Category: Smartphones

Sony-Ericsson Liveview

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

The concept is pretty awesome, this small touch screen bluetooth screen that can be worn as a watch can interact with any of your Bluetooth enabled Android devices, it’s got an SDK for app developers to add Bluetooth remote functionality for their apps. I’m hoping someone make remote controlling for VOIP apps, calling contacts, and other useful Android apps on your smartphone or tablet.

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Sub-$100 Android Smartphones shipping right now powered by ST-Ericsson U6715

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

The 468Mhz ST-Ericsson U6715 ARM9 processor includes current support for Android 2.1, to be upgradable to Android 2.2 in around a month, they use tricks like a Virtualization layers on top of Android to speed some things up for the user experience on this low end hardware. Yet, the experience is very impressive considering the potential $100 unlocked retail price for these Android smartphone devices such as the K-Touch W606, Acer beTouch E130, Coolpad W711 and the GHT Maestro, they can all include 3G support and good battery runtime.

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3D capture and playback on the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Displays, Cameras, Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

ST-Ericsson U8500 can capture 720p 3D at 30fps and 1080p 2D at 30fps. Here’s a demo of the 3D effect captured using 2 cameras and displayed on a 3D HDTV.

Augmented Reality on the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

ST-Ericsson are showcasing their performance for augmented reality, tracking at 30fps and rendering at 60fps. There are more and more applications for augmented reality and the new ARM Cortex-A9 processors such as the ST-Ericsson U8500 that includes Mali-400 graphics make this even more usable.

Wholesale Applications Community (WAC)

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

WAC is a consortium of carriers, manufacturers and software solutions providers trying to bring some alternative application marketplace and interoperability for apps on different embedded OS platforms. The apps are written using HTML, CSS and Javascript and once the apps are sent to WAC, they can be distributed wholesale on all the different carriers and gadget makers alternative marketplaces.

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App: Endomondo sports tracking community

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

http://endomondo.com is a sports tracking system, that works on all the major smartphone platforms, and includes an online community, to compare running routes, compare running performances, in any city, you can see an overview of all the people that are running right now, it can also include real-time speech synthesis to read up comments or comparing your running speed with someone else you want to beat in the community.

HTC Desire S and HTC Incredible S

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

HTC’s replacement for their best selling HTC Desire phone, which was released also under the names Nexus One and Droid Incredible. It features HTC Sense 2.0. The HTC Incredible S has a slightly larger 4″ Super LCD and slightly better cameras. Those are using the Qualcomm MSM8255 1Ghz single-core processor.

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HTC Wildfire S

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

HTC’s new lower cost, more compact Android Smartphone, the Wildfire S includes a Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 600Mhz processor, 512MB RAM.

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ST-Ericsson U4500 to power sub-$100 ARM Cortex-A9 smartphones!

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

The idea is to provide better than Nexus One like performance early 2012 in low cost Android smartphones that could be sold by then for as little as below $200 even at below the $100 price point. ST-Ericsson U4500 is a single core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, that could be clocked at around 600mhz to achieve a similar performance to the 1Ghz Nexus One that was released early 2010. The idea is to bring that level of performance to potentially hundreds of millions of more people. Also check out my video on the ST-Ericsson A9500 development board to be released around May this year.

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Nvidia shows project Kal-el Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, MWC, Android

Nvidia Kal-el is now sampling, demonstrated here at Mobile World Congress 2011, to be in commercial products already in August this year. Nvidia goes on showing the first Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 sample, getting those samples to their partners and planning for commercial launch by August this year already. This is impressive stuff, web browsing speed is doubled.

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ZTE Skate 4.3″ Android Smartphone

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, ZTE, MWC, Android

Comes with a nice 4.3″ capacitive touch screen, and is designed to potentially reach a sub-$200 price point when sold unlocked and/or on a pre-paid plan.

Freescale talks i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 platform at Mobile World Congress 2011

Posted by Charbax – February 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Windows

Freescale announced their ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-Core and Quad-Core processor platform. Here´s an interview with Freescale about their performance and features.

ST-Ericsson A9500 ARM Cortex-A9 Development Board

Posted by Charbax – February 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android, Ubuntu

This is the SKY-S9500-ULP-CXX aka SNOWBALL, the ST-Ericsson ARM Cortex-A9 development board, they put in there all the memory and everything needed to hack together end user products. It will be sold for about $200 from around April or May, it runs Android, Ubuntu and Meego thus far. You can find more information at http://igloocommunity.org

Hoccer app at Mobile World Congress 2011

Posted by Charbax – February 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Software, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

App to send stuff from one device to another using swipes or movements.

Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL)

Posted by Charbax – February 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, PMPs, Other, Exclusive videos, Samsung, MWC, Android

New standard first used in the Samsung Galaxy S2 to output HD and charge at the same time through the Micro-USB connector, it also allows for some data to be sent back from HDTVs such as using the TVs standard remote control to also remote control the device. The MHL 1.0 spec for now does not transmit Gigabit Ethernet or USB 3.0 Host functionality.

Sub-$200 4.3″ capacitive Android Smartphone

Posted by Charbax – February 15, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Marvell, MWC, Android

Yuhua Teltech released this Marvell powered Android Smartphone they call the Touchstone. It’s basically like one of those HTC HD, Droid X, except it costs less than $200 instead of the $500+ that the big brands such as HTC and Motorola are selling those form factors for. It runs on the Marvell PXA935 processor (also known as Tavor P65), same as in the Dual SIM clam-shell Dion MID from Shenzhen ACT that I filmed at CES and which Yuhua Teltech is also manufacturing as well. This device has been sold in China, India and some other emerging markets for 6 months already, Yuhua Teltech wants to bring this device to the European and US market, and they are announcing their next generation Gemstone design which will have a faster Marvell processor and dual-sim support.

Google MWC 2011 Booth Tour

Posted by Charbax – February 14, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

Smoothies (with taste of Honeycomb, Donut, Gingerbread..), Slides, Pictures taken, 50 Android app demos, 50 Android OEM demos, sofas, lava lamps, free water, free stickers, free candy, where are the Nexus S givaways?

Texas Instruments OMAP4 runs Android and Ubuntu at the same time

Posted by Charbax – February 14, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, MWC, Android, Ubuntu

Texas Instruments is showcasing that the OMAP4 ARM Cortex-A9 development platform can run full Android on the built-in LCD and Ubuntu on the HDMI output both at the same time, this is awesome. It shows how Texas Instruments OMAP4 can be used to power the upcoming all-in-one ultimate ARM Powered devices that combine Laptop and Media player functionality into the Smartphone.

Mediatek MTK6573 powers $80 3G Android Smartphones

Posted by Charbax – February 14, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Android

Cheaper Android phones is key to making Android the absolute most popular smartphone platform of the future, bringing the mobile Internet and apps to potentially billions of people around the world. Mediatek is showing their new ARM11 based SoC platform for sub-$80 Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress, this is one of the areas that I find to be the most fascinating.

LG Optimus 3D

Posted by Charbax – February 14, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Displays, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, MWC, Android

The product manager on LG Optimus 3D presents what may be the most powerful smart phone ever shown thus far. It uses the Texas Instruments OMAP4 ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core processor, that is fast enough to record 720p 3D video, it includes even the new LG 4.3″ glasses free 3D screen, where the 3D effect can be turned on or off.