Category: Tablets

Archos Event live video recorded

Posted by Charbax – June 14, 2009
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Archos, Android

I broadcast a 3 hour live video coverage on the 11th of June from the Archos event in Paris. Henri Crohas the CEO of Archos’s Keynote with guests on stage such as Alain Madelain President of the World Fund on Digital Solidarity for the Archos 9classmate launch, Presidents of Intel France and Microsoft France as well launching the new line of Archos Intel/Microsoft products, you can see here the 3 hour long video that we broadcast live from Paris today filmed using an Archos 10’s built-in Webcam using ustream.tv. You can scroll this video forward to 57 minute to see the English speaking live video coverage from the Archos showcase of all the new products, including interviews of Archos representatives, discussions among the Archos bloggers and more:

There is also a second part of this broadcast, where we continue to go up close with the products:

HD hands-on videos are being uploaded right now. If my Hotel’s internet upload is fast enough, you will have the videos posted early tomorrow morning. Otherwise I will upload them during the next couple of days.

Archos Android products will be shown later, in September, by the 15th of September 2009, Archos will have the Android event with one or more Android products shown. Sorry, I thought that Archos was going to show the Android products at this event.

Thanks to BenMars for borrowing his Archos 10 laptop to enable us to do this live video streaming from the event today!

Archos Android to be shown and released in September

Posted by Charbax – June 14, 2009
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Archos, Android

Archos had representatives from Intel and Microsoft on stage, so Archos could not use this event to also show their fully in-house developed Archos Android product or line of products. Sadly. We will have to wait a bit more to see more of that. But Archos CEO Henri Crohas started his Keynote speaking about the Android line of products and giving us some details, basically saying that it’s going to be awesome.

Archos explained a bit of how it is working now in terms of R&D and development work. Archos still has their core engineering team working on the Android device/devices to be unveiled on or before September the 15th at another event. All the while, Archos is able to release Intel and Microsoft based products and position themselves very well on the market, in partnership with engineers and manufacturers in China, in partnership with Intel and Microsoft as well.

You can hear more from the Archos CEO Henri Crohas about Android in the keynote that we broadcast live using ustream.tv at around the 15-25th minute: http://archosfans.com/2009/06/11/archos-event-video-recorded/

Here I filmed a highlight of Henri Crohas’s talk about Android in upcoming Archos device/devices:

Android fans at the Archos event in Paris

Posted by Charbax – June 14, 2009
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Archos, Android

CrOvax and Ulrich from http://frandroid.com are Android fans at the Archos event in Paris, reporting about their reaction to the fact that Archos is not zet showing the Android device/devices publicly but only a bit talking about them at this point, and annoncing only officially about the Archos Android September event that will be coming up.

Pixel Qi vs Kindle vs Toshiba R600 vs regular LCD tablet

Posted by Charbax – June 7, 2009
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Displays, Exclusive videos, Computex, Pixel Qi

Side by side comparison video showing the Pixel Qi 3Qi LCD screen next to the E-ink based Amazon Kindle, next to the transflective Toshiba R600 and next to a regular resistive touchscreen tablet laptop. Comparing performance in direct sunlight, in the shade and in a dark room with and without the backlight.

Mary Lou Jepsen answers comments

Posted by Charbax – June 7, 2009
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Displays, Exclusive videos, Computex, Pixel Qi

Following the initial video that was released showing the Pixel Qi screen during the Computex trade show in Taipei, Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO and Inventor of the Pixel Qi screen technology, answers user comments that were posted on the Engadget and Mobileread threads (among many other blogs who linked to the first video) with users from all over the world commenting and asking questions about the screen in the first video.

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Home Lab

Posted by Charbax – June 6, 2009
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Displays, Exclusive videos, Computex, Pixel Qi, OLPC

Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO and inventor of the Pixel Qi technology, explains more of how the Pixel Qi 3Qi screen works, shows us a bit of how she works with her screen technology in her home lab, testing the angular performance in the OLPC screen and tells how power consumption can be saved further with a few motherboard modifications to behave like the OLPC laptop (turning off the processor and motherboard when they are not needed) and more.

Also watch my other Pixel Qi videos:
http://138.2.152.197/2009/06/02/pixel-qi-screen-demo-live-from-taipei/
http://138.2.152.197/2009/06/07/pixel-qi-vs-kindle-vs-toshiba-r600-vs-regular-lcd-tablet/
http://138.2.152.197/2009/06/07/mary-lou-jepsen-answers-user-comments/

Kinpo Thin Client 7inch Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – June 5, 2009
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Computex, Android

Kinpo is making a 7 inch Android tablet powered by a Freescale processor. A bunch of engineers happened to come by the Freescale headquarters with this device while I was there filming a whole bunch of other videos. I then convinced them to show it to me and to let me film it. They installed Android on a 800×480 resolution 7″ touchscreen tablet device. It works pretty smoothly though they obviously have some tweaking that they still need to do before such a device can be sold. This device currently has some pretty obvious bugs like the video not playing correctly.

Nvidia Tegra: Overview by Michael Rayfield

Posted by Charbax – June 3, 2009
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, Computex, Windows

Overview of Nvidia Tegra by Michael Rayfield, general manager of the mobile business unit, showing the new line of $100-$200 laptops runing Android or Windows CE on an embedded ARM11 processor and Nvidia’s awesome 1080p and advanced 3D graphics capable Nvidia Tegra chipset.

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Pixel Qi screen demo Live from Taipei

Posted by Charbax – June 2, 2009
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Displays, Exclusive videos, Computex, Pixel Qi

This is it, the revolutionary LCD screen by Pixel Qi that turns your netbook into a Kindle by the flip of a switch. As you can see in this video, thanks to Pixel Qi technology, your next LCD screens can now be very usable outdoors as well under the sunlight, in a very high resolution black and white mode and also keep a full color and bright back light indoors mode.

This is a demonstration from the first batch of the first working prototypes of this screen, and as you can see, it already looks amazing. Mass production of these screens are planned to be launched soon and should be available in any netbook (and later other devices such as smartphones) as long as the manufacturers decide that they want to integrate it in their products.

Find more informations about this screen at http://pixelqi.com

You can click on the pictures to see them in full 5 megapixel qualities:

Pixel Qi 3Qi in black and white mode

Pixel Qi 3Qi in black and white mode

Pixel Qi 3Qi in color mode

Pixel Qi 3Qi in color mode