Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 on 14nm is ready shown in LeTV Le Max Pro, LG G5 and the Sony Xperia X using their newest Kryo custom ARMv8 64bit CPU, their newest Adreno GPU and their newest Spectra ISP camera image sensor. Qualcomm also releases 3 new ARM processors, the Snapdragon 625 on 14nm, Snapdragon 425 and Snapragon 435 for the mid-tier and sub-premium tier. Those include the Snapdragon 500 series GPU, faster memory bandwidth and more. Qualcomm shows ultrasonic fingerprint technology that can go behind glass. Qualcomm shows 802.11ad for up to 7gbit/s Wi-Fi over the 60Ghz spectrum, and they show their newest LTE modems, the Qualcomm X12 LTE modem, and the Qualcomm X16 LTE modem that can go to gbit/s speeds over LTE.
Rapiro, Arduino/Raspberry Pi powered humanoid robot kit
Posted by – February 27, 2016
Rapiro is a humanoid robot kit that includes 12 servo motors, RGB LED lights for the “eyes”, an Arduino base (upgradeable to Raspberry Pi) to bring robotics to the masses. The kit can be used out of the box even without any programming. The kit is available for around $400 in Japan.
Skyworth L18A $100 Octa-core MT6753 Smartphone 5.0’ 3G 16G
Posted by – February 27, 2016
Skyworth shows smart phones powered by MediaTek MT6753 Octa-core Cortex-A53 with different price range on MWC2016. Skyworth L18A is affordable smart phone with 5.0’ HD display at 1280*720 resolution, 3GB RAM, 16GB Flash, bulk price at $100 for 5000pcs MOQ. Skyworth T612 is smartphone support full world-wide bands network in any country, bulk price at $175 for 2000pcs MOQ.
You can contact Skyworth here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Johnny Zhang, Deputy General Manager
zhangguojian@skyworth.com
Topdisk Type-C OTG Flash Drive, USB lighting Drive for iPhone/iPad, micro-USB Drive
Posted by – February 27, 2016
Topdisk shows the USB Type-C OTG Flash drives with capacity from 8GB to 128GB on MWC2016, it with both USB Type-C and standard USB2.0 or USB3.0 connectors, support Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
As Apple certified licensee manufacture, Topdisk also show the USB Apple lighting drive for iPhone and iPad with both lighting and USB3.0 connectors, and the OTG micro-USB drive with both micro-USB and USB3.0/USB2.0 port, support up to 128GB storage.
Distributors can contact Topdisk here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
sales@topdisk.com.cn
Best of MWC 2016: HP Elite x3 with Windows 10 Continuum on Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
Posted by – February 27, 2016
HP shows the future of computing! HP’s vision for the future of consumer and enterprise pocketable electronics, the Windows 10 Continuum enabled HP Elite x3 running on the super fast 14nm (Samsung Fab) Snapdragon 820. HP offers DeskDock with USB Type-C, Gigabit Ethernet, 2x USB2, DisplayPort, USB Type-C. It outputs to a large display, with an RF or Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. HP Elite X3 has a 5.96″ 2K 2560×1440 Super AMOLED with 550nits brightness “best in class”.4GB LPDDR4 RAM. 64GB internal with Dual Nano SIM that can also be One Nano SIM and one MicroSD card slot. “Best in class” single touch fingerprint scanner. A second biometric authentication is the iris scanner. IP67 waterproof 1.5m for 30 minutes “all sealed”. Shock-proof with Gorilla Glass. 4150mAh battery. HP even shows their “empty” 12.8″ thin bezel Laptop Dock “mobile extender” under 1kg to be powered by this amazing phone! The Laptop dock also miracast wirelessly. Bang and olufsen sound. Pogopins on the back of the phone allows it to extend with Smart back-cases, a POS (point of sale) solution and I also suggest them in the video to do an E Ink back-case for long battery life sunlight readable e-reading. Everybody at Microsoft, Qualcomm, HP and even Marc Benioff CEO of Salesforce is excited about this product. HP talks about running their virtualization engine to run any x86 app through the cloud. This looks like they are all going to make sure this product gets successfully deployed on the market by Summer this year.
I think that HP should try to price the full bundle at below the current price of a high-end iPhone/Samsung, thus below $700 including the Desktop, keyboard/mouse and also including the “empty” 12.8″ Laptop Dock. The Desktop Dock needs a HDMI output. Of course I’d like to finally see Google supply an Android Continuum UI alternative solution at Google I/O. I also perhaps think that Microsoft’s Continuum dock is better with a cable and the phone on the table than having it docked upright.
Smell sensor for smartphones, Aroma Bit Odor Imaging Sensor
Posted by – February 26, 2016
Tokyo-based Aroma Bit showcases their odor imaging sensor technology, they claim to be able to make a unique sensor to analyze the subjective matter of smell, rather than simply to analyze the contents of the gas. The setup on display shows how a bottle opened nearby produces a digital odor signature on the screen. The sensor prototype is mounted on an SD card. The device learns about the signature of each smell it encounters, becoming smarter.
For more information visit: http://www.aromabit.com
MediaTek Deep Learning SDK on helio X20 with Visual and Voice Recognition features
Posted by – February 26, 2016
MediaTek shows the high-performance deep learning (DL) SDK for mobile devices based on MediaTek X series, empowering device markers or users to build visual and speech recognition capabilities into apps with comprehensive optimization benefits. You can check more video about MediaTek X20 chipset and smart phone here:http://138.2.152.197/?s=mediatek+helio+x20
STMicroelectronics STM32 Open Development Environment
Posted by – February 26, 2016
The STM32 Open Development Environment (STM32 ODE) is an open, flexible, easy and affordable way to develop innovative devices and applications based on the STM32 32-bit microcontroller family (based on ARM Cortex-M cores) combined with other state-of-the-art ST components connected via expansion boards. It enables fast prototyping with leading-edge components that can quickly be transformed into final designs.
The STM32 ODE includes the following five elements:
– STM32 Nucleo development boards
– STM32 Nucleo expansion boards
– STM32Cube software
– STM32Cube expansion software
– STM32 ODE Function Packs
More information on www.st.com/stm32ode
USB Type-C, 2 Billion per year to be shipped by 2019
Posted by – February 26, 2016
The USB Implementers Forum comprises companies like Google, Samsung, HP, Intel and many others work together on specifying the spec of USB Type-C. It’s easier to use (it can be flipped on both sides), it goes faster (up to above 40Gbit/s). Alternate modes can be supported such as Thunderbolt, DisplayPort and the proprietary mode Slimport, the standard mode MHL by the MHL Consortium. Devices shipping without display, with the 3 different ways to do display, with some shipping USB2 speed and others USB3 speed, it just seems to be a bit of a fragmentation in the implementation of USB Type-C here in the beginning. Basically consumers must make sure to understand what each device supports “behind” the USB Type-C connector.
Rockchip RK3288 is better than Intel Celeron N2840 for Chromebooks
Posted by – February 25, 2016
This video compares the Haier Chromebook 11E on Rockchip RK3288 with the Samsung Chromebook 2 on Intel N2840. They are also being compared by Moor Insights and Strategy at https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/cor4EPWfvP97lt There are several other “latest” Intel Chromebooks from Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, HP which all are running on N2840 Celeron, or N2830 Celeron, and thus for all these, Rockchip can claim to have better value, better performance and better battery life. Thus to be best suited for the worldwide education market.
Here are some of the numbers claimed in favor of the ARM Powered Chromebook in the case of RK3288 vs N2840:
80% better video performance
32% faster multi-tasking
37% faster app loading
265% faster 3D graphics
31% better power consumption for online video, Google Docs and Gmail
I have already been testing the Haier 11E as my main laptop over the last 6 months, and I can tell you that it performs absolutely great. There were some WiFi disconnect issues but I think those have been solved by Google’s automatic software updates to the Chromebook. I will post a new video with my Haier 11E Chromebook soon so check back for that.
Moor Insights and Strategy has conducted a detailed analysis comparing Rockchip RK3288 with Intel N2840 Chromebooks which is available as a slideshow here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/cor4EPWfvP97lt
Windows 10 Continuum with Acer Liquid Jade Primo Premium Pack on Qualcomm Snapdragon 808
Posted by – February 25, 2016
Acer is about to sell an awesome Windows 10 Continuum package that includes a nice 22″ LCD display monitor, wireless keyboard and mouse, a docking station to use with the included Acer Liquid Jade running Windows 10 Mobile with Windows Continuum, designed to support all professional users full desktop usage requirements, with many more apps being added to Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform. For example Facebook just added their app. The Acer Liquid Jade Primo has a nice 5.5″ super AMOLED display, 3GB RAM, 32GB Flash. The idea for the pricing is that this Acer might cost about the same as a high-end iPhone or Samsung but it is to include the whole bundle of external 22″ display, the keyboard/mouse and Continuum dock. Acer is trying to launch this premium package worldwide. The target market is small to medium to large size companies who can give one of these to each of their employees, and thus get all their employees to switch to ARM Powered productivity!
MediaTek helio X20 Imagiq ISP support Dual Rear Camera Depth Mapping
Posted by – February 25, 2016
MediaTek shows the new generation Imagiq ISP on smart phone support the dual camera and depth mapping features on MWC2016, it comes with a 13MP camera and 5MP camera, The 5MP camera is helping the major camera to switch focus or out of focus. We are looking forward the real Dual Rear Camera Smartphone to make real 3D pictures on your smartphone at next step!
$129 Omate Wherecome K3, a Real Smart Watch for 6-9 years old Kids on MT6572
Posted by – February 25, 2016
Omate Wherecom K3 is a smart watch for kids at 6-9 years old around, it comes with different style GUI for boys and girls, with 3G SIM card slot, it support calling, message, GPS tracker, game etc. It is powered MT6572 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, runs Android5.1, 1GB RAM, 4GB Flash, comes with 320*320 display, battery life up to 2 days. Retail price at$129.
You can contact Omate here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Laurent Le Pen, Founder&CEO
Laurent@omate.com
$299 Gionee Marathon M5 Plus 6″ AMOLED on 64bit Octa-core MT6753, 5020mAh, 4GB RAM, 64GB Flash
Posted by – February 25, 2016
Gionee Marathon M5 Plus is a new flagship smartphone by Gionee powered on 64bit MediaTek MT6753 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53, comes with 6.0’’ AMOLED Full HD display at 1920*1280 resolution, 4GB RAM, 64GB Flash, 13MP rear camera and 5MP front camera, it features with 5020mAh battery, (Gionee claims it support up to 500hours standby battery life). Gionee Marathon M5 plus comes with Gionee customized GUI, features with nice water-drop screen and metal body, support finger-print in the front menu button, retail price at $299 on the European market.
OPPO superVOOC: Fully Charges a 2500mAh Battery Smartphone in 11 Minutes
Posted by – February 25, 2016
Here is the video of OPPO demo fully charge a 2500mAh battery in 11 minutes at MWC2016, OPPO say that their superVOOC quick-charging tehnology will work with their micro-USB and USB Type-C connectors soon, it just requres OPPO’s special high-Amps 5V charger and with OPPO’s special thick charging cable. OPPO already has 4.5Amps fast charging on their current phones, this is the next level and they do not yet announce what the Amps are in this one but they promise that it’s safe because it remains at only 5V.
DisplayPort over USB Type-C at MWC 2016
Posted by – February 25, 2016
DisplayPort has been implemented over USB Type-C, showcased in products such as the Microsoft Continuum products, Apple, Dell, Lenovo also have laptops that output video using DisplayPort over USB Type-C. Then the dock or adapter outside may then convert DisplayPort to HDMI, VGA and DisplayPort output.
Garmin Varia Vision Smart Glass
Posted by – February 24, 2016
Garmin Varia Vision is a Smart Glass for Bicyclists, it is a water-resistant, very light module at only 29.7 grams that can be attached to the side of any sunglasses and it can mounted in the left or right side of your existing cycling glasses, support display the navigation and rider’s peripheral vision on the in-sight screen, support vibration notification for all incoming calls, message navigation cues and other alerts, it comes with a glove-friendly touch panel on the side for users to change different information on the screens of the Smart Glass. The battery life is up to 8 hours. Reference price will be around $400, starts shipping in the next few weeks.
€199 Haier Watch Ingenic M200, Android5.1,AMOLED display, 1G, 8G
Posted by – February 24, 2016
Hair shows Haier Watch at MWC2016, it comes with classic watch design , powered by Ingenic M200 MIPS, comes with 1.4’ AMOLED screen, runs Android 5.1, 1GB RAM, 8GB Flash, retail price at €199 in European market.
Focalmax Fangle S1, 2000lumens Short-throw DLP Projector on Allwinner H3
Posted by – February 24, 2016
Focalmax shows the Ultra-throw DLP Projector Fangle S1 with 2000lumens brightness on MWC2016, support up to 100inch big screen with only 44cm distance, maxim up to 200inchs, powered by Allwinner H3, runs Android4.4.2, Mass production will be ready on Q2 2016.
Focalmax Fangle F1 is a portable DLP projector with 450lumens brightness at 1280*800 resolution, powered by Allwinner H8, Octa-core ARM Cortex , support
Focalmax Fangle M1 is a PICO projector with 50lumens brightness, also powered by TI DLP technology, based on Allwinner A20 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A? , resolution at 854*480. Focalmax are promote own brand in overseas market now, distributors are welcome to contact!
You can contact Focalmax here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Alex Gu, Key Account Director
Alex.gu@focalmax.net
2K dual VR headset by Skyworth on RK3288
Skyworth releases their dual 2K OLED display VR headset powered by Rockchip RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with Mali-T760 GPU. It’s ready for high pixel density VR video, for example with more than twice the pixel density compared with using VR of a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge with Samsung Gear VR. This Skyworth VR headset costs about $600 as the bulk factory price with a minimum order of 1K.
You can contact Skyworth here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Johnny Zhang, Deputy General Manager
zhangguojian@skyworth.com
