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Archive for the 'Computex' Category

Marvell PXA168 Applications Processor

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

A representative of the Marvell embedded processor explains its positioning on the market compared to ARM and Intel.

Posted in ARM, Computex, Processors | Comments »

Pogoplug super cheap NAS device

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

Powered by a Marvell processor, this is a $79 low power consuming computer to host your home NAS or anything else you want, totally open source.

Posted in Computex, Networking, Processors, Storage | 1 Comment »

$150 Desktop PC made by Pegatron using the Freescale ARM processor platform

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

This super compact desktop consumes under 1W of power and still runs all the important software that most people need.

Posted in ARM, Computex, Linux, Processors | 1 Comment »

AllGo Embedded Systems develops Android for PMPs using Freescale i.MX37 processor

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

AllGo optimizes Android use on low cost PMP devices including support for WiFi and DVD resolution video playback.

Posted in Android, Computex, Linux, Portable Multimedia, Processors | Comments »

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Home Lab

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO and inventor of the Pixel Qi technology, explains more of how the Pixel Qi 3Qi screen works, shows us a bit of how she works with her screen technology in her home lab, testing the angular performance in the OLPC screen and tells how power consumption can be saved further with a few motherboard modifications to behave like the OLPC laptop (turning off the processor and motherboard when they are not needed) and more.

(Youtube is still processing this 10 minute long HD quality video, it should be up in a few minutes in low quality and a couple of hours in HD quality)

Posted in Computex, Laptops, Linux, Screens/Projectors | 1 Comment »

Pixel Qi vs Kindle vs Toshiba R600 vs regular LCD tablet

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

Side by side comparison video showing the Pixel Qi 3Qi LCD screen next to the E-ink based Amazon Kindle, next to the transflective Toshiba R600 and next to a regular resistive touchscreen tablet laptop. Comparing performance in direct sunlight, in the shade and in a dark room with and without the backlight.

Posted in Computex, Laptops, Linux, Screens/Projectors | 8 Comments »

Mary Lou Jepsen answers user comments

Posted by Charbax on 7th June 2009

Following the initial video that was released showing the Pixel Qi screen during the Computex trade show in Taipei, Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO and Inventor of the Pixel Qi screen technology, answers user comments that were posted on the Engadget and Mobileread threads (among many other blogs who linked to the first video) with users from all over the world commenting and asking questions about the screen in the first video.

Posted in Computex, Laptops, Linux, Screens/Projectors | 6 Comments »

Kinpo Thin Client 7inch Android device

Posted by Charbax on 5th June 2009

Kinpo is making a 7 inch Android tablet powered by a Freescale processor. A bunch of engineers happened to come by the Freescale headquarters with this device while I was there filming a whole bunch of other videos. I then convinced them to show it to me and to let me film it. They installed Android on a 800×480 resolution 7″ touchscreen tablet device. It works pretty smoothly though they obviously have some tweaking that they still need to do before such a device can be sold. This device currently has some pretty obvious bugs like the video not playing correctly.

Posted in Android, Computex, Linux, Portable Multimedia | 17 Comments »

ARM Freescale Smartbooks and Smartphones

Posted by Charbax on 5th June 2009

Steve Sperle of Freescale introduces the Freescale ARM Cortex A8 powered Smartbook by Pegatron and an Android device by Inventec IAC runing smooth video playback as well.

Posted in Android, Computex, Laptops, Linux, Portable Multimedia, Processors, Software | 2 Comments »

Wistron Pbook booting up and using its basic features

Posted by Charbax on 5th June 2009

Wistron is making a Sony looking ARM Snapdragon based laptop device running Red Flag linux.

Posted in ARM, Computex, Laptops, Linux, Processors, Software | Comments »