Cotton Candy Specifications / Price / Release Date

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FXI TECH, which is a Norwegian company is presently working on an odd idea of creating a portable computer, which is been called Cotton Candy. The Cotton Candy is said to be in the size of a USB pen-drive and will be powered by quad-core ARM (Mali-400MP) processor with access to 1GB of RAM.

The device Cotton Candy will sport an HDMI-out which will be used to connect to an external display, the data I/O and power supply will be via a USB port bu t the device will not feature any built-in storage, but will sport a microSD slot capped at 64GB.

The Cotton Candy also features Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR for over the air communication. The device is capable of running Android, Ubuntu (Linux) and virtualization client for Windows.

Cotton Candy is almost similar to that of the Raspberry Pi which is being developed using ARM (Broadcom BCM2835) architecture to run Linux, which will be the size of a credit card which will cost between $25 and $35.

Release Date & Price:
The release date of the device is not available and the price of the device is expected to be $200.

Cotton Candy Specifications :

Quad Core ARM® Mali™-400MP Graphics Processing Unit

– Quad-core ARM Mali-400MP 720p / 1080p OpenGL ES v2.0
– 30M Polygons, 1.2 GPixels / s

ARM® Cortex™-A9@1.2GHz :

– NEON extensions
– TrustZone extensions

Connectivity :

– Wifi 802.11 b/g/n
– Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
– Memory
– 1GB DRAM
– Up to 64GB memory local storage (microSD)

Software :

– Android
– Ubuntu
– Virtualization client for Windows, Linux, Mac, embedded

Video / Audio / Media Support :

– 480p/720p/1080p decode of MPEG4-SP/H.263/H.264 AVC/MPEG-2/VC1
– MP3, AAC, AAC+, Real Audio
– JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG
– Additional video, audio and image formats can be supported through 3rd party codecs

Connectors :

– USB 2.0 male form factor for power and connection to devices that supports USB mass storage
– HDMI 2.1 with audio for connection to devices that does not support USB mass storage

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