Interchangeable into different back-cases and front-cases for a range of phones, OAXIS presents their InkCase Lite that gets its data from any smartphone over Bluetooth. OAXIS develops an SDK for Android apps to send data from the main LCD or AMOLED display to the secondary OAXIS E Ink display. You can for example read the web articles on your Smartphone’s E Ink back-cover, read an E-book on the E Ink, read your RSS feeds on E Ink and more.
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YotaPhone 2, 4.7″ curved Touch E Ink and 5″ AMOLED and Snapdragon 800
Posted by – February 26, 2014
Yota Devices shows their next generation YotaPhone 2 with the Snapdragon 800 LTE and a 5″ AMOLED screen and a 960×540 curved touch-screen E Ink display covering the back case. They upgrade their YotaPhone SDK to enable Android apps to send data to the back-screen with one touch. Battery life when using the backside only can be measured in days and sunlight readability is full.
Bluetooth Smart 4.0/4.1 Low Energy
Posted by – February 26, 2014
Mark Powell, Executive Director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, answers my questions on Bluetooth LE (also known as BLE, also known as Bluetooth 4.0 and 4.1). Bluetooth Smart is Bluetooth LE with an application framework making it easy for applications developers to add support for the more advanced Bluetooth features. Bluetooth.com says it as “Bluetooth Smart products represent a quantum leap for Bluetooth technology, allowing billions of previously disconnected devices to join the connected world.” at http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/Bluetooth-Smart-Devices.aspx
Archos Touchscreen E Ink Smartwatch
Posted by – February 25, 2014
This summer, Archos will release this Touchscreen E Ink Smartwatch, running an E Ink optimized UI to display your smart notifications through the upcoming Archos Smartwatch App for Bluetooth 4/3 Smartphones on Android and iOS. Sunlight readability, always-on and battery life should be great. Archos also will release their non-touch E Ink Smartwatch for $129 a couple or so months before this one.
CAVIUM 64bit ARMv8 for Servers and Base Stations
Posted by – February 25, 2014
Cavium talks about and shows their latest enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion SoCs based on ARMv8 64bit and MIPS, making customized optimized core designs for each in use for cloud servers and base stations among other. CAVIUM claims that their ARMv8 64bit enterprise/server design, due to be released later this year, provides more performance at lower power consumption than Intel´s x86.
Qualcomm 610 and 615 ARMv8 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 quad/octa core, 801 and 805/Adreno420 demos
Posted by – February 25, 2014
Qualcomm presents their latest ARM 64bit ARMv8 Snadragon 610 and 615 based on the ARM Cortex-A53 quad and octa core. These new include the Qualcomm Gobi 9X30’s LTE Advanced Category 6 capability with up to 300Mbps 4G LTE modem, 3G HSPA+, CDMA, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi all in one chip. Enhanced ISP for imaging and camcorder quality and Adreno 405. Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 and 615 are pin compatible with the cheaper 64bit Snapdragon 410 enabling faster time to market. Qualcomm also shows their upcoming Snapdragon 805 with amazingly fast 4K video upscaling, 4K video gaming.
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Nokia Android Phone: Nokia X series launched starting at 89€
Posted by – February 24, 2014
As I have been Google+’ing for the past 3-4 years, this is it, Nokia is finally releasing their low cost ultra nice Android phone. Selling worldwide starting today for around 89€. This is totally amazing and congratulations to the Nokia team for an awesome first step in the right direction!!
I would also like to see a few more improvements to this:
– Nokia Home be a home replacement on Google Play (to turn any other Android device into a Nokia Home Experience device (including switching over to Nokia Store, Nokia Maps and everything else that ships with a Nokia X)
– Bring Windows Phone apps to Android. Tweak the Android AOSP software to add Windows Phone apps support. (same in the other direction, support Android apps on Windows Phone platform).
– Announce that Nokia and Microsoft would not be against Google authorizing them to pre-install and support the official installation of Google Apps like Google Play, Google Maps, Gmail, and etc. If Google won’t allow it, simply put public pressure so that media forces Google to open up how their Google Apps may or may not ship with modified Android devices. I think every device must be able to ship with any app and I think multiple app stores on a device is the best way.
– Nokia Store should include unlimited free apps for a very low monthly subscription price. Something like $5/month for unlimited games and apps. Start signing up as many paid app/games developers and of course include all the free ones anyway. Subscribers can have advertising disabled on ad-supported apps. For developing countries the monthly cost can be much lower, perhaps even for free in certain countries where the GDP per capita is very low. App/games developers can for example agree that their apps and games are to be free in certain regions of the world where people don’t make a lot of salary.
Konka $900 42″ 4K, $1000 50″ 4K, $1100 55″ 4K, $1600 65″ 4K, $4000 84″ 4K
Posted by – February 22, 2014
Here are the cheapest yet 4K displays for sale all over China, now being exported worldwide either under the Konka brand or under third party brands. They sell about 30K 4K displays per month at the moment and mass production of these are ramping up. Those all support HDMI 2 60fps by default. Konka uses the LG and Samsung 4K panels, so the quality is the same in terms of the panel, the CPU and 4K engine is different generating and upscaling perhaps different 4K quality yet, they use for example MStar 4K engine with among other things 4K HEVC decode support.
Panasonic GH4, 4K video camera, coming soon
Posted by – February 22, 2014
Panasonic announces their upcoming 4K mirrorless camera, successor to the GH3 (which is being used to film all videos on http://ARMdevices.net in the past year since CES 2013), it’ll use a new ultra fast SD Card system to record 4K video at up to 200mbit per second.
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- Panasonic Brings 4K to Mirrorless Cameras (mashable.com)
- Panasonic Lumix GH4 Priced At €1,499 On Dutch Retailer’s Website (ubergizmo.com)
- Panasonic to debut 4k GH4 camera CSC at Photography Show (technewsworlds.wordpress.com)
- Panasonic GH 4K Coming Late February with a $2,000 (or Less) Price Tag (news.softpedia.com)
- Panasonic’s Upcoming GH Mirrorless Camera Will Have 4K Video Recording (ubergizmo.com)
- CES 2014: Here’s What Panasonic Lumix GH 4K Looks Like (news.softpedia.com)
- Panasonic’s DMC-GH4 is first interchangeable lens mirrorless camera to shoot 4K video (gizmag.com)
Latest Hasee Laptops, Phones and Tablets
Posted by – February 20, 2014
HASEE is a 20 year old company. HASEE makes laptops, smartphones, and tablets. HASEE employs 3,000 – 4,000 people in their factories. HASEE has a 4.5″ phone for 69 USD and a 5″ phone 99 USD and 139 USD and a 6″ phone for 159 USD all for retail price.
Company Website: http://www.hasee.com/en/
LG 4K Ultra HD TV
Posted by – February 20, 2014
LG makes 4k TVS anywhere in the ballpark of 49″ to 105″. LG TV’s have upscaling technology so that HD videos can be watched in 4k. LG plans to release the 49″ 4k television during 2014 at unspecified date with no announced price. Netflix plans to offer 4k movie streaming and the LG TVS will be compatible with it.
MT6582 and MT6572 phones from Shenzhen Go East Electronics
Posted by – February 14, 2014
Go East Electronics from Shenzhen shows their 2014 range of phones. Go East sells around 20,000 phones per week and 80,000 per month. Go east has a factory that employs around 300 people. Go east has a 6″ WVGA (800×480) android phone with a MTK 6582 processor for 30 USD. Go East has another model with a a 5.3″ screen and MTK 6582 processor for an unspecified price. GO east has a 4″ WVGA with a MTK 6572 processor for 52 USD.
$88 7.85″ IPS A31S, 7″ A31S, $80 10.1″ TN from Shenzhen Ployer
Posted by – February 9, 2014
The latest range of tablets from Shenzhen Ployer.
Here’s the contact information for Ployer (please tell them you saw the video):
Company Name: Shenzhen Ployer Electronics Co., Ltd.
Address: Building 8, Yusheng Industrial Park, Gushu, Xixiang, Bao’an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Zip Code: 518102
International Business Contact
Telephone: 0086-755-82660733
Fax: 0086-755-82660533
Email: info@ployer.com.cn
Vuzix M100 Smart Glass now shipping for $1000
Posted by – February 8, 2014
Vuzix is showing their $1000 Smart Glass headmounted computer solution uses a compact WQVGA 16:9, 1Ghz OMAP4430 Powered, White Pearl display module and ultra-low-power driver IC from Kopin Corporation, 16GB Flash, 32GB MicroSD support, head-tracking sensors are 3 axis Gyro, 3 axis Accelerometer and 3 axis Magnetometer. 600mAh battery offering 1-2 hours of display usage but much more can be achieved with an external 3800mAh battery pack. Camera does 5megapixel photos and 1080p video. Mounting options include over head, Safety Glasses and can be used on either left or right eye. They have an SDK for further Android development for it links up using Bluetooth 4.0 to Android or iOS host device. You can read more about it here: http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_m100/
Shenzhen Coolyida Kuyida $130 MT6589 Phone, $35 Tablet, $17 Power bank speaker
Posted by – February 8, 2014
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Speakers, Power Banks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, CES, Android
Showing their latest tablets. RK3026 for $35, the best they have is 1280×800 $105 MediaTek powered tablet. They also have a $17 NFC power bank that doubles as a speaker. MT6589 5″ 1920×1080 for $130.
$120 MT6572 Smartwatch from Shenzhen Kep ($110 2G version)
Posted by – February 8, 2014
MediaTek MT6572 powered Smartwatch with 512MB, 4GB Flash, Camera, SIM card support. $37 RK3026 7″ tablet. Also a more-than-$200 Intel reference tablet.
$299 RibX Smartwatch uses MediaTek MT6572
Posted by – February 7, 2014
RIBX FB1 “Future Battlefield” and the TI “Titanium” Smartwatch is built to be durable, retail price may be $299 and $699 to be available in April, they expect to sell more than 100 thousand. The processor is MT6572 with built-in SIM card, GPS support. Android 4.3 support.
You can find more about them at http://www.ribx.hk
$60 MT8312 7″, $240 Exynos5410 9.7″ Retina by Kente
Posted by – February 1, 2014
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Rockchip, Qualcomm, Samsung, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android
Kente shows their latest tablets, PC monitors and more.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2013
Tian Kan Weather Stations
Posted by – February 1, 2014
Showing off some professional weather stations, swimming pool thermometer, tooth brush sterilizer and more.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2013
iPega Gaming Tablet on RK3188
Posted by – February 1, 2014
iPega shows their Gaming Tablet, speaker dock also.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2013
