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We’ve seen tablets claiming to be “$100″ before, but this one might actually make good on that promise. Rockchip, an increasingly notable Chinese chip manufacturer, was the first to show off Ice Cream Sandwich running on tablet hardware way back in November. Now TabTimes reports that the company’s hardware will be powering dozens of tablets [...]
We’ve already seen tons of ROM’s and ports slowly making their way to Android phones and tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich now that the source code is available. Today Chinese processor and tablet maker Rockchip claim to have the worlds first Android 4.0 ICS tablet and it will be ready to ship in [...]
Ramos has teased three new tablets set to make their debut at CES 2011 next week, one of which will use Rockchip’s new RK2918 SoC which we saw benchmarked earlier this week. The Ramos W15 has an 8-inch “high resolution” 16:9 aspect display and the new RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 based processor, while the Ramos W12 [...]
Rockchip’s processors may not be as well known as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon or Samsung’s Hummingbird, but they’re at the core of many entry-level devices. The newest version, the Rockchip RK29xx, uses an ARM Cortex-A8 core running at up to 1GHz, and opens the door for 1080p encode/decode on tablets as low as $149. ARMDevices caught up with [...]
Should you be in the UK by chance and would like yourself an Android tablet in either the 5-or-8-inch sizes, you could just ask View Quest for a bit of help. The Slate5 (800×480 screen resolution) and Slate8 (800×600 screen resolution) both have the same 600MHz RockChip CPU, 2GB Flash, microSD card slot, Wifi, resistive [...]
Rockchip is launching it’s next generation chip for Android. The RK2818 chip will be powering select phones and mid range tablets. The three-core processor includes 660MHZ ARM, DSP, and GPU. The chip should allow for really good 720 HD video performance, and make Flash and HTML 5 video run with ease. It has an integrated [...]
Yes, it’s that time of day. Only time will tell if this does make it onto the market. This is a 5-inch Android tablet by Acorp. The representative did say it would be available next month. It does look pretty good though and it should be affordable.
A Chinese manufacturer by the name of Aigo has two Android MID’s in the making. The new tablets will come in a 5 and 7 inch version. Both will be running Android 1.6, there is no word on when or if these devices will be upgraded to Android 2.1. Price is rumored to be around [...]
Android is continuing is assault in the MID/Tablet market. This one comes from a company that is known for (knockoffs) MP4’s. But, this thing looks really good and I would imagine there are a few people that would love to get their hands on it.
We can’t say we’re especially enamoured by Rockchip’s first attempt at an Android smartphone, but this reference design is more about what’s going on inside the casing than what said-casing looks like. Based on Rockchip’s Android-capable RK2808 chipset, first announced all the way back in August last year (and wearing a pretty slick MID outfit [...]
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