Reviews on Blackview T200 dash cam

Blackview is one well known dash cam supplier in China. This Blackview T200 is one of its latest dash cam.

When using dash cam, night vision is one important function. This T200 has eight small LED light at back of unit. People just need to turn on the LED light when using at darkness. We have tried this product at night. Without any light source, it still record very clear videos.

Of course, resolution is another aspect you need to consider when selecting a dash cam. This BlackView T200 adopts the latest Novatek 96650 solution, it can support recording video in 1080P at max. More important, as it adopts the H.264 encoding format, the videos recorded will not take too much memory space of your TF card, about 40% less than AVI format.

This unit has G sensor function, when you have any traffic accident, unit will automatically turn on, and recording the whole event. And the file will not be covered by loop recording, since it is locked down. Of course, you can also lock the file through the SOS button the panel.

Except the high performance, and high quality, its price is also very interesting. You just need to pay less than 70 US dollar to get one such good dash cam.

First mobile phone with Android OS from Nokia disclosed

As we know, Nokia did not adopt the MeeGo operation system, but the Windows Phone operation system from Microsoft. After made this decision, its condition is going worse. Following that, Nokia contracted with Microsoft, and quit the smart phone business completely. This agreement will be ended by 2016. And Nokia may come back to smart phone business at that moment.

CEO of Nokia said, after the agreement, Nokia is planning to go back to smart phone business. And Foxconn will become its OEM supplier. As we know, the first Nokia tablet with Android OS is supplied by Foxconn as well. Regarding the operation system, Nokia will adopt Android OS for its new mobile phones.

As news we know, the first Nokia smart phone android will land China, India, and Europe etc first. Now, Nokia is already starting its marketing campaign for its smart phones. Maybe in 2017, we will see the first Nokia smart phone.

Apple A9 processor will be massive produced this month

Apple upgrades the processor for its iPhone every year. This year, Apple will launch iPhone 6S with Apple A9 processor. So who will supply A9 processor to Apple, Samsung or TSMC?

Now, Samsung has the more advanced 14nm FinFET process technology, and TSMC is 16nm process. Both companies have already provided the samples of Apple A9 processor on this May. Considering the conformity rate and cost, Apple may choose TSMC as its primary supplier of A9 processor.

Last month, some news reported that TSMC may only supply 30% of A9 processor to Apple. But from our latest news from Suverimax, TSMC is ahead of competition with Samsung. And it will masive produce Apple A9 processor this month.

Samsung 14nm process technology interests Apple a lot, but after comparing with TSMC 16nm process, the performance is quite similar. But TSMC has higher production efficiency, and lower cost. That is why Apple chooses TSMC.

Compared with Apple A8, A9 has much higher performance, more important, the power consumption is much lower which is very good to battery life of iPhone 6S.

The above picture is the spec information iPhone 6S, and iPhone 6S Plus.

E-Paper may kill tablet pc

News from German yesterday, people may use E-Paper to read news or books, not tablet pc or smart phone. In future, E-Paper will kill tablets pc.

Mathias, the CEO of Axel Springer SE said, compared with tablet pc, E-Paper is more slim, and softer. Users can roll it up and put it into pocket. This E-Paper is just as slim and soft as real paper. It can provide users similar experience as tablet pc. Now, Axel Springer has already started to transform from a traditional press releaser to a digital press releaser.

But till now, this E-Paper is far away fro us. Sony has developed its E-Paper system, and price is very high, 799 US dollars. And till now, it is not available for sale. Except Sony, we have also seen similar products from other suppliers.

Of course, the cost of E-Paper will reduce eventually. When its price is acceptable, people will use E-Paper to read news or books.

Or maybe, we can say, E-Paper is the future of tablet pc.

Rockchip lauches the most power saving Wifi chipset

In Computex 2015 trade show, Rockchip launched its new wifi. This new technology was introduced to be the most power saving Wifi chipset in the world. When working, its power consumption is only 20Mah, which is reduced by 85% compared with other IoT devices. As the low power consumption, it may be adopted by a lot of tablets pc or smart phones.

Its power consumption is quite similar to Bluetooth 4.0 LE. If adopthing this new Wifi, our IoT devices may adopts button batteries. It will help IoT devices reduce size, and development cost.

Now, the most popular Wifi is from Broadcom, Qualcomm, and TI. Their power consumption is between 59 to 140MA. This Rockchip RKi6000 have big advantage. If using one AAA battery, it can last working for over 35 years.

We believe this RKi6000 will be widely adopted by tablets pc, smart phones, IoT devices, Autos etc.

As Rockchip said, this RKi6000 wifi will be available for sale at the end of this year. And maybe next year, we can see some corresponding products in market.

Top 10 tablet pc Windows in 2014

Last year, Microsoft announced to cancel authority charge for tablets pc smaller than 9 inch. Following that, it launched Office software for Android operation system. From these events, we can see, now Microsoft is working hard to built its Windows ecological construction. But it does not mean it ignored the hardware. Its purpose of launching Surface tablet is to set an example for OEM tablet pc manufacturers.

Recently, Microsoft released the latest two 10 tablet pc Windows. Six of them are from China. The sales volume is millions of pieces.

Before, if one manufacturer wants to launch a new tablet Windows, it will take about 6-8 months, now it only takes 8-10 weeks. Though, Microsoft cancel the authority charge for tablets less than 9 inch, but size over 9 inch is not free.

We know time is money, one manufacturer in Shenzhen only took 10 days to develop one prototype of tablet pc Windows 10, and displayed in WinHEC.

Microsoft said its working emphasis is still tablet pc, not smart phone.

New Chromebook with Rockchip processor

At the end of last month, Google I/O 2015 conference was open. There are many new products shown in conference, including smart wearing devices, Android operation system, smart phones etc. In the conference, we have seen laptop PC displayed with processor from China. It is the new generation Chromebook with Rockchip RK3288-C. So how is the performance of this Chromebook.

New generation Chomebook is coming with RK3288-C quad core processor. This processor is based on ARM Cortex A17 framework, frequency is 1.8GHz.GPU is the Mali T764.

As out test result, this new Chromebook only takes 10 second to boot system. As it adopts latest GPU, when browsing webpages, its speed is 25% faster than last generation.

Except the fast running speed, this RK3288-C is also one power saving processor. Its power consumption is only 2.9W per hour. Compared with last generation, it is 45% lower. The battery life of new Chromebook is over 13 hours.

As early as this April, there are many tablet pc suppliers lauched their new Chromebook, like ASUS Chromebook Flip, C201, Hisense C11, Haier 11 and 11E. In May, Xolo and Nexian from India also launched their new Chromebook with RK3288-C processor.

As estimation, in 2015, the total sale volume of Chromebook will be over 10 million pieces, and 70% of them are coming with this RK3288-C.

History of USB Type C

In the CES Asia trade show, one supplier displayed 18 digital products with USB 3.1 Type C port including charger, power bank, data cable, and USB dock etc, nearly covering all products with USB port. In fact, in the past half year, Nokia, Samsung, Apple have already launched their products with this USB Type C port. In the latest Google I/O conference, Google announced that its new Android M operation system can support this USB Type C port.

In fact, USB port was started from 1996 when the USB 1.0 was available. In 2000 year, the USB 2.0 became very popular. Till 2008 year, it was upgrated to USB 3.0. And in 2013 year, USB 3.1 was available, and this is the latest USB version. Every new version of USB means faster transfer speed, and the connector standard is different as well.

In the new USB 3.1 standard, there are three different ports. One is Type A which is the same as used on PC. One is Type B which is adopted by Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and one is Type C.

Till now, only these three types of USB port can support USB 3.1 standard. Regarding Type C port, its max transfer speed is 10Gbps. We know, the max speed of USB 2.0 is only 480Mbps. One another difference is the video transfer, USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 can only support transfering videos up to 1080P. And this USB Type C can support up to 4K resolution video. As we know, now more and more smart phones comes with 2K resolution screen, so USB 2.0 can not meet the demand. That is why USB Type C is so popular nowadays.