There are dozens of inexpensive HDMI sticks which you can plug into a TV to surf the web, stream internet video, or play games on your TV. But most of those sticks run Android software and come from companies you haven’t heard of. But chip designerARM is working on a software platform that could mean […]
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Closer look at FXI Cotton Candy’s $199 any-screen computer (video)
The FXI Cotton Candy is a tiny computer that’s about the size of a USB flash drive. One one side is a USB port, and on the other is an HDMI connector. And in between there’s a 1.2 GHz Samsung Exynos 4210 dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and ARM Mali 400 graphics. It’s been a […]
FXI Cotton Candy $199 PC-on-a-stick hits general availability
The FXI Cotton Candy is a tiny computer with an ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Mali 400 graphics, and Android 4.0 software. It’s been in development for almost a year, and last week FXI started shipping the little PC-on-a-stick to customers that had pre-ordered. Now the Cotton Candy store is officially open to the public, and anyone […]
FXI Cotton Candy $199 PC-on-a-stick finally starts shipping
The FXI Cotton Candy is a USB thumb drive-sized computer with an ARM Cortex-A9 processor, ARM Mali 400 graphics, WiFi, Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, and a microSD card slot for up to 64GB of storage. It can run Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and should also support other Linux-based operating systems. FXI introduced the […]
FXI Cotton Candy $199 PC on a stick to ship this month
FXI started taking orders for its $199 Cotton Candy mini-PC in February with promises that the little computer would ship in March. That didn’t happen, but Laptop Magazine says FXI will start sending out Cotton Candy devices this month to customers that placed pre-orders. The company reportedly used the extra time to add a few features […]
FXI Cotton Candy computer on a USB stick up for pre-order for $199
The FXI Cotton Candy is a full-fledged PC that’s about the pack of a stick of gum… or a somewhat chunky USB flash drive. In fact, it is kind of a USB flash drive, since there’s a USB port at one end and an HDMI port at the other. FXI started showing off a prototype late […]