Skytex is a tablets brand being sold in US retail stores, that distribute Allwinner single-core and Rockchip dual-core based tablets in different sizes.
Category: Android
CES 2013 Keynote: Samsung Exynos 5 Octa & Flexible Display
Samsung launches Exynos 5 Octa big.LITTLE (quad-A15 and quad-A7), Flexible OLED, Green LCD and Green Memory Solution at CES 2013. Here’s the full 1-hour keynote video:
E Ink phone technology overview at CES 2013
Posted by – January 10, 2013
E Ink expects to ship massive amounts of smartphone sized E Ink screens starting this year. The first type has E Ink as the main display. The second type has the E Ink as the secondary display on the back-side of the smartphone behind the LCD or AMOLED screen in the front.
Yota Devices E Ink and LCD dual-mode Android Phone
Posted by – January 10, 2013
Here’s the YotaPhone, the first dual-mode Android phone that works on LCD and E Ink at the same time on each side of the phone. Yota has developed a few customizations and a new SDK to either just send screenshots of anything that’s on Android over to E Ink or to also enable interactivity on the E Ink side, such as flipping pages with their swipe gestures at the capacitive bottom that is on each side of the device. Expected delivery is to be between Q2 and Q3 2013, Yota Devices is a Russian company but the market for this dual mode E Ink and LCD phone can be worldwide.
Rockchip RK3188 28nm HKMG Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 launched
Posted by – January 9, 2013
Rockchip is launching their next generation 28nm High-K Metal Gate processor, on the ARM Cortex-A9 with quad-core Mali-400. First devices are to reach the market in the next couple of months.
Nvidia Tegra4, Shield, Grid and Cars at CES 2013
Nvidia launches the new Tegra4, the cloud computing gaming grid and shows how Tegra is used in a couple of cars.
Nvidia Shield Portable Console launched (press conference)
Posted by – January 7, 2013
Nvidia is launching their own portable games console based on their new Nvidia Tegra4. (check back in the days to come for the full extended test and interviews of the Nvidia Shield at the Nvidia booth)
Nvidia Tegra4 launched (press conference)
Posted by – January 7, 2013
Nvidia launches their new Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 with their new “72-core” GPU an their own new modem. (check back for the proper product demo interviews to be filmed at the Nvidia booth in the days to come)
Parrot Asteroid Mini with Salesforce Business software integrated
Posted by – December 9, 2012
Here’s some Android software integrated by Sylpheo for the Parrot Asteroid Mini Android based in-car interactive system, to bring it your Salesforce.com contacts, calendar, and some other Salesforce based Android apps to integrate your business into your car.
Popwings NFC Business Card
Posted by – December 9, 2012
Popwings creates business cards with built-in NFC chips, so you can put it under an NFC enabled phone, and the contact details launch on the device.
appsfire app discovery service at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 9, 2012
AppsFire is an apps recommendations app, it recommends you apps suited for you based on the apps you like and search for.
Memoto Life-blogging Compact camera launched on Kickstarter
Posted by – December 9, 2012
A tiny, automatic camera and app that gives you a searchable and shareable photographic memory. It takes a picture for 2 days with 2 minute interval, then they plan to release an app that automatically selects relevant pictures that are well lit, in focus.
Tourism Radio guides talk as you drive
Posted by – December 8, 2012
Renault has partnered with South African travel tech company Tourism Radio to create in-car virtual audio guides for all their vehicles through their soon to be released R-Link embeded in car system.
Paypal Check In and Pay demonstrated at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Paypal launches a new way to pay for things easily and quickly using a check-process on your smartphone or tablet. Go to the restaurant, launch check in on your paypal app, it launches the restaurant’s menu, you click on the app to order, the server comes with the food, you leave, you’ve already paid. This removes 66% of the waiters effort. Go to a cafe, check-in on paypal, they know you want a cappuccino, you get it quickly and leave, no cash, no confirmation, no anything. You park your car, check in on paypal, that’s it, you’re paying for your car park until you check-out, take the car and leave.
You can watch Paypal CEO, David Marcus’s keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:
Augment app at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Augment is a free application for Android, iPad and iPhone to visualize any 3d model in Augmented Reality. Print the marker, select the model you want to see and the augmented reality happens in front of you. You can upload your own 3d model or visualize one of the 3000 already present in the galleries. You can get the app there: http://augmentedev.com
Interaxon Muse Headset for brainwaves monitoring, Ariel Garten, CEO of Interaxon
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Interaxon releases the Muse Headset. it monitors your brainwaves and connects to your smartphone using bluetooth. The combination allows for potential brain control of your embedded devices. Are you interested in thought control computing? You can pre-order your brain control accessory on Indiegogo here.
Here’s her keynote launching the device at LeWeb 2012:
Archos Gamepad $149/149€ being released now in Europe
This is the coolest Android tablet for gaming, Archos releases it imminently in Europe for 149€, US availability to be confirmed. Here I’m demonstrating some of the latest advanced Android games called Dead Trigger, Rip Tide and a couple other.
