Category: OS

Samsung MultiScreen SDK launch November 12th 2013

Posted by – November 10, 2013

Juan Pablo Gnecco of Samsung presents the new Samsung MultiScreen SDK with new set of APIs for apps to support Multiple screens, providing Chromecast like features, providing features for interaction on top of live TV images, so you will be able to do a new bunch of features, all 2014 Samsung TVs will have this pre-installed and 2013 Samsung TVs will have this support through a software update.

Introduction to Fraunhofer with HP Baumeister

Posted by – November 9, 2013

Fraunhofer is a large non-profit organization with 22 thousand employees at 60 institutes mostly in Germany doing applied research and development. “You name it, Fraunhofer probably does it”. In San Jose, Fraunhofer has an office catering to the Silicon Valley companies like Google, Apple etc. For example, they open sourced AAC into Android, enabling Jelly Bean and higher to have the highest audio quality at the lowest bitrate. And for example AAC-ELD is in Apple FaceTime for low latency real-time audio (and/or video) communications.

Android 4.4 Linaro on Galaxy Nexus

Posted by – November 5, 2013

Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Linaro Android Builds and Baselines Engineer, presents Android 4.4 running on the Galaxy Nexus from his house in the mountains of Switzerland. Once the code is made available at http://linaro.org, this will be a chance for people who can’t get the Nexus 5 to try out Android 4.4.

Previous Android 4.4 at Linaro videos:
Android 4.4 KitKat release impressions at Linaro Connect 2013
Linaro developer talks Android 4.4 in front of the KitKat statue at Android Google Headquarters in Mountain View California
Android 4.4 KitKat release first impressions by Bernhard Rosenkränzer (Linaro Android developer)

Linaro developer talks Android 4.4 in front of the KitKat statue at Android Google Headquarters in Mountain View California

Posted by – November 2, 2013

Linaro Android developer Bernhard Rosenkränzer talks about KitKat, talks about the Linaro Connect and talks about the plans for Linaro on Android in the future.

Android 4.4 KitKat release impressions at Linaro Connect 2013

Posted by – November 1, 2013

After the first night of hacking the source code, the Linaro Android Team featuring Khasim Syed Mohammed and Bernhard Rosenkränzer talk about ART replacing Dalvik VM, better memory management, support for new sensors, Browser being replaced with Chromium, WiFi Printing support, NFC smartcard emulation and more!

Android 4.4 KitKat release first impressions by Bernhard Rosenkränzer (Linaro Android developer)

Posted by – November 1, 2013

First impressions by Bernhard Rosenkränzer (Linaro Android developer) on Android 4.4 KitKat release. Includes talk on ART replacing DALVIK, Improvement on OpenCL support and more..

My latest Smartphone collection on Android Central Live @ Samsung Developers conference 2013

Posted by – October 29, 2013

Check me on the Android Central show showing off my samples of some of the latest cheapest Android phones out of China. My range of latest phones include MediaTek MT6572 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 (512MB RAM) phones at $55 4″ (2G iPhone 5S style), $58 4″ 3G, $65 (3G SGS4-Mini style), $72 (3G SGS4 style), Spreadtrum 2G based at $36 4″ (2G Nokia windows phone style), $43 5.3″ (2G Note3 style), my Onyx E43 E Ink Android phone and Onyx Freescale iMX6 Solo Lite Android 4.0 E Ink E-reader.

Anyone else in the Silicon Valley would like to check out these devices? Let me know! I’ll be video-blogging at the ARM Techcon and Linaro Connect at the Santa Clara Convention Center during these next 4 days, then to spend another 6 days in San Francisco. I would like to visit the Twit Cottage next Sunday and I hope someone at Google invites me to their Mountain View headquarters!

This video was published at: http://www.androidcentral.com/android-central-live-nicolas-has-coolest-toys

HP Chromebook 11 unboxing and first boot

Posted by – October 29, 2013

I decided to buy a $279 ($303 with taxes) HP Chromebook 11 with the Exynos5250 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 with Mali-T604 inside, even though it would have been nice if it already would have been shipping with the newer Exynos5420 Octa Core ARM Cortex-A15/A7 with Mali-T628. I guess that Samsung doesn’t yet provide their latest big.LITTLE yet for third parties to ship in devices? As soon as a good cheap 13.3″ Exynos5420 Chromebook is available I’ll probably switch to that latest ARM Chromebook as my main video-blogging laptop.

Hampoo OMAP5 PCB Design House

Posted by – October 24, 2013

Hampoo shows some of their OMAP5 PCB Designs, use cases may be for in-car entertainment systems, medial usage, industrial usage. Of course it also depends what Texas Instruments plans to do with OMAP5 precisely. Hampoo may be one of the leading PCB designers in Shenzhen designing special use case PCB designs, they have a long history working on OMAP3, OMAP4 and OMAP5 and they now also work on Exynos5 and some other designs to come. Hampoo showcases their naked eye 3D tablet also, based on OMAP4470, I also filmed Hampoo showing off their tablets at Computex here: http://138.2.152.197/2013/07/19/arm-cortex-a9-glass-free-3d-tab-10-1inch-by-hampoo/

Contact Hampoo:
Snehesh Sinha
snehesh@hampoo.com
http://www.hampoo.com

Adreamer shows $60 6.5″ MT6572, $150 9.7″ MT6572, $50 DreamerTab A20, $75 MSM8225Q and more


Adreamer shows their latest range of tablets. including $60 7″ MT6572, $150 9.7″ MT6572, $48 7″ RK3168, $50 Kids tablet on Allwinner A20, $128 10.1″ RK3188 with removable Huawei 3G card, $160 9.7″ MT8389. Adreamer sells about 60K tablets per month with 300 workers in their factory.

Contact Adreamer (serious distributors only please):
Shenzhen Adreamer Technology Co Ltd
Julie Zhu, Overseas Sales
juliezhu@adreamertech.com
http://www.adreamertech.com
Mobile: +86 13714679016
Phone: +86 75529190880

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Shenzhen Newstar $43 3.5″ MT6572W, $65 4″ MSM8225, $51 4″ Broadcom BCM21663, $85 4.5″ BCM23550


Shenzhen Newstar shows their very impressive range of new low cost Android Smartphones such as $46 and $43 3.5″ MediaTek MT6572W Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, $65 4″ Qualcomm MSM8225 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A5, $51 4″ Broadcom BCM21663 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, $85 4.5″ BCM23550 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, $120 5″ MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 and several other new phone models with range of different screen sizes, battery capacity and more. Newstar also for example has a 7″ A20 Tablet for $38.5. All prices are bulk, 1K/3K order minimum.

You can contact Newstar here (serious importers/distributors only please):
Shenzhen Newstar Enterprises Co Ltd
Frank Hu, CEO
Mobile: +86 15999670165
Phone: +86 75525132033
sales8@newstar8.com
http://www.newstar8.com

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Sunchip RK2928 Miracast Dongle

Posted by – October 22, 2013

Sunchip shows their latest Rockchip RK2928 single-core Miracast DLNA HDMI Stick. Sunchip sells about 30 thousand RK3188 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 HDMI Sticks every month. You can see my previous videos at the Sunchip HDMI Stick heaquarters in Shenzhen (2, 3, 4)

You can contact Sunchip here:
Kobe Chen
kobe@sunchip-tech.com
http://sunchip-tech.com

Measy Rockchip RK2928/RK3066/RK3188 and Allwinner A20/A31S 4K HDMI Sticks


Measy shows their latest HDMI Sticks with their smart TV dongle dock, doing USB Hub extension, SD card slot, external Wi-Fi antenna, building in the camera in the HDMI Stick, these devices are so awesome!

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Cookoo and Cojito Bluetooth 4 Smartwatches, shows icons on email/im/calendar/incoming call and more

Posted by – October 21, 2013

ConnectedDevice shows their latest Bluetooth4 Smartwatch design, they are basic showing an icon for incoming email, im, phone call, battery level warning, calendar alert and more.

Contact ConnectedDevice here (serious importers/distributors only please, tell them you watched the video):
ConnectedDevice Ltd
Peter Hauser, Chief Technology Officer
peter.hauser@connecteddevice.com
http://www.cookoowatch.com

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Ramos shows their latest Actions, Allwinner, MediaTek and Intel Tablets

Posted by – October 21, 2013

Ramos shows their latest range of Allwinner, Actions, MediaTek and Intel based tablets.

Pipo U6 1440×900 7″, Pipo M8HD 1920×1200, Pipo M6Pro, Pipo M7Pro 8.9″ 1920×1200


Pipo shows their latest range of Rockchip RK3188 high-specced Android Tablets with full HD resolutions, also now launching their LTE Tablets in 9.7″ Retina and 7″ 1440×900, shipping LTE Tablets next month. LTE adds $25-$30 to the cost of each device. 13.3″ Tablet 1920×1200 for home use. Pipo also shows mockups of their upcoming 6″ and 6.8″ Mediatek and Qualcomm phablets.

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Ployer shows $59 7.85″ TN A23, $55 7″ A23 1024×600, $120 7.85″ MT8389, $65 7″ MT8312, $93 7.85″ A23

Posted by – October 21, 2013

Ployer shows their latest range of Tablets, ranging from A23/A31S models, to MT8312, waiting toi implement MT8382 and Allwinner A80 when those processors become available.

Hank shows Exynos5 PCB, Rockchip RK3188 tablets and more

Posted by – October 21, 2013

Exynos5 PCB shown off, to appear in Hank Tablets in the next 2 months, the price difference they say with RK3188 Tablets is maybe $50 or more.

Contact Hank (serious importers/distributors only please, tell them you watched the video):
Hank Electronics Co Ltd
Kevin Zhou, Regional Manager
Mobile: +86 18098975717
Phone: +86 75582537027
Skype: kevin.hank
kevin@hank-tech.com
http://www.hank-tech.com

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CHUWI V99X 9.7″ Retina RK3188, optional Huawei 3G module, ultra-thin

Posted by – October 20, 2013

CHUWI shows their new V99X ultra-thin 7.8mm 9500mAh 9.7″ Retina with an empty 3G module by Huawei slot, so you can turn your Wi-Fi only tablet into a 3G and even next year into a 4G LTE tablet by simply adding the networking module that you would like to add into that slot. Maybe a White Spaces 700Mhz module can be possible also. The perfect optional cellular expansion system for the Rockchip RK3188 in my opinion, and this CHUWI V99X Retina 9.7″ RK3188 tablet looks really good!

Contact CHUWI (serious importers/distributors only please, tell them you watched the video):
CHUWI Technology Co Ltd
Belle, Area Manager
Mobile: +86 13528410754
Phone: +86 75529706511-831
Skype: belledai1121
sales5@chuwi.com
http://www.chuwi.com

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K-Panda Android Tablets and Set-top-box


K-Panda shows their latest tablets, Set-top-boxes at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair.

Contact K-Panda (serious importers/distributors only please, tell them you saw the video):
Shenzhen K-Panda Technology Co Ltd
Candice, Sales Manager
Mobile: +86 13824374965
candice.yang@k-panda.com
Skype: candicelovecandy
http://www.k-panda.com

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