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4K VP9 Video Playback in Amlogic S905X based NEXBOX A5 Android TV Box
I’ve never been able to play 4K VP9 videos smoothly in any Android TV boxes so far. It’s possible in Nvidia Shield Android TV, but the device is relatively expensive, and hard to source in many parts...
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$33 Mini M8S TV Box Comes with 2GB RAM, Amlogic S905 Processor
While there are many Amlogic S905 TV Boxes below $40, many of them only come with 1GB RAM, and if you want to get a model with 2GB RAM, you’d need to pay a little more. Mini M8S appears to be a pretty...
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$66 I5 Intel Mini PC Features 2GB RAM, 32GB Storage, HDMI & VGA Ports (Promo)
It would have been unthinkable a few years ago, but you can now buy a computer capable of running Windows or Linux and shipped to your door for just $65.99 (with coupon GBi5) thanks to i5 mini PC based...
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Allwinner H3 Boards Comparison Tables with Orange Pi, Banana Pi M2+, NanoPi...
Allwinner H3 SoC has now found its way into many low cost development boards, including several Orange Pi Boards, Banana Pi M2+, NanoPi M1, and Olimex H3-OlinuXino-NANO, and it might be difficult to...
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CX-V3 Android VR Headset based on Allwinner H8vr Platform Sells for $130
We’ve already seen that Allwinner intended to enter the virtual reality market with their H8vr, V9 and V10 All-in-One Android VR solutions, and at least one H8vr headset is now available for sale with...
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Frosted OS is an Open Source POSIX Operating System for Cortex-M...
Frosted, which stands for “Free Operating Systems for Tiny Embedded Devices”, is an OS with a POSIX-compliant system call API, borrowing the Linux kernel kconfig for configuration, and currently...
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KS2 Android SoundBar Features Amlogic S905 Processor, a DVB-T2 Tuner
Home > AMLogic, Android, Audio, Hardware > KS2 Android SoundBar Features Amlogic S905 Processor, a DVB-T2 Tuner KS2 Android SoundBar Features Amlogic S905 Processor, a DVB-T2 Tuner I’ve tested...
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Orange Pi PC Plus Quad Core Development Board with 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash...
Most low cost development boards do not include internal storage in order to decrease costs, and instead require their users to flash their preferred operating system on (micro) SD card. This makes it...
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Raspberry Pi 3 To Get ARM TrustZone Support with Linaro OP-TEE Port
If you ever wanted to experiment with ARM Trustzone, and IoT security, you’ll soon be able to do so with the Raspberry Pi 3 board thanks to a port of Linaro OP-TEE (Open Portable Trusted Environment...
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Bluetooth 5 Promises Four times the Speed, Twice the range of Bluetooth 4.0...
The Bluetooth SIG is about to officially unveil Bluetooth 5 on June 16 during a media event in London. One change on the marketing side is that they dropped the point number, so it won’t be…
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Lenovo Phab 2 Pro Tango-Enabled Smartphone to Sell for $500 in Q3 2016
Project Tango uses computer vision to enable mobile devices to detect their position relative to the world using 3D maps of the world created in real-time using 3D depth cameras. Google and Lenovo…
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MeegoPad A02 Remix OS TV Stick Has Now Launched on Indiegogo for $39 and Up
MeegoPad A02 octa-core Remix OS first launched in China for as low as 199 CNY ($30), and the company has raised around 107,000 RMB (~$16,300 US) so far. In the meantime, they’ve also launched…
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Imagination Solution to FCC Rules for WiFi Routers: Run OpenWrt / DD-WRT and...
About a year ago, discussions started about new rules from the FCC that could prevent routers from installing open source third party operating systems such as OpenWrt or DDWRT. Despite the FCC…
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MX4 TV Box Based on Rockchip RK3229 Processor Is Selling for $25 (Promo)
There are a few Rockchip RK3229 based Android TV boxes selling for around $30, which are mostly interesting to play high bitrate 4K 10-bit H.265 or 10-bit H.264 videos, and there’s currently a…
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Unboxing and Teardown of ARNU Box Mach 10 64-bit Pure Linux TV Box based on...
While there are plenty of Amlogic S905 TV boxes, the vast majority is running Android, and albeit there’s been people successfully installing Linux or OpenELEC on such device, if you’d…
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Mini Review of Popcorn Hour A500 Media Player
Last month I received Popcorn Hour A500 high-end media player powered by Sigma Designs SMP8758 dual core Cortex A9 processor, and in the firtst part of the review I posted the specifications, and…
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Xiaomi Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker Unboxing
Xiaomi started selling Xiaomi Mi Band 2 fitness tracker with an OLED display last week in China for 149 CNY (~$23), but it can also be purchased overseas with the many online resellers, and one of…
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EWEAT R9 Android Media Players and Recorders Feature Realtek RTD1295...
Eweat has now introduced three TV box models based on Realtek RTD1295 64-bit processor with Eweat R9, Eweat R9 mini, and Eweat R9 Plus, bringing some competition to the upcoming Zidoo X9s TV box,…
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Ingenic T10 is a MIPS Based Video Processor for 720p Cameras
Ingenic has been designing MIPS based SoCs using their Xburst processor engine for several years, which are found in tablets, development boards, and wearables. The company has now launched T10 smart…
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Marvell IAP220 “IoT” Processor Targets Low Power Touchscreen Enabled Appliances
After IAP140 quad core Cortex A53 processor found in Brillo compatible AndroMeda Box Edge, Marvell has recently introduced another IAP processor for the Internet of Things with IAP220 dual core…
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