Category: OS

LAPSCREEN with faytech, 12.5″ Type-C Display, runs off DP phone/laptop/anything

Posted by Charbax – December 30, 2018
Category: Tablets, Displays, Exclusive videos, Android, Windows

Michél Haese shows LAPSCREEN manufactured by faytech. This video also features Arne Weber, the managing founder of faytech. Here demonstrating Lapscreen with a Huawei P20, using the Smartphone’s CPU/Memory?Connectivity and Battery to power the LAPSCREEN with its 12.5” FHD display, available both non-touch for around $200 and touch version for about $300, shipping in January. The concept is for Lapscreen to be so thin and lightweight it can fit inside an A4-envelope. LAPSCREEN displays the Huawei P20 either in work station mode with all the office tools or one can play any mobile games on a large 12.5” screen instead of the display of a tiny mobile phone. With just around 5W power consumption, the mobile phone’s battery is enough to also run the LAPSCREEN for several hours on a charge, there is also a PD Power Delivery port on the Lapscreen to power the Lapscreen and charge the mobile phone at the same time.

Michél also presents the set up of using LAPSCREEN on different macbooks, showing how one can connect up to 4 LAPSCREENS to just one macbook. There is also an HDMI input on every LAPSCREEN, to connect any HDMI source, any media player, notebook, WiFi/Miracast-dongle, even game consoles like the Nintendo Switch or the iPhone via a lightning to HDMI-cable are perfectly presented on the LAPSCREEN too.

$100 Lapdock on Indiegogo

Posted by Charbax – December 23, 2018
Category: Laptops, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Android, Ubuntu

Now crowdfunding the Lapdock project on Indiegogo at http://igg.me/at/lapdock starting at $100. The future of Laptops will not have a powerful CPU in them but will be modular when you buy them, they can be powered by your phone, or you can buy a small compact ARM Powered internal or external Type-C Stick to run them off of. Laptops are all about getting a great keyboard, mouse and display, but the CPU, Memory, Connectivity, those things can be swapped according to progress in the industry. I will be posting updates on this project at http://Lapdock.net and on the Updates tab at http://igg.me/at/lapdock if this project gets funded by at least $100 thousand, then the suppliers in Shenzhen China will be able to deliver the Lapdock at this price. If Lapdocks can become a larger success with a lot of demand then prices will be able to reach sub-$100 for high quality components, high quality keyboard, mouse pad, display and batteries also that last at least 20 hours on a charge. With a lot of support, this concept will also bring high performance and affordable USB Type-C Sticks to run all sorts of productivity user interfaces based on Android (such as the OXI UI) or Linux OSes or even Microsoft can bring Windows support to the Lapdock. This form factor could also bring the developers who use development boards closer to the mass market consumers, as all work done around the development boards of the future (very compact and affordable USB Type-C Sticks) will directly be able to impact also how end consumers can use devices for actual real work and productivity. The Lapdock will also move Smartphone market more towards their “PC Mode” as Samsung and Huawei already support each their PC Modes, and that is great because Samsung and Huawei are the two biggest Smartphone manufacturers in the world, yet most consumers don’t even know that the PC Mode is there. With Lapdocks, the performance of latest 7nm ARM Processors in phones will be tuned further for multi-window, multi-tasking and for running more advanced productivity apps on Android. 2019 will hopefully be the year where ARM Powered productivity finally reaches mass adoption and the mass market and I think that the Lapdock will be at the center point of that major electronics industry upgrade.

Colorii Factory Tour, WH1 4K USB Type-C hub with wireless charge

Posted by Charbax – December 13, 2018
Category: 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Colorii, Windows

Colorii Factory Tour, creates Type-C Hubs in Shenzhen China. Colorii WH1 is a HDMI 4K USB Type-C Hub with wireless charging. It comes with a 2.5D glass top panel and aluminum bottom panel, with 4K@30Hz support on the HDMI output, 2x USB3.0 host, PD3.0 fast charge and data transfer on the Type-C port, and SD, micro SD card reader. All Colorii products are based on private designs with own PCBA layout.

Distributors can contact Colorii for distributor prices here:
Gennie Peng, Sales Manager
sales@colorii.cc
Mobile: +8615013777080 (Wechat/Whatsapp)
http://colorii.cc

Geniatech in 2018, Android TV, Snapdragon 820 board, NXP, RK3399, MediaTek, IoT Gateway and more

Posted by Charbax – December 3, 2018
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, AmLogic, MediaTek, Qualcomm, NXP, Computex, Embedded World, China Sourcing Fair, Geniatech, Android

Geniatech shows Google-certified Android TV boxes, development boards for the embedded market, IoT Smart Gateway solutions and more. The Geniatech Android TV Set-top-box solutions, now run a full real Android TV UI on AmLogic S905X in the Geniatch ATV495Max, the AmLogic S905D ATV598Max with the DVB-T2 and ATSC. Also selling the Android TV HDMI Sticks ATV135Max and ATV195Max with a larger Wi-Fi antennae. Geniatech also has some Smart Home Smart Gateway products to manage home IoT. Geniatech also does Snapdragon 410 based 96Boards compatible development board, they do NXP i.MX6 with HDMI input and i.MX7 SOM boards too (for the headless Smart Gateway and Smart audio market), they develop their SOM platform for IoT Gateway, Rockchip RK3399 based board with HDMI input and output with Power over Ethernet. Geniatech also does entry level MediaTek powered IoT gateways with Zigbee, Lo-Ra connecting up with Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Geniatech also shows their AmLogic T-962E powered quad 4K HDMI input with 1 HDMI output digital signage for commercial use with overlay picture in picture support.

Chromium OS on Snapdragon 845

Posted by juliusaugustus – November 25, 2018
Category: Laptops, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Android, Chrome OS

At Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018, some engineers are showing the Open Source Chromium OS running on the 10nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. With some talk on the status of using Freedreno for hardware accelerated GPU support in that Chromium OS demo. Over the past few months this solution has been upstreamed into the mainline kernel, display driver, audio driver, wifi driver, all the connectivity and periferal storage drivers, all to make Chromium OS work on that chipset. Running the 4.18 kernel with very few additional patches, it has hardware accelerated video playback using the open source freedreno driver. This could be a clue towards what I think could be an ultimate ARM Powered Laptop, a Snapdragon 845 Powered Chromebook would be so awesome, with Gigabit LTE, with good ARM single thread and multi-thread performance, with smooth Android and Linux apps supported, perhaps even it would be nice if Microsoft could contribute full x86 and ARM compiled Windows 10 apps support directly on this device.

Martin Riddiford interview, designer of Psion, Gemini PDA, Cosmo Communicator

Posted by Charbax – November 6, 2018
Category: Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Android

Martin Riddiford talks about the Psion, which he designed in the 90ies it was a ground-breaking PDA design with a full mechanical qwerty keyboard. Trying to combine laptop functions in a pocketable size. In partnership with Planet Computers, Martin Riddiford is happy to have been able to bring back the full keyboard design in with Android on the Gemini PDA and now into the upcoming Cosmo Communicator design that is now being crowdfunded for $549 on https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator

$549 Cosmo Communicator interview, now on Indiegogo

Posted by Charbax – November 6, 2018
Category: Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Android

Planet Computers launches the Cosmo Communicator for $549 for early backers at Indiegogo, powered by MediaTek P70 Octa-core quad ARM Cortex-A73, quad ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-G72 MP3 GPU, on TSMC 12nm FinFET. It comes with WorldMode LTE dual-SIM (one is likely eSIM) support. Strong antenna with good signal, and now it also comes with a second 2″ touchscreen display, a toggle switch with fingerprint reader, a 24 megapixel high quality front facing camera with flash, and a backlit keyboard. The CPU is thus a performance upgrade over Gemini PDA, it also comes with 6GB RAM, 128GB Flash, MicroSD card slot, headphone jack, dual Type-C ports, dual speakers and microphones and a 4220mAh battery. Planet Computers shipped over 9500 Gemini PDAs to their backers over the past several months which I filmed here previously I have been using Gemini PDA as my main phone over the past 7 months and it has been an awesome experience. The backlight keyboard, fingerprint authentication, high quality back facing camera, improved phone calls support, better signal reception with a stronger processor, all these things are very welcome in their new flagship. Planet Computers intends to continue selling both Gemini PDA and Osmo Communicator as two in their range of devices available for 2019, with continued support and software updates coming on both. In this video they show a working Android 8.0.1 firmware on Gemini PDA and they are talking about Project Trebble, Android 9, new Sailfish releases to be supported, hopefully hardware accelerated improved Debian and other Linux distributions also to be supported throughout. Within less than a day, they have already reached more than 200% funding on crowdfunding here on Indiegogo with shipments scheduled for May 2019, as they optimize and develop everything, impressive working samples are going to be shown in the months to come.

Android Treble on Texas Instruments Beagle-X15 at Linaro Connect

Posted by Charbax – November 5, 2018
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Linaro Connect, Android

Android Treble implemented on TI Beagle-X15 development board which is ARM Cortex-A15, making the upgrade process easier. So there is no need to communicate with the vendor to upgrade a device.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip Unisoc in UCRobotics IVY5661 IoT Edition 96Boards development board

Posted by Charbax – October 29, 2018
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Spreadtrum, Linaro Connect, Zephyr

This is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip solution IoT Edition 96Boards, it can be used as a Wi-Fi Repeater, for Bluetooth on-boarding, Bluetooth 5 Mesh Network. It’s an ARM Cortex-M4 dual core, runs Zephyr. You can read more about it here

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$499 Essential PH-1, the first Bezel-Less Smartphone

Posted by flatslap – October 29, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

Essential‘s PH-1 Smartphone : Display: Resolution: 2560 x 1312 QHD. Aspect Ratio: 19:10.Diagonal Size: 5.71” Material used: Titanium body Ceramic back, Corning Gorilla Glass 5 cover glass. System: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835.CPU: Kryo 280 Octa-core (2.45GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad), 64 bit, 10nm processor GPU: Adreno 540, 710MHz, 64bit. Battery: 3040mAh Front Camera: 8MP resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio f/2.20 fixed hyper focal lens 4K and 1080p HD video recording at 30fps.OS:8.1 Memory & Storage: RAM: 4GB Storage: 128GB UFS 2.1. Water and Dust Resistant: IP54
360 Camera for Essential Phone: Essential 360 Camera is the world’s smallest 4k 360° camera and captures 3D spatial audio using four built-in microphones. Model Name: Essential 360 Camera. Dimensions Height: 67mmWidth: 32mmThickness: 12mm (body) Weight: 35grams Audio Microphone: 4x microphones in 3D, ambisonic tetrahedral arrangement Dual Cameras Sensor Resolution: Dual 12MP fisheye imagers Lens aperture: f1.8 FOV: 210° (each) Video Resolutions:360° UHD (3840 x 1920) at 30fps Ports: 60GHz Wireless, Super Speed USB 2x accessory power pins System Architecture OS Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$150 KONKA Laptop, $40 Tablet, $300 Dancing Robot, $90 Smartphone

Posted by Charbax – October 24, 2018
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Intel, China Sourcing Fair, Android, Windows

$150 http://www.konka.com.hk Kogan Ultra Slim Pro laptop. 13.3-inch, matte screen, 2560 x 1440, non-touchscreen IPS LCD; 900MHz-2.2GHz Intel M3-6Y30 processor; 8GB RAM; 256GB SSD; Intel HD Graphics 515; 802.11AC WiFi; 37.1Wh battery; 1.15KG. https://ift.tt/2PYDJkM $40 Tablets MQWG101. With Screen size 9:7”(4:3) Resolution 1024*768, MTK8392 Quard Core A7 1.7Ghz,RAM 512MB ROM8GB,OS Andriod 4.4 with USB, Battery 4000Mah. $300 Dancing robot. Arm featuring 7-DOF + 1-DOF interchangeable gripper hand including tools, 2-DOF torso, 2-DOF head equipped with 3D camera and 5MP 2D camera, 2-DOF base for horizontal and vertical movement, high-performance AI embedded CPU/CGU, 802.11 ac WiFi + Bluetooth, 2.5 kg payload, Aeolus ROS operating system. $40 Konka AR magic guns real mobile games augmented reality smart children’s toy. Size 311*162*46, Battery 2 section 1.5V AAA bettary OS 4.4. https://ift.tt/2D1QYPa $40Android SmartWatches . 2.5 D curved surface KONKA Smartwatch OLED Screen 0.96 display, 60 days Standby IP68 50m Waterproof Swimming Sport Activity Tracker Smart Watch for Android 4.4 IOS.$90 KONKA 711 Fingerprint 4G Smart phone. CPU: MT6737T 1.45GHz, Display: 5.5″ In-Cell FHD Screen, Front camera: 8.0MP, Rear camera: 13.0MP, RAM: 3GB, ROM: 32GB, OS: Android 7.0, Battery:3000mAh.

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Realtek RTD1395 TV Box Android & RDK, RTD1296 for Media Hub, Google Home, Synology DS418

Posted by Charbax – October 23, 2018
Category: Set-top-boxes, NAS, Exclusive videos, Realtek, Computex, Android

Realtek recently introduced its new SoC RTD1395 (SoC – single-chip system), which includes support for HVEC 4K @ 60fs, VP9.2, H.264, HDR, HDR10, Dolby Vision, HLG, Technicolor Prime and Dolby MS12 v1 audio certification .3 Config A. Novelty designed for use in new TV set-top boxes, compatible with Android TV 8.1, although it is expected that through . SoC – Realtek RTD1395 quad core Cortex-A53 processor, Arm Mali-470 MP4 GPU.System Memory – 2GB DDR4 (4x 512MB x 16bit).Storage – 8GB eMMC Flash.Video & Audio Output – HDMI 2.0.Video Codec – HEVC 4Kp60+2Kp60, VP9.2 4Kp60, HDR10.Connectivity,802.11 ac/abgn Dual Band 2.4G/5G 2×2, Wave-2 compatible with MU-MIMO (Optional External Antenna Available).Bluetooth 4.1.Power Supply – 5V DC/1A through MicroUSB port Synology: Synology DS418 comes with a new 64-bit quad-core processor, delivering excellent data transfer speed, large storage volume management, and 10-bit 4K H.265 video transcoding on the fly. https://www.dove.co.nz/products/networking-and-adsl/network-storage/16120 (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$120 KXD K30, $26 El W40 Smartphone Retina HD

Posted by Charbax – October 20, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

KENXINDA Smartphones K30 and EL W40. KXD K30 Retina HD Display 5.7” MTK6750/MTK6757 Octa-Core 1.5GhZ/2.5GhZ CPU.RAM 2GB and ROM 16GB,Display 5.7” HD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1440*720, Android 8.0, Battery 3280mAh.Back fingerprint. http://en.kenxinda.com/kxd-k30/ EL W40 Cheaper in price $26” MTK6580T Quad Core 1.5 GHz CPU .RAM 512MB and ROM 4GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 854*480,Front Camera 2.0mp back camera 5.0mp, Android 6.0, Battery 1500mAh Non Removable, Back fingerprint. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$220 KIEMO S6001 Bezel-less 6″, $26 KIEMO 4062

Posted by Charbax – October 20, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

KIEMO S6001 6-inch Curved Glass HD 1440*720p IPS Bezel-less Big Battery Fast Charging Smart Mobile Phone: Memory: ROM 64GB+RAM 4GB , Camera5MP+13MP back camera8MP front camera ,MT6757 Octa Core, 6.0″ curved glass HD 1440*720 IPS, Battery 3150mAh,Android 7.0 4G KIEMO 4.0-inch Cheaper Price Smartphone 4.0″ flat glass WVGA 800*480TN Os:Android 7.0, ROM 4GB+RAM 512MB Camera: 0.3MP front camera 2MP back camera MT6580/6737/SC7731/9832 CPU: Battery 1450mAh (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$179 MELE PCG02 PC Stick Fan-less, PCHD26 GML3 with Intel Gemini and PCC65 Video Conference

Posted by Charbax – October 20, 2018
Category: HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Intel, China Sourcing Fair, Mele, Windows

MELE Fan-less PCHD26 GML3Computer stick with Intel:
Processor Intel Appllolake N3350:/N3450 with 2.4/2.2 Quad core and dual core. Cache 2MB L2,OS Ubuntu Linux or Windows 10,©/4GB/6GB LPDR, Storage 32GB;Connectivity 100/1000Mbps LAN; HDMI2.0 output 4K@60fpsUSB3.0 at Aliexpress MELE PCC65 Video Conference System: OS; Widnows 10 Pro, Display 1080 FHD+, Zoom: 12X Angle 72.5 degree wide, Speed 1000 mbps 5MP sensor with a 72.5 °field of view , built-in noise canceling microphone that can rotate both vertically and horizontally. up to 8GB of DDR3L RAM and 64GB of eMMC with optional SSD from 128GB to 512GB, most expensive will have Intel Kaby Lake-U chips from 15W with (up to) 32GB of DDR4 memory and up to 64GB of on-board eMMC with optional SSD M.2 in various denominations. at Mele (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$169 BLUBOO S2, S3 Rotating Camera Bezel-less Smartphone

Posted by Charbax – October 20, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Bezel-less Rotating and massive Battery power smartphones by BLUBOOS2,S3.
S2 One Rotation a mega Vision (One Camera 2 modes):
Special Rotating Camera on front for Selfie and Rear 21 MP Sony Camera. MT6763 Helio P23 Octa-Core CPU.RAM 6GB and ROM 128GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1080*2160, Android 8.1, Battery 4050mAh.Back fingerprint.
S3 (Massive Battery power with one week stands by time) comes with:
MTK6750T Octa-Core 1.5 GHz CPU .RAM 4GB and ROM 64GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1080*2160,Front Camera 13.0mp back camera 21.0mp, Android 8.1, Battery 8500mAh.Back fingerprint. Mobile Power Bank.
https://www.banggood.com/Bluboo-S3-6_0-Inch-Sharp-FHD-8500mAh-12V2A-NFC-4GB-RAM-64GB-ROM-MTK6750T-1_5GHz-4G-Smartphone-p-1283089.html?rmmds=buy&ID=224&cur_warehouse=CN
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Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X

Posted by Charbax – October 18, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Android

Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and Mate 20 X is the fastest phone in the world, with a 7nm Kirin 980 quad ARM Cortex-A76, quad ARM Cortex-A55, Mali-G76MP10 GPU, with Dual-NPU AI acceleration that has 6.9 Billion transistors on the SoC package. It comes with world’s first 1.4Gbit/s Cat.21 LTE Modem, supports 2133Mhz LPDDR4X. Huawei claims to be about 50% faster at loading apps compared with the latest iPhone and Galaxy Note 9, run 38% longer on its 4200mAh battery, enables 140% faster quick charge with its 40W charger, it takes only 30min to charge up 70% of the battery and has 70% faster wireless charging. Up to 120% better antenna performance compared with the new iPhone Xs Max, with its dual-frequency GPS receiver, it can have a 10x better GPS positioning accuracy. Huawei PC Mode now also works by its usual USB Type-C Displayport functionality but it also works wirelessly sending the PC Mode display over to any Miracast receiver they also provide a Huawei wireless dongle. Huawei Mate 20 X is a very large 7.2″ OLED smartphone with 5000mAh battery, world’s first vapor chamber and grephene film based cooling technology enabling higher performance when doing processor intensive tasks for long periods of time such as for gaming.

Huawei HiVision estimates calories in Food on Huawei Mate 20

Posted by Charbax – October 17, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Android

HiVision gives information about food, it can give an estimate on food calories by its volume to assist in having a healthy lifestyle. It can recognize landmarks, famous paintings and objects which can then be purchased directly in Huawei’s Smart Shopping feature that can recognize things and launch the purchase procedure directly based on the image or based on the camera. The Huawei Mate 20 comes with not only the world’s most powerful Arm processor in Kirin 980 built on 7nm, with quad ARM Cortex-A76 and quad ARM Cortex-A55, it also has Dual-core Neural Processing Unit offering a vast amount of AI computing performance, making up probably a large part of those 6.9 Billion transistors on the SoC. These algorithms can eventually be trained to offer more and more accurate recognition of things in the surroundings of the smartphone camera.

Bokeh video on Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Posted by Charbax – October 17, 2018
Category: Smartphones, Cameras, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Android

The Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro can take Bokeh video, they can blur the background as one of their new video AI modes in 1080p30. I shot here a sample using the phone so you can see the quality of that bokeh effect. Does it look good enough for video-blogging in a way that might have a professional look to it? I guess if the bokeh isn’t by optics it’s better not to shoot with it, right? But then the whole video is flat. This bokeh AI effect does not seem to recognize the things that are at the same distance, it blurs out anything that it considers not to be part of the face. And it might unblur any other faces that it catches in the background too which kind of defeats the purpose of blurring out the foreground and the background. It is possible though that Huawei might still yet improve on their AI algorithms here to perhaps improve their bokeh video effect further.

7.2″ giant Huawei Mate 20 X with Myriam Joire

Posted by Charbax – October 17, 2018
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Android

Myriam Joire of the Mobile Tech Podcast has been covering tech for over a decade and was previously Engadget’s Senior Mobile Editor, host of the Engadget Mobile Podcast, and co-host of TWiT’s All About Android. The Huawei Mate 20 X is a 7.2″ 1080×2244, Android 9.0 powered high end Android phone running on the new 7nm HiSilicon Kirin 980 quad ARM Cortex-A76, quad ARM Cortex-A55 with Mali-G76 MP10 GPU. This phone is actually targetted at the gaming market, to be launched at 899€.