forecast & imagine: Low-grade tabletpc in future

All of low-grade tablet pc, all of low-grade ARM or MIPS computer (ARM or MIPS all in one PC), most of the Set-Top Box (player), all of anyother low-grade embedded devices, will use public version of the PCB board designing scheme. And the shell use public mold scheme. So can greatly reduce the cost.

About the main chip of low-grade tabletpc, low-grade ARM or MIPS computer etc., please visit:
http://jmskl.blogspot.com/2013/12/chipset-for-low-grade-tabletpcset-top.html

All have these features:
1 The CPU some of will be Single core, some of will be Dual core, some of will be more higher performance CPU. The instruction set of the CPU, some of will be ARM, some of will be MIPS.
2 For Single core CPU edition have 768MB RAM, Dual core CPU edition have 1GB RAM. More higher performance configuration tabletpc, have 1.5GB or 2GB RAM. All will be DDR3 RAM.
3 Have 4GB eMMC at least.
4 About the LCD screen:
Some of use 7" or 8" widescreen, the resolution will be 800*480, some of the resolution will be 1024*600.
Some of use 7" or 8" 4:3 screen, the resolution will be 800*600, some of the resolution will be 1024*768.
Some of (Not too many) will use IPS LCD screen.
Nearly all of the LCD screen will use LVDS interface.
5 Capacitive touch screen. Support multi-touch.
6 WIFI function, all support IEEE802.11b/g/n (at least support 150Mbps max)
7 All have gravity sensor.
8 All of low-grade tabletpc will not have bluetooth function.
9 For Single core CPU tabletpc, most of will not have camera. For Dual core CPU tabletpc, some of have a camera, some of not have. More higher performance configuration tabletpc, both have a back camera and a front camera.
10 For more higher performance configuration tabletpc, most of will integrate GPS. But for Single core and Dual core edition, nearly no tabletpc will integrate GPS.

All of the low-grade tabletpc, on the main PCB board have these pins for some functions, as: Power button,
Reset button, Vol- button, VOL+ button, Back button, Home button, Menu button, Camera, Loudspeaker, MIC, LVDS or TTL pins for LCD Screen, for capacitive touch screen pins, for Lithium ion Battery pins
Some of the PCB board, the buttons have been welded on the PCB board.

Always the Lithium ion Battery has been welded by wire into the mainboard. Some of the have a battery compartment in the back shell of the talbetpc, support BL5C or other kinds of universal Lithium ion Battery. All of Lithium ion Battery's capacity will be greater than or equal to 3500mAh.

Ports on low-grade tabletpc:
1 All have a standard 30pin docking station (port expansion)(Can expand two USB2.0 port, a VGA port, a mini Displayport).
2 All have a micro USB port, for charge, and for data transmission to PC (can be used for: brush fireware, USB debug mode on Android, USB disk mode, etc.). The micro USB port also can be used for USB host mode, when use it as USB host mode ,it can provide DC+5V electric power for USB device.
3 All have a 3.5mm audio port ,for 2 channel audio output (for earphone or other speaker) and microphone (CTIA standard)
4 All have a micro microphone
5 All have a TF card slot.
6 Some of low-grade tabletpc have a very litte loudspeaker (one channel only), some of not have.

Buttons:
All of the tabletpc,have a "power" button, a "reset" button (pinhole button), a "back" button, a "menu" button, a pair "vol+" and "vol-" button
All of the "reset" button will be a pinhole button.
Some of tabletpc, in the front shell, the "back" button, "home" button, and "menu" button are all touch button, and when press any touch button, indicator lamps in the touch button will be lighted

Operating system:
In future, all of low-grade tabletpc and set-top-box, will be pre-installed Android (Android 4.4.4 or newer version) and a Linux release edition (such as: Ubuntu etc.) on the eMMC of the equipment.
The pre-installed Android and the Linux release edition will be coexisted on the eMMC of the equipment.
When user turn on the equipment, can choose which Android or the Linux release edition (or anyother operating system, if has been installed) want to be entered.
All of low-grade tabletpc and set-top-box, the pre-installed Android operating system on the equipment, will have been got "root".
Most of will be pre-installed "Recovery" system on the eMMC.

About the drivers of capacitive touch screen and LCD screen:
All of the low-grade tabletpc's manufacturer, will provide the capacitive touch screen's driver, and the LCD screen's driver (LCD screen config file). When user want to install anyother Linux operating system to the tabletpc, user can integrate or install the drivers to the operating system.

The low-grade tabletpc will not have any other accessories, such as: USB cable, USB charger, earphone, packing box, instructions etc. So can reduce the cost.

Many manufacturers will sell the components of a low-grade tabletpc, these components include: LCD screen, capacitive touch screen, cables for LCD screen and capacitive touch screen, motherboard, the back shell, the frame shell, a Lithium ion battery. So user can assemble a low-grade tabletpc easy by theirself. And manufacturers can save assembly costs.

In the near future, the cost of the low-grade tabletpc, at least will be nearly about US$27. Although the cost will be very low, but the quality of the product will be very good.
When user will use the tabletpc, it will run very fluent and fast.
The sales volume of the low-grade tabletpc, will be very high in many developed countries.
In all of large cities and many middle cities of developed countries, will prohibit to sell the low-grade tabletpc.
In United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore etc., will prohibit to sell the low-grade tabletpc.
In USA, Australia, New Zealand, the low-grade tabletpc will be hard to buy.
In all of less developed countries, the low-grade tabletpc will not have sell.

If the tabletpc cost less than about US$140,usually not have warranty.
But the quality of the product will be still very good.

schematic diagram:
the public mold scheme of low-grade tabletpc

Schematic diagram: the right side of the tabletpc's shell

* But some of the reset button in the right side of the shell

A low-grade tabletpc running Ubuntu or other Linux release edition

A low-grade tabletpc connect a universal docking station to expand 2* USB2.0 port , a VGA port, and a mini Displayport
About the universal docking station, please visit: http://jmskl.blogspot.com/2013/12/i-invent-30pin-docking-station-for-any.html

forecast & imagine: Very cheap low-grade smart phone in the near future

Very cheap low-grade smart phone will be came out in the near future in many developed countries.
Nearly all of this kind of phone have these feature:
^ Will use public version of the PCB board designing scheme. And the shell will use public mold scheme. So can greatly reduce the cost
^ ARM Cortex A9 1.5Ghz Single-core CPU (Some of will use MIPS instruction set), the L2 cache of CPU greater than or equal to 512KB
^ All support H.264 (AVC) decoding and encoding by hareware. And support VP8 video decoding and encoding by hareware.
^ 768MB DDR3 RAM (Maybe 64MB or a few more capacity will be used as display cache, so have 704MB capacity of RAM can be visible)
^ 4GB NAND flash
^ Support GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900Mhz, and WCDMA.
(Some of support CDMA & CDMA2000 & GSM)
^ Bluetooth (support A2DP)(Some of low-grade phone will not have Bluetooth function, because some users will never use Bluetooth function, and so can reduce the cost.)
^ Wifi IEEE802.11 b/g/n (150Mbps max)
^ GPS
^ All have these sensors: gravity sensor, light sensor, accelerometer, compass
^ 3-million pixel back camera, support autofocus. Many of have a LED flashlight.
When recording video, all support 640*480 24fps at least.
Some of have a front camera, 0.3 million pixel, some of not have
^ 3.7 inch LCD screen (ture color, 16,777,216 colors)
^ Capacitive touch screen (Support multi-touch)
^ Two SIM card connectors (some of will be Mini-SIM card)
^ One TF card connector (some of have a TF card slot)
^ One micro USB port. All support USB2.0 OTG function.
^ One 3.5mm audio port
^ One power button, a pair of volume up & down buttons. And at least have 2 or 3 touch buttons under the screen, such as: back, home, menu button.
^ FM & AM radio receiver function
^ Android 4.4.4 (or newer version) operating system. Most of the low-grade phones will use the original edition Android.
^ Many of the low-grade phone, will have been pre-installed some applications, but all of the pre-installed applications will not be as the system applications, so user can be very easily to uninstall them.
^ This kind of low-grade phone, whether the brand, the bootloader will be unlocked, and will use "Uboot" as the bootloader. So user can brush some other ROM into the phone easily.
^ Android operating system on the phone some of will be not "root", but user can be easy to use some methods to get "root". Some of the phone, Android operating system will have been got "root".
^ Accessories with the phone: A Lithium polymer battery only. Not include any other accessories, such as: USB cable, USB charger, earphone, packing box, instructions etc. So can reduce the cost.

Dual core or Cortex-A7 Quad core edition:
Differents as single core phone:
Dual core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU 1.5GHz, or Cortex-A7 Quad core CPU, have 1MB L2 cahce. Some of CPU will use MIPS instruction set.
1GB DDR3 RAM
4.3 inch or 4 inch LCD screen.
Have a 5 million pixel back camera, support autofocus. All have a LED flashlight. Some of support 1280*720 (24fps) HD video recording.
Have a front camera (Maybe 0.3 million pixel)
Some of support 4G LTE
The Lithium ion battery's capacity will be larger than single core phone's Lithium ion battery.

For the low-grade phones, will also have more higher performance configuration model, such as: have more higher performance CPU and GPU, have 1.5GB or 2GB RAM, have more better back camera etc.

Many chip manufacturers will produce the main chip for low-grade smart phone, such as: MediaTek (MTK), Realtek, VIA, ALI, Sunplus, Winbond, Telechips, ATJ, Allwinner, Rockchip, Amlogic, Sigma, ATMEL, Texas Instruments (TI), Marvell, NXP Semiconductors (Freescale), Analog Devices, Cirrus Logic, STMicroelectronics etc.

Many manufacturers will produce this kind low-grade smart phone, such as: MSI, Pantech, Viewsonic, Gateway, Foxconn, OKWAP, COBY etc., and many Chinese manufacturers.
Many young people, students and low-income people, will very like this kind of low-grade phone.
The sales volume of this kind of low-grade phone will be very good.
This kind of low-grade phone will cost less than US$30.
The quality of the phone will be also very good.
When user will use the low-grade phone, it will run very fluent and fast.
In many large cities and many middle cities of some developed countries, will prohibit to sell very low-grade phone.
In United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore, will prohibit to sell the low-grade phone nationwide. The purpose will be to defend middle-grade and high-grade phone's sales volume, and can encourage tax.
In Australia and New Zealand, the low-grade phone will not have sell.
In all of less developed countries, the low-grade smart phone will not have sell.

New low cost Satellite Communication System

A new type of satellite communication system:
The new satellite communication system's cost is lowest than other satellite communication systems.
This kind of communication satellite will run about 1000 kilometers away from the ground,run as polar orbit.
This satellite communication system will be launched by International Telecommunications Union and some developed countries.
By some telecom operators (from developed countries) will be joint responsible to operate the satellite communication system.
This kind of communication satellite's ground station will be run by some developed countries' telecom operators.
This kind of communication satellites only have signal forwarding function,such as a signal amplification station at cellular communication system.
The satellite communication system, will use existing low cost high speed communications technology.
This kind of satellite communication system will be used for broadband Internet access.
The satellite communication system, when user use it to connect internet, the connection rate for users will be relative exclusive for each user. And the satellite communication system will use NAT (Network Address Translator) to connect internet and users' terminal equipment (adapter), so when user use it to connect network, user's terminal equipment (adapter) will be got a reserved address (IP address for intranet)(Maybe the IP address will be as 10.x.x.x) on the network, not as a IP address on internet.
The satellite communication system, the communication cost according to the data flow, but it will be cheap.

The satellite communication system's adapter for user, have these ports and functions:
DC Power supply port
All have a Lithium polymer battery compartment, many of will use BL5C Lithium polymer battery. Can use Lithium polymer battery for power supply.
Antenna port
USB 2.0 port (Micro USB): Can connect PC, tabletpc, Set-Top-Box, phone etc.
All have 3 or 4* RJ45 10~100Mbps Ethernet ports (Also have network switch function).
All will have WIFI function (Wireless hotspot function, such as a wireless router function), support IEEE802.11b/g/n 150Mbps max.
Have many other functions which anyother wireless routers all have.

In many developed countries, on many civil aircraft or ships, will use the new satellite communication system, to provide low price WIFI for passengers.
In many less developed countries, such as: China, Vietnam, India, Russia, Philippines, Indonesia etc., many foreigners, foreign enterprises, managers of foreign enterprises (from developed countries) in many less developed countries, will like to use the satellite communication system.

The back of the low cost Satellite Communication modem for user:

Set-Top Box (HD player) in future

Since the near future:

In the near future, Set-Top Box will have have 1GB DDR3 RAM, have 4GB eMMC at least. The CPU all will be Dual core at least (ARM or MIPS instruction set).
Most of Set-Top Box will use public version of the PCB design scheme. And the shell use public mold scheme.

Set-Top Box will be Pre-installed Android, Linux (for watching TV, play video and audio only) and a Linux release edition, 3 systems will coexist.
When user start the set-top-box, can choose which operating system to be entered.
The pre-installed Android all will be Android 4.4.4 or newer version, and have been got "root".
Most of will be pre-installed "Recovery" system on the eMMC.

The Pre-installed Linux for mediaplayer, it's a media center operating system. User can use infrared remote to control it, it support wathcing digital TV (if the set-top-box support), watching IPTV (whether live TV channel or VOD, support IP multicast), playing video and audio, support USB flash disk, USB or SATA hard driver, USB or SATA CDROM(or DVD, Blu-ray), SD/MMC card etc.

All have these feature:
Have a micro USB port for power supply (DC 5V) and data transmission to PC
All have a HDMI port, and a video output port (3.5mm, support YCbCr and CVBS), a audio output port (3.5mm,two channel), a 3.5mm microphone port.
All at least have two USB2.0 port
All have a SD/MMC card slot.
All have a RJ45 Ethernet port.
All have infrared remoter and infrared receive window.
All integrate WIFI function, support IEEE802.11 b/g/n 150Mbps max.
Some of have a eSATA and USB 2 in 1 port.
Some of have a USB3.0 port.

About digital TV receive function:
Some of support digital TV receive function. Some of not support digital TV receive function.
Some of have one or two slot to installation demodulation card (Have a Tuner and a demodulation chipset on the card).
Some of has been installed one or two Tuner and demodulation chip on the PCB board. (Usually support DVB-S2/DVB-S)
Have one or two IC card slot (for smart card)
Hava a PCMCIA card slot for connect CA system modular
If the Set-Top Box support satellite digital TV receive (when it has been integrated DVB-S2/DVB-S etc. tuner and demodulation chipset on the PCB board),these kind Set-Top-Box usually use DC 12V for power supply, also the micro USB port not have power supply (DC 5V) function.

Some of set-top-box, support to be inserted a 2.5 inch SATA hard driver into the set-top-box.

About the main chip of set-top-box:
Many chip manufacturers will produce the main chip for set-top-box, such as: MediaTek (MTK), Realtek, VIA, ALI, Sunplus, Winbond, Telechips, ATJ, Allwinner, Rockchip, Amlogic, Sigma, ATMEL, Texas Instruments (TI), Marvell, NXP Semiconductors (Freescale), Analog Devices, Cirrus Logic, STMicroelectronics etc.

In the back and left(or right) side of a set-top-box

The set-top-box support satellite TV and cable TV, and have DC 12V power supply ,the back of a set-top-box (For reference only.):

the front head of a set-top-box (if a set-top-box support DVB receive)

a set-top-box run a media center operating system (base on Linux kernel)

a set-top-box run Ubuntu or Debian etc

set-top-box

I invent: 30pin docking station for any low-grade tablet pc

The docking station (port expansion) for Low-grade tablet pc:

In the near future, all of the low-grade tabletpc, will have the 30pin docking station, can expand 2* usb2.0 port, one VGA port, one mini Displayport.

The 30pin docking station's length will be a few shorter than apple 30pin connector.
The 30pin docking station is a connector only, not have any electronic component in it.
The 30pin docking station will be universal, so all of low-grade tabletpc can use it.

The 30pin docking station for tabletpc, is a public scheme, not have any patent.
The 30pin docking station will be very cheap.

The Schematic diagram of 30pin docking station socket on tabletpc:

 The Schematic diagram of 30pin docking station:

When a low-grade tabletpc connecting the universal docking station

Forecast: Chips for low-grade tabletpc and ARM or MIPS computer

Chips for low-grade tabletpc, low-grade ARM or MIPS computer, or another embedded devices:
CPU unit:
The cpu use ARM or MIPS instruction set. Most of cpu use ARM instruction set.
If the cpu use ARM instruction set,the clock rate is greater than or equal to 1.5Ghz. (whether single core or multiple core)
Now,most of ARM instruction CPU use Cortex A9 or newer scheme
The cpu include single core, double core or multiple core CPU. Such as: Cortex-A9 1.5Ghz Single core, Cortex-A9 1.5Ghz Dual core, Cortex-A7 Quad core, or more higher performance CPU.
All of the CPU have 32KB instruction cache, 32KB data cache, and have L2 cache greater than or equal to 512KB
Some of the cpu have NEON SMID
If the cpu's occupancy is not full load,can auto reduce clock rate and power waste. All of the clock rate of CPU can be reduced to 60MHz at lowest or more lower.
If the main chip have double core or multiple core CPU,if one of CPU will not be full load,the others CPU will be shuted down auto,so can save powersupply.

Some functions of display:
If the GPU's occupancy is not full load,can auto reduce clock rate and power waste,or auto shut down the GPU
Support LVDS, TTL, RGB interface of LCD screen (can support all common kinds of LVDS,TTL,RGB interface of LCD screen)
Support Displayport output
All have a RAMDAC in main chip,can support VGA (RGB) output
Can connect video DAC chipset to support YCbCr,S-video,CVBS output (optional function)
* Most of not support HDMI output,so can reduce the cost of the chipset.
But a few of support HDMI output


DSP unit:
This kind of DSP unit is an open source hardware scheme
Support VP8 (higher than 1920*1080 30fps max), VP6, H.263 decoding and encoding by hardware
Support JPEG,GIF,TIF (LZW),PNG,WEBP image high efficiency decoding and encoding by hardware  (Decode or encode high resolution JPEG image, the speed is very fast.)
Support multifarious transition effect and ZOOM for video and image
Support RGB and YUV (YCbCr,whether PAL or NTSC) color mode mutual convert by hardware (higher than 1920*1080 30fps max)
Support multi-color display by hareware (When not use GPU)
Support Mp3 (320kbps max,support mp3 vbr/abr), MPC, OGG (q10 max,support multichannel), Wavpack (support lossy and lossless), APE, FLAC (support multichannel), TTA decoding by hardware
Support Mp3 (320kbps max,support mp3 vbr/abr),MPC,OGG (encode two channel q10 rate's speed is more faster than real time),Wavpack (support lossy and lossless) ,FLAC, TTA encode by hardware.The encoding's speed is more faster than real time.But if encode very high rate of lossless formats (as encode multi channel or high sampling rate wavpack,flac or TTA),the encoding speed will be slower.
Support audio mix, Sample rate conversion, and some EQ sound by hardware.
Support max to 72 polyphonys for MIDI fm synthesize by hardware.

* This kind of DSP unit will not support H.264,VC-1,WMV9,DIVx,MPEG2, MPEG2 layer 1 & 2 audio, WMA, AAC, AC3 ect. encoding and decoding by hardware, because these formats have patent now and future, so can reduce the cost of the chipset.
But some of(not too many) support H.264 encoding and decoding by hardware, for some middle-grade tabletpc

Other function of the main chipset:
These functions also use open source hardware scheme.
Support intelligent Power Manger function
Have real time colck function
Support DDR3 RAM and LPDDR2 RAM (Support Dual channel RAM)
Support NAND Flash
Support eMMC
Support SRAM/Nor Flash/SPI NOR Flash
Support MCL/TLC NAND FLASH
Support eMMC port,can installation INand etc. device
Support SD/MMC card
Support one USB 2.0 OTG port. Can connect to PC (as a usb slave)(Can brush fireware,usb debug mode on android,usb disk mode on android etc.).The USB OTG port also can be used as a USB 2.0 Host (master).
Support 4* USB 2.0 port (USB host) or more
Support one USB3.0 port
Support 2* SATA 3.0 port
Support some PCI-express 1x bus
Have MAC controller function,support MII/RMII and 7-wire SNI,can connect ethernet PHY or WIFI RF transceiver chipset
Support SDIO port
Have one TS stream input port (Can support DVB-SH,DVB-T,DMB-TH,ISDB-T etc. digital TV demodulation chipset.)
Have 4* UART Controller (also can support debug,BlueTooth,GPS,Modem etc.)
Have 2* SPI port
Have 4* I2C port
Have 2* TWI port
Support 4-wire Resistive TP interface
Support capacitive touch screen and resistive touch screen (Support TP port)
Support Irda infrared transmission function
Support 2* image input port for camera sensor (support 8bits CCIR656, 10bits/12bits Raw data etc.)
Support Gravity sensor , Compass and Gyroscope
Support some sensor input port,as temperature,humidity,Illumination,Air pressure,Acceleration etc.
Support GPIO
Support JTAG
Support CAN bus
Support one Segment display, and one dot matrix display (Compatible ESC/POS commands)
Support some buttons,such as: Power, reset, vol+, vol-, back, menu, home. And have pins for a few of customise button.
Can connect a external video capture chip (video ADC chip),so can support VGA(RGB), YCbCr, S-video, CVBS-video input (Optional function)

All of have a audio DAC/ADC in the main chip,support 2 channel audio,max to 192Khz 32bit per channel acquisition and playback. Support one audio output port (earphone port),two way audio input port (line in),one micphone port.
The signal-to-noise ratio must  greater than or equal to 90db.
Have another I2S bus to connect external audio DAC/ADC
Have SPDIF output & input port

Have a BROM in the main chipset,the BROM can't be brushed.The BROM have these functions:
1 Boot from Nandflash on the system(bootloader on the Nandflash)(in default)
2 Boot from SD/MMC card (if a SD/MMC card have inserted,and have bootloader on the SD/MMC card)
3 Can brush the Nandflash on the system.If the system power on,and user will hold the special button,and use the USB Slave port to connect to PC,and need to run brush software on PC, can brush the data into the NAND FLASH(brush new ROM into NAND FLASH). (Such as a Usb Hardware Programmer function.)

All of the main chipset have a ramdac in it,to support VGA output

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The public PCB board designing:
The main chip and the PCB board designing, for low-grade and some of middle-grade tabletpc, and for set-top-box, if the chip's brand is same, when the brand will release new chip (as the upgraded version of the old chip),the PCB board designing will be same.
Even some different brand of the main chips, the PCB designing will be still same.
So can greatly reduce the cost.
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Bootloader and drivers of the chips:
All manufacturers of the main chip (for low-grade tabletpc, or for set-top-box), all will release the bootloader image (usually as "boot.img" file). And also release the main chip's driver package(for Linux kernel), and the display driver package(GPU driver)(for Linux kernel).
So user can be easy to install anyother Linux operating system and install drivers to the tabletpc (or set-top-box).
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This chipset scheme is also used for Cash register,ATM register,POS register,Financial machine (The tax control machine),
Self-service machine (such as The query engine,Numbering machine etc.) etc.
In future,Cash register,ATM register,POS register,Financial machine (The tax control machine),Self-service machine etc. all not use PC framework and x86 CPU.

forecast: A kind of Non-smrat phone sold to China and some other less developed countries

A kind of Non-smrat phone sold to China and some other less developed countries

Have these feature:
1.8 inch or 1.5 inch TFT LCD screen
Optional resistive touch screen
Traditional dialpad (Large button on the dialpad)
0.3 million pixel front camera, some of have a back camera
Micro USB 2.0 port (for Charging and Data transmission)
GSM 900 & 1800Mhz ,Support GPRS
Many of have two SIM card slot, support 2 way GSM/GPRS mobile communication
TF card slot
Support JPEG,GIF,BMP image
Support MPEG4 & H.263 video (Low resolution only.), support MP4 & 3GP video container
Support AAC, MP3, AMR, MIDI audio and ring
Support base station location
Support SMS, MMS, email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP), phonebook, caller ID etc. These common functions
WAP browser
Support JAVA
Text File (*.txt) reader
Support Tencent QQ, Wechat, Sina Weibo

If the phone sold to China, the firmware will have some backdoors. For example, when a user will call phone, answer the phone, send message, use instant messaging tool, use network etc., should photograph the user's head portrait. Because the government of China will order these in future.

In future, in China and some less developed countries, many old people will like the non-smrat phone. Because some of old people in less developed countries they can't use smart phone, and large button on the dialpad will fit old people to use.

Low-grade ARM or MIPS computer for office use in future

forecast, invention, imagine and recommend:

Low-grade ARM or MIPS computer for office use in future

In the near future, low-grade ARM or MIPS computer for office use will be came out.
In essence, the low-grade ARM or MIPS computer will be a low-grade all-in-one PC.
The low-grade ARM or MIPS computer will be very popular in many developed countries in future, such as: many European countries, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan (Republic of China) etc., and it can reduce the cost of office equipment.
Features of the low-grade ARM or MIPS computer:
1 Will use public version of the PCB board designing scheme. And the shell use public mold scheme. So can greatly reduce the cost.
2 The main chip scheme will be same as low-grade tabletpc.
3 Will use single core or dual core CPU, or more higher performance CPU, the instruction set will be ARM or MIPS.
4 If use single core CPU, at least have 768MB DDR3 RAM. If use dual core CPU, will have 1GB DDR3 RAM at least. If use more higher performance CPU, have 1.5GB or 2GB DDR3 RAM.
5 At least have 4GB eMMC.
6 Usually have 4* USB2.0 port, many of have one USB2.0 and eSATA 2 in 1 port,
have a SDcard reader,
have a micro USB port for DC 5V power supply, transport data and brush firmware (USB slave mode),
have a 10~100Mbps Ethernet port,
have a 3.5mm 2 channel audio output port, and a 3.5mm microphone port,
have a VGA video output port,
have a power button and a reset button
7 All have a LCD screen (true color, LED backlight, LVDS interface), have these size:
12inch (4:3, 1024*768 resolution, the most common size.)
These size LCD screen of computer for cashier use, Queue Management System etc. only (not for office use):
7inch or 8inch(widescreen, 800*480 resolution), 7inch or 8inch(4:3, 800*600 resolution), 10inch(4:3, 1024*768 resolution, or widescreen 1024*600 resolution)
! All of the computer's manufacturers, will provide the LCD screen's driver (LCD screen config file). When user want to install anyother Linux operating system to the computer, user can integrate the LCD screen's driver to the operating system.
8 Pre-installed a Linux release edition (such as: Ubuntu, Debian etc.) and Android two operating systems. For Android, the version will be Android 4.4.4 or newer version, and have "Root". User also can install some other Linux operating system to the computer. This feature will be same as low-grade tabletpc and set-top-box.
9 Some of will have video capture function, have a 3.5mm YCbCr and CVBS video input port, can capture YCbCr or CVBS video. Some of not have video capture function.
10 The cost of the low-grade ARM or MIPS computer will be very cheap. The price of it will be nearly same or a few higher than low-grade tabletpc.
11 In future, the sales volume of the Low-grade ARM or MIPS computer in many developed countries will be very high. Many companies will buy and use it for easily office use. Many reception of restaurant, western restaurant, hotel, bar, shop, hospital etc., and middle supermarket or small supermarket, fast food restaurant, coffee bar etc., will also like to use it.
Because the low-grade ARM or MIPS computer will be very cheap, can save more cost than low-grade x86 PC, and it can save power supply than low-grade x86 PC.
12 It also can be used as ATM (Automatic Teller Machine), Queue Management System, many kinds of Self-service equipment etc.
13 But in all of less developed countries, the low-grade ARM or MIPS computer will not have sell.

The low-grade ARM or MIPS computer also can be used as cash register. If be used as a cash register, all have more than 4* USB2.0 port, and can be optional installation these function:
1 customer display
2 resistive touch screen

But for cash register, ATM, or other professional use, will have been pre-installed a Linux release (desktop edition ,such as: Ubuntu etc.) only, not have been pre-installed Android.

For office or home use:

Used as cash register:

Recommend more chip manufacturers to produce chips for low-grade phone, low-grade tabletpc & set-top-box

Recommend since the near future, more chip manufacturers to produce chips for low-grade phone, low-grade tabletpc & set-top-box, such as: MediaTek (MTK), Realtek, VIA, ALI, Sunplus, Winbond, Telechips, ATJ, Allwinner, Rockchip, Amlogic, Sigma, ATMEL, Texas Instruments (TI), Marvell, NXP Semiconductors (Freescale), Analog Devices, Cirrus Logic, STMicroelectronics etc.
Because for low-grade phone & low-grade tabletpc, the market prospects is very broad in now and future.
Recommend since the near future, some chips for low-grade phone, low-grade tabletpc & set-top-box, can use MIPS instruction set.

Forecast: Some China online financial services will expand foreign market in future

In future, some China online financial services, include: Alipay, Wechat Wallet etc., will expand foreign market, so many foreign user can use it to pay, save money, exchange Renminbi and other currency, buy fund.
In future, Alipay, Wechat Wallet etc., these China online financial services, will build data center in USA, Canada and some other developed countries, for saving foreign users' financial data. These data centers for financial data, will be accepted supervision by USA, Canada and some other developed countries' Financial management institution, be obeied by USA, Canada and some other developed countries' financial laws.
In future, Alipay, Wechat Wallet etc., these online financial services:
Will support USA, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, and some European countries' user to be registered their real identify and name to use.
Will support many foreign bank or other financial institution's checking account (debit card) to connect Alipay, Wechat Wallet etc., money can be enter or returned to user's checking account (debit card) easily.
And for some banks or other financial institution's checking account (debit card), include: Taiwan, South Korea and some other countries' banks or other financial institution, user can be free fee to let their money to enter or returned to their checking account (debit card) fast.
Foreign user also can save money in their Alipay, Wechat Wallet (or other online financial services)'s account. Can use these online financial services to exchange Renminbi and their country of residence's currency.
Foreign user also can buy fund via Alipay, Wechat Wallet (or other online financial services), when they save money in these online financial services' account, and exchange their country of residence's currency to Renminbi.
Foreign user also can be free fee to transfer accounts to other user's account (Online financial services' account. Such as: Alipay, Wechat Wallet etc.).

Forecast: Apple in China in future

In future, Apple Inc. will compromise with China.
In future, Apple Inc. will build a joint venture in China.
For China users, Apple's datacenter will be builded in China (Data will be saved in CHINA UNICOM, China Telecom's datacenter.)
So in future, Apple will release IOS for China edition, and Apple application store for China will be saved in China datacenter.
About IOS for China edition:
Any IOS equipment (include: Iphone, IPAD, Ipodtouch) if sold to China, when the equipment be produced, will have been pre-installed IOS for China edition.
If a non-China edition IOS equipment, when user update the IOS in China network (not International internet), will be connected to Apple in China's datacenter, and be updated as IOS for China edition.
If any IOS equipment using IOS for China edition, when user update the IOS in International internet, will be updated as IOS Standard Edition.
Features about IOS for China edition:
When user in China, will call a phone, send message (SMS, EMS, MMS), or connect internet (when use cellular communication), before these, should use the camera to photograph user's head portrait, and send the head portrait to telecom operator's auto, after these user can call a phone, send message (SMS, EMS, MMS), or connect internet (for use cellular communication only).
Integrate some user behavior detection function. For example, when user in China calling a phone, answering phone, connecting internet (when use cellular communication), when apart a while, the camera will photograph user's head portrait or surrounding environment auto, or will obtain user's location information, and send these information to telecom operator.
When user in China want to use facetime and Imessage, the user's Apple ID should be registered user's real name and identify, and the user should be over 16 years of age.
When user in China will using facetime and Imessage on WIFI, when apart a while, the camera will photograph user's head portrait or surrounding environment auto, or will obtain user's location information, and send these information to Apple datacenter in China.
Can connect Apple application store for China only. Will be prohibited to connect anyother country's Apple application store.
For above of these features, the reason will be the government of China will order these.
For Iphone, not support facetime voice call without video.
For Iphone, not support VOLTE.