OK this is cool, are you unsure about spending $599 on an unlocked Galaxy Nexus, or spending upwards over $2000 on a 2-year contract for a real Galaxy Nexus, you can now also get this $142 Galaxy Nexus copy in Shenzhen, running on the new awesome MediaTek MT6575 ARM Cortex-A9 (single core) processor, it can run Ice Cream Sandwich smoothly, and the LCD quality looks great! (I forgot to check if the LCD brightness was set at maximum when comparing, I think my Super AMOLED HD was set to maximum brightness).
The ARM Powered sub-$100 Ultrabooks are coming. Put the Chrome browser for Android on this ICS Laptop, and you’ve pretty much got an Ultrabook-disruptor for sub-$100. They claim 5h battery life on the included 2100mAh battery, and they can nearly double that using a 4000mAh battery that can also be made to fit in this ARM Powered laptop casing. Are you interested in buying this $85 Boxchip A10 Laptop in a group buy? Let me know in the comments and I’ll try to see if it’s possible for them to ship out a batch of samples as a group buy.
Avaid shows their new compact 7″ 1024×600 Boxchip A10 based ICS tablet for sub-$102, and their Android based 7″ resistive and 10.1″ capacitive Android desk VOIP phone.
http://www.efirstview.com shows some of their newest original tablet designs including a prototype of an ultra-sim Boxchip A10 based tablet. They also have ICS working on 10.1″ Rockchip RK2918 based Laptops.
They are talking about up to 64GB nand, up to 2GB ram, an ultra slim and light 10.1″ 1280×800 form factor. You can guess the price or contact them for more.
Good news: all my 10+ video files have been recovered by a hacker expert on the 3rd floor of the Wan Chai computer market in Hong Kong (hkd$1600), he says they used a lab to open up the SD card and do some type of operation on the card, about an hour later they had all the files ready to be transfered back to my storage. Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions for how I could have done it myself!
Trying to restore the video files very slowly (it seems to take over 12 hours per video) using GetDataBack for FAT (on Windows 7), I will try to follow the suggestions posted in the comments in this thread (thanks a lot for your suggestions for how I should proceed to try to recover these video files!) in the next few days to try to see if the video files can somehow be recovered. I’m hoping that the data is not physically damaged but that the SD card just has some kind of temporary file system corruption going on with it. This makes me want to upgrade to a more professional camcorder that can record to 2 SD cards simultaneously for redundancy.
Here you can see the resulting video trying to restore each video (a process that seems to take something like 12 hours per 400mb video file using GetDataBack for FAT):
This is terrible if I cannot find a way to recover these files, it’s a whole days worth of video-blogging that would be nearly unusable. I understand that an eventual physical damage of the SD card would be impossible to recover from. But I have thus far video-blogged about 30 videos from the HKTDC Electronics Fair (more to be video-blogged there tomorrow), over 30 videos have been filmed at the China Sourcing Fair and nearly 30 videos were filmed at the Shenzhen Electronics Fair.
Please let me know if you can recognize a possible bug in the way I am trying to recover the file looking at that file on YouTube or analysing it here as I’ve uploaded a copy of this original recovered video sample to Google Docs. (my airbnb appartment in Hong Kong seem to have more than 20mbitps upload connections on their free WiFi access points which is awesome to upload videos overnight. Even uploading HD videos over HSPA+ is fast enough to be done on the unlimited $78hkd 7-day SIM cards one2free and other Hong Kong 3G carriers offer).
http://www.rock-chips.com shows their newest Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor integrated in already a range of 9.7″ tablets being made by a series of Rockchip partners, also being optimized for the Set-top-box (I guess possibly Google TV!), and they are also talking about Google Certification, and their new RK2906 processor which removes the HDMI output and other things to further lower the cost of entry level tablets. Rockchip also announces RK31XX for Q2 and RK32XX for Q3 2012, bringing 28nm Single-core ultra-low power consuming ARM Cortex-A9 and bringing even Quad-core.
http://smartdevices.com.cn is famous for having made the SmartQ tablets over the past 5-6 years, their early tablets were running some type of Windows CE I think, now their latest tablets run on the Texas Instruments OMAP4460 and OMAP4430 processors.
Apical Technology Research (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd shows their latest Boxchip A10 based tablets including a $60 5″ capacitive Boxchip A10 based tablet that they sell for $60 in bulk.
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