Leicke Chinfai Wii remote wireless charger

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Here’s a 30€ wireless Wiimote charger. It uses induction charging and a special battery pack for two wiimotes.

Aiptek PocketCinema Z20 720p camcorder and projector combo

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Here’s probably one of the first 720p camcorders with a built-in projector. With this you can take some cool videos and project them directly on any white wall to show friends and family, pretty cool.

Aiptek PocketCinema V20

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Aiptek is showing the latest generation of their pico projectors. You can see my popular video of their previous generation of pico projectors that I filmed at IFA 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4-BkGQ2YGI

Aiptek 3D camera and 3D screen

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Aiptek is showing probably one of the cheapest 3D camcorders on the market so far. It films 3D at VGA resolution, to then watch on any TV using polarized auto-shutter 3D glasses (or however they are called).

Hanvon 8″ touchscreen e-reader prototype

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Hanvon is working on a 8″ and 9″ e-reader prototypes to be released once the software and the screen are stable and mass produced.

Hanvon WISEreader N618 at CeBIT 2010

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Wifi, stylus touch screen input, 6″ e-reader by http://hanvon.com they may be releasing this with China Mobile with a cellular modem option instead of WiFi for the Chinese market. It comes with a very basic user interface and uses wireless modem or WiFi to access specific e-book stores to download the e-books. The stylus pen can be used for the interfaces as well as for writing annotations, inputting text and more.

Archos Vision A30VC, A24VB, A18VB, A15VS and A14VG series of products at CeBIT 2010

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Archos is releasing a whole bunch of new cheap Mp3 and Mp4 players at the CeBIT 2010 consumer electronics show. Here is an overview of most of the new ones. It enables Archos to position itself as a low-cost provider of Mp3 players, with really good affordable value for retailers and to position the Archos brand broader on the market, interest people in then also checking out Archos higher end Android devices.

Archos Vision A43VB

Posted by – March 2, 2010

Here’s a 4.3″ Archos PMP, it will playback most video formats and be sold for only 99€ in Europe. This may be one of the cheapest 4.3″ touch screen PMP devices on the European and US market.

I will film 50 videos at CeBIT 2010

Posted by – March 1, 2010
Category: CeBIT

While I still have a few videos to still upload and post from my Mobile World Congress 2010 coverage, I am just about to start filming 50 videos at the CeBIT consumer electronics show in Hannover Germany which goes from 2nd to 6th of March, so subscribe to the RSS feed, check back here at http://ARMdevices.net these next few days.

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HTC Desire, HTC Legend and HTC HD2 Mini at Mobile World Congress 2010

Posted by – March 1, 2010

These are the latest HTC smart phones shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. This video shows how the HTC Legend is an improvement on every aspect compared to the HTC Hero and offers some talk and explanations for HTC Sense UI, and the HTC desire compared with the Google Nexus One.

Exclusive video: Archos 7 Home Tablet released for $179

Posted by – March 1, 2010

Check out my exclusive video of the Archos 7 Home Tablet that will be released in April/May for $179 in the USA and 149€ in Europe:

It is powered by a 600mhz Rockchip 2808 processor, does web browsing pretty well (for an ARM9 processor) and plays all video codecs at up to 720p video playback (at up to limited 2500kbit/s bitrates for 720p).

For now, this Archos 7 Home Tablet is being released this next month or by May already and at this amazingly low $179 price for the 2GB version with MicroSD card slot. There will also be a 8GB version and maybe larger capacities for slightly more expensive. It also has a mini-jack to composite video-output using the headphones jack and micro-USB to USB host features built-in. The built-in stereo speakers are very decent for movie watching and the 7″ 800×480 resistive touch-screen is just very fine and does allow for fast text input.

Archos is still working on the Android software optimizations, it comes with special video player, audio player and file explorer applications by default. My guess is that the Google Marketplace could be hacked to work onto it by the open development community at http://forum.archosfans.com

Also, my expectation is that Google will release an Android 2.2 or so version which will provide the full Google Marketplace experience on all large screen Android Tablets and even on Android Laptop form factors and also to provide such for lower cost platforms than the latest ARM Cortex based ones. See my interview with Andy Rubin and Eric Schmidt about those speculations: http://138.2.152.197/2010/02/22/i-interviewed-eric-schmidt-and-andy-rubin-at-mwc-off-camera-for-now-watch-eric-schmidts-keynote-video/

Here are some pictures of this device (click to see full sized version on Picasa):
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You can discuss this video at http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=31278

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Capacitive 6″ e-reader prototype by Sagem Wireless at Mobile World Congress 2010

Posted by – February 27, 2010

This is the first 6″ e-reader with a capacitive touch screen, it enables it to be much more compact than the Kindle as text input can be done on the touch screen. Although this is an early prototype demonstrated by Sagem Wireless at Mobile World Congress. The feature of using a capacitive touch screen on the e-reader does not remove from the readability of the screen and allows for finger touch screen input through the interfaces. A capacitive stylus input may also be supported. This device will include 3G and WiFi wireless data modems.

Here’s a picture showing the size of it next to the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android at 4.8″ and the PocketBook 360 5″ e-reader:

Qualcomm’s Next Generation 7X30 Smartphone Platform

Posted by – February 25, 2010

The 7X30 is Qualcomm’s next generation Snapdragon processor to come in some of the next generation of Qualcomm powered Smart Phones later this year. This is what the Nexus Two or HTC HD3 may look like. This video features demonstrations of the improved video playback, built-in HDMI output, improved 3D acceleration and even more advanced animated and 3D Android user interfaces.

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Texas Instruments 65nm OMAP3430 vs 45nm OMAP3630

Posted by – February 23, 2010

Atul Aggarwal, Director of Product Marketing at Texas Instruments, explains the performance difference between the OMAP3430 and OMAP3630 series of processors at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

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Texas Instruments talks about Archos at Mobile World Congress 2010

Posted by – February 23, 2010

Ameet Suri, Strategic Marketing Manager at Texas Instruments, explains some of how Texas Instruments is working with French company Archos on powering the awesome Archos 5 Internet Tablet series running Android, what kind of work goes into it, he tells a bit about how TI supports Archos and how Archos innovates in the industry.

Full disclosure, I am a huge fan of Archos and have been for years and I also run the biggest Archos forum community at http://forum.archosfans.com

The sub-$200 unsubsidized Android phones are coming

Posted by – February 23, 2010

Here’s a very interesting article talking about all the cheaper Android smart phones that are coming very soon and that might even already have arrived in China: http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/02/22/htc-smart-face-new-mass-market-smartphone.htm

Marvell, ST Ericsson, Texas Instruments and carriers Orange, Telefonica O2, KPN in the Netherlands, Telecom Italia in Italy and Netcom in Norway are all talking about wanting to sell cheaper pre-paid only unsubsidized Android phones to consumers in Europe according to this article.

chipmakers are rising to the challenge – Marvell showed off a chipset to enable a sub-$99 smartphone; Texas Instruments discussed a cutdown implementation of its OMAP3 application processor for midrange handsets or new device formats like e-readers; and ST-Ericsson pinned its growth hopes on ‘smartphones for all’.

Alcatel Mobile Phones introduced its first Android phone, the OT-980, at Mobile World Congress. It sports a touchscreen, vertical slider Qwerty keyboard, Wi-Fi and HSDPA and will ship in June at an unsubsidized price point of below €200.

Unlike most Alcatel phones, which are targeted at developing economies, this will be marketed mainly in Europe, with the UK, France, Spain and Italy the prime markets because the firm believes the Alcatel brand is strong there. Alcatel Mobile Phones is owned by TCT Mobile of China, which acquired the business from what is now Alcatel-Lucent several years ago but kept rights to the brand. Like other Chinese players like ZTE and Huawei, it aims to use affordable smartphones as the route to gain a presence outside developing markets.

Source: http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/02/22/htc-smart-face-new-mass-market-smartphone.htm

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ARM Cortex M4 released

Posted by – February 23, 2010
Category: ARM

It should bring more functionality to your washing machine, toaster and everything. This is to power what people have been talking about with IPv6, where everything will be connected to the Internet.

Shyam Sadasivan talks about the launch of the Cortex-M4 processor at ARM’s official Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/ARMflix:

Found via: http://gigaom.com/2010/02/22/arm-launches-a-smarter-brain-for-the-internet-of-things/

Flash 10.1 demos on Nexus One

Posted by – February 23, 2010

Also check my video interview with product manager of Flash at Adobe Richard Galvan filmed at Mobile World Congress at http://138.2.152.197/2010/02/15/adobe-flash-10-1-at-mobile-world-congress-2010/

Following video was found at http://www.bytearray.org/?p=1470:

netbooknews.com: Dell Mini 5 demonstration

Posted by – February 23, 2010
Category: Tablets, Qualcomm, MWC, Android

This is Dell’s 4.8″ capacitative Android Tablet with built-in 3G. From the video, it sounds like this Dell Android tablet might be much more expensive than the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android which is available since October 2009 for $249 in Radio Shack. No confirmation in this video about video codecs, bitrates playback, though it is said it will have HDMI output through a dock. Thus from this video, we can’t know if full DivX video playback, full MKV H264 high profile video playback is supported at high bitrates through that HDMI output and on the LCD. No information if it will come in several different capacities as Archos comes from 8GB to 500GB using a 2.5″ hard drive.

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NewGadgets.de: Qualcomm Mirasol display demonstration

Posted by – February 23, 2010
Category: Displays, Qualcomm, MWC

A new reflective display technology by Qualcomm, filmed by newgadgets.de:

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