Lenovo LePhone (Chinese market Android customizations)

Posted by – January 11, 2010

It has about the same features as the Nexus One, a 3.7″ AMOLED capacitative touch screen, a 1ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. But this one runs a customized Android user interface for the Chinese market instead of running the full Google Experience. It should be sold at below $300 unlocked in China when it is released.

Que Plastic Logic ebook reader

Posted by – January 11, 2010

The Que is an e-ink reader with new software features and services to make it easy for high end users to get their news, their books and their documents with them.

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Motorola XT800 Android at CES 2010

Posted by – January 11, 2010

3.7″ WVGA Texas Instruments OMAP3 Android smart phone by Motorola. Also comes with dual CDMA and GSM sim card reader. It is probably one of the worlds first phones with a mini-HDMI output and bother 720p camcorder and 720p video playback support. I should be able to stream Youtube in 720p quality onto a HDTV as well.

Motorola MT710 at CES 2010

Posted by – January 10, 2010

Here’s another new Motorola Android phone with a 3.7″ resistive touch screen with a stylus input useful for pen text input which is popular in China for entering the Chinese characters, and comes with Chinese Mobile TV. It uses a Marvell ARM processor and runs the China Mobile version of Android called ophone.

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Motorola Backflip at CES 2010

Posted by – January 10, 2010

A new design for an Android phone by Motorola where the screen flips on the back of the keyboard.

Motorola Cliq at CES 2010

Posted by – January 10, 2010

Little compact Android Motorola phone.

Lenovo Ideapad U1 Tablet/Laptop hybrid

Posted by – January 10, 2010

Lenovo is presenting a hybrid ARM Powered Tablet mode that docks into an Intel Core Duo bottom to become the Laptop form factor.

Marvell Armada 610 powers Android Tablet reference design


Greg Stearman from Marvell showcases the amazing new Armada 610 processor from Marvell in a prototype reference design tablet that can run Windows Mobile or Android OS and which can playback 1080p video and render 3D graphics at the same time. Amazing stuff right here.

Chromium Demo Video temporarily offline, check my other CES videos for now

Posted by – January 9, 2010

This video about the cheap Chromium OS Tablet revolution was a bit too good (smooth Chromium on ARM Powered device!!), so I have been asked to remove it for now and edit some parts out and upload a new video.

I hope to get an edited version of it back online at some point. Or perhaps they will agree to let me film new video about it soon.

This page got some coverage at:
http://slashdot.org/story/10/01/10/1649202/199-Freescale-Tablet-Design-Runs-Chromium-OS
http://www.liliputing.com/2010/01/freescale-tablet-running-chromium-os-video.html

Please, while waiting for the video to come back online, do check a selection of my other cool CES coverage videos:

Marvell Armada 610 powers Android Tablet reference design

Quanta ARM Powered Android laptop

Freescale at CES 2010

First Look at the iRex 800SG e-ink e-reader

Freescale powered e-ink e-readers

MSI Tegra2 10.1″ Android Tablet

HP Android Laptop

Boxee Box at CES 2010

Charbax tests Pixel Qi at CES 2010

Notion Ink Pixel Qi tablet with Nvidia Tegra2 processor

Nvidia Tegra2 ARM Cortex A9 at CES 2010

Chumby powers the Sony Dash (interview with Chumby)

Please also do check out all those other videos and blog about those if you like them thanks.

Subscribe to my RSS feed thanks, I still have 15-20 CES videos that I am trying to upload (Luxor Las Vegas Hotel Ethernet upload speed is slow and capped at 512kbit/s)

Quanta ARM Powered laptop design at CES 2010

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Here’s one thin really nice looking Android laptop design by Quanta, one of the largest laptop manufacturers in the world.

First Look at the iRex 800SG e-ink e-reader

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Here’s an awesome 8.1″ e-ink e-reader by iRex with wacom pen input for selections in the user interface and for annotations and with built-in 3G connectivity.

Freescale at CES 2010

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Steve Sperle, head of Consumer Segment Marketing at Freescale, shows us an overview of the product demonstrated at their Suite several new tablet, e-reader, laptops, smartbooks and interactive display implementations of their i.MX515 ARM based processor technology.

Freescale powered e-ink e-readers

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Freescale is powering about 90% of all the worlds e-ink based e-readers. Here’s an overview of all of them.

Freescale powered Smartbooks at CES 2010

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Freescale is powering a new Smartbook design by Wistron running Canonical’s Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Sharp runs a Freescale processor in the Sharp PC-Z1 and Acer is launching the DisplayPlus D241H 24-inch smart monitor.

Thinkfree Mobile 2.0 with Editing on the Acer A1 Liquid Android phone

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Thinkfree 2.0 ads Editing support in office files support such as Word, Excell and Powerpoint support on Android devices.

Via Technologies at CES 2010

Posted by – January 9, 2010

Via Technologies is powering the OLPC One Laptop Per Child XO 1.5 with a Via C7 1ghz processor on the VX855 chipset that can support up to 1080p video playback and other much more powerful things which also can help OLPC lower the price more quickly in terms of supporting the most up to date components of the industry that lower in price constantly. Via also has an ARM licence and is doing all kinds of things with that.

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Fraunhoffer IIS shows HD-AAC audio codec

Posted by – January 9, 2010

HD-AAC is a new lossless audio codec developed by Fraunhoffer among others and which uses ARM processors in this Logitech device which is able to playback that form factor.

Drobo at CES 2010

Posted by – January 8, 2010

Drobo is a smart NAS storage hard drive management system.

MSI Tegra2 Android Tablet at CES 2010

Posted by – January 8, 2010

MSI is now also working on making ARM Powered devices, including this Tegra2 powered 10.1″ Android Tablet.

HP Android Qualcomm Snapdragon Laptop

Posted by – January 8, 2010

This may be one of the best implementations of Android on an ARM Powered Laptop so far, HP is showing off their masterful customized Android user interface for the ARM Qualcomm Snapdragon based laptop form factor. It has great automatic standby and resume, connected standby, and a range of customized high resolution Android applications, widgets a touch screen and even hardware Search, Home/Menu/Back buttons on the super well made design.

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