Amit Pundir of the Linaro Android Team and Abhishek Paliwal of ST-Ericsson talk about their work on Android at Linaro.
Category: Android
Headmounted augmented-reality game and brain activity robot remote controller
Posted by – June 1, 2012
Noritsuna Imamura Director of the OESF lets me try some of his latest projects which are the headmounted Android on Pandaboard computer system that has augmented reality application that turns real people into shoot them up characters and that allows for brain activity based robot remote-controlling.
Mathieu Poirier of the ST-Ericsson Landing Team at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 30, 2012
Mathieu Poirier talks about how Android came up on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball platform.
Rockchip RK3066 is now Google Certified
Rockchip announces:
RK3066 is ready for Google GMS on Android 4.0.4
– Android CTS ALL PASSED
detail: http://source.android.com/compatibility/cts-intro.html
– Google WIDEVINE DRM Supported
detail: http://www.widevine.com/
– OTA (over-the-air) Update Supported
Noritsuna Imamura and Akira Tsukamoto at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 29, 2012
Noritsuna Imamura of OESF hacks a heart rate sensor for Android and Akira Tsukamoto reaches out to open source developers at Linaro in Japan.
$74 Boxchip A10 HDMI stick
Posted by – May 28, 2012
This Boxchip based HDMI stick has been talked about over the past couple weeks on some blogs under the names MK802, Zero Devices Z802 etc. The Bill of Materials for this device might be as low as $20 but it’s being sold at around $70 at retail at the moment. Here’s a link to buy it for $70 on Amazon: http://amzn.to/MVjdxQ
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- $74 MK802 PC-on-a-stick beats Cotton Candy to market, has ICS on board (engadget.com)
Bernhard Rosenkränzer talks Linaro Android Toolchain at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
Bernhard Rosenkränzer (bero on IRC) works on the Toolchain for Linaro Android. In this video, he talks to Zach Pfeffer Linaro’s Android Tech Lead about the work being done on the Linaro Android Toolchain.
Patrik Klinger of ST-Ericsson at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
ST-Ericsson ramps up their work with Linaro. Patrik Klinger, Program Manager at ST-Ericsson talks to Zach Pfeffer Linaro’s Android Tech Lead about ST-Ericsson’s work with Linaro to improve development on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball development platform.
AllWinner Boxchip software engineers at Linaro Connect
Posted by – May 28, 2012
3 engineers from http://www.allwinnertech.com talk about how they are using Linaro, what they are looking to get from Linaro, how they want to work with Linaro at the Linaro Connect Q2 2012 conference.
$55 AllWinner Boxchip A13 Tablet Factory Tour
Posted by – May 27, 2012
Watch this 7-minute Shenzhen factory tour, see how they are assembling the $55 (soon $49) Boxchip A13 7″ Capacitive tablet. This Shenzhen factory assembly line currently cranks out about 4000 such tablets in a days work. If you like this video, you should also watch my Shenzhen Speakers Factory video that I posted last month.
$55 7″ capacitive Boxchip A13 SMT line, mass producing the Boxchip A13 PCB
Posted by – May 27, 2012
Here they are cranking out a few thousand Boxchip A13 and Boxchip A10 motherboards every day.
Yooe F4, Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core 9.7″ Tablet, $220-$250, mass manufacturing next month
Posted by – May 27, 2012
The new Quad-core ARM Corte-A9 processor from Freescale is about to be launched in devices, as shown here at the PCB design house in Shenzhen that is currently working on the PCB optimizations/finalizations before mass manufacturing of this i.MX6 Quad-core based ICS Android tablet. Yooe plans to sell it for somewhere between $220-$250 depending on their final target manufacturing price. 100 samples are to be manufactured in June, and at least 5000 should be made in July. You’ll soon be able to buy samples of this device on ARMdevices.net, check back for info on that.
Gemei G9T, 9.7″ AmLogic AML8726-MX ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This new Dual-core 9.7″ tablet sells now for around $200 in Shenzhen.
Pelec Industrial Company Limited sells $150 Rockchip RK2918 based 9.7″ tablet
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This company sells thousands of the Rockchip RK2918 9.7″ IPS tablet for around $150 each.
Rockchip Shenzhen Headquarters entrance
Posted by – May 27, 2012
The Rockchip offices in Shenzhen are top secret, hundreds of engineers work there, I have not yet gotten the permission to film with the engineers nor to film further than the entrance, but I’ll try to get that permission again in a week or two.
Yooe MT6575 phone now selling
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This is the 5″ WVGA MT6575 phone, now selling out of Shenzhen for around $200. For now it’s a bit expensive (it should be closer to $150) perhaps because it’s not yet in full mass production.
Ramos W17Pro miumiu, AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with Mali-400
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This 7″ MiuMiu tablet design seems nice featuring the new AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 procesor with a Mali-400 GPU.
Yuandao Window N90, Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core based
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This is the new dual-core RK3066 9.7″ IPS tablet from http://yuandaocn.com. I previously filmed this review of the previous RK2918 based 5″ N5Zero from the same company.
VIA WonderMedia WM8850, ARM Cortex-A9 in a Tablet
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This is the latest ARM platform from VIA, this time it’s ARM Cortex-A9, single-core up to 1.2Ghz with a Dual-core Mali-400 GPU.
MT6575 Cutepad 5″ phone
Posted by – May 27, 2012
This one does’t run ICS yet, but there may be an ICS firmware update for it somewhere online.
