A month or so back, I discussed LTE coming at some point in 2014 to MediaTek SoC. It turns out that prototype 4G / LTE chip testing has already begun with some of the major China manufacturers. The current buzz is that the 4G / LTE MTK chips may be released as early as Q1 2014. (more…)
Here we have some recent images showing the power efficiency of MT6592. They are touting MTK6592 as being 40% more efficient than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. The ARM Cortex A7 is indeed very efficient, and actually ARM says “The ARM Cortex™-A7 MPCore™ processor is the most efficient application processor ARM has ever developed”. (more…)
We recently posted the full list of MTK6589 phones, now here’s the full list as of 17-NOV-2013 of phones that have MT6589T MediaTek SoC along with their retail price in China! Also check out the MTK6592 list. (more…)
Quick Note – Last week we let you know that the official MT6592 MTK MediaTek public coming out party will be on November 20th. They decided to get together for a little shindig prior to the release date and invited some of the bigger players in the industry to come on by. (more…)
Just in – MediaTek sales are up 17.2% in Q3 compared to Q2. Whether it’s due to an increase in demand in smartphones, or due to MediaTek tromping the competition is unknown. Regardless, sales rising is always better than sales falling and it’s good to see them making some further headway into the market. (more…)
Recently I saw a post at chinaphonearena.com asking how the iNew i6000 fared when put up against late model HTCs, Samsungs and LGs. I thought it was a good opportunity to make a general, basic post comparing China phones to popular name brand phones and what one should expect when purchasing a China phone. In part 1, we took a look at – are recent China phones as fast as models such as Samsung, HTC, and LG? Now on to part 2. (more…)
I realize my posts have been far and few between. What was happening was some unnamed websites were directly copying and pasting our full posts. After successfully lodging a complaint with Google and getting several sites AdSense shut down, we will continue on with the posts. Thanks to our loyal readers for continuing to support us. On with the show.
After having some confirmation of MTK6592 a couple weeks back, we now have even more breaking news on this exciting new 8-core chip. Mediatek is calling their 8-core MTK6592 the first ‘true synchronized octacore chip’. They can claim this because Samsung’s Exynos 8-core SoC is actually 2 quad-core CPUs. One a high-powered ARM a15 set for when running CPU intensive operations, and the other a less power-hungry ARM a7 set reserved for when you’re doing less CPU intensive things. This is called a big.LITTLE configuration. (more…)
Finally some solid MTK6592 news. Rumors about MTK6592 have abounded and now we’ve got some word directly from MTK Managing Director, Mr. Zhu Shangzu. After rumors circulating had insiders frustrated, Mr. Shangzu finally engaged us with some dialogue. Though I’m not sure we’re any clearer on exactly what the MTK6592 will sport, it’s good to have confirmation that MTK is working on it. (more…)
We recently published an article regarding MTK6592. It’s still a rumor at this point, but the rumor just got stronger. There is an image of a news story on MTKs website referring to the MTK6592 and what GPU it may have. Though this does strengthen the rumors regarding MTK6592, there’s still no confirmation from MediaTek and attempts to locate the story on the MediaTek website have proved fruitless. (more…)
It seems like only yesterday when the first MTK6589 phone came out. It heralded a new era of China smartphones where every new MTK China phone available came with at least 1GB RAM and 4GB storage, and most with 720p LCDs. While 512MB may satisfy the casual/average user, it wasn’t quite enough for power users and those who multi-task. Now there are more MTK6589 phones released than MTK6577. It seems like every day brings us a new quad-core model. (more…)
Often I see it posted in blogs and forums something to the effect of ‘engineering mode says it has 850MHz, so it must be true’. Though no matter how much we wish it, it’s simply not. MTK6589 and it’s aging brothers MTK6577/MTK6575 etc…, all have chipset support for many GSM/WCDMA frequencies. (more…)
