s the first 10.3-inch front light. Jezetek 13.3-inch model too, the P133A. Based on Android 4.4.2, but it looks like it’s still a major work in progress, especially when it comes to the hand writing features. The P78C and P10C both have iMX6 processors, but the P133A has the new iMX7 processor. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$125 KOOLNEE K1, K3, K74G Phablet, Notch, 4D Curved Glass

Charbax — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:23:03 +0000

Bezel-less smartphones by KOOLNEE with Notch. K1 Comes available for $180 at Gearbest with: MTK6750T Octa Core 1.5GHz CPU,RAM4GB and ROM 64GB,Display2160*1080, Screen Ratio 18:9”Android 7.0, Battery 3190mAh, Camera 8.0mp + Rear 16.0mP. Finger print unlock and face recognition unlock K3 Comes With: Media Tech MT6750T Core 2.0 CPU,RAM 4GB and ROM 64GB,Display 2160*1080, Android 8.0, Battery 3100mAh, Camera 8.0mp+Rear 16.0mP.Finger print unlock and face recognition unlock. K7 Comes With: 8 cores ARM Cortex-A53 2GHz Quad-Core 1.3Ghz CPU,RAM 4GB and ROM 128GB,Display 2246*1080, Android 8.1, Battery 5000mAh, Camera 8.0mp+Rear 16.0mP,Finger print unlock and face recognition unlock. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$199 NUU Mobile G3 on P25, $99 NUU Mobile G1

Charbax — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:12:46 +0000

NUU Mobile G3 available for $199 at Amazon.com Comes in 5.7” inch IPS LCD Screen,18:9, 282ppi Resolution of 1440 X 720 (HD+) 2.75D Curved Glass CPU: Processor: Media Talk Helio P25 Octacore @ 2.39Ghz GPU: 4GB RAM 64GB ROM External Memory Supported (128GB) Dual Rear cameras 13MP+5MP (f/2.0) Front Camera 13MP Dual Band Wifi Factory unlocked 4G LTE Hybrid Dual Sim Fingerprint sensor (Back) Bluetooth v4.2 Android v7.1 3000mAh USB Type C Fast Charging + OTG. G1 costs only $99 at Amazon.com (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$199 ZOPO 6206 Notch phone with 96megapixel Super pixel and SONY IMX 499 sensor

Charbax — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:02:18 +0000

ZOPO 6206, it’s a notched smartphone equipped with a 6.2-inch FHD+ IPS screen with 1100 x 8000resolutions. It is powered by the 2.5GHz 64-bit MT6763 Octa-core processor, 4GB RAM/ 6GB RAM, 64GB expandable storage, and 3,300mAh fast charging battery Non-removable .96MP SuperPixelsTM Photo technology. Zoom in 30X and it’s still clear. Enabled by Sense Time for facial recognition with 0.15s unlock your phone. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$299 Elephone S8 Pro Snapdragon 660 AMOLED 2560×1440, 6GB+128GB

Charbax — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:51:19 +0000

New tri-bezel-less smartphones by Elephone S8 pro available below. It is the 2nd generation after Elephone S8 which is available at Gearbest. Elephone S8 Pro Phone pre-installed with Snapdragon 660 CPU,RAM 6GB and ROM 128GB,come with 5.99″FHD+18:9 Infinity AMOLED Display, Dual 13MP Rear Camera Resolution 2560×1440.Inside Fingerprint available at http://www.elephonestore.com/elephone-s8-pro-mobile-128gb.html The screen is made by using the AMOLED technology;the newest eight-core Snapdragon 660 processor is an excellent solution for fans of resource-demanding games.Support for LTE, OTG, a good 8-megapixel frontal sensor and still actual Android Nougat. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$129 Elephone A4, $149 Elephone A4 Pro, MT6739V, 3GB+16GB

Charbax — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:42:39 +0000

Tri-bezel-less smartphone with Notch by Elephone A4 available for $129 at Gearbest runs Android 8.1 on MT6739 Quad-Core processoran 5.85 inch screen with 1440*720 pixels resolution, supports five points multi-touch 18:9 HD full screen. 3GB RAM and 16GB ROM storage supports up to 128GB TF card. 5MP front camera 8 MP rear camera. Unlocking by side finger print sensor and face unlock with 128 invisible dots recognized. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$339 Elephone U Pro 5.99” curved AMOLED, Snapdragon 660

Charbax — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:06:13 +0000

5.99” display that sports a 2160*1080 full screen resolution and a screen-to-body ratio of 87.0%. Available for $339 at Gearbest Face Unlock with *FOTA later in 0.08 sec.Snapdragon® 660 CPU. 6GB RAM+128GB ROM large storage. With O.S Android 8.0 .13MP+13MP double rear camera and 8MP front camera. 3550 mAh battery which supports to wireless charging and quick charging charged in 1.5 hours fully. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$110 Doogee VE with a Notch, in-display fingerprint unlock

Charbax — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:44:38 +0000

DOOGEE is going to apply another innovative design, in-display fingerprint unlocking, to the new generation of DOOGEE V. With a sensor inserted inside the screen, there is nothing getting in the way on the surface now. Just immerse yourself in the full-display with wide viewing angle experience.
https://www.pdevice.com/product/doogee-v-price-specs
https://www.doogeemall.com/en

DOOGEE VE Smartphone Display very awesome with round CornerHaving followings properties.
Display: 6.18* 19:9 HD+
CPU: MT6750
Core: 4*Cortex –A53 1.5GHz+4*Cortex-A53 1.0GHZ
Rear Camera: 8.0MP
Memory: 4GB RAM +64GB ROM
Battery: 5000mAh 5v-1A
Finger print: Rear Fingerprint
OS: Android 8.1
Price: $110 U.S for distributers.
DOOGEE VE Smartphone.
Display: 6.21* 19:9 AMOLED FHD+
CPU: MT6771(P60)
Core: Octa Core 1.8GHz + 2.0GHz
Rear Camera: 16.0 MP + 8.0MP
Front Camera: 16.0 MP
Memory: 6GB/8GB RAM +64/128GB ROM
Battery: 4000mAh 9v-2A
Finger print: In screen Finger Print Sensor
OS: Android 8.1
Price: $200+ U.S for distributers.
(text by freelancer)

New iPhone sucks! Buy Gemini PDA or Vernee Mix 2 instead

Charbax — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 02:35:07 +0000

To be honest, I watched 1 video about the new iPhone, as I can see it’s pretty much still a hugely overpriced shitty notch phone. Good job from the Trillion dollar fruit gadgets company. (I mean of course their new 7nm ARM processor surely is interesting..) The Gemini PDA is my daily driver phone, I use my Gemini PDA every day as my main phone for over 6 months now (since I filmed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTU28QgYHdQ&t=203s ), Gemini PDA is amazing for me to be productive, to be able to type texts with my phone nearly as fast as I would on a laptop, and here I also show a properly great value $150 Vernee Mix 2 phone available at around $150 here https://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_906061.html?wid=1527929 (thank you Gearbest for sending me this one!) There are some newer Bezel-less phones that have been released since, some perhaps slightly lighter, with better GPS positioning accuracy, better camera and brighter display. Check back later for more videos on these.

Bero shows Android phones on new kernel

Charbax — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:18:01 +0000

Bernhard Rosenkränzer of the Linaro Mobile Group shows some Android phones with updated Linux kernels on production devices, and those are working perfectly.

AOSP TV OP-TEE DRM integrations on HiKey, TI X15, iMX8M, Poplar

Charbax — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 15:49:29 +0000

Peter Griffin and his colleagues of the Linaro Home Group demonstrate some of their latest advancements with AOSP TV such as their OP-TEE DRM integrations, Playready, Widevine, ClearKey on HiKey, TI X15, iMX8M, Poplar using AOSP and Linux, Chromium and WPE. DRM Secure Data Path on i.MX8M.

Amit Pundir talks Android Common Kernel and Android Mainline Tracking Tree

Charbax — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 20:42:01 +0000

Tom Gall interview with Amit Pundir who works on Android Common Kernels involved with Android Mainline Tracking Tree. Filmed at Linaro Connect 2018 in Hong Kong.

ARM TrustZone Media Protection with OPTEE

Charbax — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 20:36:47 +0000

ARM is showing TrustZone Media Protection working with the Open Source Trusted Execution Environment, adopting everything within the Android operating system.

EU fines Google $5 Billion for illegal Android app-bundling contract policies

Charbax — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 02:45:50 +0000

Margrethe Vestager, Member of the European Commission in charge of Competition, on Antitrust holds press conference with press Q&A announcing the fine on Google of €4.34 billion ($5 Billion) for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google’s search engine, Google’s exclusive app-bundling policies illegally blocking competition in the Android based hardware device space over the last decade but especially since 2011. Google forbids manufacturers to pre-install any competitor to Google Search, Chrome, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Docs and other of the core Google apps on any Android device if such manufacturer wants to pre-load any such Google app on any device. Google must fix this within 90 days or be fined further daily up to 5% of their daily global revenue.

I have been complaining about Google’s app bundling policies in Android over the past decade, I think those Google policies are anti-competitive but also counter-productive for Google itself. I think Google should support and encourage as much innovation around the Android OS as possible, they should let the manufacturers customize Android devices as they wish, Google should encourage their competitors such as Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Yandex, Baidu, Alibaba, Amazon, Rakuten and many many other large tech companies should be invited to subsidize Android device by pre-loading whichever other search engines and apps that they would like to pre-load, and they should also be encouraged to adjust, customize, enhance and even to fork Android to add new functionalities to the Android operating system, for example support for other app platforms inside Android, for example support for Windows apps in Android, support for iOS apps in Android, support for Linux apps in Android and much more. I also believe that Google will make more money also when Google opens Android up much more and better, to allow device makers to work with Google’s competitors when it comes to apps that are pre-installed, and including also to develop Android fully in the open source space sharing dailies of all daily Android development.

JMGO 4K projector (coming soon) and latest range of available projectors

Charbax — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:26:27 +0000

Filming here the latest range of JMGO projectors at their Shenzhen China Headquarters, products include JMGO P2, JMGO V8 Full HD 1080p projector, JmGO J6S FHD 1080p projector, running Android. Some of the JMGO projectors come with loud speakers with high quality sound design considered in them. This video also features the JMGO Vintage Edition, JMGO M6, JMGO E8, JMGO N7L and more. JMGO SC is a China-only 1000gbp ($1320) short throw projector with 1800 lumen but there also is JMGO SA with 2200 lumen available here on Aliexpress.com

Tianma shows Flexible OLED, Quantum Dot LCD, Full Active, Notch, No-Notch and more

Charbax — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:35:41 +0000

Tianma shows a range of their latest displays at SID Display Week 2018. Displays include flexible OLED for phones, that can go as thin as 3mm bend radius that can do up to 10 thousand bends, active no-notch bezel-less LTPS LCD some with Notch and some without, integrated force pressure sensor, hole for camera in OLED display, cut-out for the front fingerprint sensor, Android at actual 2160×1080 (small icons), 4.2″ AMOLED that can operate at up to 85 degree centigrade, automotive displays such as side view mirror displays, single laminated direct bonded wide display, 240 local area LED dimming for better contrast, free form displays with a hole in the center for the speedometer, round OLED with haptics, Active Louver Technology for electronic privacy filter, tactile feedback by electrostatic sensations and haptic across the display. 21.3″ quantum dot LCD with 120% NTSC color 2000:1 contrast 1100nits, outdoor viewable displays transmissive with a backlight recycling film 1600nits 800:1 constrast, able to do 25% reflection ratio including a display with a front light, virbration resistant, water resistant with touchscreens working under water, extended field capacitive, 27″ 4K, 30″ 4K for radiology, a floating auto stereoscopic display.

TechNexion shows worldwide pre-certified IoT modules at Computex 2018

Charbax — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 07:05:58 +0000

TechNexion shows off their new products at Computex 2018: pre-certified IoT modules, Android Things development kits, IP69K embedded systems and more. The booth tour starts with Android Things development kit PICO-PI-IMX7 live demo, based on NXP i.MX7 Dual applications processor and ARM Cortex-A7 architecture has been the go-to development kit since the official Android Things launch at Google I/O in May. The company also demonstrates PICO-IMX8M SoM based on NXP i.MX8M processor and Cortex-A53 + M4 architectures that delivers a whooping 4K UltraHD video performance with HDR and pro audio fidelity for multimedia applications. TechNexion is also launching CE, ETSI, FCC, IC, RCM and TELEC pre-certified IoT wireless communication modules and development kits: PIXI-9377 based on Qualcomm QCA9377, PIXI-6174 based on Qualcomm QCA6174 that deliver high transmission rates, low latency and improved range in noisy industrial environments. The company is showcasing a fully waterproof TWP-1010-IMX6 HMI based on NXP i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 processor that was specially designed to withstand extreme environments and cleaning with a jet spray. TWP series likewise includes models based on Intel Braswell architecture. TEK5-APL box PC based on Intel Atom x5-E3930, x5-E3940, x7-E3950 and Apollo Lake architecture, enclosed in a fully ruggedized enclosure for use in a vehicle.

Vuzix Blade Developer Kit AR Smart Glasses about to ship

Charbax — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 23:00:27 +0000

Paul Travers, President and CEO at Vuzix talks about how Vuzix is about to ship the Vuzix Blade Developer Kit to developers, providing a wearable smart display with a see-through viewing experience utilizing Vuzix’s proprietary waveguide optics and Cobra II display engine, to be able to see overlaid information, indoors or out, such as patient data, mapping directions, restaurant menus, weather information, alerts and more without picking up a smartphone. Vuzix Blade (see my previous videos about the Vuzix Blade here) can also synchronize and interact with a smartphone, allowing users to keep their phone in their pockets for almost everything where fashion meets technology in the wearable display arena. Vuzix also recently announced partnership to use the new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 Platform and also working with Plessey microLED Microdisplay Technology.

Qualcomm Press Conference at Computex 2018

Charbax — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:20:07 +0000

Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 850 for Windows 10, with representatives of Microsoft and Samsung participating in the keynote too. You can see my extensive video interview about Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 for Windows 10 Laptops here.

Cavium ThunderX2 benchmarks compared with Intel and AMD

Charbax — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:52:05 +0000

Patrick Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief at ServeTheHome.com talks about the independent benchmarks on ThunderX2 that he published at ServeTheHome.com as Cavium announced General Availability of the ThunderX2 ARM Server at their event in San Francisco last month.

The ThunderX2 family includes over 40 different SKUs for both scale up and scale out applications, ranging from top bin 32 core 2.5GHz parts to 16-core 1.6GHz parts, mapping directly across Intel’s Xeon Skylake server CPUs from highest end Platinum to low end SKUs. With list prices for volume SKUs (32 core 2.2GHz and below) ranging from $1795 to $800, the ThunderX2 family offers 2-4X better performance per dollar compared to Xeon Skylake family of processors. The ThunderX2 family is fully compliant with Armv8-A architecture specifications as well as the Arm Server Base System Architecture and Arm Server Base Boot Requirements standards. The ThunderX2 SoC family is supported by a comprehensive software ecosystem, ranging from platform level systems management and firmware to commercial Operating Systems, Development Environments and Applications. Cavium has actively engaged in server industry standards groups such as UEFI and delivered numerous reference platforms to a broad array of community and corporate partners. Cavium has also demonstrated its leadership role in the Open Source software community driving upstream kernel enablement and toolchain optimization, actively contributing to Linaro’s Enterprise and Networking Groups, investing in key Linux Foundation projects such as DPDK, OpenHPC, OPNFV and Xen and sponsoring the FreeBSD Foundation’s Armv8 server implementation.

Libre Computer Development Boards S905X, RK3328, H2+/H3/H5 form-factor compatible with Raspberry Pi

Charbax — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:29:26 +0000

Libre Computer introduces three products of their CC-series which are form-factor compatible with the Raspberry Pi boards and based on open-market hardware. Depending on the model, these single-board computers (SBCs) offer higher performance, more RAM, and/or more IO while sharing the existing aftermarket parts ecosystem. All three products were featured on crowdfunding and supported by free and open source software (FOSS) like Linux and u-boot.

AML-S905X-CC, nicknamed Le Potato, is based on the popular Amlogic S905X SoC. It offers up to 2GB of RAM, four 64-bit cores, 4K60 video playback with HDR, and built-in infrared receiver. This board is the most power-efficient platform of the three and uses less than one watt at idle. There is a large suite of available software for the S905X SoC and it is the only one that has previously passed certification for Google’s Android TV platform. Currently, video decode is missing from upstream Linux and is only available from Amlogic’s BSP with Linux 4.9. Android up to 8 Oreo is available with design contract.

ROC-RK3328-CC, nicknamed Renegade, is based on the Rockchip RK3328 SoC. It offers up to 4GB of high-speed DDR4, four 64-bit cores, 4K60 video playback with HDR, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet. Perfect for IO intensive application like home media center, NAS, microservice virtualization, and more. HDMI support in upstream Linux is scheduled to be completed in Q4 2018. Ubuntu and Debian with accelerated video and 3D is available based on Rockchip’s BSP with Linux 4.4. Android up to 8 Oreo is schedule to be available in Q3 2018 with design contract.

ALL-H3-CC, nicknamed Tritium, is based on three separate Allwinner SoCs: H2+, H3, and H5. The H2+ variant offers 512MB of RAM, four 32-bit cores, and 1080P video playback. The H3 variant is the H2+ variant with 1GB of RAM and 4K30 video playback. The H5 variant offers 2GB of RAM, four 64-bit cores, and 4K30 video playback. There is a large software community behind Allwinner SoCs called linux-sunxi and they have been upstreaming Linux hardware support for almost a decade. This platform also has a crowdfunded effort for video decode Linux upstream underway by Bootlin. Android up to 7 Nougat is available.

Full Comparison of Board Features

Libre Computer platforms are radio-less, FCC and CE certified, long-term-supported (LTS 5Y+) single-board computers. Libre Computer offers hardware customization on all supported SoC platforms. Standard boards with components added/removed can be ordered with 1K MOQ. Small effort customization/mezzanine design contract can be requested with 5K MOQ. Full custom design contracts are available for orders with 20K MOQ. Industrial design, software, project management resources are available as part of design contract.

Honor 10, Notch, Kirin970 without PC Mode, glimmering back

Charbax — Sun, 20 May 2018 08:13:43 +0000

Huawei’s Honor group launches the new Honor 10 Smartphone at $399, it comes with a Notch (which I don’t understand why, except for copying Apple’s mistake), it runs on the ultra fast Hisilicon Kirin 970 processor but they did not include the PC Mode in this one, that PC Mode is only available in Huawei Mate 10 and P20. The very glimmering back side of the phone is a fingerprint magnet, not sure if the effect looks as good if a transparent back case is used. They use an ultrasonic based front side finderprint reader, though I prefer when fingerprint readers are on the back.

Onyx Boox with PadMu Music e-reader, new e-readers Boox Ligo, Nova, Poke, Note S and more to come

Charbax — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 04:32:01 +0000

Sandro Casiraghi presents https://www.padformusician.com/en/ based on the awesome Onyx Boox Max2 for a single or dual 97% of full A4 “like A4 paper” digital music notes reading experience, with a synchronized Bluetooth page turning pedal and Smartphone app. There are more than 1 million professional musicians in the world who potentially could benefit from this technology. This is made possible due to Onyx’s Android solution on their Boox E Ink e-reader platform, as this is enabled through Android. The two readers connect via Wi-Fi direct and the master reader connects with the pedal and Smartphone using Bluetooth. Thus far they have been reaching out to professional and amateur musicians to get their feedback. Onyx is bringing their whole E Ink e-reader range up to their new Quad-core 1.6Ghz ARM platform with smoother and faster page turns, faster and better Android support. Onyx shows some of their new 6″ e-reader designs including Boox Ligo, Boox Nova, Boox Poke that will come before the end of the year. While the 10.3″ Boox Note is awesome, it is probably not a large enough screen for the music reading market. The Boox 9.7″ Note S is newer and thinner and lighter too on their new faster platform too.

Interested distributors of the PadMu and potential e-Music reading customers can contact and read more about PadMu here:
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/padformusician/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9X6m6ctJ6PPGYMlngEbNvA

$300 Sunchip All-in-one AR on RK3288 (like Hololens), $7 Wi-Fi power plug

Charbax — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:05:37 +0000

Sunchip shows some of their latest products including their all-in-one AR system based on Rockchip RK3288, RK3399 board for digital signage. $58 Amlogic S912 TV box, $26 RK3126 HDMI Stick, $200 Apollo Lake Box. 360 panoramic camera. $7 single Smart Wi-Fi Plug, $11 for dual Wi-Fi plug.

Actions S900 in Cubiedboard9 dev board, ATB1103/ATB1109 ARM Cortex-M0

Charbax — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:54:01 +0000

Actions S900 is a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53, the Actions S500 is a Quad-core Cortex-A9. Actions also shows some other products for video smart speaker, smart door bell, smart kids robots, Actions also provides their MIPS based chipset for Bluetooth speakers, here also they are launching their new ATB1103/ATB1109 ARM Cortex-M0 system for their upcoming Bluetooth and perhaps also low cost smart speakers platform.

Allwinner VR9 (hopefully Daydream All-in-one ready) launched, VR-optimized quad-core ARM Cortex-A53

Charbax — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:53:55 +0000

The new Allwinner VR9 is quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor with an independent 32KB L1 I-cache + 32KB L1 D-cache, shared 512KB L2 cache, with MaliT760 GPU and support for OpenGLES 3.2 and OpenCL 1.1. Allwinner VR9 is the first SoC optimized for VR, with as low as dedicated 20ms low latency acceleration module portal, dual-engine direct drive dual-screen system, panoramic 6K visual effects with support for expansive camera positioning, up to 6K30 H265 and 4K60 HEVC/VP9 video decode. Allwinner’s hope is that this SoC can be compatible with the Google Daydream platform for All-in-one VR device usage.

EmdoorVR Allwinner VR9 design house

Charbax — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:43:54 +0000

Emdoor is one of the largest design houses in Shenzhen, here they talk about their support for the new Allwinner VR9 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor with an independent single core 32KB L1 I-cache + 32KB L1 D-cache, shared 512KB L2 cache, with MaliT760 GPU and support for OpenGLES 3.2 and OpenCL 1.1. Allwinner VR9 is the first SoC optimized for VR, with as low as dedicated 20ms low latency acceleration module portal, dual-engine direct drive dual-screen system, panoramic 6K visual effects with support for expansive camera positioning, up to 6K30 H265 and 4K60 HEVC/VP9 video decode.

Allwinner A63, A50, A33G

Charbax — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:51:10 +0000

Allwinner releases their new ARM SoCs for 64bit and 32bit cost effective tablets, featuring their new Allwinner A63 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-T760MP2 GPU. This video was filmed at the Allwinner press conference event in Shenzhen where they had a lot of their industry partners, design houses, factories, OEMs, software partners, to see and to hear about the latest of what Allwinner has been working to do for them. The new Allwinner A50 is Allwinner’s mid-range Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali-400 GPU with support for DDR4 and LPDDR4 RAM, better TLC based Flash memory. For the very entry level Tablet market, Allwinner presents their new Allwinner A33G which is limited at a lower 1.35Ghz clock-speed with a lower resolution display support. While these 3 new ARM Processors by Allwinner are presented as their newest Tablet processors, they are also compatible with all sorts of other devices which could be Robots, interactive Smart Speakers with displays, Smart Rearview Mirrors, Smart Mirrors, Laptops, Desktops, and more. Allwinner also talks about their participation in the Open AI Labs which I also filmed here.

Bero shows AOSP TV 8.1, Gemini PDA, Android with newer kernels at Linaro LMG/LHG hacking room

Charbax — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:55:47 +0000

Bero (Bernhard Rosenkränzer) and his colleagues from the Linaro Mobile Group (Android) and the Linaro Home Group (TV Boxes) are working in the hacking room at Linaro Connect to prepare some demos for Demo Friday including AOSP TV on 8.1 (while most Android TV runs on 7.1), updating the Linux kernel on Android phones to some newer kernel version, and Bero also gives his opinions on the multi-Linux booting Gemini PDA amazing keyboard phone which he has purchased (see my video on Gemini PDA Linux support here)

$99 Rock960 Enterprise Edition “Ficus”, Rock960 Pro with RK3399Pro with NPU for AI

Charbax — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:40:17 +0000

Tom Cubie of Vamrs introduces two new Rockchip RK3399Pro based development boards with http://96boards.ai at Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018, a new ecosystem of development boards for Artificial intelligence development, where the new Rockchip RK3399Pro includes an NPU (2.4 TOPS capable NPU) teamed up with Open AI Lab (who I interviewed here) to support the AI framework.

Rockchip has now officially joined 96Boards as Steering Committee member, which means ROCK960 and other futures 96rocks boards based on Rockchip processors now have official identity in the 96boards/linaro community.

ROCK960 Enterprise Edition board runs Rockchip RK3399Pro hexa core dual ARM Cortex-A72, quad ARM Cortex-A53, Mali-T860MP4 GPU with 2.4 TOPS capable NPU, up to 4GB RAM, Dual SATA 3.0 port with RAID 0/1 support, HDMI 2.0/eDP up to 4K @ 60 Hz, Dual MIPI CSI camera interfaces, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac WiFi, 3x USB 3.0, 5x USB 2.0, PCIe 2.1 x16 slot and more.

Rock960 consumer edition which I previously also filmed here is about to be manufactured now to be available next month.

HiKey970 development board for AI

Charbax — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:05:44 +0000

HiSilicon and Hoperun introduces their new HiKey 970 development board, 10nm HiSilicon Kirin 970 based (same chipset that is in the recent Huawei Mate 10) quad ARM Cortex-A73 at 2.36GHz with quad ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.8GHz with Mali-G72MP12 and their new Dedicated Neural-network Processing Unit (NPU) with 256MAC/cycle @ 960MHz performance. To be available next month for $299 on Amazon and at http://hihope.org this is their Super Edge AI Computing Platform with Huawei HiAI SDK that can provide up to 25X Performance and 50X better Power Efficiency compared with doing the AI tasks by CPU or GPU. This enables the Heterogeneous multi processing Resource Management for use in applications such as Deep Learning, Robots, Automobile, Smart City. The NPU provides frequently used artificial intelligence function APIs, model management APIs and basic operator computing APIs, so developers can focus on developing new AI applications instead of focusing on performance tuning. The HiKey970’s dedicated AI processor has a rich set of imaging and I/Os that enables developers to build highly integrated flexible products for AI-based intelligent cameras in smart cities.

Features include:
UEFI + ARM Trusted Firmware
Kernel 4.9
CAN driver
CSI/CSI-2 driver
WiFi enable
Video Codec enable
PCIe enable for storage and LTE connect

4 lanes CSI + 2 lanes CSI
CAN V2.0B up to 1Mbps
Video Dec up to H.265 3840×2160@60fps
6GB 1866MHz, 4 Channel LPDDR4x
GPS, GLONASS, and BeiDou

OS Choices
Ubuntu
Debian
Android Master

Stacks
Huawei HiAI
Android NN
OpenGL ES
OpenCL

Gemini PDA runs 5 Linux distros, Debian, Ubuntu, Sailfish, Android, unlocked bootloader, open source

Charbax — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 02:11:59 +0000

Planet Computers CTO Davide Guidi, filmed at the Gemini PDA headquarters in London, they shipped to first 1000 backers of 4200 from their successful Indiegogo. Here presenting 5 Linux distros, unlocked bootloader, open source on their website (with more source code to come shortly to that page) hardware acceleration of any Linux distro is under development using Libhybris and planning to try to integrate Halium to optimize the performance in all Linux distributions, to use the Android GPU, sound, video, modem and other binaries to each their fullest hopefully within each Linux distro. Gemini PDA hopes that by unlocking their bootloader, by providing the bootloader open source, providing their Linux distro images open source, letting users do whatever they want and multi-booth any OS that they would like, hopefully there will be a vibrant community to bring great all Linux performance on this MediaTek X27 deca-core Powered large and awesome mechanical keyboard phone. After having soon shipped to their remaining Indiegogo backers, Planet Computers hopes to be able to expand much further selling their phone through distributors and telcos around the world.

E Ink booth tour at CES 2018

Charbax — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:58:10 +0000

E Ink shows and talks about its latest innovations in consumer electronics, architecture, healthcare, retail and fashion at CES 2018, to bring dynamic elements to generally static environments such as architecture and design, as well as discuss how its ePaper technology is being integrated into smart cities and connected devices, famous for eReaders, also revolutionizing the digital signage, healthcare and retail industries as well. Bus signs, electronic shelf labels, medical devices, products featured include the E Ink DAZZLE wall, the world’s largest media façade on the San Diego International Airport parking garage, featuring 2,100 tiles of E Ink’s Prism technology. A dress designed by Bergmeyer featuring E Ink Prism which won Best in Show at IIDA Fashion Show in October, 2017. A reconfigurable Retail Price Tag, a thin, batteryless price tag containing Powercast’s power harvesting technology that enables quick price changes using a typical handheld UHF RFID reader for wirelessly updating the display, the LTS Smart Patch transdermal therapeutic system that delivers medication to patients in a convenient and controlled manner, ReMarkable E Ink tablet offering paper-like reading, pen input writing and sketching, Onyx Boox Note, Onyx Boox Max2 (which I filmed here), Sony Digital Paper and more.

Nubia Z17S flagship, Z17 miniS, N Series, V Series

Charbax — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:47:30 +0000

Nubia’s flagship phone is their Z17S with a 5.73″ FHD+ screen 2040*1080 Pixel display (403ppi), 4G LTE Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, 6GB RAM, 64GB Flash, Four Cameras, Android 7.1, NFC, Type-C 26W fast Charge. Nubia also does smart locks, IoT, smart lamps and more. The N Series and V Series are going to be price attractively yet provide a 18:9 display. As concepts for future phones they are showing one with a built-in fan for gamers to cool their phone when cranking up the peak performance output and designs for gamers that includes kevlar. Noise canceling headphones, power banks, 360 degree Type-C camera and more.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Charbax — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 04:22:05 +0000

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 is Qualcomm’s fastest consumer ARM Processor yet (30-40% faster than last year’s Snapdragon 835 using 30% less power), on 10nm FinFET LPP Samsung process, it features 64bit Octa-core quad 2.8 GHz Kryo 385 Gold which are ARM Cortex-A75 custom cores and quad 1.8 GHz Kryo 385 Silver which are ARM Cortex-A55 custom cores, Qualcomm’s fastest ever GPU the Adreno 630 with its Visual Processing Subsystem (including GPU, VPU and DPU) with OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, Vulkan2, DxNext eXtended Reality (XR), Room-Scale 6DoF with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), Adreno Foveation, Advanced visual inertial odometry (VIO), HDR10 and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), 4K Ultra HD @ 60 FPS, 2x 2400×2400 @ 120 FPS (VR), 10-bit color depth (encoding and decoding). Qualcomm’s AI Platform is on their 3rd Generation Qualcomm Hexagon 685 DSP which supports sophisticated, on-device AI processing, delivering richer camera, voice, XR and gaming experiences as a Neural Processing Engine (NPE) with Caffe, Caffe2 and TensorFlow support. With DisplayPort and USB Type-C support. Qualcomm’s X20 Modem supports 1.2Gbit/s download speed using 5×20 MHz carrier aggregation, up to 256-QAM, up to 4×4 MIMO on three carriers, up to 150mbit/s upload speed using 2×20 MHz carrier aggregation, up to 64-QAM. Multi-gigabit Wi-Fi 802.11ad and integrated 2×2 802.11ac. Qualcomm Secure Processing Unit (SPU) where Biometrics can be used for authentication can be stored in isolation in hardware.

Karim Yaghmour talks Project Treble, Android Things at Embedded World 2018

Charbax — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:39:19 +0000

Karim Yaghmour at Embedded World in Nuremberg, he is most widely known as the author of O’Reilly’s “Embedded Android” and “Building Embedded Linux Systems” books. He talks about a wide-range of topics including Android’s Project Treble, Android Things and Embedded Android in general. Karim will be holding a live session on Android’s Project Treble on YouTube on March 27th (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XJAdK9XKcQ) and another one on the HIDL mechanism introduced as part of Treble on March 28th (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFaWqdxBW4E) you can click on these to set a reminder so that you can watch them live and later on demand.

TechNexion Android Things dev kits, modules, embedded systems at the Embedded World 2018

Charbax — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:38:22 +0000

TechNexion shows off its Android Things development kits, modules, embedded systems and more new products at the Embedded World 2018. The TechNexion product lineup has grown once again in size. The company is showcasing Android Things development kits based on PICO-PI-IMX7 Low-cost system on modules that are modular, scalable and versatile. The Android Things development boards are based on the NXP i.MX7 applications processor. TechNexion is also launching several wireless communication modules, including PIXI-41Z and the PIXI-9377 low-cost, certified, 1×1 802.11 AC/BT4.1 module that deliver high transmission rates, low latency and improved range.

TechNexion is a provider of embedded systems and system-on-modules, in 2017, TechNexion was chosen by Google as a partner to develop the reference design for its Android Things development kit. That kit based on the PICO-PI-IMX7 board has been the go-to development kit distributed at developer shows and used for demoing the potential of Android Things.

The New TechNexion PIXI series is a communication module that delivers all IoT multi-mode communication needs in one ultra-compact and secure module series. It is specifically designed to enable better transmission rates, lower latency, better range and higher resistance to interference when two or more communication protocols – for example, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Thread – are needed to run concurrently on one system-on-chip. Multiple communication protocols in one chip means users can collect more data from disparate communication protocols, while also having the flexibility to use the right protocol to suit the type of data and distance from your hub.

Panel PCs – TechNexion has three human-machine-interface (HMI) panel computing series: TC, TEP and TWP. The TEP Series is available with either ARM or x86 architecture and has an IP65 anodized aluminum enclosure and a flux mounted projective capacitive touch, high brightness LCD display – ranging from 5 to 15.6 inches. The TWP Series is a fully waterproof, IP69K, panel PC designed to withstand extreme temperatures, high vibration, and cleaning with a jet spray. It is also available with either ARM or x86 architecture – ranging from 10 to 15.6 inches. The TEP-1560-IMX6 is their 15” panel computer based on i.MX6 and the TWP-1560-IMX6 is their NEW model that is waterproof, stainless steel, panel computer.

Fanless Box PCs – The TEK Series fanless computing systems are enclosed in a compact, fully ruggedized enclosure, and are perfect for controlling versatile end-equipment.

System-on-Modules – TechNexion continues to expand its SoM options through its two series, EDM and PICO. These series have an exhaustive range of options around size, processor capability and connector type enabling the creation of almost any kind of embedded device. They are designed to be scalable and come with fully open source software – Linux and Android – and schematics.

WandPi-8M community board – TechNexion were also showing the latest version of their community development board. It is based on NXP’s i.MX8M Quad application processor with ARM Cortex-A53 + M4 architecture to deliver 4K UltraHD with HDR video quality with pro audio fidelity. The WandPi-8M is available for pre-order and is expected to ship in Spring of this year.

Sony XZ2 with 4K HDR recording

Charbax — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:20:30 +0000

Sony launches their XZ2 and XZ2 Compact Smartphone (https://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-xz2/) based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 with 4K HDR video recording support. Featuring a 5.7″ Full HD+ (2160×1080) HDR display (5″ on XZ2 Compact), Dynamic Vibration System with powerful stereo speakers, Full HD 960fps slow motion, 19MP Motion Eye camera with memory-stacked image sensor. 4GB RAM, 64GB UFS internal memory.