A tablet demo showing Freescale’s magnetometer and accelerometer.
Category: Android
Optimum CloudAlive Freescale i.MX53 Set-top-box
Posted by – January 11, 2012
Optimum Semiconductor Technologies Inc shows this single-core Freescale i.MX53 ARM Cortex-A8 and single-core AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 based Android Set-top-box for $100-$120 depending on order quantity.
Huawei Ascend P1 and P1 S, OMAP4460 1.5Ghz with 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus screen
Posted by – January 10, 2012
This may be the thinnest high-end Smartphone in the world, it may also be priced very competitively if Huawei aims at making this phone price competitive. I’m guessing it might be sold between $300 and $400 unlocked. It’s being released in Europe, Asia and the US for the GSM HSPA+ networks, unlocked and on contract. This is basically the Galaxy S2 screen in a device with more than the Galaxy Nexus performance. MHL connector, SIM card slot on top, MicroSD card slot. And an amazing 6-7mm thickness, it’s pretty awesome.
OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012
Posted by – January 9, 2012
The One Laptop Per Child foundation presents the final design for the OLPC sub-$100 Tablet with a 8″ 1024×768 capacitive LCD touch screen, a touch screen optimized version of Sugar Linux. The thin screen protector doubles as a solar charger. Once countries order millions of these, the price can definitely be below $100.
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- OLPC XO-3 tablet revealed (slashgear.com)
- OLPC outs XO 3.0 tablet at last, will make its debut at CES (engadget.com)
- One Laptop Per Child XO 3.0 tablet to be showcased at CES 2012 (ubergizmo.com)
- OLPC XO-3 Tablet to Debut in CES 2012 (devicemag.com)
- OLPC XO 3.0 tablet to show at CES with Android, Sugar (electronista.com)
- OLPC’s XO-3 Tablet Lands at CES (hothardware.com)
Acer Iconia Tab A700, 1920×1200 10.1″ ICS Tegra3 Tablet
Posted by – January 9, 2012
Acer shows this prototype of the Tegra3 Powered Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with an insane 1920×1200 10.1″ capacitive screen, wow resolutions are increasing fast and the new high-end ARM Processors like Tegra3 can run ICS on it smoothly.
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- Acer Iconia Tab A700/A701 Full HD Tegra 3 tablet revealed (slashgear.com)
- Quad-core Acer Iconia Tab A700 Android tablet shows up in photos, should debut at CES 2012 (unwiredview.com)
- Acer Iconia Tab A700 leaks boasting a 1920×1200 resolution display (mobigyaan.com)
- Acer Iconia Tab A700 with Ice Cream Sandwich slated for launch at CES 2012 (intomobile.com)
ST Ericsson U8500 runs Ice Cream Sandwich
Posted by – January 9, 2012
ST Ericsson is showing this development platform for their U8500 ARM Cortex-A9 processor running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
ST Ericsson U8500 in Smartphones shipping in China
Posted by – January 9, 2012
ST Ericsson U8500 1Ghz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 is shipping in a version of the HTC Sensation selling in China with an integrated CDMA modem. Now also Via Mobile is shipping the U8500 in a 4.3″ capacitive HSPA+ smartphone. The price may be quite a lot lower than other high-end dual-core smartphones, to be confirmed.
Lenovo Hybrid X1 combines ARM and x86 in a $1599 ThinkPad Laptop
The battery life is doubled when instantly switched into the ARM mode that provides basic functionalities in a customized version of Android. With the extended battery it lasts 20 hours in ARM Powered laptop mode.
TechNexion announces Freescale i.MX 536 System on Module
Posted by – December 31, 2011
TechNexion announces their upcoming Freescale i.MX 53 based TMX-536 System on Module together with Bachata carrier board.
Development kits will become available in the first quarter of 2012 that will come as all previous TechNexion development kits with source code linux, android and windows embedded compact 7 support backed up with unbeatable documentation to give people all the information that they need to successfully implement TechNexion SoM’s in their project.
Charbax on Twit
Posted by – December 12, 2011
Category: Tablets, Wearables, Smart Glass, Web, Other, Opinions, Texas Instruments, LeWeb, Android, Windows
Here again, now Twit posted the video on the official http://youtube.com/twit channel, so here it is, when you click the play button below, it should start at the right time-code 35 minutes 17 seconds when I first appear on the show, where I get to talk to Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane on the Twit show at LeWeb 2011!
On Twit, I get to talk with Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane about the legalization of piracy in Switzerland, in France, about the latest Archos G9 and Arnova G2 devices and I get to show off my headmounted Motorola Kopin Golden-i system for augmented video-blogging.
I was on Twit!
Posted by – December 10, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smart Glass, Web, Other, Opinions, Rockchip, Texas Instruments, LeWeb, Archos, Android
You can see me starting at 9 minutes 45 seconds time code in following Twit Live video recorded at LeWeb 2011, I’m interviewed by Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane! This video features some of my talk about Switzerland legalizing piracy, France implementing the global licence to legalize piracy, Archos, my headmounted Kopin Golden-i computer, live stream and augmented video-blogging system.
Source: recorded video on Ustream.tv
I’ll post the YouTube embed if Twit and LeWeb release it separately on YouTube.
Renault’s role in web technology, encouraging Android app ecosystem for the car and more
Posted by – December 8, 2011
Matthieu Tenenbaum talks about some of the things they Renault is doing to encourage more technological integration in the car.
Archos 101 G9 Turbo 1.5Ghz OMAP4460
Posted by – December 7, 2011
This is the first demonstration of the 1.5Ghz OMAP4460 running in a fully optimized Honeycomb Tablet. Archos is releasing the Turbo 1.5Ghz in January 2012 worldwide starting at $399 MSRP (actual retail price may be as low as $369 I guess, based on the 1Ghz Archos 101 G9 being now sold for $339 and the 1Ghz Archos 80 G9 being sold at $269.) The price difference between the 1Ghz and 1.5Ghz Archos G9 tablets is supposed to be about $30.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus presented by Ulrich Rozier of Frandroid.com
Posted by – December 7, 2011
Here at the Renault Atelier on the Champs Elysee in Paris, Ulrich Rozier of Frandroid.com presents his awesome phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the Ice Cream Sandwich reference device, for sure the best phone in the world.
Ice Cream Sandwich preview on Archos G9
Posted by – December 6, 2011
Archos is showing a preview of Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich running on the OMAP4 based Archos G9 tablets to be finalized during Q1 of 2012. They still have to finish the hardware acceleration for video support, Samba/Upnp, 3G stick support and all of the other specific features that Archos provides on top of Android.
Archos Home Connect
Posted by – December 6, 2011
$129 Android webradio alarm clock, this can be a nice to have next to your bed. It can wake you up with your Google Music playlists, with your Spotify favorites, with your Pandora, Last.fm, you can use Tune In webradio tuner. It can display trafic informations on a map for your region, show you news healines, pull RSS feed items etc.
Archos Smart Home Phone
Posted by – December 6, 2011
This is perhaps the coolest landline dect phone, because it runs Android, supports not only landline calling functionality, it can integrate with Skype, SIP, Google Voice and more over the WiFi at home and each set costs $149, you can have up to 5 of them running on the same dect network in your home.
Ice Cream Sandwich running on the ZiiLABS ZMS-20 based JAGUAR reference tablet
ZiiLABS uploaded this “Special Preview” video showing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on the 1.5Ghz ZMS-20 ARM Cortex-A9 JAGUAR reference tablet, highlighting the new UI transitions, photo-browser, OpenGL and gaming.
You can find more information about the ZMS-20 processor at ziilabs.com
ARM releases free DS-5 Community Edition toolkit for native code Android acceleration
Here’s the press release:
ARM today announced the release of the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community Edition (CE) – a free-to-use edition of its reference software development toolkit. The new edition is dedicated to the Android application developer community and helps them create native software for compute intensive tasks that can run up to 4 times faster than Java code. DS-5 CE complements the standard SDK and NDK Android development kits by offering developers a unique set of tools to help them achieve the performance and energy-efficiency advantages made possible when ARM native code is used in Android applications.
DS-5 Community Edition includes limited, but essential functionality from the premium DS-5 toolkit to help solve common Android application developer pain points. It achieves this by providing an integrated graphical debugger for NDK-generated code and visibility of advanced processor information, including ARM NEON™ Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) registers. The new toolkit permits development of Java and C/C++ code in the same Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) to maximise productivity and ease of use.
DS-5 Community Edition features a tailored version of the ARM Streamline™ Performance Analyzer for use with compatible Android development platforms. Streamline captures detailed, system-wide performance statistics from a variety of sources which helps developers to locate hotspots in their code and isolate potential causes. Platform builders can add support for Streamline by integrating an open source driver available from the Linaro website.
“With over half a million apps on the Android market today, developers need to deliver an outstanding user experience to succeed commercially,” said John Cornish, executive vice president and general manager, system design division, ARM. “ARM DS-5 Community Edition offers developers an easy to use environment for debugging and optimizing C/C++ code. This allows them to take full advantage of ARM processor technology using native code to deliver the performance and functionality that consumers demand.”
Availability
The DS-5 CE is available free-of-charge for use by individuals and organizations with annual revenue of $100,000 or less, and up to 10 employees. DS-5 CE is available from ARM and can be downloaded now. For more information go to:
- DS-5 CE:
http://www.arm.com/ds5community- DS-5:
http://www.arm.com/ds5- Linaro platform evaluation builds
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/
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- ARM DS-5 Community Edition: Enabling the Android Developer Community (blogs.arm.com)
- ARM launches toolkit for Android – Promises better performance than Java code (slashgear.com)
- ARM releases free Android development toolkit (linuxfordevices.com)
- ARM Debuts Tools to Help Android Devs Boost App Performance (phonescoop.com)
- ARM launches Android development kit with focus on power efficiency (engadget.com)
Rockchip RK2918 runs Ice Cream Sandwich
Rockchip is showing Ice Cream Sandwich running on their 1Ghz-1.2Ghz RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 processor with the Vivante GC800 GPU. This may be one of the first demonstrations of Ice Cream Sandwich running on an ARM Cortex-A8 processor?
Thus expect some Ice Cream Sandwich firmware updates for the cool devices like the $149 Arnova 7 G2, $179 Arnova 8 G2, the $199 Arnova 10 G2 and the recently announced Arnova 9 G2 likely to be sold below $249 with a 9.7″ capacitive IPS touch screen, thus bringing nice single-core Ice Cream Sandwich tablet experiences for the low-cost market.
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- Arnova 9 G2, 9.7″ capacitive IPS RK2918 tablet (archosfans.com)
- Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich source code released, how soon on every SoC? (armdevices.net)
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- Fuzhou Rockchip teases Android 4.0 PAD, brings Ice Cream Sandwich to the big screen (video) (engadget.com)
