In Part 1 of "Inside a $34 Smartphone" we poked at the software side of the dirt cheap Huami H3 smartphone.
We now know the phone is a Spreadtrum SC6825 passing off as a MediaTek. Using fake branding that combines Huawei and Xiaomi into Huami - something less than either.
(Speak Russian? Vlad translated this post!)
This Huami H3 smartphone cost me $34US (210RMB) in January. It's sold with a 5 inch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, 4G cell connectivity, Android 4.4 and an 8 core processor.
I picked it up in the electronics capital of the world - Shenzhen, China. My …
Taking apart a very cheap USB to Ethernet adapter and pondering on the parts found inside.
Here are two USB to Ethernet adapters:
One of them is sold on ebay for $3.85 AU ($3.99 US), including postage to Australia. The other is sold at Apple Stores for $29 …
This post is about running Debian GNU/Linux on the Mesada/Flexiview FV-1 "AndroidTV" unit. This post has been a bit delayed, I got very sidetracked with other things this month!
By following these steps, you should be able to use the FV-1 a bit like a normal desktop Linux …
I'm calling this a "technical review" because I'm not going to spend much time talking about using Android on this device. The reason for that will become apparent.
I recently purchased two "Android TV" boxes from aliexpress, for investigation and general hackery.
You can buy these from various online vendors …
This letter is my plea and suggestion to Wondermedia, although the theme applies to similar tech companies as well.
(If any fluent speaker can translate this into Chinese for me, I'd very much appreciate it!)
Congratulations on your WM8505 system-on-a-chip. In 2005, a "$100 laptop" was a …
This year a slew of companies have launched competing Android tablet devices. A lot of rhetoric has been spun about how Android's open source ecosystem gives manufacturers and consumers an advantage.
Android is open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The …
"Derek" posted up a comment yesterday:
I have a EKEN M001, which will not unlock the screen by pressing MENU.
I have tried reseting the EKEN M001 by pressing the Reset button on the back ofthe MID, but te screen stays unlocked.
The top of the screen says: “Demo …
See here for my review of the M001.
This teardown shows the V006 revision of the board, a quick serial port install, and includes some console/dmesg output. The main difference between V005 and V006/V007 board revisions seems to be relocating the USB WiFi dongle to a better position …