Category: OS

Microsoft announces Full Windows 10 on ARM with full x86 win32 apps emulation

Posted by Charbax – December 8, 2016
Category: Laptops, Opinions, Qualcomm, Windows

Microsoft shows Full Windows 10 on ARM, on Qualcomm Snapdragon 820:

we have an x86 Win32 desktop app running transparently with no changes, thanks to the magical emulation technology we’ve built into Windows 10 on ARM. This is Adobe Photoshop running great on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, we made zero changes to the app, it runs perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U

Microsoft says that they will launch this with the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, due to be released in 2017. But here for this demo, they show their full Windows 10 with x86 apps support running smoothly on the currently shipping Qualcomm Snapdragon 820.

It might be that Microsoft and Qualcomm want to have at least the performance of their next generation 835 to be able to offer a satisfactory x86 apps emulation performance.

The first usage case Microsoft aims for is the ARM Powered Laptop.

I think Microsoft should also try to run full Windows 10 with x86 apps emulation “as an app” on not-too-heavily-modified Android, support Android powered full Windows 10 Continuum concept. They can work with Qualcomm and Google on that. Basically dock your Android phone and it should run a full Windows 10 UI with full x86 apps support on the external Lapdock/desktopdock.

Allwinner Double OS for 2-in-1 Laptop/Tablet market

Posted by Charbax – November 23, 2016
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Allwinner has developed Double OS together with the Phoenix OS team, to provide one UI optimized for keyboard/mouse in productivity mode and another stock Android UI for touch-screen use. You can watch my video showcasing the rest of the latest Allwinner powered devices on the market here

Geniatech ATV1960 AmLogic S912 Octa-core with Dual TV Tuner

Posted by Charbax – November 23, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Geniatech, Android

Geniatech ATV1960 Octa Core TV Box based on AmLogic S912, runs Android 5.1, supports 4K 10bit HEVC Hardware decode, Dual Digital TV Tuner built-in (ATSC/T2), one for live watching, another for recording. Support DLNA streaming. Geniatech Netstream Air for broadcasting from Tuner to the home or office.

Zoomtak V Plus on AmLogic S912

Posted by Charbax – November 23, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Zoomtak, Android

The Zoomtak V Plus Android TV box is based Amlogic-S912, Octa core A53 at 2.0GHz, in Alumium Housing, LED display, runs Andriod 6.0, with 2GB RAM, 16GB EMMC, Supports 4K2K H.265 hardware decode, HDR 10bit, Kodi 16.1, 1000M Ethernet. HDMI 2.0, Dual band ac wifi 2.4G/5.8G with Removable antenna.

Distributors can contact Zoomtak here:
Shenzhen Zoomtak Electronics Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 755 29033689
Mob: +86 13538098986 (whatsapp)
Web: http://www.zoomtak.net
Email: joanna@zoomtak.net
Skype: joanna_zhouyu
Wechat: zoomtakjoanna

Zoomtak H8 Plus on AmLogic S905X

Posted by Charbax – November 23, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Zoomtak, Android

The Zoomtak H8 Plus Android TV box is based AmLogic S905x Quad core ARM Cortex-A53 at 2.0GHz, in Alumium Housing, running Andriod 6.0, with 2GB RAM, 8GB EMMC, Supports 4K2K H.265 hardware decode, HDR 10bit, Kodi 16.1, 100M Ethernet. HDMI 2.0, 2.4G WIFI, available in Silver and Black.

Distributors can contact Zoomtak here:
Shenzhen Zoomtak Electronics Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 755 29033689
Mob: +86 13538098986 (whatsapp)
Web: http://www.zoomtak.net
Email: joanna@zoomtak.net
Skype: joanna_zhouyu
Wechat: zoomtakjoanna

Moto Z Moto Mods Developer Program on Indiegogo, Hackathons

Posted by Charbax – November 16, 2016
Category: Smartphones, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Android

After my initial video showing off the Moto Z and its awesome Moto Mods, here is an Interview with Stephen McDonnell, Director of the Moto Mods Developer Program and with Christian Flowers, Engineer on the Moto Mods platform, talking about the plans that Motorola has to promote their awesome Moto Mods ecosystem, promoting ideas and innovative development through Indiegogo at https://enterprise.indiegogo.com/motomods/ and through Hackathons in New York, in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere to come read more at http://modthefuture.com/

Moto Z, Projector, Camera, Speaker, Battery MotoMods

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: Smartphones, Projectors, Cameras, Speakers, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Android

Lenovo Motorola Moto Z is an amazing new Smartphone, with Greybus (watch the video that I filmed with Greg Kroah-Hartman on their Greybus development for Google’s discontinued Project Ara) based data and hot-swappable power pogopin docking technology on an ultra-thin Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Smartphone design, with options to dock a TI DLP Pico Projector MotoMod, a Hasselblad True Zoom Photo/Video Camera, JBL SoundBoost Speaker and the Incipio offGRID Power Pack, all MotoMods that customizes and expands the functionalities of a Smartphone. An absolutely fascinating potential evolution for the Smartphone market, Motorola is developing a potentially amazing ecosystem for future-proof MotoMods that can turn your Smartphone into a Project, into a point-and-shoot quality Camera, into an amazingly loud Speaker and that can expand its battery life easily. All these MotoMods are magnetically locked onto the back of the Moto Z. Now Motorola is also releasing the Moto Mods Development Kit to enable third parties to develop new MotoMods for the Moto Z, for example I hope someone makes an ultra-thin E Ink Mobius (flexible, plastic and non-glass) display for the back-size of the smartphone, a Kent Displays CH-LCD based notes taking back case and a LapDock Laptop Dock to use the Moto Z to power the Ultra-thin Laptop dock and desktop dock. The functionalities of Moto Z can also expand through the TurboPower fast charging USB Type C which I have used with USB Type C to SD card adapter, for example to upload videos from my SD card to YouTube. The possibilities with the Moto Z ecosystem are very, very interesting. But for these to get the attention of the consumers worldwide, I think that Lenovo/Motorola needs to lower the price of the bundles to around $599 for the phone including the Projector MotoMod, $699 including Projector and E Ink MotoMod, $349 or $399 for the Moto Z by itself (instead of the current $699). $699 should also be a bundle to include an ultra-thin and ultra-light small bezel 13.3″ Laptop Dock and Desktop Dock MotoMod and with the appropriate Remix OS like Android implementation through Android Nougat to support full Android Powered Productivity on the external display.

E Ink for Productivity, Onyx N96ML, 9.6″ E Ink Android Reader with digitizer

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: E-readers, Exclusive videos, NXP, Onyx, Android

One of the potential segment for devices that I am quite excited about, is the E Ink based large screen connected stylus touch e-reader. Provided it gets the perfectly smart implementation, it can unlock a world of being more productive reading and annotating all kinds of texts, in all kinds of fields of study, professionalism, creativity and curiosity. Reading on an E Ink display has already been proven by Kindle to be an awesome experience. Make use of customized Android for E Ink devices, WiFi and Bluetooth, and the potential for this device can be really great and for me is quite exciting. This is the Onyx N96ML, a 9.6″ 1200×825 E Ink Pearl display with stylus touch and front light, running on the NXP Freescale i.MX6Solo Lite for E Ink, running Onyx’s advanced customized Android UI for E Ink. You can buy it for $379 at Amazon.com

iNet Smart Sonic Toothbrush, Smart Food Scale, Smartwatch, VR and POS with Datamini

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: VR, Internet of Things, Smartwatch, Cars, Health, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, MediaTek, NXP, Broadcom, China Sourcing Fair, Android

iNet is one of the leading design houses in Shenzhen, here presenting their latest IoT Smart Devices, their smart connected toothbrush, their smart food scale, smart kitchen scale, for potentially healthier more accurate better tasting cooking, smart doorbell with camera video call, the smart weight scale. iNet also shows their all-in-one VR using the octa-core Allwinner H8vr. iNet also shows their special VR which is powered through the gamepad remote controller. They also show the smart car mirror, also showing bluetooth temperature and pressure monitors for car tires, smartwatches with transparent display. An NXP54101 powered classical smartwatch with bus payment, NFC/smartcard, wireless charge. MIPS ingenic Android Smartwatch. And also a POS system with fingerprint, smart card reader, nfc, and more developed with Datamini on MediaTek and Intel x86.

360 video: China Sourcing Fair 2016 part2

Posted by Charbax – November 8, 2016
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Cameras, VR, Robots, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, Intel, China Sourcing Fair, 360 video, Android, Windows

Watch this video in your VR headset or use your phone with a cardboard/VR adapter for best experience! Walking around the China Sourcing Fair AsiaWorld Expo showfloor from filming the JingTeng turning head security robot, filming at the Veidoo booth showing their $28 All-in-one VR headset, Foxcom, Appscom Smartwatches booth, the latest Alldocube 2-in-1 Laptops and Snapdragon 210 Phablets and finishing off with the 10.3″ E Ink mockup at the Boyue booth. Filmed using the Shuoying 1080p dual-lens Panoview 360 VR camera, see my Interviews and my Factory Tour with Shuoying here: http://138.2.152.197/category/companies/shuoying/

10.3″ E Ink Mobius Reader Mockup at Boyue

Posted by Charbax – November 8, 2016
Category: E-readers, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Boyue (previously known as Boeye) makes E Ink readers, here showing their latest Rockchip based E Ink Android e-readers, also showing off a non-functioning mockup of their 10.3″ Mobius flexible E Ink ultra light reader that might come next year if E Ink starts the mass production of the 10.3″ Mobius display by that time. Then Boyue shows their 6″ and 8″ Carta or Pearl based E Ink readers retailing $110 in China.

Egreat A5, Egreat A10 4K HDR TV Box on Hisilicon 3798C V200

Posted by Charbax – November 5, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Egreat A10 and A5 Set-top-box supports 4K with HDR on Hisilicon 3798C V200 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-720 GPU, supports Blu-ray Navigation Menus, system to automatically match movie poster and cover art from IMDB internet, Dolby True-HD/Atoms and DTS-HD MA/DTS X passthrough, HDR10 and Dolby Vision, HiVXE2.0 video decode engine H.265/HEVC hardware decode, HDMI 2.0a up to 4K 60Hz 3840x2160p resolution output, Compatible with XBMC scraper resources, deep color up to RGB444 10Bit, HDD, U-Disk, Samba, NFS file share & play, preferred subtitle function, preferred audio function, SATA 6GB/S, runs Google Android 5.1.1.

Distributors can contact Egreat here:
Morgan Lee, Overseas Department
sales1@egreatworld.com
Skype: lijuan19890320
wechat: alexlee0
whatsapp: +86 13128851772

Ulefone Power with 6000mAh

Posted by juliusaugustus – October 30, 2016
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

The Ulefone 3035 features a 6000mh battery with a 64 bit octa core processor, lte and full hd display. Ulefone also makes a rugged phone called the armor with an IP68 specification for water resistance and resistance other forms of damage.
http://ulefone.com/

Acer Chromebook R13 on MediaTek MT8173C dual ARM Cortex-A72 and dual ARM Cortex-A53

Posted by Charbax – October 29, 2016
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, ARM TechCon, Chrome OS

The first ARM Cortex-A72 powered Chromebook, the first MediaTek Chromebook, powered by the Quad-core big.LITTLE MediaTek MT8173C Dual ARM Cortex-A72 and Dual ARM Cortex-A53 with PowerVR GX6250 GPU. This Acer Chromebook R13 is priced currently at $399, available now in the USA, soon should also be available in Europe. It looks great with a full sized HDMI, USB3 port, one USB Type-C port and a headset port. I am tempted to buy one, but I think I’ll wait and see which Chromebooks will be released in the days/weeks to come, especially the rumored Rockchip RK3399 Powered Samsung Chromebook Pro.

malideveloper.arm.com Vulkan, GPU Compute

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, Samsung, ARM TechCon, ARM, Android

ARM shows Vulkan API support on the Exynos 8890 Quad-core Samsung M1 (custom big core by Samsung), Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Also showing computer vision deep neural network database by Luxosft that allows detection of objects offline that uses GPU Compute for optimal performance

Latest Allwinner products, Laptops, 2-in-1, VR, Tablets, IoT, Robots, Drones, Car DVRs

Posted by Charbax – October 26, 2016
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Cameras, Gaming, VR, Robots, Internet of Things, Speakers, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Tour of the Allwinner showroom at China Sourcing Fair 2016, with Damien from the Allwinner Business Development group (industry insiders can contact him at Damien@allwinnertech.com), showing the latest products powered by Allwinner on the market, such as the Phoenix OS based Laptop, Double OS (dual UI of Android) for 2-in-1 market developed in partnership with the Phoenix OS team, the latest Android Marshmallow tablets, including the Aikun Morphus X300 powered by Allwinner. Here also are presented the latest Allwinner powered all-in-one VR devices starting with Allwinner A33 and support for A83T and A64 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Allwinner also shows some Smart Home IoT type products powered by Allwinner such as smart vacuum cleaner, smart home robot and smart wifi speaker (Amazon Alexa or Google Home possibly possible), talking about next year’s successor of the Allwinner A33 for the tablet market, which they might do on a lower nanometer to lower power consumption and optimize the low-cost Tablet market further. Allwinner shows some of their Phablets released in partnership with qualcomm, where Allwinner is helping to get shipped Qualcomm based LTE tablets on Snapdragon 200 and 400 series working with the design houses and factories in Shenzhen to get them done more. Allwinner has a big position in the auto market with after market smart Android powered smart mirrors, smart car dashboard and Smart car-dvr products which are quite popular in China, adding object recognition, car parking support, lane departure and car distance alerts and more. Allwinner is also in Drones with their camera chip, in E Ink Android based e-readers, smart speakers (with multi-room sync), and web-TV Karaoke tablets popular in the Chinese market.

$139 Elephone S7 and R9, MediaTek deca-core Helio X20 with 5.5″ FHD JDI bezel-less display

Posted by Charbax – October 22, 2016
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Elephone S7 is a beautiful phone starting at $139 are showing their newest 5.5″ FHD 1080p JDI curved-to-sides bezel-less display, running on the MediaTek Helio X20 MTK6797, tri-cluster dual ARM Cortex-A72, quad high frequency ARM Cortex-A53 and quad low frequency ARM Cortex-A53. Runs Android 6.0, has Front 5.0MP + Rear 13.0MP with AF and flash light, BT4.0, GPS, Hotknot, OTG, OTA, Iris Recognition, Smart gestures, Wake Gesture, 3000mAh, Dual nano SIM dual standby. Comes with 2GB/3GB and 4GB RAM with 16/32/64GB Flash. You can pre-order this phone at http://www.elephone.hk

the official video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRYl8fEywmY

Aikun welcomes Nintendo Switch

Posted by Charbax – October 22, 2016
Category: Tablets, Gaming, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, China Sourcing Fair, Aikun, Android

Aikun has patented the Morphus X300 design, and is happy to see Nintendo join them in the same direction for the future of gaming. Aikun encourages Nintendo to reach out and to officially release all the back-catalog of Nintendo games from Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES officially into the Google Play, into an officially Nintendo-supported 3D-display enabled, controller optimized Nintendo games emulator for Android. For example, Nintendo could offer a $5/month or $10/month fee for unlimited gaming on Android/Switch, that could be perfect, and it could be very lucrative for Nintendo, to make all their games compatible with the 3 Billion Android devices that are shipped every year. We definitely expect that Nintendo Switch is also Android based and offers an LTE Sim card slot version, also possibly leading the way for a Nintendo Phone, Nintendo HDMI Stick TV Dongle and more. Android Smart TVs could have the Nintendo Switch Android app pre-loaded (with a 3-months free trial). Nintendo should also program and release all their Nintendo Switch games to be compatible with all modern Android devices, not to only run on Nintendo’s own hardware. Game developers only need to program their games once for Android, and that should make the games also available on all other Android devices shipped in the world. At the same time also Nintendo can release high quality well designed side game controller Bluetooth accessories to be used using with any sized smartphone and with any tablet, to add high quality game controls on each side of any Android or iOS device. Right now, Aikun encourages all gaming fans to consider buying the Aikun Morphus X300 which is immediately available on https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017CWO2CK and on http://aikun.co/index.php?ac=article&at=list&tid=114 (with Amazon.com ($249), Amazon.de (249€), Amazon.fr (249€) and Amazon.jp (28999¥) links and stock to be available by November)

JmGO S1 Laser TV, JmGO X1 1080p DLP Projector with auto-focus

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2016
Category: Projectors, Exclusive videos, Mstar, China Sourcing Fair, JmGO, Android

JmGO shows their latest short-throw 4000lumen DLP Laser projector, projecting on a 100″ screen, it can also project to 120″ in FHD. It has a built-in Mstar6A828 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Quad-core Mali450 GPU running JmGO’s custom UI on Android 5. The projector offers an extremely large and bright image projected at a very short distance, with 50000″1 contract ratio, supporting a clear image size up to 300 inches, the system supports many codecs decoded at up to 4K, Ethernet, Miracast, Airplay, DLNA and more. The price is about $3755.

JmGO X1 is JmGO’s new 1080p projector with auto-focus, using a smart camera system or sensor it automatically can focus regardless the distance it is at from the wall, at 950Lumen, it costs about $751 in China. Also running the Mstar6A828 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali450 GPU, also comes with an amazingly awesome remote control with a clickable scroll wheel well placed for thumb usage.

Here you can also see JmGO’s official presentation videos for JmGO S1:

and for the JmGO X1:

$69 Gole2 on Indiegogo, Intel Z8350 Windows10 or Allwinner A64 Phoenix OS

Posted by Charbax – October 8, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Intel, Gole, Android, Windows

Introducing Gole2 on Indiegogo at http://igg.me/at/gole2 starts at $69 (early bird for the Allwinner A64 ARM Powered version), here I show off both the Intel Cherrytrail Z8350 Windows 10 based Gole2 and the Allwinner A64 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Phoenix OS Android based Gole2. It comes with 1xUSB3, 2xUSB2, HDMI, Ethernet, Mini-Jack, MicroSD and more.

Gole’s official website: http://gole.tech