This one runs Rockchip RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 at 1Ghz, 1080p video support, Android 2.2/2.3, HDMI output, USB host and more.
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Yifang M9C, 8.4″ Capacitive Android Tablet
Posted by – January 18, 2011
They show an 8.4″ capacitive (M9C) and resistive (M901) Android tablet (resistive is about $30-$40 cheaper) running the Rockchip RK2818 ARM9 processor.
Marvell Mobilize
Uses a 10.1″ resistive screen, can be manufactured for below $199 using the Marvell 166 processor. Marvell is working on user interface layers on top of Android suitable for Tablets to be used in education leading the way towards the OLPC XO-3 Tablet to be based on the faster Armada 610 processor.
ZTE Light, 7″ Android Tablet
ZTE has this 7″ resistive Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 Android Tablet on the market, with built-in 3G connectivity.
Neostra Onda Android Tablets
They use Rockchip ARM9 and Telechips ARM11 in these approximately $100 bulk priced 7″and 8″ Android Tablets.
Motorola Cliq 2
Posted by – January 18, 2011
New phone with a slide-out keyboard designed for fast thumb typing.
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- Motorola Cliq 2, first hands-on (engadget.com)
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- First Impressions: Motorola Cliq 2 for T-Mobile (pcworld.com)
Freescale i.MX53 Tablet reference design
Posted by – January 16, 2011
Freescale is releasing this tablet reference design developer platform to help their customers get i.MX53 powered Android tablets to market fast.
Canjing Android Tablets
Shenzhen Canjing Electronics presents an 8″ Freescale i.MX51 powered Android tablet priced at $112 in bulk. They also make a $98 Telechips based 7″ tablet with an HDMI output.
Dwco Android Tablets
Posted by – January 16, 2011
Dwco Electronics Limited is showing an 8″ resistive tablet, as well as 7″ and 10″ Rockchip powered tablets.
Yootechpros 9.7″ Android Tablet
Posted by – January 16, 2011
Yootechpros are showing a 9.7″ LG IPS panel Samsung Hummingbird 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 based Android tablet which could retail at 30% cheaper than the iPad.
WiFi Galaxy Tab
Posted by – January 16, 2011
Samsung is releasing a slightly cheaper WiFi-only version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
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- Samsung confirms Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Tab (electronista.com)
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- WiFi only Galaxy Tab in Q1 2011 says Samsung (androidcentral.com)
- Samsung Announces Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Tab (pcworld.com)
jkkmobile.com: Asus Eee Pad Memo
Asus presents a 7″ capacitive Android Tablet which may have the Dual-Core 1.2Ghz MSM8260 Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Micro HDMI output, built-in SIM card slot, it’ll run Honeycomb when released.
This video was released at: jkkmobile.com
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jkkmobile.com: Asus Eee Pad Transformer
Asus is back at making ARM Powered laptop/tablet form factor, after the mysterious dissapearance of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Asus Laptop at Computex 2009. This Asus Eee Pad Transformer runs on the Nvidia Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 processor, has 10.1″ capacitive touch screen, the keyboard dock transforms it into a Honeycomb laptop.
This video was released at: jkkmobile.com
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- ASUS Eee Pad Slider & Transform hands-on [Video] (slashgear.com)
Motorola Atrix 4G wins “Best of CES 2011”
Posted by – January 15, 2011
The winner of ARMdevices.net Best of CES 2011 award goes to the Motorola Atrix 4G smart phone.
Congratulations! clap clap..
With the launch of this new Motorola Super Phone, we have witnessed a historic moment in the history of consumer electronics. Motorola unveils not only the most powerful smartphone yet based on Nvidia’s Tegra2 AP20H ARM Cortex-A9 processor, but has actually worked feverishly on making software layers on top of Android to provide for a Desktop/Laptop replacement experience, all powered by the phone! Motorola presents full HD resolution Firefox web browser running on top of Android, Citrix virtualization integration for running all other x86 apps that can be virtualized, they put Android in a Window so you can still run any Android apps in that Window when in Desktop mode! And this is the first generation of this type of product, so you are only witnessing the beginning of ARM Powered Pocketable Smart Mobile Devices to be able to power everything you would do on a Laptop powered by Intel/Microsoft. Expect even faster dual-core processors to run this type of product soon with unlimited amounts of tabs with lots of pictures/embedded videos and do it all fully smoothly.
Here is my 25 minute long video featuring the part of the keynote unveiling of the product as well as 16 minute interview with Seang Chau, product manager on Motorola Atrix 4G, Vice President and Chief Software Engineer at Motorola Mobility Inc:
To tell you the truth, this award does not mean Motorola Atrix 4G is perfect yet. I noticed some lagging on scrolling when browsing through 3 or 4 tabs with websites loaded such as ARMdevices.net Engadget.com and Gizmodo.com and having Flash videos play in one of the tabs and maybe other Flash instances such as some advertisement running in some other tab. Maybe the slow downs can be removed if Flash can be managed to only use processing and memory bandwidth on-demand or seamlessly when in the front tab. This type of slow down may be caused by any number of factors. Maybe the Software isn’t fully ready yet and can still be optimized. Maybe the Chrome browser on ARM would be faster than Mozilla Firefox. Maybe the Nvidia Tegra2 AP20H processor doesn’t yet have enough fast access memory bandwidth, not fast enough I/O speeds to let the Firefox tabs load their contents instantly enough when switching tabs. Although, I haven’t tested it yet, I wonder if the Tegra2 AP20H is not yet fast enough for full 1080p@60fps high bitrate high profile video playback of all video formats. I tried to playback the 9mbitps .MP4 h264 that my Sanyo HD1000 camcorder makes as well as the 5-24mbitps .MTS h264 that a Panasonic SH900 camcorder makes, those files are not yet recognized or launchable by the file browser. Too bad I didn’t have some standard 720p and 1080p MKV movies on my mass storage device that I tested.
Anyways, multi-tab browsing and HD video isn’t smooth on a regular Intel Atom netbook either, 480p YouTube seems also to be the maximum that can smoothly be played back using even a recent dual-core Intel Atom N550 Acer D255E netbook, and over 100 million consumers seem to be more or less satisfied with that or even slower experience. The key here is to see if the ARM Cortex-A9 platforms in Laptop/Desktop situations can match performance of Intel Atom. At least Motorola is hereby showing that they are investing heavily into this convergence, they are now definitely officially focused on speeding up ARM Powered performances to a level where consumers and enterprise can be satisfied to replace their Wintel machines. This is the big type of high-end Android product that AT&T wants to promote now that their iPhone exclusivity is finished. Motorola may be trying to say that they are not entering the Laptop and Desktop market, when in fact they are and they are pulling the whole smartphone industry in there with them.
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- Exclusive: Motorola Atrix confirmed for May UK release (dialtosave.co.uk)
MID Joyplus Android Tablets
Posted by – January 15, 2011
Joyplus International Enterprise Ltd shows a 5″ resistive Android tablet powered by ARM11 800Mhz 76JZFS Core with removable 2300mAh battery, 7″ Marvell PXA168 800Mhz design with Ethernet connection and a 7″ capacitive Samsung ARM Cortex-A8 Hummingbird powered with 1080p HDMI output.
Natural Sound Electronics Android Tablets
Natural Sound Electronics presents a 9″ Telechips ARM11 Android Tablet for $125 in bulk excluding flash memory cost, 7″ capacitive Marvell with Android 2.2 for $100 in bulk.
Pierre Cardin 9.7″ and 7″ Android Tablets
Posted by – January 15, 2011
Pierre Cardin Communication Electronics also called Shenzhen Vogues Industries are showing these new interesting Android tablets, one is 9.7″ same LG IPS capacitive panel as on iPad running on Rockchip RK29xx series with front and back cameras, another tablet is 7″ capacitive Samsung ARM Cortex-A8 Hummingbird tablet to be sold at $150 in bulk, and they also make a probably cheap 3.5″ Qualcomm MSM7227 mobile phone as well.
the-digital-reader.com: Newsmy Rockchip powered Android Tablet “kindle clone design”
Rockchip was powering about 50 Android tablets at CES 2011, Nate the Great liked this Android tablet design presented by Newsmy at the Rockchip booth:
This video was posted at: the-digital-reader.com
the-digital-reader.com: Gajah BK 7009 Android tablet
Nate the Great found this Gajah BK7009 7″ Android tablet with a customized Android UI for e-reader mode:
This video was posted at: the-digital-reader.com
ARM Powered Google TV confirmed
Posted by – January 14, 2011
I have it on very high authority from someone at Google (to remain anonymous) that an ARM Powered Google TV platform is coming soon.
The specifics of how Google TV on ARM allows for differentiation (also called fragmentation), if there is support for versions without the whole HDMI-passthrough/IR-blaster overlay features, if Google TV on ARM has 1080p@60fps requirements or if 720p@30fps can be enough, if there will be support for cheaper ARM11 platforms such as Korean Telechips based Android-ready boxes, all of that is yet to be confirmed. But a bloggers logic says that eventually all ARM platforms and setups should be compatible. But as with delay in providing official Google Marketplace on non-standard Android Tablets (in a world of Android makers wanting to compete with iPod Touch and iPad), Google has authority to also decide to block or delay official Marketplace or other official features of Google TV on non-standard and cheaper Set-top-box devices.
I have been rumoring this for many months here on ARMdevices.net (1, 2, 3, 4) that Google TV on ARM would be a certainty, it’s also been talked about by ARM President Tudor Brown back in November that “If Google TV is to be mainstream, it must be built on a lower power system, …on lower cost technology”.
Recently, an unofficial jailbreak on Google TV also confirmed my speculation that the main reason TV Networks can block Google TV is because of the Flash Plugin officially announcing itself in the browser to be of Google TV user agent. Jailbreaking thus allows to install a hacked Flash Plugin that cannot be detected by websites.
Just as since Computex in June 2010 (Bonux, Keenhigh mediatech), I filmed several interesting ARM Powered Android Set-top-boxes at CES 2011 such as the ARM Cortex-A9 Innodigital WebTube and two more Android WebTV solutions that I still have to upload, all of these ARM Powered Android Set-top-box solutions should be able to run a basic Google TV software just as well.
Consider that Google has to cater to not pre-announcing future products too early as to not cannibalize the sales of the existing Intel powered Google TV boxes such as the Logitech Revue, the stuff from Sony and the upcoming Google TV solutions from Vizio, Toshiba, Samsung, Sharp, LG and others (some of those may already be ARM Powered, who knows..). Thus expect the official announcements to happen closer to the date when the Google TV software on ARM is ready for mass marketing and closer to sales.
I still believe that a sub-$100 ARM Powered Google TV Set-top-box could be one of the most revolutionary things to happen to TV since it was introduced in the late 1920ies. The revolution is when an affordable sub-$100 box (that everyone can afford) provides easy UI and meaningful algorithms for one-click instant access to all the worlds legal or illegal VOD contents. Instant access for all to every video ever made. Any video maker can be instantly broadcast on an infrastructure to be seen everywhere according to an algorithm based on ratings to determine quality and originality. People watch an average of 5 hours of TV per day, it greatly aspires to be revolutionized.
