Microsoft is showing off Surface RT, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, a bunch of devices running these.
Category: Tablets
Paypal Check In and Pay demonstrated at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Paypal launches a new way to pay for things easily and quickly using a check-process on your smartphone or tablet. Go to the restaurant, launch check in on your paypal app, it launches the restaurant’s menu, you click on the app to order, the server comes with the food, you leave, you’ve already paid. This removes 66% of the waiters effort. Go to a cafe, check-in on paypal, they know you want a cappuccino, you get it quickly and leave, no cash, no confirmation, no anything. You park your car, check in on paypal, that’s it, you’re paying for your car park until you check-out, take the car and leave.
You can watch Paypal CEO, David Marcus’s keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:
Augment app at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Augment is a free application for Android, iPad and iPhone to visualize any 3d model in Augmented Reality. Print the marker, select the model you want to see and the augmented reality happens in front of you. You can upload your own 3d model or visualize one of the 3000 already present in the galleries. You can get the app there: http://augmentedev.com
Archos Gamepad $149/149€ being released now in Europe
This is the coolest Android tablet for gaming, Archos releases it imminently in Europe for 149€, US availability to be confirmed. Here I’m demonstrating some of the latest advanced Android games called Dead Trigger, Rip Tide and a couple other.
Archos 80 XS, now launched for $199
Posted by – December 5, 2012
Archos launches this new cool 8″ 1024×768 Tablet on Rockchip RK3066, super slim and light design, for $199 without the $49 Keyboard Coverboard dock.
$149/149€ Archos 80 Cobalt
Posted by – December 4, 2012
Here’s Archos new cheaper 8″ Rockchip RK3066 1024×768 4:3 tablet with smooth Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, thus being released by Archos in January for $149/149€. Consider that european prices always include about 20% VAT taxes which are never included in US dollar prices thus $1 = 1€.
$299/299€ Arnova FamilyPad launched
Posted by – December 4, 2012
Archos releases the worlds largest tablet at an affordable $299/299€ price. Right now available in Europe for 299€ with the Allwinner A10 processor and with a 1280×800 wide view capacitive screen.
Android 4.1 firmware on Archos 101 XS
Posted by – December 4, 2012
Archos updates the firmware (in the next few days) on their latest high-end $299/299€ Archos 101 XS Tablet to 4.1 Jelly Bean, fully using hardware acceleration, integrating Google’s Project Butter, now with Google Now support, Archos also has upgraded some of the web-based meta-data functionalities in their Video Player application, it automatically detects videos that need meta data, posters and fan arts loaded in so that you can have a more interesting way to browse through your movies and tv shows library. This video also features the $49 Keyboard Coverboard Dock and the new $149/149€ dual-25W stereo Archos Speaker Dock.
12.85″ Pixel Qi Chrome OS Android 5.0 Laptop/Tablet Hybrid by Google for Q1 2013?
Chromebook on Android
Here are my expectations for Google’s rumored upcoming Chrome OS laptop/tablet hybrid:
– 12.85″ Pixel Qi LCD, Google sponsored, to be available to all other Android hardware makers as a new component. (Plastics based flexible unbreakable LCD for thinner lighter waterproof dustproof unbreakable build)
– Optical lamination allows for outdoor readable capacitive Pixel Qi LCD. Otherwise IR based Neonode touch can work.
– 20 million initial production batch, enough to make a significant mark on the market, next batch can be 100 million units.
– Android 5.0 to support Chrome OS on top of Android. Same for Ubuntu on top of Android. Multi-booting becomes standard feature of Android. It’s not really multi-booting, it’s enabling to run alternative Linux OSes on top of the base Linux OS of Android.
– $200, available worldwide on day 1. Second batch can be sold for $150 or $100. Schools can get rebates if they order one for every child. Google can subsidize a few of those millions to be used by Children in developing countries through the One Laptop Per Child project.
– 16GB Flash with SD slots and potentially a 2.5″ HDD slot.
– 25 hours battery life. 200 grams flat battery dock doubles battery life to 50 hours.
– Swivel screen. Super slim keyboard can hide behind screen for tablet mode.
– ARM Cortex-A15, either OMAP5 with SGX544 or Exynos5 with Mali-T604. Maybe another comparable ARM Processor.
– Modem slot, all types modems available as options, 3G+, LTE, White Spaces, easily user swapable. There is space for an internal usb modem too.
Let me know what you think of this rumored Google hybrid here or at my Google+ thread.
Related articles
- Google reportedly gearing up to launch its own, 12.85-inch Chrome OS touch notebook in Q1 2013 (thenextweb.com)
- Google reportedly releasing 12.85-inch touch-enabled Chrome OS notebook at the end of 2012 (9to5google.com)
- Google Reportedly Preparing To Sell Self-Branded Chromebooks (techcrunch.com)
- Why Google might market a touchscreen Chromebook (pcworld.com)
- Chrome OS and Android: There can be only one (pandodaily.com)
- Google’s Touchscreen Chromebook − Pros and Cons (news.softpedia.com)
- [News] Why Google might market a touchscreen Chromebook (pcworld.in)
- Ubuntu for Android is imminent (armdevices.net)
- How I think that the ARM Powered Chromebook is a big deal for the industry (armdevices.net)
- Is Google Readying a Chrome Touchscreen Laptop? (scooprocket.com)
ARM Linux Linaro hangout with Zach Pfeffer
Posted by – November 27, 2012
Hanging out with Zach Pfeffer, Android lead at http://linaro.org, they are working to optimize Linux on ARM.
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Pierre Cardin’s latest Rockchip RK3066 and RK2928 tablets
Posted by – November 17, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android
Pierre Cardin is one of the top Rockchip based tablet makers in Shenzhen China. Here are some of their latest Rockchip based tablets.
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Testing out Microsoft Surface and Windows RT
Posted by – November 2, 2012
Here’s my first playing around with the $599 Microsoft Surface with Touch Keyboard and other new Windows RT devices from Dell, Asus and Lenovo that are being released to the market.
I think the $599 is a bit expensive, and I’d like a full Chrome browser on RT, I’d like remote access to all x86 apps streamed over a cloud based x86 app hosting service, I’d like Google Search and Google Maps instead of Bing Search and Bing Maps, but otherwise I think the Surface is pretty cool! Lenovo also shows a pretty impressive 11.6″ Windows RT laptop, the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11, but at $799 it’s quite expensive.
OLPC XO-4 Touch to be Marvell Armada PXA2128 Powered
Posted by – November 1, 2012
The One Laptop Per Child project is going to release the Marvell Armada PXA2128 ARM Powered Laptop in Q1 2013, thus with Marvell’s new tri-core processor and touch screen support.
ARM Keynote: ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 64bit ARMv8 processors launched
Posted by – October 31, 2012
Full 1 hour 9 minutes video of the ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 launch keynote here at the ARM Techcon in Santa Clara.
Overview of the latest/best 7″ Tablets out of Shenzhen China
Here’s my overview video showing some of the latest best value 7″ Android tablets that I have found in Shenzhen on this trip. At least the samples that I was able to buy. $40 A13 800×480, $65 RK3066 1024×600, $80 NS115 1024×600 IPS, and there’s also the sub-$50 VIA 8850 (which can run a Windows RT clone UI on top of Android), and I compare these with the $199 Kindle Fire HD.
$81 Nufront NS115 ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core 7″ 1024×600 IPS Tablet by Xusit
Posted by – October 27, 2012
Nufront comes to the market with a good looking dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor in this tablet without HDMI, perhaps to optimize the pricing of thin, light and powerful dual-core 7″ tablets, here in a very nice thin, light 7″ IPS design, with small bezels, the 7″ tablet looks to be high quality and is being sold for below $81 in bulk. I bought a sample that I can video-review, let me know what I should test on it. Next time I go to Shenzhen, I can maybe visit the factory that makes them to film a new video there.
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$70 7″ 1024×600 Rockchip RK3066, $46 7″ 800×480 VIA 8850 by Guobangxingye
Posted by – October 27, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, HDMI Sticks, Gaming, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Rockchip, AmLogic, Telechips, China Sourcing Fair, Android
Guobangxingye shows their latest ARM Powered Tablets and Laptops, $70 7″ 1024×600 Rockchip RK3066, $46 7″ 800×480 VIA 8850, $67 10.1″ Laptop on VIA 8850, $42 7″ 800×480 A13, $27 Telechips and Allwinner A10 HDMI sticks and more. I’m sorry that I didn’t reply to her emails, I promise I will the next time that she sends me news I should reblog.
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$64 7″ 1024×600 RK3066, $151 9.7″ IPS RK3066 by Sigo
Posted by – October 27, 2012
Check it out, entry level dual-core tablet now for $64 with a 1024×600 TN type screen. They also have the 9.7″ 1024×768 IPS RK3066 tablet for $151.
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$240 SmartDevices T30 10.1″ 1280×800 OMAP4470, $300 SmartQ U7, SmartQ U7H 7″ with built-in DLP projector
Posted by – October 27, 2012
SmartDevices shows their latest couple of tablets, their $240 Texas Instruments OMAP4470 10.1″ 1280×800 running Jelly Bean, and their new 7″ SmartQ U7 on OMAP4430 and SmartQ U7H on OMAP4460 with a built-in 854×480 DLP projector. SmartDevices also talks about their work on the upcoming OMAP5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor, to be released perhaps as soon as the end of the year.
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$2 Tablet cases at the Shenzhen Tablet Market
Posted by – October 26, 2012
They have lots of tablet cases on sale at cheap prices.
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