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…)
MTK6582 has quietly snuck up on us and is now being offered in several phone models. There is some conflicting information however, as the Chinese news outlets have MTK6582 with Mali400 MP2, but many sellers have the GPU as PowerVR SGX544. (more…)
The race is on to the first MTK6592 release, and here’s some further news that TCL may be first out the gate. Only time will tell, but it certainly seems the Chinese are eager for TCL to take the prize judging by the amount of news regarding TCL. (more…)
It just gets better and better. Last week we released an article regarding TCL possibly releasing an 8-core (octa-core) MTK6592 smartphone in November. Now just breaking is confirmation that not only will we have two new MTK SoC, the MTK6588 and MTK6592. (more…)
Nothing Gizbeat likes more than news about a new MediaTek CPU. We’ve already published a couple of breaking news articles about MTK6592, but here’s an interesting shot of what looks to be the MTK6592 SoC nested in a prototype motherboard. (more…)
It’s been a couple months, but a new version of the Graphical Easy Root has been released. This should include many of the newer MTK6589T phones, and older MTK6589 and MTK6577 phones, that weren’t in the previous versions. (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…)
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. (more…)
We just posted the newer SP Flash Tool. Version 3.1328.0 (v3.1328.0.sn183). This takes the place of the older 3.1316.0 and 3.1324.0 SP Flash Tools. (more…)
While anyone who keeps up with the mobile industry likely knows that Cyanogen has gone commercial, what might not be known is that Cyanogen is now being developed for MediaTek MTK6589T China phones. (more…)
Excerpt: Star is a relatively old player in this game. Most of their models are at least of decent quality. The S5 Butterfly was one of the first MTK6589 phones to come out, and here’s the S5 Butterfly Elite. (more…)
