360 launches one smart dash cam

Now, dash cam is very hot in worldwide, and many companies start to enter this new business. Yesterday, 360 company launched one new smart dash cam. Now, this unit is already available for reservation. Its price is only 50 US dollars. It can be delivered at the end of next month.

This dash cam adopts one 160 wide degree lens. There is one HD camera built in, resolution can be 1296P. Compared with other products in market, it has higher definition, and wider viewing angle. More important, this unit can support Wifi. Once you install the APP on your smart phone or tablet, you can view videos on your smart phones, or play back videos etc.

The size of the unit is 50.5*63*19.5mm. There is one 2 inch LCD display. CPU is the Amberalla A7LA55. Battery capacity is 700Mah. The max video resolution is 2304*1296 pixels. It can support a TF memory card up to 64GB.

The biggest feature of this dash cam is Wifi module built in. But it can only support iOS above 6.0 version or Android OS above 4.0

This unit can work under a very high temperature up to 85 degree.

Google Android Brillo OS launched

Now, IoT and smart household are the hot area, recently, Google launched a new operation system, coded Project Brillo.

This operation system is developed based on Android, with highly simplified. It can support Wifi and Bluetooth. It is called as one end-end operation system, but how this Android Brillio will be added into devices.

In meanwhile, Google also introduced one communication layer, called Weave. It can allow devices in the IoT to communicate with each other. All the devices use the same languages. So what is the purpose of this function. We can take a simple example. When you close the door, the air conditioners at home will know about it, and turn off power.

The preview edition for developers of this Android Brillo OS will be available at 3rd quarter of this year. Weave will be available in the 4th quarter of this year.

TSMC and Samsung are working on 10nm process

The 14nm process technology from Samsung is already massive produced, and highly commented by its clients including Apple and Qualcomm. Its compliance rate is very high. As our previous report, Apple may pass most of its orders to Samsung. Of course, TSMC will be not happy about this situation.

As news from Taiwan, now, the 16nm process from TSMC is also massive produced. Though it still falls behind of Samsung's 14nm process, TSMC believe when its production volume of 14nm process increases, its performance will not lose Samsung.

But we have to say TSMC has already fallen behind of Samsung, so to make sure the development of 10nm process, TSMC will invest 10 billion US dollars.

In meanwhile, Samsung is also trying to develop its own 10nm process. Samsung said its 10nm process has great advantage on product size, and power consumption and will be massive produced at the end of next year. So maybe the iPhone 7 can catch up with this 10nm process technology.

New Android OS will support 32MB RAM

As the Google I/O conference is coming, there are more and more news about new Android operation system. Recently, news from suverimax.com said Google is developing one new Android OS edition. This new operation system is mostly for low power consumption IoT devices. It is coded Brillo.

This operation system has adopted one new technology for low power consumption IoT devices. Normally, these devices only owns 32MB or 64MB RAM.

Google hope this new Brillo operation system can be adopted by any IoT devices, no matter it comes with screen or not.

XiaoMi is trying to develop its own processor

Recently, as our news, Xiaomi wants to make cooperation with Leadcore Technology to develop their own processor for its smart phones.

In 2014, XiaoMi has sold over 61 million pieces smart phones. Since the high sales volume, once any problem with its supply chain, it will be a big shock to XiaoMi. So, XiaoMi can not rely on Qualcomm and Leadcore too much. More important, there are many smart phones suppliers adopting Qualcomm and Leadcore processors, that is why XiaoMi wants to develop its own processor.

Leadcore is one well known company in China. It has the 3G TD-SCDMA, 4G TD-LTE Advanced patents. That is why XiaoMi chooses Leadcore. But as our estimation, XiaoMi will still choose Qualcomm for its high end smart phones since it can not develop a processor which can beat Qualomm in short time.

As we know, the XiaoMi RedMi 2A does not choose processor from Qualcoom, but from Leadcore. Its price is also less than 100 US dollars. Compared with RedMi 2 which adopts Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 quad core processor, it is about 15 US dollars cheaper.

As we know, Samsung took over 4 years to develop its 64 bit processor, and it may be launched next year. Now, the war of mobile processor has started.

Smart phone operation system in Russia

Two weeks before, we disclosed the news that Russia is developing their own processor for smart phones. Except the processor, now, they are also working on their own operation system.

As news from Russia, in order to develop their own smart phone operation system, now, they are contacting with developers of Jolla operation system. Russia wants the developers to develop one new operation system based on Sailfish OS. Now, in Russia, iOS and Android have already taken 95% market share. They hope the new operation system can be as good as iOS and Android.

Russia also hopes the operation system can boost their economic, and avoid any confidential leaking.

The problem is how to make people in Russia accept this new OS, and willing to use it. Otherwise, everything is useless.

Sharp Aquos Pad DH-05G tablet pc with Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

Though, we have reported that Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 has the overheating problem, but recently, there are more and more flagship smart phones start to adopt this processor. But few tablets adopts this Snapdragon 810 till now. Only the Sony Xperia Z4 tablet pc launched in the CES 2015 trade show adopts this CPU. Now, the second tablet with Snapdragon 810 is coming, it is from Sharp, model number is Aquos Pad DH-05G.

This Aquos Pad DH-05G is one 7 inch tablet pc, adopting IGZO screen. Resolution is 1920*1200 pixels. Unit size is 174*105*8.0mm, total weight is about 210g. As this Aquos Pad DH-05G has special design, it may not have the overheating problem. So its performance should be quite high. Its CPU working frequency can be 1.5GHz and 2.0GHz. But we need to test it to make sure about it.

This tablet only has black color available, its RAM is 2GB, flash memory is 32GB. Users can extend the memory by one MicroSDXC up to 64GB. The rear camera is 8M pixels, and front camera is 2.1M pixels. Battery capacity is 3900Mah, battery life is unknown for now. The operation system is Android 5.0 Lollipop OS.

Unit can support Wifi, 4G LTE-A, VoLTE network, and has Full SEG TV service.