Looks like Allwinner want to live up to their name and has finally decided to release the source code for their latest quad core solution A31. Hopefully this move will push others chip makers to do the same so we all can take advantage of the open source movement and finally have more freedoms even coming from China.

Below is the press release via online translate:

In order to comply with the GPL, Allwinnner announced the the A31 kernel source code.
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I visited both Electronic Fairs held in Hong Kong and want to share my impressions and what products we can expect to see for the next 6 months ahead.

Lest get the not so positive news out of the way first.

SmartQ made a disappointing appearance this time with a brick design on SmartQ Ten5 (not ready) a dummy unit was displayed, lets pray to the design gods that the shell will be updated before launch.
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With only two weeks left to Asia's biggest electronic fair held in Hong Kong between April 12 - 6 many manufacturers are preparing to showcase their latest products. SmartQ has been successful with their previous TI OMAP range of devices, offering good and stable performance. Same platform has been used by bigger names like Samsung, Kindle and Nook.

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I never had problems using Rockchip USB drivers with any of the RK based device as im on my all time favorite Windows version, XP. However many users running newer Windows versions have had lots of problems getting the drivers to work on their machines.

Rockchip has released latest Rockusb drivers v3.5, fixed few bugs and added Win8 support.




Below is the Gtranslated changelog.



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Mobile World Congress 2013 is on and there are loads of new devices being announced from all kinds of brands. In this thread ill try to collect some of the most interesting tablets and phablets news, welcome to chip in with your findings from MWC.

The ASUS FonePad a 7-inch tablet / phone is my favorite so far, its priced at only $249 and i may have to rethink my planed Huawei Mate 6.1-inch purchase.







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Canonical announced working on a tablet and mobile version of Ubuntu months ago and there is already a developer version available for Nexus 7. Ubuntu for tablets has a very sleek UI and some very interesting features that i always missed on Android, like the Side Stage witch allows a true multitasking.

The minimum requirements for Ubuntu tablet OS are pretty high, an entry level model requires an Dual-core Cortex A15 and 2GB of RAM, so the first official... [Read More]