Yi Technology 4K+ is the first action camera with 4k/2160p recording at 60fps. The Yi 4K+ is the first camera with the Ambarella AMBA H2 SOC which 100% improvement in performance over A9SE and is the first camera SOC that is 14nm. There is USB type C for computer connectivity and connectivity with external microphones. There is electronic image stabilization for smoother video recording. The Yi $k+ is compatible with existing action camera accessories. There is also voice controls for hands free operation. Price and availability are to be determined.
Category: MWC
LG G6
Posted by – February 27, 2017
The LG G6 is the latest flagship phone from LG. The LG G6 features a 5.7″ (2,880 x 1,440) screen with an aspect ratio of 18:9. The Unique aspect ratio of the LG G6 enables having two screens at once. The LG G6 also has a minimal bezel which ensures the as much of the device as possible is screen. The G6 features a Snapdragon 821 processor. There is 32GB storage, microSD expansion, and 4gb of ram. For connectivity there is USB type C 3.1 with Quick Charge 3.0, NFC and LTE of up to 600 Mbps. There is a dual 13mp camera on the back 5mp camera on the front. The LG G6 is a dustproof and waterproof up to IP68. The vbattery is no longer removable and the design is no longer modular. The price and release date are to be determined and vary by region.
NXP shows Connectivity, Embedded, Mobile and Automotive Technology
Posted by – December 21, 2016
NXP connectivity technology is incorporated in a variety of devices such as embedded, automotive, and mobile devices. NXP technology is used in a NFC ring which can be used to activate an electric motorcycle or other vehicles. Most cars in the world use NXP technology for connectivy and other automotive functions. NXP also offers wireless charging technology called Qi. NXP amplifiers can be turn a phone speaker into a microphone to improve audio quality and noise cancellation of smartphones. NXP is the market leader in NFC technology.
Fira de Barcelona General Manager Constantí Serrallonga
Posted by – September 11, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, MWC
Mr Constantí Serrallonga is General Managar at FIRA, the trade fair organization that was responsible for Mobile World Congress 2016. He discusses footfalls at the event, with over 100,000 people having attended, and future possibilities of the organization. The show has changed venues to Fira Gran Via after being hosted at Fira Montjuïc earlier, which was built in 1929.
Quality Industrial glasses-free 3D smartphone
Posted by – September 11, 2016
China-based Quality Industrial manufactures a range of smartphones, also on display here. The highlight is the flagship 3D model, which features a 6” 1080p screen that allows playing of 3D content without having to use glasses. It runs on MediaTek MTK6752VL which uses ARM Cortex-A53 architecture at 2 GHz. The phone ships with Android 5.1. It has 13 MP rear and 5MP front camera which shoots 3D pictures using only a single sensor, taking multiple shots for depth.It costs US$175.
Panasonic Nubo LTE surveillance camera
Posted by – September 11, 2016
The Panasonic Nubo shown here is a surveillance camera that shoots 1080p video and broadcasts it over WiFi or Vodafone’s LTE network in Europe. The camera accommodates a SIM card to use this feature and is powered over microUSB, meaning it can be connected to power banks for places that lack power sources. The camera comes with 4 data plans measured in terms of “mobile events” – periods of detected activity which initiate the actual recording of the video stream for the next 30 seconds. A separate magnetic Nubo Mount is sold.
Oppo N3 swiveling camera smartphone
Posted by – September 11, 2016
The Oppo N3 is a smartphone with a swiveling camera above the screen that rotates through a motor, as demonstrated here. This allows one to use the same camera for the front and the back, as well as the flash. The phone runs Oppo’s ColorOS built on top of Android v4.4 KitKat. It features a Snapdragon 801 chipset with 5.5” 1080p display, 32GB of onboard expandable storage, 2GB RAM, and a fixed 3000mAh battery.
Multiplayer VR gaming on Mars by IEEE and Globalcore
Posted by – September 11, 2016
IEEE demonstrates here their VR demo, that puts three players in an environment that resembles Mars. The concept is meant to demonstrate the capabilities of VR and is developed with GlobalCore. The Mars Rover game is developed using the Unity game engine, and the VR headsets used are Oculus Rift DK2 units. The players interact with the environment using a thruster and a joystick.
Vizmato 1080p real-time video editing app
Posted by – June 29, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, MWC
Vizmato is a free video recording and editing app for the iOS platform (iPad and iPhone line) that includes the ability to add over 40 realtime special effects, filters, royalty-free background music, and split/join videos, supporting resolutions of up to 1080p at 60fps. The app includes paid cloud storage as an option. A running stream of videos is present in the app (under the “Popular” header) with crowdsourced videos, with the ability to upload videos to the same. Vizmato has over 4 million users and is soon coming to the Android platform.
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge with QHD display
Posted by – June 29, 2016
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Galaxy S7 both feature Super AMOLED displays at QHD (2560x1440px) of 5.5” and 5.1” respectively, 4GB RAM, 32/64GB of onboard expandable storage, a 12MP camera with Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and 4K video recording, and a 5MP front camera. Depending on markets, the phones come with either Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset (dual 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual 1.6 GHz Kryo cores) or Samsung LSI’s own Exynos 8890 (4x 2.3 GHz Mongoose + 4x 1.6 GHz Cortex-A53 cores) and boot Android v6.0 Marshmallow. Both phones are IP68 water and dust proof certified.
Sony Xperia X Predictive Hybrid Autofocus in action
Posted by – June 29, 2016
Sony Xperia X is an upper-midrange device that comes with a 5” 1920x1080px LCD, Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 chipset (Dual ARM Cortex-A72 at 1.8 GHz & quad ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.4 GHz), 3GB RAM, 32/64GB of internal storage and expandable storage (up to 256GB), optional Dual-SIM connectivity, and with Android v6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box. The 23MP rear camera features phase-detect autofocus for extremely fast focusing they’ve called it Hybrid Auto-focus as demonstrated. The front camera is a 13MP unit that can shoot 1080p video. The phone’s 2620mAh battery can be charged to 60% in half an hour of fast charging.
Akyumen Hawk Projector Phone on Mediatek Helio X10
Posted by – March 14, 2016
Category: Smartphones, Projectors, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, Intel, MWC, Android
Akyumen Hawk is a projector phone based on TI DLP technology, powered by 64bit Mediatek helio X10 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53, it comes with 5.5” HD display, 3GB RAM, 128GB Flash, 5 mega pixal front camera, 13 mega pixel rear camera, runs Android 6.0, It is also a 4G LTE phone with 2600mAh battery, support up to 100inch big screen in 480p resolution(later will support 720p resolution). Akyumen also have projector tablet based on Intel Quad-core processor and windows 10 system for education market.
SAYGUS V SQUARED, Waterproof Smartphone with 464GB localized Storage on Qualcomm Snapdragon
Posted by – March 11, 2016
Here is the founder of SAYGUS talk about story of SAYGUS. With $1.3million successful funding on Indiegogo at Q3 2015, SAYGUS V SQUARED is a high-end smart phone with waterproof carbon black casing ,it comes with 5’ 1080P display, powered by 2.5Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon, runs Android5.1, 3GB RAM, comes with dual-SIM card slot and Dual micro-SD card slot with build-in 64GB internal storage on board, support up to 464GB localized Storage. It support 4K video encoding with 21MP OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) auto-focus rear camera and 13MP OIS auto-focus front camera. It support wireless streaming any content from your SAYGUS phone to your HDTV. It comes with 3100mAH changeable battery, side finger printer technology, SAYGUS team really want to bring every amazing thing to SAYGUS fans.
ZTE Spro Plus, TI DLP Laser Smart Projector with 2K 8.9″ Tablet and 4G LTE
Posted by – March 11, 2016
ZTE Spro Plus is a smart Android projector, but it is also a tablet with 8.4inch 2K AMOLED display. with 4G SIM card slot, it also can used as a LTE smartphone and WiFi Hot spot , it also can used as a power bank with build-in 12100mAh battery. ZTE Spro Plus using the laser bulb from TI DLP, resolution at 1280*800, support 80inch big screen with only 2.4meters distance. It is Powered by Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, 3GB RAM, 128G Flash on board, runs Android6.0, comes with Powerful JBL sound system, estimate shipping start summer 2016, price not confirm yet.
Windows 10 IoT Core runs on Raspberry Pi and Inventec Avatar advanced Bluetooth Beacon
Posted by – March 10, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Broadcom, MWC, Windows
Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Core is Windows 10 for the IoT market. Windows 10 IoT Core is free, Windows 10 IoT Core Pro is licenced and sold to OEMs like Inventec here showing their Qualcomm APQ8009 powered Inventec Avatar also connecting to Microsoft Azure, bringing advanced Bluetooth beacon platform with Wi-Fi cloud access to upload the log on Azure. Windows 10 IoT Core is also shown running on Raspberry Pi. From a Universal Windows app a developer can talk directly to the sensors and modules on the Raspberry Pi. Windows 10 IoT core is Windows 10 that can run on lower spec ARM devices, taking up about 200megabytes of space, can run on just 256MB RAM.
Microsoft Windows 10 Continuum on ARM
Posted by – March 9, 2016
Microsoft is proud to present their Windows 10 Continuum running super smoothly on Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 based Microsoft Lumia 950 and Microsoft Lumia 950XL, the Microsoft branded devices resulting from the acquisition of Nokia, following a huge work by Microsoft together with their partners such as Qualcomm, to bring a full Windows 10 experience to ARM, powering the future of the Desktop and the Laptop through an ARM Powered smartphone, outputting a full Windows experience to an external display using DisplayPort over USB Type-C through a desktop dock or a laptop dock.
Backwards compatibility of x86 Windows apps can be supported through a cloud solution, such as the one HP is providing with their HP Elite x3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 based Windows Continuum phone coming out a few months from now.
I believe the best solution for Microsoft will be to support Windows 10 on Android, so when you dock an Android phone through a desktop dock or a laptop dock, then Microsoft needs to make sure that a full Windows 10 Continuum on ARM experience can be outputted from the Android phone on that secondary display. Microsoft needs to make Windows 10 an “external-only” home replacement which needs to work on any Android device.
DisplayPort 1.4 Brings 8K Support and Lossless Video Compression over USB Type-C
Posted by – March 9, 2016
Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) Executive Director Bill Lempesis (who I previously interviewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4PGoVR3ENo) introduces DisplayPort 1.4 A/V standard, which VESA developed, with input and cooperation from more than 230 global members. DP 1.4 includes a number of next-generation features, including capabilities for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 8K video across the USB-C connector. It also features, for the first time, VESA’s Display Stream Compression Standard (DSC) standard, which enables up to 3:1 video compression with visually lossless performance. Stephane Boisclair, senior hardware designer for Hardent, provides an in-depth description of the latest DSC specification update, v1.2. A VESA member company, Montreal-based Hardent develops IP cores to support DSC encoding and decoding. DSC 1.2, which supports up to 16 bits per color and HDR, has great implications for high-end TVs and PCs, as well as automotive applications, where the growing number of camera sensors requires less cabling and greater range.
7Gbit/s Wi-Fi using 802.11ad over 60Ghz by Qualcomm
Posted by – March 5, 2016
Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. shows off 802.11ad, the next generation Wi-Fi over 60Ghz, that enables data transfer speeds at up to 7Gbit/s. The 60 GHz signal cannot typically penetrate walls but can propagate off reflections from walls, ceilings, floors and objects using beamforming. When roaming away from the main room the protocol can switch to make use of the other lower Wi-Fi bands on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz at a much lower rate, both of which can propagate through walls. 802.11ad is supported in Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Internet Processor (IPQ) 8064 reference designs combined with its QCA9500 802.11ad chipset. Letv’s first Snapdragon 820 smartphone will support it. New Wi-Fi Access points from Elecom, NEC and TP-Link support it, and Acer and Asus plan to release laptops with 802.11ad. SiBEAM, Inc., a Lattice Semiconductor company, and Peraso Technologies, Inc. will also deliver Adapters to the market.
Sharp Robohon speaks English at the Qualcomm booth at MWC 2016
Posted by – March 5, 2016
Sharp Robohon (which I previously filmed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiZSL3o8L7M) is Sharp’s vision for the future of the smartphone. A pocket-sized humanoid Robot, with built-in Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, LTE Sim card slot, it has a built-in projector, microphone, speaker. The concept is to use AI conversations to bring usefulness as a notification robot. I think Sharp needs to mass manufacture it, sell it worldwide for the price of an iPhone, and load all kinds of AI apps so it can be powered by Google, Amazon, Microsoft or anyone else who is making an AI voice assistant.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 runs Windows 10 Continuum for productivity
Posted by – March 4, 2016
Seshu Madhavapeddy, VP of Product Management, responsible for the mobile compute product line at Qualcomm, presents the awesome HP Elite x3 phablet powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 running Windows 10 Mobile with Continuum. Qualcomm is working with Microsoft to bring Windows to Qualcomm ARM SoCs, running the Universal apps and enabling Continuum using the dock.
