New ARM Cortex A35 architecture available

Today, ARM launches its new CPU architecture, Cortex A35. It will be mainly for low end smartphones, wearable devices, IoT devices. ARM Cortex A35 is based on ARMv8-A 64 bit architecture and will be used to replace old ARM Cortex A7 and A5.

ARM said Cortex A35 is the most power efficient processor, its power consumption is only 125mW. If adopting 28nm process technology and 1GHz frequency, its power consumption will reduce to 90mW. If keeping same power consumption and adopting 16nm or 14nm process, then its frequency can be over 2GHz.

Of course, it can also work with ARM Cortex A53, A57 or A72 to boost the performance of CPU.

Compared with Cortex A7, under same frequency and process technology, its power consumption is 10% lower, and performance is 6%-40% higher. If comparing with Cortex A53, its performance will be about 20% lower, but power consumption is 32% lower, and its size is also much smaller.

The first CPU with this ARM Cortex A35 may roll out at end of 2016.

Lenovo may release Yoga 4 Pro on 9th Nov

At early Oct, Microsoft launched new generation 2 in 1 tablet pc, Surface Pro 4, and Surface Book. People said 2 in 1 tablet will be the future, but till now, we can not see any tablet pc suppliers from China following up. This morning, we heard a good news from Lenovo.

On 29th Oct, Lenovo announced that it will open a new product presentation conference on 9th, Nov. In this conference, Lenovo may launch its new 2 in 1 tablet pc, Lenovo Yoga 4 Pro. In fact, this unit has already appeared in USA on 20th, Oct.

This Lenovo Yoga 4 tablet pc owns Intel 6th Gen Core I series processor. Screen size is 13.3 inch. Resolution is 3K level. As the battery density is enhanced, the life is also extended by 2 hours. More important, this unit will run the latest Windows 10 operation system.

In meanwhile, Lenovo Yoga Home with 27 inch screen may also roll out in the conference. But it is not all. As our news, Lenovo may launch one new product similar as Surface Book. But there is no any information about it for now.

Reviews on HTC One A9

Yesterday, HTC launched its latest smart phone, HTC One A9. This unit owns one 5 inch IPS screen, resolution is 1080P level, CPU is Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octa core, you can click here for detail information about this smart phone.

Many people said, HTC launched one new iPhone 6, but operation system is Android 6.0. We can see from the picture, the looks of this HTC One A9 is nearly the same as iPhone 6. It is the first non-Nexus devices running Android 6.0 operation system.

This HTC One A9 adopts 2.5D Corning IV Gorilla Glass, screen resolution is also not bad. But its CPU performance is not high, maybe that is the flaw. We have introduced this CPU before. Its performance is only about 40000 scores, compared with XiaoMi Mi 4C with Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, its performance falls behind a lot.

In meanwhile, it does not come with the USB Type C port which is quite popular nowadays. As we know, the Lenovo ZUK Z1, Le 1 Max and other top smart phones are all coming with USB Type C. More important, HTC One A9 has only 2150Mah battery. We are quite doubting its battery life. Even the HTC One M9 which adopts 2840Mah battery can not work for a long time.Maybe the only point which makes us exciting is the Android 6.0 operation system.

Its price is about 400 US dollars. In fact, we can find a lot of smart phones from China with similar price, but performance is much higher, for example, XiaoMi Note, MeiZu MX5, OnePlus 2 etc. In fact, we can not feel positive of this HTC smart phone in future.

New Mediatek octa core processor disclosed

Recently, one smart phone with Mediatek Helio P10 processor is displayed on Geekbench, the model number of the processor is MT6755. Geekbench said the performance of its single core and multi core is 882, and 3371 separately.

As a contrast, the performance of this MT6755 processor is a bit better than Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 whose single core performance and multi core performance are 650 and 2500 separately. But compared with another octa core processor from Mediatek, MT6752, its performance is a bit lower.

Suverimax said this Mediatek Helio P10 MT6755 adopts 28nm process, and is based on ARM Cortex A53 framework, its frequency is 2.0GHz. In meanwhile, it integrates Mali T860 GPU, frequency is 700MHz, and supports LTE Cat.6 standard. Its max download speed is 300Mbps.

Moto X Style and 2nd Gen Moto 360 roll out

Last week, in Shanghai, Lenovo launched Moto X Styple and second generation Moto 360.

This second generation Moto 360 is the first Android Wear devices landing China, just like the first generation, it adopts round dial plate. It can support iOS 8.2 or above. Its CPU is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad core processor, frequency is 1.2GHz. GPU is Adreno 305. RAM is 512MB, flash memory is 4GB. This new Moto 360 has male and female styles. The male style owns one 1.56 inch Corning Gorilla III glass, resolution is 360*330 pixels. The female style is 1.37 inch, resolution is 360*325 pixels.

Regarding Moto X Style, in fact, it is not a new smart phone. About one month ago, it has already been launched in USA, but now it lands China. It adopts one 5.7 inch IPS screen, resolution is 2K level. CPU is Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa core. Its RAM is 3GB. It owns one 5M pixels front camera and one 21M pixels rear camera. Battery capacity is 3000Mah supporting quick charge.

Moto X Style has three different editions, 16GB is about 480 US dollars, 32GB edition is 550 US dollars, 64GB edition is about 610 US dollars.

Archos launched one new transforming tablet with Windows OS

Last year, Archos from France launched one cheap 4 inch device with Windows operation system, following that it launched another mini tablet pc with Windows 8.1 OS, and TV sticker with Windows 10 OS. Early last week, it launched one smart phone with Windows 10 OS, today, there is one Windows 10 transforming tablet pc, named Archos Flip.

This Archos Flip looks quite similar as Lenovo Yoga. It can work as a laptop PC or tablets as well. The screen can not rotated in any angle.

This Archos Flip owns one 11.6 inch IPS screen, resolution is 1366*768 pixels. CPU is the Intel Atom X5 Z8300 processor based on Cherry Trail. Its RAM is 2GB and flash memory is 32GB. Its front camera is 2M pixels, battery capacity is 8000Mah, There is USB 3.0 host on the body and supports HDMI output, Bluetooth etc.

This Archos Flip will roll out in this Nov, price is 249 euros. People who are interested in this unit can order it online.

Samsung is developing 18.4 inch tablet pc android?

Apple may lauch its 12 inch iPad Pro in following months, as its competitor, Samsung is also planning to launch one big screen size tablet pc. Recently, news from USA, Samsung will launch one 18.4 inch tablet pc, model number is SM-T760. This tablet is mainly for office, school or home use.

The news said this Samsung tablet owns one 18.4 inch big screen size, resolution is 1920*1080 pixels. Operation system is new Android 5.1 OS, CPU is Samsung Exynos 7580 octa core processor, frequency is 1.6GHz. RAM is 2GB, and flash memory is 32GB. It can support an external TF card up to 128GB. 

The size of this tablet is 451.8*275.8*11.9mm, battery capacity is 5700Mah, battery life is about 6 hours. The front camera is 2.1M pixels, and rear camera is 8M pixles. Till now, Samsung did not make any respond about this new tablet pc. 

But in my idea, if Samsung wants to compete with Apple iPad Pro by this tablet, it will lose the battle.