Category: Tablets

Video-review of the NEC/Renesas based dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 533Mhz capacitive 7″ tablet from livall.cn (desert safari and camel version)

Posted by Charbax – April 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Reviews, Tourism, Renesas, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Since I know that you can’t wait for me to post more Android tablet videos, I decided to start filming my review in the desert while doing the desert safari and riding a camel, so you can further check out this cool new NEC/Renesas 533Mhz Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 7″ capacitive tablet that I got from livall.cn. I’ll post my full real video-review once I am back in Copenhagen later today.

You can also watch these other Qatar videos that I filmed:
1. Arrived in Qatar
2. Walking the Souq Waqif, the Corniche and checking out the Doha skyscrapers at night
3. Desert Safari with Arabian Adventure Qatar (includes a fun Video-review of the NEC/Renesas based dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 533Mhz capacitive 7″ tablet from livall.cn)

pipo.com.cn shows 8″ capacitive RK2918 tablet

Posted by Charbax – April 17, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Pipo, Android

Rockchip RK2918 8″ capacitive tablet with 3G HSDPA.

Shenzhen Flying Technology shows AmLogic Cortex-A9 Tablet

Posted by Charbax – April 17, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Another AmLogic Cortex-A9 Single Core tablet.

Rockchip Rk2918 is the first with Skype/QQ HD video chat hardware decode/encode

Posted by Charbax – April 17, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Add a HD capable front-facing camera (1.3Mpix for 720p, 2Mpix for 1080p), and you can have HD video conferencing on a tablet, given also a HD resolution tablet screen, is this awesome? Rockchip says they are the first to hardware accelerate the decoding and encoding of HD video conferencing.

Starworth Freescale Capacitive tablets

Posted by Charbax – April 17, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Samsung, Telechips, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Star worth are doing open mold tablets.

Honeycomb at the Rockchip booth (just keyrings for now..)

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

The optimal thing for Rockchip would be that Google provide them with full Honeycomb source code access as soon as possible (if they haven’t already secretly gotten access to that source code), so that they can start working on optimizing the support for Honeycomb on their new RK2918 processor platform.

Gaia Communications Corp does NEC/Renesas Cortex-A9 tablet platforms

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Renesas, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

This Taiwanese company designs and develops NEC/Renesas based PCBA for some of these interesting new NEC/Renesas based 533Mhz ARM Cortex-A9 based tablets that are coming out. The price using Gaia’s NEC/Renesas solution can be $110 for the 7″ 800×480 capacitive, and $150 for the 7″ 1024×600 capacitive with 3G when purchased in very large quantities.

Digilink uses Telechips 8803 Cortex-A8 in capacitive tablets

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Telechips, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Gingerbread on board, capacitive, prices are about $180 with 3G and capacitive, $90 without 3G and resistive.

$125 Cortex-A9 Dual-Core 7″ Capacitive Tablet by Livall.cn

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Renesas, China Sourcing Fair, Android

NEC/Renesas 533Mhz Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 based smooth looking capacitive tablet to be sold at $125 for bulk orders (of at least 1000 pieces). They let me buy one sample at $171, so let me know in the comments what you would like me to test in my upcoming video review of this NEC/Renesas Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 based tablet.

Alldo Cube $89 Cortex-A9 AmLogic 800Mhz Single Core 7″ resistive tablet

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Android

The ARM Cortex-A9 AmLogic 800Mhz Single Core solution seems to be cheap.

Switek 7″ capacitive Rk2918 tablet

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

They are presenting a RK2918 capacitive 7″ tablet.

Winaccord AmLogic 4:3 capacitive tablets

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, China Sourcing Fair, Android

They make 7″, 8″ and 10″ Android AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 800Mhz Single Core tablets.

KM Technology Marvell and Freescale based tablets

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Marvell, China Sourcing Fair, Android

They make Marvell and Freescale based tablets.

Epudo Telechips Cortex-A8 tablets

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Telechips, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 tablets running Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Ebot shows NEC/Renesas Cortex-A9 based 7″ capacitive tablet

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Renesas, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Ebot Digital Technology Co Ltd uses a high quality 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, and they are using the new NEC/Renesas ARM Cortex-A9 processor platform.

Ramos V70, Ramos T11Pro, Ramos T11AD, 5″ Android Powered resistive PMPs

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, PMPs, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

They do both offline and online Android 5″ resistive PMP. The Novatek HD800B are used in the offline Android PMP while the Rockchip RK2818 one in the T11AD does the WiFi connected Android stuff. Prices are $40, $50, $62 depending on the features.

Ramos booth tour, featuring Ramos W18, 9.7″ capacitive ARM Cortex-A9 AmLogic Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, PMPs, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, AmLogic, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

A tour of the Ramos booth at the Hong Kong HKTDC electronics fair, based on the AmLogic 800Mhz ARM Cortex-A9 Single Core processor, the price starts around $200 when bought in bulk.

Umedia shows a Freescale i.MX53 tablet prototype

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

One of the first real i.MX53 tablet prototypes I have seen other than the reference design development kit.

Shenzhen DBX electrical makes Mp3/Mp4 players, Tablets and more

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Telechips, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

They make over 200 Mp3 players and PMPs, now they also make tablets.

Arnova 10 capacitive RK2918 to be released in May

Posted by Charbax – April 14, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Shenzhen Electronics Fair, Archos, Android

Here’s the Arnova 10 with capacitive touch screen and the RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 processor. At around $229 MSRP it could possibly become one of the best value 10.1″ ARM Cortex-A8 capacitive tablets on the market. It’s thin, uses most of the nice design features of the Archos 101 Internet Tablet released in October 2010, but removes the kick-stand (to lower cost), replaces some of the metallic design features with plastics (to lower cost), removes HDMI output (I need to let them confirm this, perhaps that was just removed on the prototype). This device uses the new 1.2Ghz Rockchip processor, with 1080p video codecs support (possibly all codecs at up to over 30mbitps high profile playback), new better graphics performance, but most importantly, this awesome 10.1″ tablet may be sold around $229/229€ at retail MSRP (with capacitive and rk2918), and there is a good chance Rockchip should be getting access to the Honeycomb source code soon (comon Google, give it to them sooner rather than later! (I have no idea if Rockchip has Honeycomb yet or not, I will try to interview Rockchip again about Honeycomb at China Sourcing Fair tomorrow)).