Category: Android

Android domination expressed in dance

Posted by – March 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Android

Funky house music techtonic dance in Android green robot costume presented by the Sony-Ericsson marketing team in Taipei Taiwan, what will be the next step in Android domination marketing?

Source: Engadget.com

Nvidia Tegra2 enables Cortex-A9 for the Embedded World

Posted by – March 4, 2011

Nvidia is working in the embedded space for some time, they are supporting long term support, industrialization, temperatures and everything else needed in the embedded market. Nvidia provides the chip and some level of software support to enable them and they are supporting the customizations of the implementations. Nvidia showcases their work with MSC, Seco, Toradex and Trim Slice.

Mentor Graphics UI tools free for i.MX51/53 customers


Mentor Graphics provides 3D UI tools on top of Android, customers who use the Freescale i.MX51 or i.MX53 can get access to these tools from Menthor Graphics for free.

Trim Slice Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core Desktop!

Posted by – March 3, 2011

Compulab is showing this Tegra2 desktop for the first time at a trade show, it’s a full ARM Powered desktop computer based on the Nvidia Tegra2 processor. Has 2 HDMI outputs, one for full HDMI video, one for a secondary display, Gigabit Ethernet, 4 USB hosts, stereo audio output, audio in, SPDIF output, 12V power connector, connector for wireless antenna for WiFi and Bluetooth, SD slot, RF232 Serial Port, Micro-USB slave. They also have a slightly bigger version that can slot in a 2.5″ Sata hard drive. 1GB RAM, it also has an internal Micro-SD slot to store the OS. So if you want to upgrade or change the OS, just change the MicroSD card and reboot. It also ships with 32GB Flash storage. They are launching this with Ubuntu 10.10 and they will add support for Honeycomb by launch. Availability is June, the price is targeted at below $200 in bulk (can be re-branded as ODM) and to be about $250 at retail. You can find more information and follow the latest official news about it at http://trimslice.com

Hard Kernel presents Samsung Exynos 4210 ARM Cortex-A9 1Ghz Dual-core in 10.1″ capacitive tablet

Posted by – March 3, 2011

Here is Hard Kernel’s new Exynos based development kit tablet device. Hard Kernel is a company based in South Korea working very hard with Samsung’s kernel to create reference development kits for developers to develop software for Samsung’s processors. This is Hard Kernel’s newest awesome looking Exynos based 10.1″ tablet form factor device. Find more informations at: http://hardkernel.com/

Specs:
Processor: Samsung Exynos 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core
Graphics: Mali-400
RAM: 1GB
Flash Storage: 8GB
Screen: 1366×768 10.1″ capacitive
WiFi: WiFi-b/g/n (Broadcom BCM4329)
Bluetooth: 2.1 EDR
GPS: Built-in AGPS with 3G receiver
Video support: HDMI 1080p (codecs limitations bitrates etc to be tested)
USB: USB 2.0 Host
Cellular: HSPA+ (ST Ericsson, up to 21 Mbps download, 5.7 Mbps upload)
Battery: 9000mAh
Sensors: Gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, electronic compass
Availability: Available from end of March
Price: $750

MSI WindPad 100A Tegra2 10.1″ Android Tablet

Posted by – March 3, 2011

MSI Is finally about to get ready with their MSI Wind Pad tablet, here they are showing a pretty finalized looking version of their upcoming Tegra2 tablet, to have Honeycomb, it will be sold at retail for about $399. They also showcase some interesting designs using a picto projector, dual-tablets and a frame.

Pierre Cardin Tegra2 9.7″ Android Tablet

Posted by – March 3, 2011

Pierre Cardin brings a new 9.7″ capacitive Nvidia Tegra2 based tablet to the market. Bulk price may be something like $340. They also have a cool priced $145 7″ capacitive Samsung Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet. They say Android Honeycomb 3.0 will be available on these from the beginning of April.

ARM Powered Tablets by Shuttle (soon laptops/desktops?)

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Shuttle is one of the major compact motherboard makers, they are now moving a lot of their ressources into making ARM Powered solutions, some may be branded by Shuttle, other might be ODM, based on ARM Processors by Texas Instruments, Nvidia and VIA Wondermedia.

HTC Flyer, I test the stylus

Posted by – March 2, 2011

This is HTC’s first Android tablet, it uses the second generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255 at 1.5Ghz, and comes with some special capacitive stylus system. I try it out in this video and try to understand how HTC is planning to integrate that kind of feature.

Skytex develops i.MX53 tablets

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Skytex is working on getting more performance in their low cost tablets, using Freescale’s new 1.2Ghz i.MX53 with better video and graphics, the Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 and the new VIA Wondermedia ARM9 with a better DSP.

Kinstone $95 7″ ARM Cortex-A9 AmLogic (single core) Tablet

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Available now. ARM Cortex-A9 Single-core AmLogic based 7″ tablet 800mhz performance for below $95 in bulk.

Mobile Tech shows Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 in new tablets

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Telechips is ready with their ARM Cortex-A8 and is set to be implemented in a new bunch of affordable and yet more powerful Android devices. Cool!

Zinwell does ARM Powered $70 Android Set-top-box

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Zinwell is one of the worlds top-5 Realtek based media player box makers, after Western Digital, Xstreamer, now they want to support full Android and eventually Google TV for ARM, so they take the Marvell Berlin (Armada 1000?) processor platform, even add DVB tuner and e-Sata ports, to provide full HD web browsing speed and the performance needed for full Flash and all Web videos and the like.

Hanvon HPad A116 7″ capacitive Android Tablet

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Hanvon is the leading e-ink e-reader maker in the Chinese market with 70% market share, now they are also moving into making Android tablets. This one has a Samsung Hummingbird 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 512MB RAM, 7″ capacitive screen, and Hanvon has designed some custom home replacement user interface.

x86 vs ARM for Tablets, hahaha

Posted by – March 2, 2011

This is what I found at a booth at CeBIT:

Shenzhen AUDE Technology Co Ltd is showing their tablets at CeBIT 2011, the Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet is 0.4Kg can retail at below $200 while the x86 one is 0.9Kg and could retail for above $400.

Gigabyte Tegra2 Tablet GN-TB100

Posted by – March 2, 2011

This is a 10.1″ 1280×800 capacitive new Tegra2 tablet made by Gigabyte. This is not a final design, they’ll tweak and improve the design before mass production to be selling this by July this year around there.

Telstar Android Tablets

Posted by – March 2, 2011

The MID Q7128 is Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 based, and even cheaper is the Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet, both in the same design.


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Cideko $139 (MSRP retail) Android Set-top-box

Posted by – March 2, 2011

Cideko is showing their Android Set-top-box with support for up to 1080p YouTube, and their interesting high-end remote control design with built-in keyboard, accelerometers, infrared and gyroscope.

$60 Android Cortex-A8 Set-top-box

Posted by – March 1, 2011

Shenzhen Ider Technology is showing two designs for Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 powered Android Set-top-boxes. One even has a built-in 2.5″ hard drive compartment. This type of box could potentially soon run Google TV experience OS!

3Gnet $70 Android Set-top-box

Posted by – March 1, 2011

This one could run the Google TV for ARM OS, it’s a Skyviia ARM9 based Android Set-top-box, with 3 USB host, up to 1080p video playback support, the UI is being worked on. They also have a Ziilab ARM Cortex-A8 version to be available for about $20 more.