I just finished up an article regarding what are supposed to be the official specifications of the MT6595 SoC. In that article we briefly mentioned big.LITTLE architecture.
Many of you are well aware of what big.LITTLE architecture is. But some of you may be wondering, so I decided to take a few minutes to briefly explain the concept. (more…)
Huge news today regarding mt6595. mediatek is raring to bust into 2014 in big style with mtk6595.
A few weeks ago the rumor was that MT6595 would basically be MT6592, but with MT6290 4g/lte modem. Get ready for a big switcharoo. (more…)
China phones have become quite popular in the last year or so. The advent of $150 quad-core smartphones really opened the eyes of many people. Now we have 8-core MTK6592 phones released and LTE/4G on the horizon. A while back, I did a series on China brands vs popular name brands. This won’t be so much about comparing the two. It’s more about a few of the hurdles to consider before becoming a proud China mobile owner. (more…)
Just in 2013 was when the China phone market began to explode with 1080p offerings. At the time, the MT6589 SoC with SGX544 was just barely enough to push it. Now in 2014 we’ve finally got a GPU that can handle the weight of 1080p – the Mali-450 MP4 in the MT6592. The question then becomes, do we really even need 1080p on our smartphones. (more…)
Wow, how a year can change things in the world of China brand technology. From last year when MediaTek was barely a blip on the radar in the mainstream community, to this year when MTK has, as predicted, been implemented in mainstream brands such as Sony and Huawei, releasing an 8-core SoC with LTE, and showcasing MediaTek solutions at CSE in Las Vegas. (more…)
We just wrote regarding confirmation of TCL Idol X+ S960T receiving the 2.0GHz MTK6592 SoC and briefly mentioned the ‘Boom Bracelet’. It seems wearable smart accessories are becoming more common place, and they’re about to become even more so when the TCL Idol X+ S960T comes to market. (more…)
What is OGS? The letters stand for ‘one glass solution’. Some of you who have been around for awhile are well aware of what OGS is, but for those of you who are new to modern smart phones, OGS is a technology whereby the layer of air (more…)
YotaPhone was talked about a few months ago, and has finally been launched. YotaPhone is made by a Russian company who mainly makes modems, but they’re now taking a swing at the smartphone market with a quite unique product – dual screens. (more…)
A year or so back, the big questions was, ‘do I need 1GB RAM?’ Most China phones came with 512MB, and only the more expensive China phones came with 1GB. Fast forward one year, and most main stream China phones are coming with 1GB and pushing on to 2GB. (more…)
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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…)
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…)