Category: Android

BlueTimes Factory Tour, Android TV Box and Power Bank

Posted by Charbax – April 12, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, AmLogic, BlueTimes, Android

Shenzhen Bluetimes Technology Co., Ltd maker of Android TV box, Miracast Dongle and Power Bank shows around their 4000 square meter factory featuring 4 high-speed SMT Lines, 2 wave soldering Lines, 4 testing and assembly Lines, aging test room to enable the output of 500,000 Power Bank and Android TV box per month. 80% of BlueTimes products are exported to Europe, USA and Southeast Asia. BlueTimes features solutions using Rockchip RK3188 and AmLogic M802, with plans for Rockchip RK3288 and more.

You can contact BlueTimes for Inquiries regarding cooperation opportunities:

Android tv box and Power Bank enquiries (OEM & ODM)
Email : sales1@ebluetimes.com Contact person Alex Dou
Skype : alexdou3
QQ: 32755616

Reseller inquiries regarding bulk purchases (Bluetimes brand or only for personal use )
Email: sales4@ebluetimes.com Contact person Linda Yang

Questions about Technical RMA Warranty
Email: service@ebluetimes.com Contact person Bluetimes service

Factory Website: http://www.ebluetimes.com/en/Main.asp
Alibaba Website: http://www.ebluetimes.en.alibaba.com/
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/bluetimestech
Official aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/702748

All inquiries will be reviewed and responded to promptly ( in 24 hours )
If have any urgent question please feel free call 86 18680319256

Kopin Pupil Optic SmartGlass

Posted by Charbax – April 12, 2014
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Exclusive videos, TV Connect, Kopin, Android

Kopin Corporation shows their latest wearable computing microdisplay, the Pupil display module, it’s tiny and can be integrated directly into the top frame of Glasses, no need to add a layer in front of the glasses like Google Glass anymore. Pupil see-through optics, with its height smaller than the pupil of the human eye, allows see-through and see-around without obstructing the outside view. Kopin’s microdisplays with the Pupil optics provide the most compact Smartglass microdisplay modules that can show vivid and bright images, even under full sunlight.

Nokia X Android Developer Conference, operator billing in 60 countries with over 161 operators

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

Heres’ a thousand Android developers at the Nokia X Android Developer conference, Nokia providing quick tools to port all Android apps over to using the Nokia Services for Maps, Notifications and Payments, with Nokia supporting payment in emerging markets through operator billing, available in 60 countries with over 161 operators. Most people in these markets don’t have credit cards, making it the only method of payment.

Nokia X Android Store, Nokia services replace Google Maps, Notifications and In-app Payments

Posted by Charbax – April 10, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

All Android app developers are invited by Nokia to change a few things (swaping Google services with Nokia services) to submit all Android apps in the Nokia Android App Store. For now Nokia is avoiding to try to support the Google Mobile Services (GMS), and instead requires that all Android apps be ported to Nokia’s Services for Location using Nokia Here Maps instead of Google Maps, for Notifications also going through Nokia Notifications system instead of the Google Notifications system and then for in-app payments Nokia has its own non-Google payment system that app developers are required to use if they want their apps to work on Nokia X Android Store.

UMi X3, Shenzhen Headquarters Tour

Posted by Charbax – April 10, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Android

UMi’s sales office in Shenzhen China and an overview of the new UMi X3 MT6592 5.5″ FHD with a special dual Micro/Nano SIM card slot. You can buy it for $269 at antelife.com

iNew V3 5″ (1280×720) MT6582 and iNew V5 5.5″ (1280×720) MT6592

Posted by juliusaugustus – April 10, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Android

iNew Mobile has been selling smartphones since 2007 and adopted the brand name in 2012. iNew mobile employs around 200 people in their factory. The iNew V3 has a 5″ (1280×800) screen, NFC, 13mp camera, MT6582 processor, 16gb of storage with microsd card slot and a thinness of 6.5mm with a weight of 128 grams. The iNew V5 has a 5.5″ (1280×720) screen and a MT6592. Both the V3 and V5 have dual sim card slots. You can buy iNew V3 for $179 at antelife.com

ZXS Cheaptabletfactory.com Tour: 5 Tablets Giveaway!

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, ZXS, Android

ZXS http://cheaptabletfactory.com shows around their world’s cheapest Android Tablet factory again, they’re delivering the $31.5 Allwinner A23 based Tablets using 7″ WVGA displays, this is about the cheapest dual core tablet in the world. With this video, Robert Wong the Overseas Sales Manager from ZXS is doing a new promotion, ZXS sells 5 samples of their world’s cheapest 7″ Android tablet for $235 including fast DHL/Fedex 3-5 day shipping to Europe and to the USA.

One lucky winner will receive 5 tablet samples sent to him or her for free. To win you have to:

1. Subscriber to their YouTube channel http://youtube.com/cheaptabletfactory

2. Circle their Google+ page https://google.com/+cheaptabletfactorycom

ZXS will draw one random lucky winner by around May 15th among their YouTube subscribers and Google+ followers (to win you have to both subscribe on their YouTube and follow their Google+ page), if they receive more than 1000 new subscribers and followers, they will pick a second lucky winner. The winner receives 5 Allwinner A23 tablets from ZXS in one fast 3-5 day shipping using DHL to anywhere in the world of a value of $235 (when shipped to Europe/USA, if you don’t live in Europe/USA and if fast shipping to your country costs much more than shipping Europe/USA, you may not be eligible).

You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:

1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

$31.50 Allwinner A23 tablet from ZXS

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, ZXS, Android

http://cheaptabletfactory.com presents their $31.50 Allwinner A23 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 tablet. The price of Allwinner A23 is only $0.50 more than the older A13. ZXS can provide 12 colors and the back-case can be customized to any print designs, the MOQ is 1K. The maximum battery capacity is 3000mAh. ZXS can provide 5-samples at USD$235.00 including fast 3-5 day shipping to USA/Europe you can contact them at sales@cheaptabletfactory.com if you’re interested.

You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:

1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

7″ MT6572 3G for $53 from ZXS

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, ZXS, Android

http://cheaptabletfactory.com presents their 3G enabled tablet on the MediaTek MT6572 with bluetooth/GPS and Analog TV built-in in many different colors. ZXS can sell 5 samples for USD$338.00 with fast 3-5 day DHL shipping to USA/Europe (enquire to them for details at sales@cheaptabletfactory.com if you are interested)

You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:

1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

9″ Tablet for $43.5 from cheaptabletfactory.com

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Actions, ZXS, Android

http://cheaptabletfactory.com Shenzhen ZXS sells the 9″ WVGA tablet for $43.5 with Allwinner A13, Actions ATM7021 costs $1.50 extra, $2 more for Allwinner A23 and it costs $2.50 more for a 1024×600 resolution display. http://cheaptabletfactory.com sells 5 samples for $319 for the A23 with 1024×600 display ($48 per tablet + $79 fast 3-5 day DHL shipping to Europe/USA).

You can contact ZXS for enquiry about bulk or 5-sample orders here:

1)
Sales & Marketing Vice manager
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 13392875348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: robert.wongzxs
Wechat: +86 13392875348
E-mail: sales03@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

2)
Shenzhen Zhixingsheng Electronic Co.,Ltd
Add: F/4, East Zone No.8 ,F Building ,High And New Industrial Park ShangXue, Ji Hua Road, BanTian, LongGang District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-89390389
Mobile:+86 133 9287 6348
Fax: 86-755-89390139
Skype: zxs-bernice
Wechat: zxsbernice
E-mail: sales04@sz-zxs.com
Web: www.sz-zxs.com/en
Alibaba website: http://sz-zxs.en.alibaba.com/

Arndale Octa Board, Samsung Exynos 5420 Octa-core development board

Posted by Charbax – April 5, 2014
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Samsung, Linaro Connect, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu

Linaro engineers unbox and talk about the Arndale Octa Board loaded with Android enabling engineers to work with the ARM big.LITTLE platform from Samsung. You can buy the Arndale Octa Board for $179 at http://www.pyrustek.com/us/

$199€ Archos 50c Oxygen, Octa-core MT6592 5″ FHD

Posted by Charbax – April 5, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Archos, Android

Archos 50c Oxygen is an octa-core MT6592 5″ FHD phone.

HKC sells 2.2 Million Tablets per year

Posted by Charbax – April 5, 2014
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, CES, Android

HKC shows their tablets, they’re selling 2.2 Million tablets per year at the moment, through stores like Walmart in the USA.

JSR Innos Qualcomm Smartphones (even Windows Phone soon they say)

Posted by Kevin Sadria – April 5, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

JSR is a 4 years old company that makes smartphones. Most of their smartphones run on Qualcomm processors, have plenty of RAM memory and come with different optional color designs.

Their smartphone market is branded “Innos”. The smartphones are Dual-Sim and use IPS display viewing angles and OGS (One Glass Solution) touchscreen technology with HD and FHD resolution. Their smartphone models are claimed to be very stable and are 3G compatible. On the coming months they are releasing a smartphone with LTE compatibility.

JSR is on negotiations with mobile service operators in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Philippines for maybe making custom made devices. JSR already has a widespread market all around the world. Microsoft has sold a Windows Phone Software license to JSR for being able to make Windows Phone smartphones which are coming later by JSR. JSR sells more than 300,000 devices per month.

Finwe and vrAse show how the Smartphone-in-your-face powers the mass market virtual reality media of the future, it works!

Posted by Charbax – April 4, 2014
Category: Wearables, VR, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Android

I discovered the awesomeness that are Finwe and vrAse which quite simply made me understand the whole VR segment for the first time. The idea that we will simply use our Smartphones and Tablets to power really advanced mass market heads-up augmented reality applications, this is awesome. There isn’t need for Facebook’s $2 Billion Oculus VR.

So you have been seeing all the news about Finwe and vrAse right here on ARMdevices.net consider that websites TheVerge, CNET and co don’t even know yet that this awesomeness exists.

ARM Set-top-box industry overview by Informa analyst

Posted by Charbax – March 31, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Opinions, TV Connect, Android, Google TV

ARM overtakes MIPS in the Set-top-box market as most of the Set-top-box SoC makers are showing ARM solutions, it’s about the ecosystem, about the platform, Android, Google TV, RDK, Wyplay, all of these user interfaces are being optimized for ARM, bringing cheaper and better more advanced and more powerful devices all at the same time. The TV market is bigger than the Web, as people still spend a lot more time watching TV than browsing the web in average. And the new features enabled by ARM, Android and other platforms, enable a lot more video-on-demand and other forms of interactivity on the TV.

Entropic EN7310 ARM SoC for Set-top-box with HEVC and MoCA 2.0

Posted by Charbax – March 30, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, TV Connect, Android

Entropic shows their latest EN7310 ARM Cortex-A9 SoC with IP-STB and HDMI Stick features, integrated multi-tuner dual DVB-S/S2 cable reception, advanced security and DRM, HEVC decode and transcoding with Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) 2.0 home networking.

Entropic is a fabless semiconductor company recognized for inventing the MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) home networking technology, creating Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Outdoor Unit (ODU) single-wire technology, and developing the industry’s first ARM processor and OpenGL graphics Set-top box (STB), System-on-a-Chip (SoC).

This video also features Eagle Kingdom Technologies (EKT) who launches DCP5205 world`s first Entropic powered hybrid PowerPlug Set-top-box combining the functionality of a Set-top-box into a plug socket, thus eliminating the need for a separate power adapter commonly required in today’s hybrid STBs.

Sigma Designs SMP8756 ARM for Android Set-top-boxes

Posted by Charbax – March 30, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, TV Connect, Android, Google TV

Sigma Designs, a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, control, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, launches its new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)-capable SMP8750 family ARM Processors for Set-top-boxes. Combining the HEVC compression standard with a high performance ARM Cortex A9, ARM Mali-400 GPU, the SMP8756 enables Sigma Designs to offer more performance, a better user experience and full video quality for the Set-top-box market.

Sigma SMP8756 features HEVC’s Main-10 profile allowing processing of up to 10 bit color samples accepted as the standard for 4Kx2K, OTT (over the top) and IPTV content. The SMP8750 family will support FHD and 4K resolutions. The new SMP8750 family offers SoCs at multiple cost and performance combinations allowing each SoC to offer optimal performance to price ratio for multiple STB platforms from zappers, PVR capable, Hybrid-broadcast and IPTV STBs.

The SMP8750 family migrates robust STB SoC components like broadcast TS processing, OTP and security infrastructure paired with an ARM A9 CPU and Mali GPU. The single-core ARM A9 CPU and 3000 DMIPS of application processing along with a Mali GPU combine to provide a dramatic performance profile for new 3D user interfaces, over-the-top and casual gaming applications. Incorporating Sigma’s industry-proven technologies such as secure media processing, multi-format Full-HD video decoding, VXP display processing, and field-proven AV software core, the SMP8756 is able to provide premium quality video experience. A software SDK is available for either Linux or Android platform development. Future certification of CAS technologies like Verimatrix and Nagravision are planned.

The chipset also demonstrates ecosystem compatibility, leveraging the widely supported ARM processing core, OpenGL ES, HTML-5 and others to ensure that a broad range of existing applications will run including a wide range of hardware and software extensions to support the system solutions; including global tuner/demodulator standards, wired and wireless network controllers, DTV middleware stacks and IPTV middleware ports, such as Wyplay and OpenTV.

The SMP8756 comes with a full Software Suite, including libraries and services packaged under both Linux and Android development kits for rapid development. It incorporates managed power consumption, developed for both US and European regulatory compliance and is developed to a minimal R-BOM to allow smaller footprint and lower cost implementations.

STMicroelectronics Set-top-box ARM Processors: STiH312 Cannes and STiH412 Monaco

Posted by Charbax – March 30, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, STMicroelectronics, TV Connect, Android, Google TV

ST’s latest ARM Powered System-on-Chips supporting Android, Google TV (now Android TV), rdk, ST presents their STiH312 client-box and STiH412 server-box product families, codenamed ‘Cannes’ and ‘Monaco,’ respectively, they integrate Faroudja technology to decode and display video up to Ultra HD 4K (2160p) and the next-generation H.265 / HEVC video compression. Even supporting video transcoding (for local and remote streaming from the Set-top-box to Tablets, Smartphones, etc) STMicroelectronics presents their Dual core ARM Cortex-A9 (on 28nm process) with quad-core Mali-400 GPU does Quad-HD Ultra HD 4K HEVC video decoding, combined with Faroudja video processing technology (decoding on Cannes, decoding and transcoding on Monaco), advanced security supporting concurrent conditional access and DRM, wide connectivity, including USB 3.0, PCI-e, SATA and Gigabit Ethernet, Dedicated interfaces to a range of companion front-end solutions, including MoCA 2.0, DOCSIS 3.0, satellite and 802.11ac WiFi and more.

Zopo Headquarters Shenzhen R&D Tour

Posted by Charbax – March 29, 2014
Category: Smartphones, Factory Tours, PCB Design House, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Android

Tour at the Zopo headquarters in Shenzhen China, where the Zopo R&D team are putting final touches to the design of the upcoming Zopo ZP1000 ultra-thin and impressive 7.2mm Octa Core MediaTek MT6592 phone.

Shenzhen ZOPO Communications-equipment Co Ltd was founded in 2012 engaging in R&D, production, marketing and service of MediaTek based smartphones. I filmed my first video with Zopo Mobile at its founding when they launched the Zopo ZP100 (2). ZOPO ZP200 was “China’s first Glasses-Free 3D dual sim smartphone”. ZOPO was the first company to manufacture and deliver a Linux Sailfish OS smartphone to the Indian market. Zopo sells a lot of phones to China, Germany, Benelux, Netherlands and a lot of other European countries.