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AT&T and HTC announced a mid-range Android 2.1 phone due to ship exclusively on AT&T's network this weekend. The HTC Aria offers a 3.2 inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen, a five megapixel camera, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an optical joystick, plus the latest version of HTC's Sense UI layer, says AT&T.
Witech Ltd. announced a low-cost ARM11 SOM (system on module), bundled with a development kit that includes a 4.3-inch display. The TE6410 and OK6410 feature a 667MHz Samsung S3C6410 processor, 128MB of RAM and 256MB of flash storage, USB host/slave ports, an SD slot, plus support for available Wi-Fi, camera, GPS, and GPRS modules.
Samsung's upcoming, 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet will offer a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, says Tinh te. Meanwhile ARMdevices.net reports on a five-inch, Android tablet from Acorp selling for $88 in volume, and one Canonical exec says it will release a tablet version of Ubuntu Linux early next year, while founder Mark Shuttleworth says it won't.
Ibase released a 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) built around the single-core Intel Atom N450 or dual-core Atom D510. The Ibase IB891 SBC offers two gigabit Ethernet ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, four serial ports, and dual-display capability, says the company.
The Amarino project has released source code for Amarino 2.0, a development kit that lets Android phones control mobile devices based on Arduino microcontrollers via Bluetooth. The Amarino 2.0 Android library enables control of multiple Bluetooth devices in parallel, says the project.
An annual survey released by the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees development of the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), shows that 32.7 percent of respondents use Linux as their primary desktop development system, an increase of almost six points from 2009. Among other findings, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro among Eclipse developers (18.3 percent), says the Foundation.
Imagination Technologies announced a graphics core that will bring DirectX 9 to smartphones and embedded devices, and can also support stereoscopic 3D displays. The Powervr SGX544 IP for GPUs (graphics processing units) can be implemented as a single core, or in multiprocessor configurations from two to 16 cores, the company says.
Acer is readying the Acer Aspire One D260, a dual-boot netbook running Windows 7 and Android on an Intel Atom N450 or new DDR3-ready N455, with a claimed eight hours of battery life. Acer also formally introduced its high-end Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition, a smartphone that runs Android 2.1 on a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, offers a 3.5-inch screen, and — of course — is colored Ferrari F1 red.
AppliedMicro is sampling the first member of a 1GHz Power Architecture (PowerPC) system-on-a-chip (SoC) family for network attached storage (NAS) devices and media servers. The APM 821xx processor uses just 3.5 Watts, providing RAID 5 acceleration and a TCP/IP offload engine for networking applications, the company says.
Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha announced that his company will release an Android smartphone equipped with a 2GHz processor by the end of the year, say industry reports. Also this week, Apple announced the iPhone 4, Sprint amended its sales estimate for the launch of the HTC Evo 4G, and the Samsung Galaxy S debuted in Asia, says eWEEK.
Wind River has released a new version of its test automation framework for embedded device software testing, and also released survey results on embedded development challenges. Wind River Test Management 3.3 is said to improve multicore support, expand run-time test coverage, add a hybrid test type, and debut a new component-based test model.
Avalue is readying a rugged, fanless, embedded computer for vehicles, industrial machines, and military equipment, equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom D510 processor. The ERS-PNV series offers dual gigabit Ethernet ports, five USB 2.0 ports, three serial ports, plus both CompactFlash and SATA storage, says the company.
Axiomtek announced a PICMG 1.3 single board computer (SBC) supporting the Intel Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, and Celeron processors. The SHB111 has four PCI slots, four PCIe slots, one PCIe x16 slot, plus dual gigabit Ethernet, six SATA, and 14 USB 2.0 ports.
Kontron is sampling a 6U CompactPCI processor board based on the Intel Core i7 processor. The CP6002 boards come in three versions, including one ruggedized model, and offer up to 8GB of soldered DDR3 RAM, six RAID-enabled SATA interfaces, one or two XMC/PMC slots, one or two gigabit Ethernet ports, and six USB 2.0 ports.
At Computex last week, Logitech demonstrated its Android Harmony Link app for remote control of Google TV, says Phandroid. Meanwhile, Chinese consumer electronics giant TCL demonstrated an Android-powered alternative to Google TV, and Expert Reviews offers its praise for People of Lava's Android-powered Scandinavia TV.