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Freescale Smart Mobile Device Pundit 2012: Vote for Us!

He’s done it again! For the third year in a row Sascha has been nomiated for Freescale’s Mobile Pundit Award! This year they’re opening up the voting process and we’re asking your to cast your vote and support us!
We’re in good company with the…

Freescale i.MX6 Quad-Core Reference Design Hands On

When you think Freescale usually I think eReaders or affordable tablets, so checking out their quad-core reference design puts idea’s of flashier devices in my head.  The Freescale i.MX6 platform supports up to four ARM Cortex A9 processing cores and is going to be aimed…

Freescale launches dual, quad core i.MX 6 series chips

No doubt 2011 will be the year of dual core tablets with many high profile ones most likely to have Nvidia Tegra 2 chips, but you’ll also find some packing Freescale’s newly announced i.MX 6 series of chips, based on the same ARM Cortex-A9 architecture…

Mastone 7″ Android Tablet Running Freescale – IFA 2010

Lots of tablets being shown off at IFA 2010 in Berlin this weekend. Charbax has uncovered another 7″ Android 1.6 tablet that is a little different since it is 4:3 offering a more square screen. It is powered by the Freescale i.MX51 with a resistive…

Video: $50 MumbaiPad First Low Cost Tablet to Run Freescale

We had the $35 tablet last month, this month we’ve got a $50 tablet, the price might not be going down but the volume of sub $100 tablets seems to be ramping up. What makes this post very interesting in terms of looking at the…

Freescale Concept Videos: The Future of Smart Mobile Devices

Freescale presents a series of future concepts for smart mobile devices based. These concepts show off the possible range of devices that can be envisioned and delivered by our customers. The below video depicts a pre-teen consumer whose priorities are social networking, entertainment, light gaming…

Hands On – Ubuntu 10.7 Smartbook Edition

Hands on with the Canonical Ubuntu Netbook Edition which is optimized for ARM which some might call the Ubuntu Smartbook Edition, in the video it is shown running on a Freescale i.MX51 Pegatron Laptop reference design. Canonical explains some of the things that are being…

Freescale eReader Display at Computex 2010

eReaders are a segment that is finally starting to get interesting with the improved ePaper quality and better refresh-rates to begin incorporating video. Over the next year we are going to start to see e-Readers offer similar and overlapping services as tablets and netbooks. Wifi…

Freescale Pegatron 10.1″ Android Tablet

We uncovered this 10-inch Tablet based on Freescale’s ARM-processors at Computex 2010 running a custom Android interface. The unit is from the ASUS manufacturing subsidiary Pegatron and is intended to show the opportunities offered by Freescale CPUs for Internet Tablets. The Pegatron Freescale Tablet has…

ARM, IBM, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Erricson, Texas Instruments Join Forces for Open Linux with Linaro

Open is the new black, Intel & Nokia have MeeGo and Google has Chrome but who does everyone else have? Well, everyone else wants to be able to run Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS. Getting builds of the Linux systems to to run on…

Moorestown MID Demo at Freescale Computex 2010

Freescale had a few demos on hand at their office in the Nangang Software Park during Computex 2010. We got to check out a moorestown MID which was able to run 720p video content without issue.…

Freescale eReader Display at Computex 2010

Freescale processors are behind alot of the worlds eBook Readers. At Computex 2010 they have put together a collection of about 20 e Readers for us to check out various designs and quality of ePaper.…

Freescale’s $ 199 with Chrome Tablet OS

We haven’t come up with a cute nickname for Chrome Tablets like we have for the Tabloids (Android Tablets) but we are open to suggestions! Charbax over at Armdevices.net has come across a $199 Chome tablet by Freescale. We have actually already done our hands…

163 million smartbooks expected to ship in 2015

ABI Research expects 163 million smartbooks will ship worldwide in 2015 which if you stop and think about it, in an insane growth rate seeing as the very first models only appeared in 2008.
According to ABI Research senior analyst Jeff Orr, “ABI Research defines…

Award: Top 20 Smart Mobile Device Pundit

Freescale wanted order to thank and recognize those who deserve to be honored as true industry pundits by releasing the “Smart Mobile Devices Top Pundit 2010″ – Award. It is to be awarded to media, analysts and bloggers who make your life a little easier…