Gigabyte releases a range of 4.5″ to 5″ from qHD to Full HD, using MediaTek MT6589 to MT6589 Turbo to Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, providing a mid-range of smartphones with quality screens and original designs, running smooth vanilla Android, dual-sim card slots, with dual-sim dual-active modems on the Qualcomm S400 device, even supporting to host a voice conference call through the phone.
Category: Smartphones
ARM Cortex-A12 launched at Computex 2013
Posted by – June 4, 2013
ARM Cortex-A12 is designed to be a follow-on for the ARM Cortex-A9, providing 40% more performance over ARM Cortex-A9 at the sub-$300 price point. Compatible with ARM Cortex-A15, large physical addressing over 4GB of memory, virtualization, big.LITTLE with ARM Cortex-A7. This is ARM providing an in-between solution above ARM Cortex-A9 but still below ARM Cortex-A15, to reach the market by the second half of 2014. Here at Computex 2013, James Bruce, ARM’s Mobile Strategist, provides an overview of the new ARM Cortex-A12, explaining how the mid-range ARM Powered device market is designed, expecting above 400 million mid-range ARM Powered smartphones to be shipped each year in 2014, thus providing performance above ARM Cortex-A7 and above ARM Cortex-A9 but still below the cost of implementing an ARM Cortex-A15 or ARM Cortex-A57 solution at that point.
ARM Mali-T622 GPU enables mid-range GPU Compute, Renderscript and Open GL3
Posted by – June 4, 2013
ARM launches the Mali-T622 GPU for ARM Cortex-A12 devices to be released to the market starting in 2014, enabling advanced GPU features for the next mid-range smartphones, including GPU Compute, Renderscript, Open CL, Open GL3 and more. ARM Mali-T622 is 1-2 cores, while Mali-T624 is 1-4 cores and Mali-T628 is 1-8 cores, positioning it for mid-range devices of next year.
ARM Mali-V500 mid-range HD video decode/encode launched
Posted by – June 4, 2013
ARM is launching the ARM Mali-V500 video encode/decode IP solution for the new ARM Cortex-A12 with Mali-T622 targetted at the mid-range smartphones reaching the market by the end of 2014. The performance is upwards 120fps 4K video encode and decode. HEVC/VP9 may be available already when combining the GPU compute capabilities of the Mali-T622 or other latest Mali graphics cores that support GPU compute.
Onyx International Android E Ink, stable e-reader and E430 4.3″ Android E Ink Phone
Posted by – June 4, 2013
Onyx International is reaching a fully stable Android on E Ink state, here showcasing their latest 6″ capacitive Android e-reader as well as their 4.3″ capacitive Android E Ink phone. The Android E Ink phone’s touch panel is still being finalized, I am borrowing the Android E Ink phone for the next 2-3 days, let me know what I should test and show on it. I’ll try to compare it with other LCD and AMOLED smartphones in direct and indirect sunlight if the weather permits here in Taipei. Onyx’s 6″ E Ink e-reader is quite stable, they still want to improve some of the Android UI for E Ink e-readers, but now it’s already stable. I am also borrowing their Android E-reader for 2-3 days, let me know what I should test on it, I’ll compare it with the Kindle Paperwhite.
Asus Fonepad Note, Intel Atom stylus 6″ 1080p Asus note phone
Posted by – June 3, 2013
Again, here’s Asus working with Intel on a likely overpriced underperforming product that likely is not going to sell much. Hasn’t Asus learnt from the success of its Nexus 7 and previously Transformers to know that success come by using ARM and not doing anything on x86. But anyways, here’s yet another Asus Fonepad that is not a transformer, not sliding a phone into a tablet (concept that nobody wanted), here instead using their spelling mistake at promoting a Galaxy Note competitor on an Intel x86 processor, thus automatically unlikely to sell any more than a third rate market failure. Even the relatively unpopular Asus Transformer line on Nvidia Tegra processors have sold more than all the worlds Intel Ultrabooks combined. Learn the lesson Asus, would you? Go ARM, Go Big, if you still go x86 you go bust. Is Asus a lost cause? Why all the lame waste of time working with Intel? What does Asus get from that partnership? Foes Intel give Asus a rebate on bundling of Intel processors for ranges? Is Johnny Shih comfortable doing such lame Intel x86 deals year after year? Does Johnny Shih never stop up and take action on the always under-performing, always sub-par, always unpopular Intel x86 based solutions? Why does Asus keep working with x86? How many times does Asus have to fail with Intel before they learn the lesson?
Yusun Android Phones, ships 300K per month
Posted by – May 27, 2013
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Qualcomm, Nvidia, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android
Yusun ships about 300K phones per month, here showing their latest $108 Qualcomm 8225Q Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 1.2Ghz, $160 4.7″ 720p Tegra3 phone. Showing Yusun M1, They mostly sell in China but with rapidly growing exports too.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
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$47 Android phone and $140 A31 Tablet by Simon Electronics
Posted by – May 27, 2013
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Rockchip, MediaTek, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android
Simon Electronics shows Allwinner A31 10.1″ for $140 and they show a MediaTek powered Android phone for $47 (I forgot to ask more details) and more. Sells 10-15K phones per month, mostly to South America and Europe.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
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SDC phones and tablets, MTK, Qualcomm, and some Actions and AmLogic tablets
Posted by – May 14, 2013
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Actions, AmLogic, MediaTek, Qualcomm, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
Onyx E430 Android 4.3″ E Ink phone
Posted by – May 14, 2013
Category: Smartphones, E-readers, Exclusive videos, Members Content, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Onyx, Android
6 months ago, I filmed Onyx showing the first Android E Ink e-reader prototype. Now Onyx International shows their new 4.3″ E Ink Android phone with a front light. Onyx also shows their first 6″ Android based E Ink e-reader also with a front light. Onyx is thus now fully focusing on Android on E Ink, for Android E Ink phones and Android E Ink e-readers. Check back soon at http://ARMdevices.net for more news from Onyx on their latest and upcoming Android E Ink devices!
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
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Alldocube Smartphones MT6577 and MT6589 5.3″ 960×540 qHD priced around $115
Posted by – May 2, 2013
Cube is launching MediaTek based smartphones in the weeks/months to come.
You can watch my videos at the Alldocube factory: Headquarters, SMT and Assembly.
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Jiayu G4 release event, 4.7″ 720p MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
Posted by – April 26, 2013
Jiayu unveils the Jiayu G4 Android phone, with a 4.7″ 1280×720 screen, it comes with 1GB or 2GB RAM and up to 32GB Flash storage. The worldwide retail price can be around $200-$250 depending on the configuration. Androidguruz is releasing it on the Indian market.
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Latest JWD Tablets and Smartphones
Posted by – April 14, 2013
JWD shows 7″, 8″, 9.7″, 10.1″ tablets. 7″ ips with dual core allwiner a20 ($100/1000pcs). JWD manufactures about 500 thousand tablets per month, designs products from top to bottom.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
You can watch my 3 videos filmed at the JWD factory:
JWD 7″ AllWinner A10 Tablet Factory Tour
JWD 10.1″ AllWinner Factory Tour
Entering the JWD Factory
Nufront NS115M for mobile launched
Posted by – April 14, 2013
Nufront releases their new NS115M chipset with their separate Telink 7619 modem for mobile phone use. Same performance as NS115 but in a shrunken package and optimized software for smartphones. Slightly lowered power consumption ~20%. Upgrade to jellybean coming soon.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
Allwinner shows A31S, A20, A31 tablets, HDMI sticks, game pads, projectors and development boards
Posted by – April 13, 2013
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Projectors, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, China Sourcing Fair, Android
Allwinner Technology has an enormous booth showing off some of the latest implementations of their A31, A31s and A20 chipsets.
The quad-core A31 has been available for four months and already shipped more than 1 million units. The quad-core A31s started shipping at the end of March 2013 and has the same quad-core and GPU but is geared towards smaller displays (with less memory bandwidth.) They have introduced the A20 dual-core chip, at a price point quite close to the single core.
Their booth showed more than a dozen HDMI stick and small set-top box like computers. One of the dongles was running the mobile-oriented A20 SoC, which could be poised to take over that market at low cost. The A20 is a low-cost, dual-core Cortex-A7. The A20 is pin compatible with the A10 and offers integrated support for camera sensors. This is looking like a very capable chip to power a variety of low cost devices.
The Allwinner booth was showing off a very cool gamepad built with the A31, running Android 4.1, a built-in screen with 1280 x 800 resolution, and game controllers on the left and right sides of the screen. It works like a self-contained gamepad but also serves as a game controller that can product the game on a large HDMI display. The controller has front and back facing cameras, 1GB of DDR3 and 16GB of internal storage. There was no English-name known for the device, which was developed by www.ibenx.com, one of Allwinner’s many partners.
Wits-Technology was showing a development kit for Allwinner’s chips Other partners showed off full-sized and micro projectors built with Allwinner chips. A mobile karaoke amplifier with built-in tablet display was built around Allwinner chips. A novel, Android-based 13.3″ clamshell laptop was running the A20; faster A31 based laptops are expected later this month. Shenzhen Next-Huawen Technology Co., a design house, was showing off their tablet with keyboard dock. Allwinner says they are studying ChromeOS and also considering support for Linux based distributions like Ubuntu. The company says they have released software supporting the A31 to the open source community through a British company. Does anyone have a contact for that open source partner?
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Freelander Link-Create Factory Tour, A31, Exynos4412, MT6577 tablets and phones
Posted by – April 11, 2013
Freelander Link-Create manufactures about 2000 tablets or/and phones per day in this factory in Shenzhen China. Freelander makes and sells a whole range of Allwinner A31, Exynos 4412, MediaTek MT6577/6589 and other tablets and smartphones. But they were just making some MediaTek and Exynos based tablets the day (week-end) I was there. Check back for more on Freelander at http://ARMdevices.net in the next few days. I’m going to try to visit their factory again also while there are more people working making some of these newer devices.
Vivo X1S, MT6589 ultra-thin 6.55mm for $403
Posted by – April 11, 2013
This is perhaps the best looking MediaTek MT6589 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 phone that I have seen yet out of China. I don’t know where the Vivo brand comes from, but this phone is kind of impressive although it is kind of expensive for a MT6589 phone. It includes DAC audio using on-board Cirus Logic chip which provides quite high quality sound.
Nubia Z5, APQ8064 ultra-thin
Posted by – April 11, 2013
ZTE’s new brand Nubia releases this ultra-thin Z5 Android phone on the Qualcomm APQ8064 processor.
Alldocube RK3188 Tablet Factory Tour Part 1/3: Headquarters
Posted by – April 2, 2013
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Factory Tours, PCB Design House, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, Android
Welcome on my full tour (Part 1 of 3) at the Alldocube Tablet Factory in Shenzhen China. This is the tour at the Alldo Cube Headquarters, featuring their R&D office, design, testing, component storage, component quality control and the device repair/support area. Alldocube in Shenzhen is finalizing the testing and is beginning mass production of the Rockchip RK3188 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 28nm HKMG based tablets. Full mass production of the new RK3188 Quad-core Tablets is expected for the middle of April 2013. Check back in the next days for the Parts 2 and 3 of this Factory Tour, to feature the Alldocube SMT Line and Assembly lines next.
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Qun Fa E2001 5.7″ 720p MT6589 phone for $187
Posted by – March 25, 2013
Here’s the 5.7″ 720p E2001 phone on the MediaTek MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 sold for $187 in Shenzhen China.
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