SMT Line Tour, USB Type-C Hub, 6-in-1 Colorii PocketHub

Posted by Charbax – April 28, 2017
Category: Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Colorii

This is the SMT Line and testing process for the Colorii PocketHub, with 3 times full function testing for every USB Type-C hub after SMT and DIP. The 1st test is 100% current testing to check out if there is any shortcut on the PCBA, they set 5V on the current equipment and connect the PCBA by Type C port, if the current is above 0.02A, that means the PCBA have circurt problem, then they send it back to production, the 2nd test is 100% full function test of each port, HDMI, SD card, micro-SD card, 2xUSB 3.0A, specially for the USB Type-C fast charge! They test every unit on a Macbook. The 3rd test is after assembly with case, they do the same test of PCBA again (100% for every pieces, full function), to confirm every pieces work perfectly before shipping to the customer. You can also watch my video filmed at the Hong Kong fair featuring the new 10-in-1 Colorii USB Type-C Hub and my Tooling factory tour video.

Distributors can contact Colorii here:
Gennie Peng, Sales Manager
sales@colorii.cc
Mobile: +8615013777080 (wechat/whatsapp)
http://colorii.cc

Factory tour at 6-in-1 Colorii PocketHub USB Type-C Hub with HDMI, SD, MicroSD, 2xUSB3, PD

Posted by Charbax – April 28, 2017
Category: Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Colorii

This is the Colorii PocketHub Tooling factory in Shenzhen China where they make the casings and assembly of the Colorii PocketHub featuring 6-in-1 USB Type-C hub that is great for my Samsung Chromebook Plus, for Apple Macbook, other laptops with USB Type-C ports and for Smartphones also. You can also watch my video filmed at the Hong Kong fair featuring the new 10-in-1 Colorii USB Type-C Hub and my video filmed at the Colorii SMT Line.

Distributors can contact for more information:
sales@colorii.cc
Gennie Peng, Sales Manager
Mobile: +8615013777080 (Wechat/Whatsapp)
http://colorii.cc

10-in-1 Colorii USB Type-C Hub with 4xUSB3, HDMI, VGA, Gigabit Ethernet, SD and MicroSD

Posted by Charbax – April 28, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, China Sourcing Fair, Colorii

Colorii shows its new 10-in-1 USB Type-C hub that comes with a foldable cable, 4x USB 3.0A ports, SD card slot, micro SD card slot, Gigabit Ethernet, perfect for me to use with my Samsung Chromebook Plus, it also supports 1080p dual display when using HDM and VGA at the same time. You can see my videos filmed at Colorii Tooling factory and SMT line.

Distributors can contact Colorii for distribution price here:
Gennie Peng, Sales Manager
sales@colorii.cc
Mobile: +8615013777080 (Wechat/Whatsapp)
http://colorii.cc

Dr John C Taylor OBE FREng unveils the Taylor Centre at Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK

Posted by Charbax – April 27, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos

Interview with John Crawshaw Taylor OBE FREng, British inventor, entrepreneur, horologist, best known for his invention of the Strix bimetallic thermostat controls shipped into more than 2 Billion electric kettles sold worldwide. His inventions used by over 30% of the world’s population, he received 4 Queen’s Awards also in recognition of the over 150 patents in his own name. His company Strix employs 1000 people, holds over 600 patents, and turns over more than £100 million per year.

In this video he unveils the new Taylor Centre at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London UK, named after him in recognition of his donation that enabled the project.

John C Taylor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to business and horology as in 2008 he unveiled the Corpus Clock Chronophage, installed on the outer wall of the Taylor Library of Corpus Christi College showing the grasshopper escapement, part of a conventional clock mechanism that was invented by John Harrison. All of the Chronophage clocks use this method of telling time, which allows Taylor to explore the concept of relative time as theorised by Albert Einstein, you can watch a video about John C Taylor featuring his inventions, his passions for clocks and aeroplanes here in this video by http://vsitv.net:

$90 Bezel-less 5.5″ Sharp LCD, UMIDIGI Crystal

Posted by Charbax – April 20, 2017
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

UMIDIGI shows the cheapest bezel-less phone I have yet found, selling at only $90 in bulk to distributors who order at least 1000 units (if you are a distributor, you can contact them at the contact infos below to enquire about price based on your order quantity). UMIDIGI positionned the phone call speaker hole at the top of the phone (I am not sure if sound quality would be best, I was not able to test it) and the microphone is below the phone on the side. Only shipping HD 720p display for now, but they also plan to have a 6″ version to be called the UMIDIGI Crystal Pro coming as soon as Sharp is providing them with the 6″ display (that one would probably be 1080p).

Distributors can contact UMIDIGI here:
SHenzhen UMIDIGI Technology Co Ltd
Hugo Cui, Business Development Manager
hugo@91umi.com
Mobile: +8613751152650
Skype: hugo-cui

$135 Bezel-less 5.5″ AMOLED, IDWell D10 and D10 Pro

Posted by Charbax – April 20, 2017
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

IDWELL is showing their D10 and D10 Pro bezel-less Smartphone running on a MT6750 to MT6757 (higher clock frequency version) Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 with a 5.5″ 720p or 1080p AMOLED display (price difference is $18, 1080p is the Pro), with 3GB RAM, 32GB Flash, with a 4GB RAM and 64GB Flash option also. 5 or 8 megapixel front camera, dual 13 or 16 megapixel back camera, 3000mAh battery, 7.4mm thickness, 4G LTE support. IDWell suggests holding the phone in the opposite way, I suggest that would only be for when doing selfies or when doing phone calls as they positioned the phone call speakers, selfie cameras and back cameras at the bottom of the phone, but the UI I think should be set to flip so the phone can mostly be used in the other way with the bezel lessness at the top for anything else done on the phone.

The price starts at $135 for bulk orders of at least 3000 units, distributors can contact IDWell here:

Shenzhen IDWELL Technology Co Ltd
Sergey Sukhonenko, Regional Sales Manager
sales03@joyhong.com
Mobile: +8615626506107
http://idwell.com

$170 Doogee Mix 5.5″ Bezel-less AMOLED, MT6757 Octa-core, Android 7

Posted by Charbax – April 19, 2017
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Doogee presents their 5.5″ Mix phone, with nearly no bezels on three sides, although they squeezed in the phone call speakers at the very top small bezel of the phone for better audio quality compared with Xiaomi Mix 1’s speaker design, they also have the proximity sensor towards the bottom of the phone, where they also have the selfie camera. On the back are dual-cameras, a very thin design with 3580mAh batter, with MediaTek MT6757 with LTE dual SIM card or 1 SIM Card and one MicroSD card slot, 16 megapixel back camera, 5 megapixel selfie camera. They have a front fingerprint and run Android 7.0. To be released by June 1st 2017. The factory price for 1000+ orders will be about $170 for the 4GB RAM and 64GB Flash version, and about $180 for 6GB RAM and 64GB Flash. Thus the retail price for 4GB/64GB could be about $249.

Distributors can contact Doogee here:
Ruby Fatimah
Sales Manager
fatima@doogee.cc
Skype: rubykok-0425
Mobile: +86 13530535990 (whatsapp)
http://doogee.cc

Bestek Power Strips Multi-port USB Type-C Fast Chargers with Surge Protection

Posted by Charbax – April 18, 2017
Category: Power Banks, Exclusive videos, China Sourcing Fair

Bestek shows some of their Multi-port chargers, including their USB Type-C Wall Charger 30W 4-port. The Bestek Power Strip 8-Outlet 1500 Joules Surge Protector with 8A 6-Port USB Charging Power Strip. Some of the BESTEK Multi-port power adapters have Quick Charge, 4-Port, 6-Port, 8-Port and more, all have Surge Protection, they also have a 5400mAh Car Jump Starter and the Bestek LED Desk Lamps with 4 Lighting Modes, 5 levels Dimmable, Adjustable Arm, Full-Touch Control Panel and 2.4A USB Charging Port.

Distributors can contact Bestek here:
Susan Zheng
susan@bestekcorp.com
Sales Manager
Skype: shenzhen-susan
http://bestekcorp.com

Allwinner VR9, 6K30p, 4K60p for VR, Allwinner A63, 28nm Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-T760MP2

Posted by Charbax – April 18, 2017
Category: Tablets, VR, Smart Glass, Speakers, 4K UHD, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Qualcomm, China Sourcing Fair, Android, POS

Allwinner launches their new Allwinner VR9 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-T760 GPU for higher performance All-in-one VR. 6K VR can render about 6000×3000, thus upcoming VR displays with something around 3000×3000 for each eye. Then Allwinner A63 is Allwinner’s new Quad-core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-T760MP2 GPU with support for 2K displays, on a lower power consuming 28nm process, for longer battery life, to come to the marketing within the next 1-2 months from now. At the Allwinner booth is the Seegene.com Allwinner H8 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 powered Augmented Reality headset with dual 1280×800 OLED micro-displays reflected through a prism for sale for about $1000. Allwinner also shows some of their latest tablets, kids tablets, AI speakers with Amazon Alexa API support, baby monitoring tablet and camera, panning camera tablet, A64 Powered Tablets and 2-in-1 with Android 7.0 GMS tested. The Aikun Morphus X300 having features like the Nintendo Switch but having been released a while before Nintendo. POS machines, the new Allwinner Y10 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 for interactive connected photo frames with gesture control support. All-in-one VR. A64 development board by Occocci, LTE connected solutions with Qualcomm, and solutions for the Smart Assistant Speakers market.

Onyx BOOX Max Carta 13.3″ Flexible E Ink 2200×1650

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2017
Category: E-readers, Exclusive videos, NXP, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Onyx, Android

Onyx unveils the world’s first 13.3″ Flexible high-resolution E Ink Carta device, for the first time shown to the public, with an amazing 2200×1650 resolution, fast handwriting for annotations and notes, beautiful rendering of A4 documents, pdf, epub and any other formats compatible with e-readers on Android. This is just one of the whole range of E Ink Carta devices shown by Onyx, they also have 6″ devices, 6.8″, 9.7″ and the 10.3″ device and the 9.7″ ONYX Typewriter that I also filmed in this other Onyx video, ONYX also shows that it will be possible to mirror or extend a laptop display (or any other HDMI source) onto an upcoming 13.3″ ONYX device and also ONYX has an amazing 9.7″ ultra-light device with capacitive buttons in the works featured at the end of this video.

Distributors can contact Onyx International here:
Onyx International Inc.
Andreu
andreu@onyx-international.com
Skype: andreu.onyx
Mobile: +86 133 6004 2413
http://www.onyx-international.com/en/

Onyx E Ink Laptop and 10.3″ Flexible E Ink Mobius Reader, Onyx Typewriter and Onyx 10.3″ Boox Buddy

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2017
Category: Laptops, E-readers, Exclusive videos, NXP, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Onyx, Android

Onyx Typewriter has up to 25 days battery life in use (up to 50+ days battery life in standby according to Onyx), it is the world’s first E Ink Laptop. The screen can be perfect to type texts outdoors, during the day in the sunlight, in the park, on your boat, on your balcony, on the beach, to get some natural sunlight while doing work! Of course the E Ink Laptop cannot replace your existing laptop, this is why a smart UI is going to be required. Onyx Typewriter runs Android so a smart app/instance could potentially make this great.

Onyx 10.3″ BOOX Buddy from Onyx (at 7min27sec in this video) is one of the most amazing E Ink devices that I have even seen, amazingly light, thin, the E Ink display is flexible! Flush with the bezels, has a digitizer annotations support and capacitive touch, extremely beautiful and check how quick the stylus input is, it feels nearly like writing with a pen on paper!

These new awesome Onyx devices are two of the coolest new devices in the world. Here are just two, but there is more (check my other Onyx video featuring Onyx BOOX Max Carta 13.3″ 2200×1650 Flexible E Ink device here) could enter mass production and be released in the months to come, when they can be perfected for release. Hopefully the price for these will be affordable, that might depend on the popularity and demand for these special E Ink displays, as the highest cost of these devices is the E Ink display and E Ink prices their displays cheaply only if the volumes are going to be big enough.

Distributors can contact Onyx International here:
Onyx International Inc.
Andreu
andreu@onyx-international.com
Skype: andreu.onyx
Mobile: +86 133 6004 2413
http://www.onyx-international.com/en/

Geniatech Embedded Solutions, Developer Board 4X, world’s smallest Snapdragon 410 board

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2017
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Embedded World, Geniatech, Android, Ubuntu, Windows

Geniatech presents their new Embedded and Develpment board Solutions, with full in-house support and development for customized development for interested customers around the world. Supporting Windows 10 IoT Core, Android and some Linux. Geniatech shows their new Developer Board 4X, the world’s smallest 64bit Qualcomm 410 based board, can be used for home applications, to easily connect everything to advanced IoT.

OpenMandriva ARM Powered Laptop at the OpenMandriva Summit in Budapest

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2017
Category: Laptops, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Android

At the OpenMandriva meeting in Budapest with Bernhard Rosenkränzer and Colin Close, President of OpenMandriva, showing off the ARM Powered laptop that could run Open Mandriva at the Open Mandriva meeting in Budapest. This video was taken at the OpenMandriva annual meeting which this year took place in the City of Budapest where the OpenMandriva team met to talk about their plans to workw to move their distro forward. One of the major decisions taken was to move fully to the Clang compiler suite by using lld as their default linker. This is in line with their efforts to create a distro that can be used on more modern architectures. The Clang compiler/linker suite brings with it built in cross-compilers which make the creation of packages for alternate processors such as on their prototype laptop using hardware for 64bit ARM architecture using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Extended 96Boards, they have built sufficient core software to be able to provide a distro for it. Recently a key element required for them to bring this project to fruition was the demonstration of freedreno graphics driver running on the latest Adreno GPU. The OpenMandriva team are looking forward to test this new driver alongside the OpenMandriva software compilation. Another major discussion point was the OpenMandriva package management system. A decision was taken to start using the dnf package manager for the core management function, they will however provide a wrapper script so that users will still be able to use familiar command to perform package management. These changes will have a major impact on their distributed build farm as it will require restructuring the repository metadata on their ABF (Automated Build Farm) while they are doing this they will take the opportunity to incorporate a QA system and a method for building multiple dependent packages within a container. They hope these changes will improve the overall quality of the OpenMandriva distribution. If you would like to to join the OpenMandriva Association either as a user or as a developer you can visit their website http://www.openmandriva.org or contract them through the developer irc channel on freenode #openmandriva-cooker, if you have no packaging experience there are plenty of interesting jobs to do that don’t require coding skills.

Speeding up Android boot with Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Linaro Mobile Group

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2017
Category: Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect, Android

Bernhard Rosenkränzer, also known as Bero, on the Linaro Mobile Group, talks about some of the latest things Linaro is doing on Mobile, since many of the optimizations that he has been showing over the past years have been integrated by Google into Android, here talking about some of the latest things Linaro is doing to speed up the boot time of Android devices, speeding up all aspects of Android and mobile.

Andrea Gallo, Linaro Segment Group Manager, intern at Acorn Computers

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Andrea Gallo talks about his role at Linaro and the ROI value for Linaro members. He also covers his early days as software programmer and summer student at Acorn working on the very first ARM-based Archimedes, when he met ARM guru Sophie Wilson who I interviewed here 1of3, 2of3, 3of3 Andrea talks as well about the challenges that made Acorn turn into what ARM is today.

Chris Turner, Acorn first employee, ARM Marketing Director, CPU Group and Advanced Technologies

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

ARM is now 26 years old, this is my interview with Chris Turner, he was the first employee at Acorn Computers, who created the Acorn Archimedes, the BBC Micro and worked together with inventor and designer of the first ARM Processor Sophie Wilson who I interviewed here 1of3, 2of3, 3of3 and Steve Furber who I interviewed here and the co-founder CEO of Acorn Hermann Hauser who I interviewed here.

Linaro CEO George Grey at Linaro Connect Budapest 2017

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2017
Category: Set-top-boxes, Internet of Things, Servers, Development Boards, Networking, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Google, Android

Linaro CEO George Grey interview on the last day of the Linaro Connect in Budapest 2017, talking about Google joining Linaro as a club member, some of the latest developments at Linaro, the high amount of contributions from Linaro into Linux and open source, IoT, Servers, Mobile, Networking, Kernel, Gateways, Set-top-boxes, Smart TVs, Android, and a lot more. Other new Linaro members are HXT a joint venture between Qualcomm and the CHinese Government, Fujitsu with their new ARM Powered Supercomupter. You can watch George Grey’s opening keynote at Linaro Connect Budapest 2017 here.

World’s best device: Samsung Chromebook Plus review after 1 month use

Posted by Charbax – April 9, 2017
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Exclusive videos, Reviews, Rockchip, Google, Android, Chrome OS

My impressions on the coolest ARM Powered Laptop yet, the Samsung Chromebook Plus ($419 top selling 2-in-1 on Amazon.com) that features a Rockchip OP1 dual ARM Cortex-A72 with quad ARM Cortex-A53, ARM Mali-T860MP4 GPU. The performance is great on this device, with the firmware updates from Google also speeding things up regularly, this device is amazingly cool and aweome. But in this video I mention a few things I am hoping Google can improve in the software, mostly to do with improving the Android apps for productivity, I’d like a 4K video editor that works and that is hardware accelerated, I think that Google needs to help PowerDirector and Kinemaster get hardware acceleration and 4K video editing support on this device. Even better perhaps would be if Google could contact the Lumafusion developers and support them to port their 4K60 video editor to Android and optimized for the OP1 processor. Other missing apps in the Google Play store are Microsoft Office, Popcorn time, I don’t want to be setting my Chromebook in Developer mode just to sideload apps that may not even be optimized for the Chromebook yet. Photo editors such as GIMP on Android, Adobe Photoshop need to get supported. Few more other productivity apps for developers, creatives, professionals and students I think need to get ported to this Chromebook Android device. Then Google also needs to improve the features of the stylus touch pen on this device, I’d like the stylus shortcuts and gestures allow to do productive work and study such as annotation collaboration, screen region selector saves to JPG to use as thumbnails in YouTube. In terms of the hardware, I am only hoping to be able to prove that USB Type-C SD card adapter to a USB3 Hard drive file transfers are fully fast enough (as fast as on any Intel Windows machine, hopefully), and also I hope to be able to prove that Wi-Fi performance is just as fast and reliable as with any other laptop. Except the missing backlight on the keyboard and the slightly smaller keyboard than full size, otherwise I think this laptop hardware is pretty much near perfect. It is now my main laptop, I just wish that I could do 4K60 video editing in a good Android video editing app, that the Android and the Chrome OS part get better integrated, for example when I save files in Android apps I want to be able to easily get access and upload these files from the Chrome OS Chrome Browser. I’ll be posting more videos about my Samsung Chromebook Plus in the weeks and months ahead as I expect that it will get better with Google’s full support. Samsung really needs to soon start selling it in Europe!

Van Gogh comes alive by The COI Site Tokyo University of the Arts

Posted by Charbax – April 9, 2017
Category: Projectors, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

The COI Site Tokyo University of the Arts created uses this high quality reproduction of the Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait and they program features to superimpose using an Epson LCD projector to make it look like the painting comes alive. The effect is very impressive. Perhaps for Tokyo 2020 they should exhibit a whole range of famous Art reproductions and statues and have them all come alive, also using sensors, cameras, artificial intelligence smart conversationals systems, to have all the art pieces talk themselves about who painted the originals, stories about why it was painted like that, funny interactions where the painting can talk to you and react to you walking by. The applications seem endless as when the projector projects white it just functions as lighting on the reproduction, but then when those animations subtly superimprose it can really give the effect of movement in the painting.

Dual 13.3″ E Ink Reader Musik by Design M Plus

Posted by Charbax – April 9, 2017
Category: E-readers, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

Design M Plus presents their “Musik” dual 13.3″ E Ink reader for musicians to use with Piano, Violin, or whatever other instruments, it might even be able to recognize gestures or the music to turn the page automatically without needing to touch.

Project Developers can contact Design M Plus here:
makoto.yamada@design-mplus.co.jp
http://design-mplus.com/en