Rockchip revealed thin iPad style tablet

Rockchip company revealed  a very fashionable tablet to us. The tablet with obvious resemblance to iPad, but much thinner. It’s got compared to the Lenovo O1 in the picture. It’s said it’s thinnest part is just 5.3mm, and the thickest part is 8mm. Not much details have been disclosed yet, we are just told it’s [...]

[ More ] December 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Handheld |

W7001 Android Tablet Powered by Rockchip RK2818

It’s a little boring now to introduce these Android tablets. Mostly they don’t have anything special. Most of them look similar to iPad at design. Luckily this one W7001 has an original design, and that’s why I write about it. At least this one has a unique design. It’s powered by Rockchip RK2818, a chip [...]

[ More ] November 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Handheld |

Video: Rockchip’s Android Multi-Media Telephone set

Ever imagine a traditional Telephone set with a modern Mobile OS Android? If this wild thought ever entered your mind, then take a look at this Rockchip’s Android powered Telephone set to find the difference between it and your imagination. Rockchip made Android run on a telephone set and called it multi-media telephone set. It’s [...]

[ More ] September 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Rockchip launches Android-enable chip RK2818 that supports Android 2.1

Rockchip officially launched its new generation Android platform RK2818. This chip features a 660MHZ ARM+dsp+GPU three-core processor, and is MID and phones. It supports Android 2.1, promising good performance on video that it support 720p videos,Flash, and HTML5 Video.The devices based on it could support up to 512MB RAM, and 800×480, 800×600, 1024×600 screen resolutions. [...]

[ More ] August 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industrial News |

Rockchip Supernova X1 naked-eye 3D portable media player caught in video

Right now a set of pictures of Rockchip’s new prototype PMP is circulating on Chinese tech websites. The device is called Supernova X1. The most exciting point is that it supports naked-eye 3D. Yes, without the annoying glasses, the 3D video is by your hands. Today the limit for a 3D PMP is that there’re [...]

[ More ] August 24th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Handheld |

Rockchip RK2816 Android-enable chip for PMP

After the RK2808, The Fuzhou based company Rockchip launched another Android-enable chip RK2816. Different from RK2808 that’s designed for tablets and handsets, RK2816 is a reference solution for portable media player.That means, with a RK2816 powered PMP, you are not only able to enjoy videos and music as you did with other ordinary PMPs, but [...]

[ More ] August 3rd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Industrial News |

Nokia N8 clone iZiNN CJ-3 Runs Android 2.1

Hello Android, Rockchip is greeting! We’ve seem Rockchip’s chips on so many Android tablet, but so far there’s still no Rockchip powered Android phone on the market. Finally there comes one. It’s called  iZiNN CJ-3, and was powered by a Rockchip  chip RK28, and whether it’s RK2808 is still not sure. The most exciting thing [...]

[ More ] August 2nd, 2010 | 9 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Rockchip shows new Android prototype MID that runs Android 2.1

We all know Rockchip RK2808 powered devices, like RAmos W7 MID, OPPO Enjoy E-reader and many China iPad clones, are just with Android 1.5 or 1.6, that’s because this chip was only able to support these two low Android versions. Now it seems Rockchip has been already to launch a new chip or an upgrade [...]

[ More ] June 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Handheld |

Rockchip Android prototype phone debuted at HKEF

HongKong Electronics Fair (HKEF) Spring Edition just came to its end today after lasting 4 days. Rockchip was there to display their products, including its RK2808 based Android prototype that got a code name CJ-2. This phone was first introduced half of a month ago, but at that time most of the specs were not [...]

[ More ] April 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Rockchip Smart Phone Android prototype handset spotted in the wild

Rockchip announced its Android-enable chipset RK2808 back in Last July, in a time that every single Android powered device could gain lots of attention from the world. At that time, Rockchip told the world that RK2808 based Android MIDs and handsets would come very soon. Well we’ve seem RK2808 based MID, like the Ramos W7 [...]

[ More ] March 30th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

HOTT MD500 Android MID with an unbelievably cheap price

HOTT doesn’t only produce portable media players. They are now working on their MID products, and MD500 is their first try. About half of a year ago, every single new MID could catch catch lots of attention from the industry when it made appearance. Now it’s different, but HOTT’s MID500, which they called it ‘iPad [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Handheld |

Mystery Android MID is confirmed from Rockchip, RK2808 based

The Mysterious Android MID has caused quite a bit buzz around the blogosphere. Now the manufacture has been found out. It’s not Shenzhen SMIT , but Rockchip Electronics, a company from Fuzhou, China. The folks on PConline.com.cn were able to get their hands on this Mysterious Android MID, and played with it in two videos. [...]

[ More ] August 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Handheld |

Cheap China Android phone is coming?

Rockchip Electronics Company, a MP4 chip supplier from Fuzhou China, now has been ready for entering the mobile chip market. Recently they released three mobile chip, RK2718,RK272 and RK2808. Definitely RK2808 is the most eye-catching one. It’s the first mobile chip that supports Android in China. According to the news on Rockchip’s official website, Rockchip [...]

[ More ] July 8th, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in Industrial News |