Matthieu Tenenbaum talks about some of the things they Renault is doing to encourage more technological integration in the car.
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Renault’s role in web technology, encouraging Android app ecosystem for the car and more
Posted by – December 8, 2011
Test driving the Renault Twizy Electric Car
Posted by – December 7, 2011
This is an awesome compact electric car, safer than a motorbike, smaller than a car, it’s being sold at around 7000 euros (first deliveries to happen before March 2012), it’s smooth and fast to drive around with, range is enough for most city driving use.
Archos Home Connect
Posted by – December 6, 2011
$129 Android webradio alarm clock, this can be a nice to have next to your bed. It can wake you up with your Google Music playlists, with your Spotify favorites, with your Pandora, Last.fm, you can use Tune In webradio tuner. It can display trafic informations on a map for your region, show you news healines, pull RSS feed items etc.
Archos Smart Home Phone
Posted by – December 6, 2011
This is perhaps the coolest landline dect phone, because it runs Android, supports not only landline calling functionality, it can integrate with Skype, SIP, Google Voice and more over the WiFi at home and each set costs $149, you can have up to 5 of them running on the same dect network in your home.
Panasonic to launch more Android devices
Panasonic is designing their own ARM Cortex-A9 processor at 1.4Ghz that can be used for Google TV type set-top-boxes. Here’s a video interview with Dr. Masaitsu Nakajima, General Manager of Panasonic’s Processor Core Technology, talking about their ARM Cortex-A9 for set-top-boxes:
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As is said at the end of the video, Panasonic has plans for using ARM Powered Android in Tablets, and they probably also have plans for ARM Powered Android Smartphones, and I also expect Panasonic to use Android in some of their upcoming Camcorders, such as the Sanyo HD1000-type-design, with a 1-click Android functionality to upload the videos directly to YouTube over WiFi, with 1-click live stream to online live streaming systems like Ustream.tv and Justin.tv. I expect Panasonic to include Android in Photo cameras, and in their HDTVs using the ARM Powered Google TV platform. Look forward to major Panasonic branded Android devices news at CES, Mobile World Congress and following.
Related articles
- Panasonic plans to go forth with Android to all of Europe this spring, North America is a definite maybe (engadget.com)
- Panasonic looking to offer smartphones outside of Japan (ubergizmo.com)
- Panasonic reconfirms plans to sell Android phones in Europe, North America (unwiredview.com)
- Panasonic renews hopes of Android smartphones in US, Europe (electronista.com)
- Panasonic eyes reentry to smartphone market outside Japan (slashgear.com)
- Panasonic reaffirms plans to bring its Android phones outside of Japan (intomobile.com)
E Ink is giving away E Ink watches (US residents only)
E Ink is giving away 4 E Ink wrist watches worth $195 every Tuesday until the 13th of December on their Facebook page. All you have to do is “Like” the E-Ink page on Facebook and enter your name, email and click to let it grab your Facebook contact info. E-Ink wrist watches are pretty awesome, I got mine since June 2010 that I wear every day, I only had to install the batteries once in the beginning and it’s still running on the same small wrist watch battery. It’s nice to be able to change the design of your wrist watch, have it display the date and all in a very sunlight readable way. It’s just cool to know you’ve got an E Ink e-reader type screen on your watch. Check out this video where I show my E Ink wristwatch:
Here is more information about the $195 Phosphor E Ink watch that you can win on the E Ink facebook page: http://www.phosphorwatches.com/E-Ink-Digital-Hour-Clock-Watch-Stainless-Steel-p/70510565280.htm
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on the OMAP4 Pandaboard
Posted by – November 17, 2011
Texas Instruments released this video showing that Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 now already boots fine on the OMAP4430 based $179 Pandaboard which you can buy at http://pandaboard.org. I expect that we might see Desktop-optimized user interfaces and a full Chrome web browser soon, maybe with Android 4.1 or 4.2. As I also think it’s important for every ICS smartphone to turn into a “desktop mode” when using the HDMI output and when a keyboard and mouse are detected.
$5 Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 and BeagleBone
Posted by – November 1, 2011
Texas Instruments is launching a $5 ARM Cortex-A8, it’s re-optimized for specific tasks, it can go in tablets, but it can also be used in industrial and medical applications, and certain custom uses, where this can be thought of a high-end microprocessor yet very low cost, it starts at $5 for ordering 100 thousand units. It’s an ARM Cortex-A8 performance for industrial applications at the cost and power usage of ARM9 Microprocessor. TI’s Beagleboard.org community is launching the new $89 BeagleBone to develop on this platform. Watch this 20-minute presentation of this project by TI’s Jakob Alamat, director of marketing for TI’s ARM Microprocessor Sitara platform:
Related articles
- New $89 Open-source Hardware Runs Full Linux OS (pcworld.com)
- TI offers ARM Cortex-A8 processor for $5 (electronista.com)
- $89 dev board includes Cortex-A8 CPU, Ethernet, JTAG (linuxfordevices.com)
- $5 Cortex-A8 SoC aims to take on ARM9 in the embedded market (linuxfordevices.com)
- Beaglebone: new version of BeagleBoard (beagleboard.org)
MHL Consortium shows some of the latest MHL features
Posted by – October 30, 2011
There are now 2 HDTVs that are MHL compliant, the Toshiba WL800A and the Samsung UN46D7000 now also got a firmware update that ads MHL support. Possibly that all new HDTVs will include this functionality. It allows for charging MHL compliant phones and tablets and to remote control them with the TV remote through one simple cable and one Micro-USB connector. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich might add new MHL features to the UI, otherwise the MHL Consortium is trying to convince app developers and smart phone makers to design the apps and the OS to take advantage of the 1920×1080 resolution of the HDTV when using the HDMI output, to provide higher resolution user interfaces, higher resolution games, the ARM Processors and GPU in those phones and tablets are now getting powerful enough to output full 1080p UIs, videos and graphics, it’s time for the industry to take advantage of that! One pocketable phone can now combine the features of Android, Chrome OS and Google TV, it’s now a phone, a desktop, a set-top-box and a home console all in one!
B Labs demonstrates Virtualizating 2 OS on ARM
Posted by – October 30, 2011
B Labs can run 2x Android OS, for example one secure business install and one for personal use, or to run Android and a version of Linux.
FirstView pre-approves outsourcing partners in India for US
Posted by – October 30, 2011
FirstView pre-approves potential outsourcing partners and suppliers in India and elsewhere, to enable reliable outsourcing of ARM related PCB design and other ARM optimizations work, tablet, set-top-box designs and more.
ARM Cortex-M4 hardware accelerated Mp3 playback
Posted by – October 30, 2011
ARM Cortex-M4 with a DSP in the Freescale K60 Tower Board to demonstrate hardware accelerated Mp3 playback.
Update on the ST Ericsson SNOWBALL ARM Cortex-A9 development board
Posted by – October 30, 2011
The SKY-S9500-ULP-CXX aka SNOWBALL has been available as a development board for the ST Ericsson ARM Cortex-A9 processor for about 4 months now. Here’s an update on how they are doing. Find more at http://igloocommunity.org
Ericsson HSPA+ and LTE modems
Posted by – October 30, 2011
Ericsson is one of the leaders in cellular network infrastructure, for the past 4 years they also make HSDPA, HSPA+ and now also LTE modems to embed in Tablets, Laptops and more.
Microsemi Smart Fusion Custumizable SoC
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Rajiv Nema, product line manager, describes how Microsemi’s Smart Fusion works, to combined the ARM Cortex-M3 with FPGA to provide for customizable system on chip.
Mentor Graphics at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Mentor Graphics is one of the major EDA providers of the ARM industry. At their booth they are showing some impressive 3D graphical user interfaces that they say is easy and cheap to implement on ARM Powered devices to make them more appealing and to differentiate in the UI design, and they are also showing an auto-balancing lego robot built using Texas Instruments Sitara microcontrollers and the nucleus real-time software.
I’m Watch, i.MX233 Android Bluetooth wrist watch
Posted by – October 27, 2011
They are launching before Christmas, it’s a $299/299€ Android watch, running on the Freescale i.MX233 ARM9 processor, it has a 1.54″ capacitive touch screen, with Bluetooth it synchronizes with any Android phone, iPhone or other smartphone, there is an API to adapt Android apps to it.
Toshiba presents their latest Cortex-M processors
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Toshiba is doing a range of ARM Cortex-M series of processors used in a huge number of devices around the world.
M-Etic Game to showcases ARM Cortex-M0
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Here are the parts used and their cost:
4x Linear Actuator – $240
96x RGB LED – $100
1x Infinity Mirror – $20
1x Joystick – $10
1x ARM Cortex-M0 – Less than $1
PLDA PCI Express and USB3 for ASIC and FPGA
Posted by – October 26, 2011
They can provide the IP to integrate PCI Express type 3 and USB3 on ARM Powered devices, for example and ARM Powered Laptop or Tablet.
