Fairchild Semiconductor supplies to 100% of all major smartphone and tablet manufacturers, they have at least 20 different components that go into every smartphone and tablet. They shipped over 1 Billion ICs last year into the smartphone market.
Fairchild Semiconductor analog and power management integrated circuits
Posted by – February 28, 2013
$169 HP Slate 7 Android tablet
Posted by – February 28, 2013
HP seems to have given up making the Palm OS and now is back in the Android tablet market with this affordable 7″ Rockchip RK3066 ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core tablet to be sold for $169.
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Lantronix $99 xPrintServer print server for iPhone and iPad
Posted by – February 28, 2013
It somehow supports 4000 legacy printer drivers through the cloud.
Logitech iPad keyboards
Posted by – February 28, 2013
Logitech is the leader in iPad keyboards, here are their latest thin and light Bluetooth keyboards for iPad standard and iPad Mini.
Allwinner A31S quad-core for Phablets, A20 dual-core pin-compatible with A10
Allwinner released the Allwinner A31 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor with SGX544MP2 back in December, and tablets have been shipping with it since January. Now at Mobile World Congress 2013, Allwinner announces the Allwinner A31S for use in Phablets, to support the modem module from ZTE and be optimized for Phablet use, Phablets are described as 3G/LTE phone devices between 5″ and 7″ in screen size. Allwinner also talks about the Allwinner A20 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali-400 that is pin-compatible with Allwinner A10 tablet designs, thus the A20 is expected to replace all Allwinner A10 tablet designs from March onwards.
299€ GoClever Hybrid, Rockchip RK3066 Tablet with Keyboard Dock
Check out this GoClever Hybrid tablet with keyboard dock. It’s similar to the Asus Transformer but for about half the price, selling at 299€ in 15 European countries. This device runs on the Rockchip RK3066 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 and they plan to also release one featuring the Allwinner A31 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 and 800 at Mobile World Congress 2013
Posted by – February 28, 2013
Qualcomm talks about their release of the Snapdragon 600 in devices unveiled at Mobile World Congress that are the Asus Transformer Infinity, LG Optimus G Pro and HTC One. At MWC 2013, Qualcomm also detailed more about their upcoming Snapdragon 200 and 400 series and they are also talking about the upcoming Snapdragon 800 series that increases GPU performance by 50%, supports 4K video encode and decode and many other new advanced features for the fastest smartphones and tablets to come later this year.
Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD
Posted by – February 27, 2013
5″ 720p screen on the MediaTek MT6577, can be dual-sim 42mbitps modem.
Alcatel One Touch Scribe Easy
Posted by – February 27, 2013
5″ WVGA Smartphone from Alcatel One Touch on a Qualcomm processor.
Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra, 6.45mm tichkness, 4.7″ Super AMOLED
Posted by – February 27, 2013
Using the MediaTek MT6577 1.2Ghz dual-core processor. The Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra they say is the worlds thinnest smartphone at 6.45mm tichkness, has a 4.7″ Super AMOLED screen, also features Alcatel One Touch Idol X and what they say is the most compact 4″ smartphone in the world. They sold 7 million smartphones in 2012, they are planning to sell 15-20 million smartphones in 2013.
HTC One, Qualcomm S600 1080p 4.7″ Android phone
Posted by – February 27, 2013
HTC releases their latest flagship phone. Featuring a 1.7ghz quad-core Qualcomm S600 processor, 4.7″ 1080p 468ppi display, HTC Ultrapixel camera (4 megapixels but better), HTC Blinkfeed (social/news aggregator), HTC Boomsound (good sound), HTC Zoe (gallery features) and an Interactive TV guide (control your TV from your phone).
Firefox OS launched at Mobile World Congress 2013
Posted by – February 27, 2013
Mozilla just launched the Firefox OS targetted at low-end phones for developing countries. Mozilla says it’s optimized for single-core low-megahertz phones, with low RAM, low storage, all apps are meant to be web apps. Mozilla volunteers say the goal is to bring the web to more people in developing countries.
LG Optimus G Pro, 5.5″ 1080p IPS display, 1.7Ghz Qualcomm S600
Posted by – February 26, 2013
This is LG’s latest high-end Smartphone, on the fastest Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor at 1.7Ghz, large 5.5″ 1080p screen, fast modem, MicroSD, removable battery, this phone is quite impressive.
LG F5, 4.3″ 940×540 IPS display, 1.2Ghz Qualcomm dual-core processor
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Here’s LG’s latest mid-priced Smartphone F series, here featuring the LG F5.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Here’s a quick demonstration of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet.
Silicon Image WiHD 60Ghz RF for wireless HD 4Gbitps full HD 60fps (up to 4K)
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Silicon Image showcases the WiHD standard for Wireless HD, full 4Gbitps bandwidth over the 60Ghz unlicensed spectrum. The WiHD consortium consists of Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Samsung, LG, TP Vision and Silicon image and it is an older more established alternative to Intel/Microsoft’s WiGig system which also functions on the same 60Ghz spectrum. Silicon Image here showcases their UltraGig 6400 sub-500mW WiHD processor which they have here installed in some modified Samsung Galaxy S3 and Kindle Fire HD to showcase how such devices can have built-in WiHD support to wirelessly stream the full HD 60fps full bitrate HD signal to a HDTV wirelessly.
P2i hydro-phobic nano-coating technology, makes all electronics water-resistant
Posted by – February 26, 2013
P2i can take 800 phones at the time in their type of plasma chamber machines, which can apply some type of nano-coating all around and all inside of the electronic devices such as phones, tablets, after this process is done, the devices become just about water-repellent, water-resistant, splash-proof, hydro-phobic, or how they call it. The phone can then be full of water but still work fine because the hydro-phobic coating covers all the PCB, processor, batteries and everything inside of the phone, protecting all the electronics from the water.
Lenovo S3000 uses MediaTek quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Lenovo announces the Android tablet market has overtaken the iPad market, with 53% worldwide market share for Android and 43% for iPad. Lenovo is the biggest tablet brand in China, with a tight relation to MediaTek, here’s Lenovo’s latest quad-core 7″ 1024×600 IPS tablet.
ST-Ericsson L8580 3Ghz eQuad ARM Cortex-A9 SD-FOI processor launched
Posted by – February 26, 2013
ST-Ericsson launches their new 3GHz NovaThor L8580 processor based on the FD-SOI process technology, to minimize power consumption and increase the performance of the ARM Cortex-A9 processor. ST-Ericsson claims 50% lower power consumption, 35% faster CPU and a 20% faster GPU and multimedia accelerator. You can read more about the ST-Ericsson L8580 in the press release
and you can watch the official videos:
Touchpal sentence-based prediction keyboard app for Android
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Touchpal shows their Android keyboard app that uses sentence prediction features.
