Category: Tradeshows

Hard Kernel presents Samsung Exynos 4210 ARM Cortex-A9 1Ghz Dual-core in 10.1″ capacitive tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Samsung, Embedded World, Android

Here is Hard Kernel’s new Exynos based development kit tablet device. Hard Kernel is a company based in South Korea working very hard with Samsung’s kernel to create reference development kits for developers to develop software for Samsung’s processors. This is Hard Kernel’s newest awesome looking Exynos based 10.1″ tablet form factor device. Find more informations at: http://hardkernel.com/

Specs:
Processor: Samsung Exynos 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core
Graphics: Mali-400
RAM: 1GB
Flash Storage: 8GB
Screen: 1366×768 10.1″ capacitive
WiFi: WiFi-b/g/n (Broadcom BCM4329)
Bluetooth: 2.1 EDR
GPS: Built-in AGPS with 3G receiver
Video support: HDMI 1080p (codecs limitations bitrates etc to be tested)
USB: USB 2.0 Host
Cellular: HSPA+ (ST Ericsson, up to 21 Mbps download, 5.7 Mbps upload)
Battery: 9000mAh
Sensors: Gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, electronic compass
Availability: Available from end of March
Price: $750

Texas Instruments DaVinci DM816x and DM814x, does 4K2K video playback

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Embedded World

Playsback 3x1080p@60fps, for use in set-top-boxes, could be in Google TV boxes (imagine this powering 4K2K Google TV), it costs around $100. Video security, video conferencing, video signage, thin clients, products online monitoring, portable medical devices with strong imaging.

Beagleboard xM 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A8, 6 Ångström Linux desktops synchronized

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011
Category: Laptops, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Embedded World

This is how one can create a mega display wall, combining several displays. The mouse is synchronized accross 6 ARM Powered ubuntu desktops through synergy, and a ffmpeg synchronization app makes it possible to combine them into a video wall.

Embedded World coverage coming up

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011
Category: Embedded World

I’m in an early train from Hannover to Nurenberg, so today I plan to film as much as possible at the Embedded World trade show in Nurnberg. Lots of new ARM Powered demonstrations are probably being shown there. Look forward to many videos coming up. Please send me all video requests and tips of cool things at Embedded World that you have heard about here as comments or to my email charbax@gmail.com For example, to help me, please do some search on blogs and news sites about what the coolest things that might be shown at Embedded World and then let me know the company names in a comment here or to my email so I can try to prioritize my day and film as many cool things as possible. Thanks!

MSI WindPad 100A Tegra2 10.1″ Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, CeBIT, Android

MSI Is finally about to get ready with their MSI Wind Pad tablet, here they are showing a pretty finalized looking version of their upcoming Tegra2 tablet, to have Honeycomb, it will be sold at retail for about $399. They also showcase some interesting designs using a picto projector, dual-tablets and a frame.

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Pierre Cardin Tegra2 9.7″ Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Samsung, Nvidia, CeBIT, Android

Pierre Cardin brings a new 9.7″ capacitive Nvidia Tegra2 based tablet to the market. Bulk price may be something like $340. They also have a cool priced $145 7″ capacitive Samsung Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet. They say Android Honeycomb 3.0 will be available on these from the beginning of April.

ARM Powered Tablets by Shuttle (soon laptops/desktops?)

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, VIA, CeBIT, Android

Shuttle is one of the major compact motherboard makers, they are now moving a lot of their ressources into making ARM Powered solutions, some may be branded by Shuttle, other might be ODM, based on ARM Processors by Texas Instruments, Nvidia and VIA Wondermedia.

HTC Flyer, I test the stylus

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, CeBIT, Android

This is HTC’s first Android tablet, it uses the second generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255 at 1.5Ghz, and comes with some special capacitive stylus system. I try it out in this video and try to understand how HTC is planning to integrate that kind of feature.

Skytex develops i.MX53 tablets

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Telechips, VIA, CeBIT, Android

Skytex is working on getting more performance in their low cost tablets, using Freescale’s new 1.2Ghz i.MX53 with better video and graphics, the Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 and the new VIA Wondermedia ARM9 with a better DSP.

Kinstone $95 7″ ARM Cortex-A9 AmLogic (single core) Tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, CeBIT, Android

Available now. ARM Cortex-A9 Single-core AmLogic based 7″ tablet 800mhz performance for below $95 in bulk.

Microsoft and Open Source?

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, CeBIT, Windows

I thought it was fun to see a Microsoft booth in the Open Source park at CeBIT 2011, so I went jokingly to ask if it was a mistake, turns out Microsoft has lots of things going on with Open Source around the world. “Microsoft is changing into a more open company”, does that mean Windows 8 for ARM will be open source and free? Does Microsoft prepare Azure OS to compete with Chrome OS? Should Microsoft and Nokia simply take Honeycomb and improve on that and call it Microdroid?

Mobile Tech shows Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 in new tablets

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Telechips, CeBIT, Android

Telechips is ready with their ARM Cortex-A8 and is set to be implemented in a new bunch of affordable and yet more powerful Android devices. Cool!

Zinwell does ARM Powered $70 Android Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Marvell, CeBIT, Android, Google TV

Zinwell is one of the worlds top-5 Realtek based media player box makers, after Western Digital, Xstreamer, now they want to support full Android and eventually Google TV for ARM, so they take the Marvell Berlin (Armada 1000?) processor platform, even add DVB tuner and e-Sata ports, to provide full HD web browsing speed and the performance needed for full Flash and all Web videos and the like.

Hanvon HPad A116 7″ capacitive Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Samsung, CeBIT, Android

Hanvon is the leading e-ink e-reader maker in the Chinese market with 70% market share, now they are also moving into making Android tablets. This one has a Samsung Hummingbird 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 512MB RAM, 7″ capacitive screen, and Hanvon has designed some custom home replacement user interface.

x86 vs ARM for Tablets, hahaha

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, CeBIT, Android

This is what I found at a booth at CeBIT:

Shenzhen AUDE Technology Co Ltd is showing their tablets at CeBIT 2011, the Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet is 0.4Kg can retail at below $200 while the x86 one is 0.9Kg and could retail for above $400.

Gigabyte Tegra2 Tablet GN-TB100

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, CeBIT, Android

This is a 10.1″ 1280×800 capacitive new Tegra2 tablet made by Gigabyte. This is not a final design, they’ll tweak and improve the design before mass production to be selling this by July this year around there.

Gigabyte NAS GR-EZM02H

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: NAS, Exclusive videos, Marvell, CeBIT

Gigabyte is launching this dual-hard drive NAS product, powered by a Marvell ARM processor, it has dual-LAN and a bunch of embedded software features.

Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3, AMD E-350 x86 Mini-ITX motherboard

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, CeBIT

AMD is doing some work on their x86 stuff, their new atom alternative, medium/low power consumption, medium/low pricing, puts some nice performance in there for USB3 and HDMI output stuff on such compact PC. This kind of motherboard can be bought for about 100 euros, one only needs to add RAM and a Hard Drive to this to have a full Desktop PC.

Telstar Android Tablets

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Freescale, Qualcomm, CeBIT, Android

The MID Q7128 is Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 based, and even cheaper is the Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 based tablet, both in the same design.


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Taiwanese Drums, Taitra sponsored concert

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, CeBIT