The Wena Wrist is a smart watch that offers notifications through vibrations and a small LED light on the band, wallet payment compatible with the Japan-only Felica standard, and can go for as long as a week between charges. The watch itself is a typical analogue watch (available with a chronograph face) and so it can go on for much longer. The wena wrist charges through its own proprietary cradle.
Cavium’s ThunderX 48-core ARMv8 64bit SoC is being implemented in dozens of ARM Server designs, by partners as Pegatron, Asus, Mitac, Gigabyte, Wiwynn, Acer and even for for super computing by E4 and Cray. Cavium and their software partners have optimized their ARM Server platform for variety of workloads, including NFV (Network Function Virtualization), Cloud RAN (Radio Access Network) for Virtualizing the access network, moving all the physical base stations to the cloud, which will save the industry a lot of money, hyperscale datacenter, web hosting like RunAbove (a subsidiary of OVH) at https://www.runabove.com/armcloud.xml, Ceph storage clusters. This can only be done using ARM and Cavium ThunderX SoC processors, providing a much better TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and efficient alternative to Intel x86. Cavium and partners, as Linaro and the open source community also are showing progress in the OPNFV, OpenStack, ODP (Open Data Plane), DPDK, fd.io, etc. for the networking and telecom industry.
ARM Cortex-A32 is the most power efficient 32bit processor, 25% more efficient than ARM Cortex-A7 (performance per mW) in the same process node. ARM Cortex-A32 takes advantage of the ARMv8-A instruction set, it is designed to be the smallest, lowest-power 32bit processor to bring efficiency and architectural improvements to next generation rich embedded 32bit applications, to drive innovation across diverse embedded markets including wearables, consumer, industrial, and IoT. You can read more about it at: https://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a32-processor.php
SONY release the new XPERA family member XPERA Eye at MWC2016, it comes with a tiny and light design, you can even attach it to your T-shirt! It support 180degree 4K video recording and facial and voice detection to capture pictures, but battery life is only 1 hour.
Seshu Madhavapeddy, VP of Product Management, responsible for the mobile compute product line at Qualcomm shows us a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 Powered Tablet, it’s an octa-core quad ARM Cortex-A72 and quad ARM Cortex-A53 on 28nm process node, with Cat6 LTE. The Qualcomm SD652 based tablet is now fully mass produced on the market, can be sold through different brands, with better specs at half the price of the iPad mini. It also features Immersive Audio for 3D audio and Adaptive Display that adjusts the color palette based on the light situation significantly improving the video playback quality, what Qualcomm calls the Tablet Home Theatre on the go experience. You can read more about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 here: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/652
Zopo Speed 8 is to be one of the world’s 1st 10-core Smart Phones to be shipped powered by MediaTek Helio X20 deca-core, dual ARM Cortex-A72, quad ARM Cortex-A53 at 2Ghz and quad ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.4Ghz, 5.5″ 1080p IPS display, 4GB RAM, 32GB Flash, runs Android 6 Marshmallow, features a 21MP rear camera with a SONY IMX230 sensor and dual LED flash, a 8MP front camera with own LED Flash, supports finger-print authentication, comes with USB Type-C and 3600mAh battery with up to 10-hour talking time or 5days standby. Zopo presents Speed 8 with the MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo.
Some highlights of the Samsung MWC 2016 press conference, launching Samsung Gear 360, S7 and S7 Edge, with also a special appearance by Mark Zuckerberg. You can also see the full official video of this event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6KeASdz2AI
ARM announces ARM Cortex-R8, twice the performance of ARM Cortex-R7. This means we are going to get faster modems for 5G, faster hard drives and many other things that require a faster realtime processor. You can read more about ARM Cortex-R8 here: https://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-r/cortex-r8-processor.php
Watch the Huawei MWC 2015 press conference from my seat. Please link to the official recorded press conference video in the comments so that I can also link to it here for people who prefer to watch the official video, if there is one.
Huawei releases their first Intel Winfoes consumer device at $699-$1599 with Intel core m3/m5/m7, 4GB/8GB RAM, 128-512GB SSD, $129 Keyboard dock, $89 MateDock for HDMI/Ethernet/2xUSB.
Huawei CEO of Consumer says Huawei will overtake Apple in the next 2 years and they expect Huawei to be the number 1 in front of Samsung within 5 years from now. At MWC 2016, Huawei launches their first Intel Microsoft Windows 10 device, the MateBook, with Intel Core M3/M5/M7, with thin design, finger ID on the side, 128-512GB SSD, 4-8GB RAM, priced at $699-$1599 depending on the Intel processor, RAM and SSD choice and the Keyboard dock at $129, the USB Type-C MateDock is $89 extra. European prices are higher. This is not a $499 ARM Powered device. Google didn’t get Android yet to function for productivity (full Chrome on Android). Huawei didn’t force Microsoft to port all Windows 10 to Kirin950 ARM Cortex-A72 big.LITTLE.
fitKat EDGE is a smart watch with with LED light in the round plate, it support activity tracking, notifications, reminders and connect with your smart phone via Bluetooth4.1. battery life up to 12 day without vibration notification, 7 days with vibration notification, retail price at $99 sell on http://www.fitkat.me/.
HTP shows the best seller LCD projector with 8000pcs shipping each month, with 2000lumens LED lamp inside, support up to 1280*800 resolution, based on Mstar CPU, support HD 1080P decoding, runs Android4.4.4, bulk price at $140 for 500pcs MOQ.
You can contact HTP here:
John, Sales Manager john@htp.com.cn
MakersHub is a company that fosters development and growth of new products. On display here is a range of co-developed products: their helmet outfitted with haptic feedback (vibrations), responding to a touch input elsewhere, a glass cube that detects touch and makes a noise, and a doorknob that alerts touch.
ZECO shows their full products line of Smart Projectors from 1000lumens short-throw projector to 80lumens PICO projector all powered by TL DLP.
The high-end Ultra Short throw 1000lumens projector can support big screen up to 100inch with only 40cm distance, price at $1000 for 100pcs MOQ.
ZECO CX3MAX is a 700lumens DLP Smart projector with 720p resolution, powered by Quad Core ARM Cortex A9 Rockchip CPU,runs Android4.2, it support 1080p decoding. Bulk price at $350 for MOQ 100pcs.
ZECO M2 is a 80lumens PICO DLP projector comes with slim and mobile design, resolution at 480p, With 1.5hours battery life, it also can work as power bank. It support Miracast, DLNA, airplay. Price at around $150 from 100pcs.
Toshiba Chromebook Satellite CB30-B surely runs Google Chrome OS, based on 64-bit Dual Core Intel Celeron N2840 Processor, with 13.3’’ Full HD IPS TFT display, 4GB RAM, 16GB SSD, comes with 1*USB 3.0 host, 1*USB 2.0 host,HDMI port, SD card reader, with a nice slim design, retail price at 349euro at amazon now.