When discussing possibilities of modding Motorola Lapdock into something more useful than being a cradle for some Atrix or Photon or Bionic, I was quoting that Zealz GK802 stick as more relevant with some small Linux than the whole army of cheaper 802, 808 sticks. GK802's i.MX6 performance is still very questionable though, even when modded with bigger heat sink and displayed on 1366x768 screen of Motorola Lapdock (not on "regular" 1920x1080 screen).
On the other hand, it would be unwise to expect that "big" players could be interested in manufacturing HDMI sticks with their top SoCs inside: Nvidia Tegra 4, Samsung Octo, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800, TI's whatever (OMAP5, if it's not dead already). These chips arguably can support a Chromium OS or even a decent Ubuntu and/or Windows RT + Direct X 9.0....11.0, so they could be ideal candidates to hook to Motorola Lapdock.
Pity these imaginary high-end sticks exist only as expensive dev boards of limited distribution, if at all.
So this Unuiga stick reviewed here may show some hope:
SoC – AllWinner A31 quad core Cortex A7 + PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU
System Memory – 2GB DDR3 RAM
Storage – 8GB NAND Flash + microSD
Connectivity – WiFi 802.11b/g/n
USB – 1x USB 2.0 host port, 2x mini USB ports
Reset button Build in
Video Output – HDMI
Video Codecs – Mpeg1/2/4.H.264,VC-1,Divx,Xvid,RM8/9/10,VP6
Video Container Formats – MKV, TS, TP, M2TS, RM/RMVB, BD-ISO, AVI, MPG, VOB, DAT, ASF, TRP, FLV etc.
Audio Formats – MP3, OGG, WMA, WMAPRO
Dimensions – 97*38*12mmWith a keyboard/remote mouse, it is supposed to cost around $100, and even with very unpolished Android, it has much more promise than GK802. Will it compete with sticks based on Exynos 4412 and RK3166, only time will tell. One thing is clear: FXI can shove their $199 Cotton Candy: TI OMAP4430 chip was good only in 2011.
Weight – ~32g
On unrelated issue, mystery of FFC camera in Fascinate deepens. One approach was based on a belief there's no FFC in Fascinate, so possible ways to mod Fassy with compatible dual cam were investigated and stopped at dead end: no space at the point where FFC might have access to the relevant screen area from within. The other approach is more philosophical that I tried to apply when discussing Pandigital Novel 3 years ago: in essence, what is an ambient light sensor if not a cheapo VGA cam, tell me?
Ther's no lack of anonymous reports of somebody using FFC at earlier firmware versions back in the day, only seeing them disappear in later OTA firmware upgrades without any traces. Fassy is deprecated, and most probably there's no archive of once available Android 2.1 firmware, to try and check.
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