Here’s a tablet with a $8 option to include DVB-T or ISDBT, the ICS Telechips TCC8923 tablet costs $70 in bulk without the digital TV option.
Category: OS
Rovi DivX Plus Streaming
Posted by – June 5, 2012
Rovi acquired Sonic Solutions which owned DivX, they are now launching DivX Plus Streaming as a platform for multi-bitrate, multi-resolution, smooth adaptive variable bitrate video streaming for video-on-demand services around the world. DivX Plus Streaming is supported on a range of ARM Processors for example the Freescale i.MX6 supports it.
I’m being interviewed about how I started video-blogging and announcing a new feature for ARMdevices.net
Posted by – June 5, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Opinions, Allwinner, MediaTek, Linaro Connect, Android
Here’s a 15 minute interview of me filmed by the Novacut guys using multiple high quality DSLR camera angles (you can watch it in 1080p!). I’m showing off some of the latest gadgets that I found in Shenzhen, I talk about why and how I video-blog from all the worlds consumer electronics trade shows since 2004, and I announce my next big feature on ARMdevices.net which is a $20/year Membership system to get access to buy all the best gadgets that I find at the trade shows all over the world, sourcing directly from the factories in Shenzhen and to get access to scans or pictures of the business cards of the people/distributors/suppliers that I video-interview (great for the buyers from around the world watching my videos and interested in having the best contact informations to the companies that I film). Look forward to the $20/year ARMdevices.net Membership system to be launched here in the days to come if I can find enough time to set it up while video-blogging here at Computex until June 10th.
Rob Chandhok, Senior Vice President of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies talks about the latest ARM Powered software advances
Posted by – June 5, 2012
Qualcomm is doing huge work optimizing Linux and Windows on their S3 and S4 processors, trying to get as much performance out of the hardware as possible. Rob Chandhok is in charge of software at Qualcomm and in this video he talks about some of the software challenges that Qualcomm is working on to optimize software on their processors.
Windows 8 RT on the Qualcomm S4 Snadragon development platform
This demo of Windows 8 RT on Qualcomm S4 seems to be very smooth. There are a few bugs here or there, but overall, it looks quite smooth to me. I think Windows 8 on ARM is going to be more popular than Windows 8 on x86, yet I think that Android will remain far more popular than all forms of Windows.
Acer Aspire S7, thin/compact Intel Ultrabook
Posted by – June 5, 2012
This new Intel Windows 8 Ultrabook is quite thin and compact and it comes with a touch screen.
Acer Iconia W510, Intel Windows 8 convertible
Posted by – June 5, 2012
Acer shows this Intel powered Windows 8 convertible.
Asus Tablet 600 with Windows 8 RT on ARM Tegra3
This new Windows 8 RT on ARM device is a bit like the Asus Transformer Prime but Asus does not want to call it a Transformer Book, it’s running Windows on ARM only, no dual-boot with Android for now (my guess is maybe they change their mind by the release of this device in October or whenever Windows 8 is released). This is kind of a prototype, although the hardware is pretty much the same as the Asus Transformer Prime with Tegra3, this one has 2GB of RAM.
Asus AiO ARM/Intel Android/Windows 8 18.4″ 1080p all-in-one
This huge 18.4″ Asus capacitive tablet runs on an ARM Processor (yet unannounced) and when docked, it can switch to Windows 8 on Intel Windows 8 and switch back to ARM Android.
Inhon Gigabyte X11 11.6″ Carbon Fiber Ultrabook
Posted by – June 4, 2012
Here’s a sub-1KG Intel powered Ultrabook built using carbon fiber.
Asus Transformer Book, Intel/Windows 8 11.6″ Convertible Laptop/Tablet
Posted by – June 4, 2012
It’s a bit heavier than an Ultrabook, it may come with a hard drive or SSD and DVD drive in the keyboard dock.
Asus Taichi convertible 11.6″ dual-screen Intel Windows 8 Laptop/Tablet
Posted by – June 4, 2012
This is the big announcement from Asus at this Computex. They add a screen, which significantly reduces the battery life (if both screens are in use at the same time). This announcement sounds to me like a usual type of announcement for Asus, last year it was the Asus PadPhone. I think none are going to be popular. The form factors just seem to be wrong, price too high, power consumption too high, usability non-seamless. Intel/Microsoft are just not the right combination for success anymore.
Mark Shuttleworth at Linaro Connect
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical talks about Ubuntu on ARM and Canonical at Linaro.
Android at Linaro, the future, by Zach Pfeffer
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Here’s 19 minutes with Zach Pfeffer, Linaro Android Tech Lead, talking about the future of Android.
Linaro improvements to Android 4.0.4 performance on the Pandaboard TI OMAP4430 platform
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Bernhard Rosenkränzer who is the Android Toolchain expert at Linaro shows how Linaro’s version of Android 4.0.4 runs about twice as fast as stock Android 4.0.4 on the TI OMAP4430 Powered Pandaboard.
Ricardo Salveti shows Unity 3D working on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball platform
Posted by – June 2, 2012
It’s the OpenGL ES port that they have been working on for quite a while.
Amit Pundir and Abhishek Paliwal of the Linaro Android Team
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Amit Pundir of the Linaro Android Team and Abhishek Paliwal of ST-Ericsson talk about their work on Android at Linaro.
Headmounted augmented-reality game and brain activity robot remote controller
Posted by – June 1, 2012
Noritsuna Imamura Director of the OESF lets me try some of his latest projects which are the headmounted Android on Pandaboard computer system that has augmented reality application that turns real people into shoot them up characters and that allows for brain activity based robot remote-controlling.
