Technically, LeEco owns Coolpad now since they are the majority shareholder in the company, so this can be said to be a LeEco launch of some sort. The unlocked smartphone market in the US is important to manufacturers who are able to grab a share of it. Coolpad has seen the money to be made in that category and has come up with the Coolpad Conjr (pronounced as conjure).

The Conjr has a beautiful aluminium body with a 5-inch 720p display, 3GB of RAM, 16G of storage that can be expanded via a MicrosSD slot, and a 13MP rear camera. There is an 8MP selfie camera with LED flash as well, a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor that can scan wet and dusty fingers, and a rather disappointing MT6735 quad-core processor. The Conjr has LTE band support for AT&T and T-Mobile, dual-SIM slots, a 2500mAh battery, and runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Coolpad’s Cool UI 8.0 out of the box.

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The Coolpad Conjr is priced at $179.99 and comes bundled with a pair of Beyerdynamic earphones. Already available for pre-order on Newegg, it is also already on Amazon with a January 19 release date.

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Although Qualcomm is the generally better known chip manufacturer, Mediatek SoCs are also gaining some popularity in the last few months. Not just Chinese and budget manufacturers, but also well known companies are using the chips made from this Chinese chip maker.

Now, a report claims that the company has a long list of releases scheduled for 2015. We recently saw the MT6752 and MT6732 64-bit SoCs from the company based on the Cortex A53 architecture. Then there is the Mediatek MT6795, the fastest of them all, running on a 64-bit Cortex A57 + Cortex 53 architecture and built upon a 28nm process. Unfortunately, even this latest processor didn’t support the ultra high speed 4G LTE Category 6 networks i.e. LTE Advanced network.

However, according to this new document, Mediatek does have a processor under development which will be built upon the 20nm process and will support this high speed Cat. 6 network which theoretically can provide download speeds of up to 300 Mbps. The report also says that the MT6795 64-bit processor has entered mass production which means, we will soon see a lot of high end smartphones using this SoC.

There are five more SoC’s that are expected to be released in the Q2 2015. The MT6753, MT6735 and the MT6735M are all built upon the Cortex A53 architecture and 28nm process. This is going to be the company’s mid-range offering but the  highlight of these processors is the support for LTE+C2K networks. This means, the devices which run this processor will support CDMA networks too. The MT6753 is an octa-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, the Mt6735 has four processors clocked at 1.5Ghz and finally the MT6735M processor also has four cores but clocked at just 1.0 GHz.

There are two other low cost SoC which are expected to hit the markets by the end of Q2/ start of Q3 2015. They are the MT6582 (quad-core clokced at 1.3GHz) and the MT6570 (Dual-core clocked at 1.3Ghz).

The upcoming MT67XX is the one which will directly compete with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chipset as it also supports Cat. 6 LTE networks.

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