Category: Smartphones

$149 Android Powered iphone4-clone, Sinoteck H2000 Hero

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Shenzhen Electronics Fair, Android

Why pay $800 for an iPhone (or $199 on 2-year $2000 contract), when you can buy an Android version for $149 and not have to pay anything further, other that perhaps a pre-paid plan. This one uses the Mediatek ARM9 460Mhz with DSP, runs Android Froyo. You can watch my Mediatek video from Mobile World Congress, they are one of the leaders in making these lowest cost ARM SoC solutions for Android smartphones, their next generation adds support for 3G networks. This $149 Sinoteck H2000 Hero comes with a 3.5″ HVGA capacitive touch screen, excellent Android implementation by Mediatek, that one is GPRS/GSM only though, Sinoteck also sells a Qualcomm MSM7200A based version for 3G/WCDMA support but for an additional $50.

Here are their infos from Sinoteck International (HK)Co.,Limited. (http://www.bysino.net/):

Android 2.2 GPS WIFI Analog TV Dual Card Quad Band 3.2″ Touch Screen Phone FG8

just 116usd you could attract every pretty girl’s attention

Hot Spots:
– Operating system:Google Android 2.2
– Built in GPS and support voice navigation
– CPU: MTK 6516 600MHZ
– RAM:256M,ROM:512M,extend to 32GB max
– 3.2 inch touch screen;HVGA PX:320*480
– Quadband GSM:850/900/1800/1900 MHZ
– WIFI high-speed Internet connectivity
– Analog TV free
– FM radio
– Language:English/Spanish/Russian/Portuguese/Turkish/Melayu/Indonesia

H2000 3.5″ Capacitance Touch Screen WIFI cell phones Quad Band Android 2.2 TV

just 149usd you could take it travel around the world

Hot Spot:

Internal Memory: 256M
Support Extend Card: 16G
Band: GSM850/900/1800/1900MHz
Service Provide: Unlocked
Display Size: 3.5inch
Screen Resolution: HVGA(480×320 pixels)
Screen Type: TFT
Display Colour: 256K colours
Languages: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese,Italian,German,Bahasa Melayu,Bahasa Indonesia,Turkce,Chinese traditional,Chinese Simplified

W801 SK168 Android 2.2 WCDMA 3G Smartphones Capacitive Screen With Multi-Touch

just 199USD you could do everything you want

* Hotsale Point:
* Google android 2.2 os
* Capacitive screen with multi-touch
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA(3G)/
* Qualcomm MSM 7200A CPU, 512MByte ROM/288MByte RAM

Chang Jiang Android 007, $150 Android phone

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Shenzhen Electronics Fair, Android

This is the type of stuff I am looking for. Sub-$150 Android smartphone, with 3.2″ or larger capacitive touch screens, decent looking Android install. This one comes with 3.2″ capacitive and Android Froyo support. Please do some search for this on the web and please post full specs in comments so that I can update this page with the full specs. This one may be based on the Mediatek MTK6516 460Mhz ARM9 with 208MHz DSP.

Meizu M9, $380 Android phone with Retina Display

Posted by Charbax – April 7, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Samsung, Shenzhen Electronics Fair, Android

The price is $380 unlocked (2499 Chinese remimbi) (no further contracts needed, that’s about half the price of the iphone4 without a contract), for an Android phone with a same type of retina resolution display as on the iphone4. I think it uses the Samsung Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 1Ghz processor with 512MB RAM (also sounds similar to the specs of the iphone4). There are actually many Meizu stores all over Shenzhen, I guess Meizu is a major gadgets brand selling here. Do you think Meizu is a bit too obvious at copying Apple’s design?

Here are the specs:

Meizu M9
CPU: 1 Ghz Cortex A8-based Samsung S5PC110
Graphics Processor: Power VR 540 GPU
Audio chip: Texas Instruments TLV320AIC36
Memory: Memory: 512 Mb ROM / 512 Mb RAM
Networks: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G network support: WCDMA, HSDPA and HSUPA with speeds of 7,2/5,76 Mbps (Both schould work in Europe). Only supports the 2100 Mhz band of WCDMA. Check google for info in your country supports the 2100 Mhz band.
Dimensions: 59,8 x 113 x 11 mm
Weight: 123 grams
Expansion slot: Micro SD / TF – No built-in storage, microSDHC support. (Will come with either an 8GB or 16GB TF card)
Display: 3.56″ (49.92 x 74.88 mm), 960×640 pixel resolution, 16 million colors
Operating System: Android 2.2 Modified by Meizu(Includes English language), Android 2.3 will be released in the next firmware update.
Camera: 5 megapixels camera, Pictures in 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, Records videos in 720p HD (1280×720) at 30 FPS, No flash in the first version
Battery: 1370 mAh
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 / WiFi 802.11b/g/n (Different WLAN module compared to M8, WiFi tethering is supported) / A-GPS / TV-out (via mini USB, no HDMI. Not sure if included in the first version)
Ports: Mini USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack

Google’s Android speech-to-speech voice translator gets impressive

Posted by Charbax – March 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Samsung, Android

I didn’t know it could already understand and speak more and more languages. Check out Eldar Murtazin doing a bunch of speech-to-speech voice translations on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone from Russian to English, Russian to French and Russian to Finnish. Are you impressed? I am. Google is constantly improving the speech-to-speech voice translation, eventually understanding all accents and speech styles and pitches, it may be that Google can learn from each users voice (when the user is recognized or logged in) and become better at understanding every persons speech, which may also get applied to YouTube videos and thus generate always better subtitles that also can be translated in every other language automatically.

Eldar Murtazin also claims Samsung may be preparing a separate Tegra2 Super Clear LCD based Samsung Galaxy S2 with product number i9003, thus could not only be cheaper than the Exynos 4210 Super Amoled Plus i9000 version, but could also possibly help Samsung supply enough of these new SGS2 to the market while Samsung’s big new Super Amoled Plus factory may not yet be totally ready for mass production of their screens (last year, Samsung announced that the new Super Amoled Plus factory would not be ready before June this year), and also while Samsung’s production of their new ARM Cortex-A9 Exynos 4210 may not yet be at full production capacity thus Samsung can use Tegra2 which is probably being manufactured at faster speed.

Source: mobile-review.com

Android domination expressed in dance

Posted by Charbax – March 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Android

Funky house music techtonic dance in Android green robot costume presented by the Sony-Ericsson marketing team in Taipei Taiwan, what will be the next step in Android domination marketing?

Source: Engadget.com

Mentor Graphics UI tools free for i.MX51/53 customers

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, EDA, Software, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Embedded World, Android

Mentor Graphics provides 3D UI tools on top of Android, customers who use the Freescale i.MX51 or i.MX53 can get access to these tools from Menthor Graphics for free.

Asus Eee Pad Memo Tablet and MeMic Bluetooth Phone Remote

Posted by Charbax – February 28, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, CeBIT, Android

Qualcomm Dual-core MSM8260 1.2Ghz based, with a 7″ 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, built-in capacitive stylus, they also plan to offer a Bluetooth Phone Remote device with a fancy transparent screen, check it out.

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LG C550 Optimus Chat

Posted by Charbax – February 28, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, CeBIT, Android

LG’s most affordable Android phone with slide-out keyboard at $199/199€ unlocked (out of contract), it has a 2.8″ capacitive touch screen and is also Qualcomm ARM11 MSM7227 600Mhz based.

LG P350 Optimus Me, 2.8″ Android Phone

Posted by Charbax – February 28, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, CeBIT, Android

To be released now for around $179/179€ unlocked (out of contract), has a 2.8″ capacitive touch screen, camera, using the Qualcomm ARM11 MSM7227 600Mhz processor. It’s one of these affordable new Android phones from LG.

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Android Native Code SDK for advanced Game Development

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Samsung, Nvidia, MWC, Android

HyperDevBox is a development company based in Tokyo Japan, developing games exclusively for Android. They are presenting Spectral Souls for Android, the first tactical RPG game for Android and explaining how the Android Native SDK is being used to run native C or C++ code, there is no Java code at all in the game.

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Mobile Multi Display system by UMIC-RWTH of Aachen University

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

Combine many tablets and smartphones into one big touchscreen. In this demo, 3 iPhones and 2 iPads are combined into one big touch screen. Any other Android smartphone or tablet can also be used. You can find more informations here: graphics.rwth-aachen.de

Device Anywhere, testing applications

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

Device Anywhere provides test center service for app developers, carriers, service providers to test apps and services accross all the devices using some kind of standard for testing. Basically they make it automatic to test stuff across all devices that people use on the market, to test and see what features may work more or less well.

Secusmart encrypts voice/sms/data in 2000€ MicroSD

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

Secusmart encrypts mobile devices. They encrypt voice calls, sms, email, contacts, the calendar and more by using a special 2000€ MicroSD card with encryption capability on that card and a phone with a modified firmware. They plan to get the price down once they can build cheaper MicroSD cards with built-in NXP cryptocontroller and a hardware accelerator inside.

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Samsung Galaxy Fit

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

An affordable 3.31″ QVGA capacitive Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 600Mhz powered Android Smartphone from Samsung. Compact, possibly to be sold below $150 without contracts needed, for example on pre-paid plans.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

This one has Playstation gaming controls that slide out, there will be Playstation Suite support meaning it’ll play all kinds of Playstation games that will be added by Sony to the Android platform. This is not the Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 5″ Sony NGP PSP2, but it may satisfy some gamers until that one comes out later in the year. It includes the Qualcomm MSM8255 with Adreno 205 graphics acceleration.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

Posted by Charbax – February 21, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

This one also has the BRAVIA engine, Exmor R sensor for good camera quality, also includes a front facing camera for video-chat, HDMI output, but it’s a little bit fatter than the Xperia Arc, also includes the Qualcomm MSM8255 1Ghz processor.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro

Posted by Charbax – February 21, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

New Smartphone by Sony Ericsson, includes the new BRAVIA engine LCD and has a slide out thumb keyboard. Uses the second generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255 1Ghz processor.

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ARM Dual-core Web browsing performance compared to Single-core

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, MWC, ARM, Android

ARM is demonstrating Dual-core usage and how it increases web browsing speed at same power consumption.

AnyData ASP320-Q, $99 Android phone

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Android

This may be the worlds cheapest Android phone, it may be sold for below $99 unlocked to end consumers without any need for contracts, it has a 3.2″ WQVGA capacitive touch screen, dual-sim support (EDGE, not 3G), runs on the MediaTek MT6516 ARM9 SoC platform. AnyData is targetting this device to the Indian and Chinese markets first, the rest of the world is also about to get access to these cheaper Android phones.

Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine, Reality Display, the LCD technology for Xperia Arc and Xperia Pro

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Displays, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

Here’s an interview with the product manager on Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, explaining some of the technology in this new Sony manufactured BRAVIA Engine Mobile LCD display.

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