Allwinner have a $199 Google Glass competitor in the making


Allwinner have been prototyping a Google Glass alternative that costs just $199. According to the company, their take on the wearable piece of tech is going to be better than Google Glass itself.

The glass is powered by Allwinner’s A33 SoC which also makes an appearance on a lot of tablets. The device design is provided by Taiwanese design house Coretronic. From the outset, the Allwinner glass (lets call it that for convenience’s sake) looks very much like the Google Glass, but at the same time is expected to cost less.

It comes with the same optical prism optic technology that the Google Glass uses. Apart from that, it has support for WiFi, Bluetooth and more, and can work via voice control when paired with a smartphone.

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Charbax of ARMdevices made a quick video with the device, and here’s how it looks.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HkeFU-_CoI]

The US$199 price tag is perhaps a little aggressive for now; Charbax also notes that fact in the description. A lot depends on how well the product is received by the market… as you might already know, prices in China are known to fluctuate at a hear beat’s notice, depending on the demand and supply.

In all, the Allwinner glass looks like quite an interesting product which could shape the Chinese tech scene with respect to optical wearables for the next couple of years.

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21 Comments

  1. Freeje
    April 30, 2015

    Gonna get one as soon as it’s available. That’s the one thing great when you’re in China. You get to buy all the nice techy things that comes out. Including the knock-offs!

    • Andrew P
      April 30, 2015

      You also get world’s biggest air pollution for free.

      • Angry Mobile Nerd
        April 30, 2015

        Depends how you look at it, actually New Delhi has been crowned the world’s most polluted city (by the World Health Organization).

  2. desponent
    April 30, 2015

    Why would anyone make a competitor for a failed product?

    • King
      April 30, 2015

      Would have liked to see something like Microsoft’s HoloLens …. Augmented Reality+ Glass … may be interesting. (??)

    • Cuerex
      May 2, 2015

      because a failed product waits for a succeeding product

      • desponent
        May 3, 2015

        That’s on case by case.

  3. aaa
    April 30, 2015

    Allwinner – its that company that produces poor quality products, provide absoletely no support for them, and steals from the community?

    • Stavros G
      April 30, 2015

      what? Allwinner produces socs.

  4. Guest
    April 30, 2015

    Gonna get one as soon as it’s available. That’s the one thing great when you’re in China. You get to buy all the nice techy things that comes out. Including the knock-offs!

    • Andrew P
      April 30, 2015

      You also get world’s biggest air pollution for free.

    • Angry Mobile Nerd
      May 1, 2015

      Depends how you look at it, actually New Delhi has been crowned the world’s most polluted city (by the World Health Organization).

  5. desponent
    April 30, 2015

    Why would anyone make a competitor for a failed product?

    • King
      April 30, 2015

      Would have liked to see something like Microsoft’s HoloLens …. Augmented Reality+ Glass … may be interesting. (??)

    • Cuerex
      May 2, 2015

      because a failed product waits for a succeeding product

    • desponent
      May 3, 2015

      That’s on case by case.

  6. Guest
    April 30, 2015

    Allwinner – its that company that produces poor quality products, provide absoletely no support for them, and steals from the community?

    • Stavros G
      April 30, 2015

      what? Allwinner produces socs.

  7. realjjj
    April 30, 2015

    They should have aimed for a better design but the bigger problem is that the software is fundamental on such a device, you can’t just run pure Android without a custom UI and ways to interact with it and dedicated apps. Would be nice if they access to the Glass software and store.

  8. realjjj
    April 30, 2015

    They should have aimed for a better design but the bigger problem is that the software is fundamental on such a device, you can’t just run pure Android without a custom UI and ways to interact with it and dedicated apps. Would be nice if they access to the Glass software and store.

    • seeingwithsound
      May 2, 2015

      Pure Android apps can be adapted to run on Google Glass without needing any of the Glass API parts, only regular Android smartphone APIs. I’m very interested in whether my Android app will run on the Allwinner device http://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm (it does run on Google Glass)