Ebot shows NEC/Renesas Cortex-A9 based 7″ capacitive tablet

Posted by – April 15, 2011

Ebot Digital Technology Co Ltd uses a high quality 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, and they are using the new NEC/Renesas ARM Cortex-A9 processor platform.

Ramos V70, Ramos T11Pro, Ramos T11AD, 5″ Android Powered resistive PMPs

Posted by – April 15, 2011

They do both offline and online Android 5″ resistive PMP. The Novatek HD800B are used in the offline Android PMP while the Rockchip RK2818 one in the T11AD does the WiFi connected Android stuff. Prices are $40, $50, $62 depending on the features.

Ramos T8Pro, $40 4.3″ Android PMP

Posted by – April 15, 2011

Ramos knows how to do basic PMPs, and now they also add Android support based on the Novatek HD800B ARM9 Processor at 400Mhz.

Ramos booth tour, featuring Ramos W18, 9.7″ capacitive ARM Cortex-A9 AmLogic Android Tablet

Posted by – April 15, 2011

A tour of the Ramos booth at the Hong Kong HKTDC electronics fair, based on the AmLogic 800Mhz ARM Cortex-A9 Single Core processor, the price starts around $200 when bought in bulk.

Performance test on AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 Android Set-top-box


Shenzhen Amidia Electronics Co Ltd makes this AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 800Mhz Single Core Set-top-box, this video features the performance of this device, web browsing on a HDTV and doing other stuff.

Bluekey Bluetooth Keyboards

Posted by – April 15, 2011

Some nice Bluetooth keyboard designs. They also explain some of the Bluetooth 3.0 standard advantages to come in their upcoming ARM Cortex-M3 powered Bluetooth 3.0 input devices, for lower power consumption, faster response time, easier setup.

Umedia shows a Freescale i.MX53 tablet prototype

Posted by – April 15, 2011

One of the first real i.MX53 tablet prototypes I have seen other than the reference design development kit.

C-Novo electrosystems Android PND GPS devices

Posted by – April 15, 2011

They add Android to their GPS navigation devices.

Shenzhen DBX electrical makes Mp3/Mp4 players, Tablets and more

Posted by – April 15, 2011

They make over 200 Mp3 players and PMPs, now they also make tablets.

Arnova 10 capacitive RK2918 to be released in May

Posted by – April 14, 2011

Here’s the Arnova 10 with capacitive touch screen and the RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 processor. At around $229 MSRP it could possibly become one of the best value 10.1″ ARM Cortex-A8 capacitive tablets on the market. It’s thin, uses most of the nice design features of the Archos 101 Internet Tablet released in October 2010, but removes the kick-stand (to lower cost), replaces some of the metallic design features with plastics (to lower cost), removes HDMI output (I need to let them confirm this, perhaps that was just removed on the prototype). This device uses the new 1.2Ghz Rockchip processor, with 1080p video codecs support (possibly all codecs at up to over 30mbitps high profile playback), new better graphics performance, but most importantly, this awesome 10.1″ tablet may be sold around $229/229€ at retail MSRP (with capacitive and rk2918), and there is a good chance Rockchip should be getting access to the Honeycomb source code soon (comon Google, give it to them sooner rather than later! (I have no idea if Rockchip has Honeycomb yet or not, I will try to interview Rockchip again about Honeycomb at China Sourcing Fair tomorrow)).

Trend Technology (HK) Ltd does Android Tablets

Posted by – April 14, 2011

A discussion with a Tablet industry salesman at Trend Technology (HK) Ltd about how it works for them to get those tablets made and distributed.

Uptek International Co Ltd makes Android TV Set-top-box


Uptek explains how they are doing their Android based set-top-box with customized UI solutions, and even VOD stuff.

Topun puts Android in LCOS Pico projector

Posted by – April 14, 2011

They make some LCOS pico projectors, they are now also experimenting with including Android in the pico projector.

Jiayinking turntable player, encodes to Mp3

Posted by – April 14, 2011

Retro LP turntable players with upgraded digital features like record to USB or SD card, CD burner/player, and some other stuff.

Hello Kitty in Hong Kong

Posted by – April 14, 2011

OK, now look forward to having hello kitty on all your home appliances. Prepare to be surprised!

Commax 7″ 4:3 Telechips ARM11 9902 $155 tablets

Posted by – April 14, 2011

Here’s http://commax.cc they also do Telechips ARM11 based tablets.

Archos 7c Home Tablet, RK2918 Capacitive

Posted by – April 13, 2011

Welcome to Archos Shenzhen offices, Sandy Chen is Archos OEM sales director, she introduces the new Archos 7c Home Tablet, an updated Archos Home Tablet with capacitive screen and RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 performance chip inside.

HKTDC Electronics Fair – Day 1

Posted by – April 13, 2011

The first day of the Hong Kong HKTDC Electronics Fair is over, it’s huge, gigantic, I filmed a bunch of videos that I am now going to upload and publish as soon as possible. Look for cool new ARM Cortex-A9 products, new ARM Powered tablets, Smartphones and much more coming up. Make sure to subscribe to my RSS feed and subscribe to my YouTube channel to keep updated with my latest upcoming videos.

Review: $120 Hero H2000 MTK6516 Android Froyo Powered iphone4-copy


I actually found this being sold at 780 renminbi ($120) at the Shenzhen Electronics Market the day after I bought it. So the price for this is actually as low as that. Also see my video review of the similar but even cheaper $87 FG8 3.5″ capacitive MTK6515 HTC Desire clone. And my video interview with Karasnn.com the probable manufacturer of this $120 MTK6516 Hero H2000 smartphone.

Here are the specs for this cool $120 Android Powered iphone4-copy:

Hero H2000
MTK6516 ARM9 460Mhz + 250Mhz DSP
Android 2.2 Froyo
2GB Flash storage, MicroSD expansion
3.5″ HVGA Capacitive touch screen
GSM/GPRS/EDGE Dual-SIM card slots (no 3G)
WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm stereo heaphones, 2 Megapixel back-facing, 0.3Megapixel front-facing cameras

I bought one of my H2000 from Sinoteck for $149 (969 renminbi) at http://bysino.net a partner of http://dhgate.com (they were exhibitor at the Shenzhen Electronics Fair) and the other I bought for $131 (850 renminbi) on the Shenzhen electronics market, then finding it being sold for $120 (780 renminbi) the day after.

Rockchip RK2918 for Smartphones

Posted by – April 13, 2011

Rockchip is moving strongly into bringing high-end smartphone functionality into the $200-$300 mid-range smartphone pricing, with 3G support and more. They are also providing their RK2818 series for sub-$100 Android smartphones with ARM9 performance.