Category: Tradeshows

E Ink Android Phone by Onyx International

Posted by Charbax – October 16, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, Members Content, HKTDC Electronics Fair, E Ink, Onyx

This is awesome. Check out this sunlight readable Android phone with a 1-week battery life (not 1-month as said in the video). It’s E Ink! E Ink Android smartphone prototype! As you can see in my half-hour long interview with E Ink at IFA last month, E Ink is preparing their smartphone-sized plastics based unbreakable screens to be used on the back of smartphones. Here’s an awesome-looking sub-100gr (maybe it’s only 70 grams! I’m getting a weight confirmation imminently, check back) E Ink smartphone. Check it out, the UI is usable on this E Ink phone even though the Android UI used is optimized for LCD, it doesn’t take much for Google and others to re-optimize Android for E Ink use! Something to do with requiring the least possible UI refreshes to add/change on-screen info. The battery life is roughly ONE WEEK not one month as is said at the end of the video. I guess it depends how much you refresh infos, load data and make phone calls with it, though the screen basically always stays on, potentially always displaying relevant info all the time. It’s running on an ARM Cortex-A5 processor, maybe the Qualcomm MSM7227A, to be confirmed.

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Anole Bluetooth sunglasses and secure encrypted bluetooth USB stick

Posted by Charbax – October 16, 2012
Category: Wearables, Other, Exclusive videos, Members Content, HKTDC Electronics Fair

Check this out. You can have a bluetooth headset in your sunglasses now, just pull down the earpiece from the side of the glasses to your ear when you receive a call and that the glasses vibrate. Anole also makes an encrypted Bluetooth USB stick storage device, it only activates your secure encrypted USB storage once you approach your USB stick with your Bluetooth smartphone and authorize the access to the data.

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Archos Gamepad N64 emulation

Posted by Charbax – October 16, 2012
Category: Tablets, Gaming, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Archos, Android

The Nintendo games are the best in the world. That is why I’m most excited about playing those on the Archos Gamepad and it’s awesome that most games seem smooth. Although I think the N64 game emulation on Android is still a work in progress. Here I show a bit of Super Mario 64, Wave Race, Wipeout 64, Diddy Kong Racing and also showing that Archos’s button mapping works fine for Angry Birds.

SCT shows DLP pico-projector in MT6577 dual-core phone

Posted by Charbax – October 15, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Projectors, Exclusive videos, Members Content, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Texas Instrument’s pico projector technology is about to reach into my and more smartphones and tablets, here demonstrated by SCT integrated into an MT6577 smartphone. The price of the DLP pico projector module ads about $50 to 60 to the bill of materials of the smartphone. Battery consumption can possibly be decent depending on the brightness of the lumen output, perhaps not using much more power than the backlight of the same phone.

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Coby Tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 15, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, Freescale, Samsung, Telechips, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Coby shows some of their latest tablet designs, including Tegra3 and Exynos4412 Quad-core, Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core and more.

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SGW integrates Allwinner A10 in the Webcam for HDTV video-conferencing

Posted by Charbax – October 15, 2012
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Here’s how you can include the ARM Powered computer/set-top-box right inside the webcam and sell it for $80 all inclusive. Thus this include Skype HD video-calls, Video-chat, if bandwidth is sufficient this device may support smooth 720p 2-way video-conferencing, and it can process all other smart TV and desktop functionality.

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$60 5″ WVGA Allwinner A13 with 3G by Ampeq

Posted by Charbax – October 15, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Allwinner, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

They are showing some really cheap Allwinner A10/A13 based tablets and some Rockchip RK2906.

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Dinys at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 15, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Dinys shows some of their new Rockchip Rk3066 tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair.

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Archos Gamepad, gameplay demo including the N64/NES emulator

Posted by Charbax – October 14, 2012
Category: Tablets, Gaming, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Archos, Android

Playing videogames is the top activity that consumers do on tablets. So Archos is releasing this awesome thin, light and very well prices $149 Archos Gamepad. It’s got a 7″ 1024×600 capacitive touch screen but more importantly for gaming, it’s got game controller buttons on each side of the screen. This device runs on the Rockchip RK3066 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with the quad-core Mali-400MP4 GPU. Thus gameplay support is quite decent, especially considering the $149 retail price of this device. Archos software engineers implement a very innovative mapping software layer solution on top of Android, to map the hardware controls to touch-screen input. Thus a large portion of existing touch-screen optimized games are thus very well playable like this. As a transition until all Android games become fully optimized for normal gamepad input. Not only as portable Android gameplayers come with buttons, but for the Android home consoles, HDMI sticks, Set-top-boxes, Google TV and more, all suggesting that Android is about to become by far the biggest video games platform in the world. In this video, I showcase one N64 emulator that I could find on the Google Play Store, though N64 and Dreamcast emulation is still a work in progress, as many more consumers start getting access to these types of Android gaming devices, hopefully it’ll encourage more game developers to improve emulators and new games support on the platform. There isn’t specifically need for game developers to specifically target the RK3066 and this device, since as I understand a lot of the hardware acceleration happens through standards based Open GL ES 2.0, but for sure as more gamers and developers start using these devices, the optimization level of gaming can reach perfection, or at least a very satisfactory and impressive level at that price.

HKTDC Electronics Fair 2012 status by Professor K. B. Chan Honorary Chairman of the HKEIA Foundation

Posted by Charbax – October 14, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, HKTDC Electronics Fair

Here’s an update from the Chairman of the HKEIA Education Foundation on the HKTDC Electronics Fair, and about Hong Kong’s position and role in the electronics industry.

electronicAsia trade show introduction by managing director Ronald Unterburger

Posted by Charbax – October 14, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, HKTDC Electronics Fair

The electronicAsia trade show happens with the HKTDC Electronics Fair, in the same buildings and at the same time for 16 years now. It’s a trade show about components used in the making of all consumer and industrial electronics. Ronald Unterburger is the managing director of MMI-Munich International Trade Fairs who co-owns and organizes the electronicAsia trade show with the HKTDC.

Archos 80 XS and Archos 97 XS

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Texas Instruments, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Archos, Android

Archos is launching two more sizes for their Generation 10 Android Tablet series, including the $199 Archos 80 XS and the $299 Archos 97 XS, each with the optional $49 Archos Coverboard Keyboard Dock. I’ve been using my Archos 101 XS every day during these past 45 days, replacing my broken $1000 Intel Ultrabook for all of my on-the-go productivity and 10.1″ Tablet usage. It’s much thinner and lighter than an Intel laptop, the thin and light keyboard dock ads productivity to the already very awesome OMAP4470 tablet. The same priced $299 Archos 97 XS runs on the same OMAP4470 and the $199 Archos 80 XS runs on the Rockchip RK3066 processor to achieve thus a Nexus7-like price point with its own awesome thin and light magnetic Keyboard dock.

Archos Arnova Familypad

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Archos, Android

13.1″ 1280×800 Allwinner A10 Tablet from Archos, probably to be released at an attractive price.

Rockchip RK2928 and RK2926 launched at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Rockchip Vice-President Chen Feng presents their new single-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC for cheaper, faster, lower power consuming tablets! They call it the Single-core Terminator. They simplify to lower the cost of the SoC thus of the entry-level ARM Powered device all the while improving the performance to provide for better entry-levels tablets.

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$89 13.3″ Laptop on VIA WM8850 ARM Cortex-A9 single-core by Hivision

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Laptops, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Members Content, VIA, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Here’s one of the latest interesting ARM Powered laptops by Hivision, powered on VIA’s latest single-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. With Ethernet, HDMI out, 2 USB Host and more.

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$149 RK3066 10.1″ 1280×800 and $80 RK3066 7″ 1024×600 by Ebot

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Ebot present new low priced tablets based on RK33066 Rockchip Dual-core processors.

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Pipo Rockchip Tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Pipo, Android

Pipo present low priced tablets and HDMI sticks on RK3066 Rockchip dual-core.

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Westin talks Tablet and Smartphone industry at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, MediaTek, Samsung, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Westin talks about their $190 Samsung Exynos 4412 9.7″ 1024×768 and $160 Rockchip RK3066 9.7″ 2048×1536 tablets and MT6577 Smartphones at the HKTDC Electronics Fair.

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Malata Smartphones at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Members Content, MediaTek, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Malata present new smartphones based on MediaTek processors.

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Malata Tablets at HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – October 13, 2012
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, MediaTek, Nvidia, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Malata shows a range of impressive and cool MediaTek MT6577 and RK3066 dual-core based tablets.

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