Runbo is one of those companies that produces waterproof smartphone. Their latest is the Runbo Q5S which is the successor of the Runbo Q5. It may seem that it is an upgrade of the original, but it actually isn’t.

The Runbo Q5S sports a rubber case and its screen is protected by Corning Gorilla glass. Every hole is protected from water coming in and the strength of the rubber ensures that this phone can run under a temperature between 20 and 60 degrees below zero. This is an IP67 phone which means that it can last 30 minutes against water for a depth of 1m.

As for why the Runbo Q5S is not an upgraded version of the Runbo Q5 is because it has lower specifications than the original. Its processor is the MT6589 which has 1.2GHz. It has a 4.5-inch OGS screen with HD resolution (1280 x 720), 1G RAM, 8G ROM, a 2mp/8mp dual-camera, 4200mAh battery, and the Android 4.2. It also has support for GPS, a thermometer, speedometer, etc.

The Runbo Q5S costs 2999 RMB (489.54 USD).

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During last year’s Q4 season, K-Touch introduced a very special device called the T99. Besides being a China Mobile-customized device, it is also NFC-supported making it one of K-Touch’s very few devices to do so.

Like other NFC-supported phones, the T99 allows data transmission with other devices within close range. It works much better if used with a NFC SIM card.

The K-Touch T99 is one of K-Touch’s most fashionable phones, sporting a 5-inch qHD IPS display screen. Its measurements are 114.7 x 72.9 x 8.5mm. It is completely white with round edges.

As a customized phone, its core specs are not that great. It uses the MT6589 quad-core chipset (1.2Ghz), and has 512M RAM and 4GB ROM. It also sports a .3mp/5mp dual-camera, is powered by a 2000mAh battery, and supports TD-SCDMA+GSM dual-SIM as well as the usual sensors. Its OS is based on the Android 4.2 but also looks a bit like the Touch OS.

It is on sale online for 399 RMB.

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Recently, Coolpad launched a new cell phone in collaboration with China Unicom, the Coolpad 7275 which is obviously an upgraded version of the 7270 based on the number.

An entry-level product, the Coolpad 7275 is another low-end device with a big screen but its design is not so bad. It has a completely white body and sports a 5.5-inch screen. It is 78mm wide and 151mm long which gives a pretty good screen ratio. Its thickness is a bit more average though, measuring about 9mm. 

The Coolpad 7275’s 5.5-inch FWVGA display screen is its main selling point as its other specifications are only so-so. It carries the MT6589 quad-core chip which few phones carry now and has 512M RAM, 4GB ROM, a .3mp front-facing camera, a 5mp rear-facing camera, and a 2500ma battery. Its operating system is the Android 4.2. It also supports WCDMA/GSM dual-SIM and China Unicom 42M high-speed 3G internet.

While the 7275’s specs are far from great, it is very affordable as its official price is 799 RMB (129.61) while its above-the-line price is 560 RMB (90.84 USD).

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Recently, Uoogou released its new quad-core phone, the Uoogou X3. It has been listed many online stores as costing only 399 RMB which is surprising consithe phone’s features are pretty good considering its low cost.

According to reports, the Uoogou X3 uses the 1.5GHZ MT6589 quad-core chipset. Considering the frequency, this phone must be using the MTK6589 Turbo Edition. In addition to the 1GB RAM, it also has 8GB of internal memory storage. It also sports a 4.7-inch IPS display screen with qHD resolution and has a 2mP/8mP dual-camera. Its operating system is the Android 4.2 and it supports TD-SCDMA+GSM dual-SIM.

This phone is available in red, white, champagne gold, and black. It is 7.55mm thick. Despite its slender frame, this phone is powered by a 2800mha battery!

Pre-orders can be made at JD and will be sold on the 30^th.

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At present, many domestic smartphone manufacturer are equipped their products with MediaTek MT6572 and MT6582 chipset, and now those phone are already sold on the market. But I’m quite sure that not many people is understand about what the diferent between the MT6588 and MT6592 chipset. And now we want to show you about the short description about those chips.

Here are the tabel of MT6572, MT6582, MT6588, MT6592 basic parameters, so that we have the impression, in order to tell you about.

Process aspects: whether the low-end dual-core MT6572 or high-end eight-core MT6592, are used 28nm process. MT6572 and MT6582 which is the use of a common 28nm process, while the Advanced Edition Quad Core MT6588 and MT6592 is the use of 28nm HPM process, HPM is actually short for High Performance Mobile, meaning low-power mobile high-energy processes.

Frequency and cache: frequency aspects MT6572, MT6582 uses a 1.3GHz, L2 cache which is mainly different. The Advanced version MT6588 is clocked using 1.7GH, L2 cache and MT6582 same. Eight core MT6592 is the use of an optional 1.7 ~ 2.0GHz frequency, while L2 cache upgrade to 1MB. According to current news, the first listing of eight core MT6592 will use the 1.7Ghz frequency, perhaps 2.0Ghz frequency will be the advanced version of the chip used in frequency, then the chip code should also be renamed.

Memory : At present only Advanced version quad-core and eight-core MT6592 MT6588 increase LPDDR3 666MHz support. Compared to the now widespread use of LPDDR2, LPDDR3 bring a higher data transfer rate, bandwidth, energy efficiency, storage density, such as data rate of 1600Mbps, than their predecessors LPDDR2 1066Mbps add a whole half.

Video coding: Only Premium quad and eight-core MT6592 MT6588 increase HEVC/V9 coding standards support. HEVC: High Efficiency Video Coding, is a new video compression standard. Support HEVC coding standards, for consumers, we can enjoy a higher quality of 4K video, 3D Blu-ray, high-definition television programs. In decoding mode, the MediaTek MT6592 decoding HEVC (H.265) FHD video consumes less power than the existing market quad-core solution for low 18%. In playback mode, MediaTek MT6592 can provide users with 20% frame rate improvement.

GPU: the list of chips are used ARM Mali GPU processor family. Which ARM Mali 450-MP Die area of ​​8.6 mm2, based on quad-core design, built-in 256 KB L2 shared cache, running at 240MHz (40nm LP) or 480MHz (40nm GP), running at 480MHz speeds, the data throughput up to 104M triangles / s. In 4xFSAA (FSAA) mode, Mali 450-MP can provide the quality 2K and 4K display, support OpenGL v2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 effects.

Maximum Supported resolutions: due to performance limitations, MT6572 supports only up QHD level, MT6582 supports HD is the highest level. Premium and eight nuclear MT6592 MT6588 is available up to 1080P resolution level.

Network support: both support HSPA + Rel.8 21Mbps/5.76Mbps.

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So here is a video of the best known Samsung Galaxy S4 clone Check it out!

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Sony Mobile reportedly preparing some new phones to be released this year. One of them is a matter of hot debate is the news that Sony is preparing a 5-inch phone with a more affordable price.

Those phone is packs with 5-inch screen size and will be powered by Mediatek processor. MediaTek processor is the cheapest processor in the market today, and some manufacturer has been develop their products with this chipset.

According to tumor, Sony will be using the wuad-core processor Mediatek MT6589, with this processor Sony will be ready to compete in low budget phone but offers nice features.

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Mediatek is one of domestic chipset manufacturer and now they already release the quad-core processor debut through MT6589 chipset but now thet ready to unveiled their new MT6589M, what’s the different with the predecessor?

Mediatek is preparing their secret weapon through the new MT6589M and ready to compete with Qualcomm. Today, the most domestic smartphone manufacturer has been release their products with Mediatek chipset since the Mediatek is offer low proce but offers maximum performance for smartphones and tablet devices.

In fact, MediaTek send the most common approach is to make the market think that their company is very bad, quite let advantage of this opportunity to make the taste, and then suddenly one day start large-scale release of more good news shipments Lee! In fact, MediaTek internal morale is very high, as competitors Qualcomm filing blanket “secret weapon upcoming scabbard. MediaTek is planning a big plan in the second half of this year is to take-all in mainland China in low-end mobile phone chip market.

With the price of mass destruction
Think that a quad-core chip MT6589 smart phone is the main product of this year, MediaTek, it was wrong! Because under the cover of the MT6589, MediaTek is working to produce more price destruction chip-MT6589M,. And focus MediaTek chip specifications, and other details remain confidential home, it shows the degree of attention. But in fact, MT6589M variant of the MT6589 can support a multimode WCDMA, TD SCDMA, and EDGE, but will be part of the functional specifications to come down, for example, MT6589 supports Full HD, but MT6589M only support HD.

And the maximum difference between the two is that the manufacturing cost. MT6589 and MT6589M on the wafer output, although all twenty-eight Nano, but former uses solder bump which bumps with studs process; addition, after the end of the bumping, MT6589 require the RDL, i.e. Line Re The fabric repair process, but MT6589M do not. Alone in this part of the foundry, the costs spread over three percent.

Aimed at the November holiday sales tide
In accordance with the outgoing message by the mainland’s mobile phone market, MT6589M the MT6589 light chip total manufacturing costs, the spread between the two at least fifteen percent to twenty percent; made public board, both priced at least can be poor to . The sharp cost advantage will be reaction on the price of the chip, MT6589M is the secret weapon of the second half of this year, MediaTek main. Moreover, the industry also reported, Qualcomm internal attaches great importance to the chip, and also quite the pressure, and is actively searching for the relevant information, and pondering a response to it.

MT6589M has to send samples to the mainland mobile phone brand manufacturers to enter the certification stage, also began to cast piece chip mass production point in time will be targeted in June and July, before the Golden Week in August and September up the goods boom. In terms of the overall multi-mode 3G smart phone, MT6589 main high-end market, as MT6589M will have a large bite in low-level opportunities.

But to think that the second half of this year for the secret weapon of the smart phone chip, MediaTek MT6589M, you’re wrong! For cheap white card under $ 100 or cottage phone field, the single-mode part, In addition to the just recently introduced for WCDMA system MT6572, MediaTek is expected in the early third quarter of the second half of the second quarter, as well as Both variants of the chip will be large-scale mass production market, including for the the TD system of MT6572D well for EDGE systems MT6572E. In whether the MT6572, MT6572D or MT6572E, are also using twenty-eight nanometer process output dual-core chip, but are single-mode and dual-core, so the price will be low, MediaTek second half of the other two weapons . This article from the the MTK phone network http://www.mtksj.com

As for the the MediaTek second quarter contains EDGE and 3G smart phone chip shipments, including estimated effective due to the eve of May up the goods, and the new MediaTek chips will continue the advent of mass production, single-season smart phone chip shipments the estimated increase twenty-five% Daosi Cheng, reached fifty million. The third quarter because of the new MediaTek chips have begun large-scale heavy volume, plus the terminal market the big pull cargo tide of Golden Week, the single-season shipments will reach a peak the seventy million estimated point of view.

A then a turnaround theme
To the fourth quarter because of the Lunar New Year in late January next year, so advance up the goods-effective, single-season estimate shipments reached sixty million, so the whole MediaTek chip shipments of smart phones this year more than two hundred million teeth, no doubt.

Revenue performance benefited from the March smart phone chip shipments doubled, at least nine billion yuan to take off the MediaTek March revenue, not only the monthly growth rate of almost half of the first quarter revenue more smoothly touchdowns, and fall on earnings forecast of two hundred thirty-five billion the Ersi ○ billion standard range.

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Goophone i9 is new flagship phone of phablet. They just want to tell cussumer, they are not only producing clone phones. Goophone i9 own a larger screen than Samsung Galaxy Note 2, with 1.2GHz MTK MT6589 quad-core processor. This phone will be available on March 25th, but start pre-sale at Android-sale.com.

Here is the Goophone i9 hands-on video:

Main specs of Goophone i9:

– 5.7 inch HD screen, 1280*720 pixel display
– 1GB RAM + 8GB ROM, support extenal micro SD card
– 1.2GHz MTK MT6589 quad-core processor
– Support 3G network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 & WCDMA 850/2100 MHz
– 8-megapixel rear camera + 5-megapixel facing camera
– Android 4.2 OS

Goophone i9’s benchmark score by Antutu:

The Goophone i9 is only $199.99 at Android-sale.com, pre-order it now at here.

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Today, the Newman official has revealed that Newman K1 hardware specification, same as before speculation Newman K1 equip 1.2GHz MTK MTK6589 quad-core processor, and 2GB RAM.

Newman K1 support WCDMA and GSM network, support dual card dual standby, equipped with a 5-inch IPS screen, OGS screen technology, HD-level display resolution of 1280 * 720 pixel. In addition to built-in 2GB RAM and 32 G ROM combination of large memory and supports up to 64GB of extended storage. The camera part of the same Aspect full The Newman K1 will own 2.0 megapixel  facing camera, the rear camera is the SONY back-illuminated, up to 13 megapixels, F/2.2 len. Newman K1 also built-in gyroscope, the Luo sub compass, gravity, light, and distance and other common sensor, support GPS, WIFI, FM and other commonly used functions.

in addition to the attractive specs, Newman K1 can bring to price surprises we’ll see.

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Umi X1S is not a brand new phone, just upgraded from the old model Umi X1. The new phone has same appearance, but powered new 1.2GHz MTK MT6589 quad-core processor, and upgrade RAM to 1GB.

Umi X1S has same design with X1 phone, the dimensions is 129 * 68 * 8.5mm, 8.5 mm thin body. This phone has black and white colors. It will be equipped with the MTK6589 quad-core chipset, the processor frequency rate of 1.2GHz, supports WCDMA / GSM dual-mode, small battery capacity rose to 1850 mAh. The system is Android 4.1. Other specs are similar, equipped with 4.5-inch HD resolution of 1280 x 720 IPS wide viewing angle screen, the gorilla glass screen, In addition, with 8-megapixel rear camera and 2-megapixel front camera, the main camera for the back-illuminated second generation, F2.4 aperture. Built-in gravity, light, magnetic distance sensor and gyroscope.

Umi X1s will hit Android-sale at next week, and the price is only $219.99.

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ZOPO released 3 units new Android phone with MTK MT6589 quad-core processor, but most of them are upgraded phone from old model. Has ZOPO plan for new flagship phone, how about 1080P screen? Absolutely, the answer is confirmed. Today, some pictures leaked from official forum about the new ZOPO ZP960, and the main specification is comfirmed by ZOPO.

From official information, ZOPO ZP960 will equip a 1080P FHD screen, with 1920*1080 pixel display, with 1.2GHz MTK MT6589 quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, 13-megapixel rear camera. ZOPO ZP960 also own a 5-megapixel front camera, user can get better quality self-recording video, and better video chat experience. ZOPO ZP960 will install ogirinal Android Jelly Bean OS with Google Play. As the design picture, ZOPO ZP960 has a super slim body.

About the price of ZOPO ZP960, there is no more information for it.

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China Spring Festival long holiday is almost end now, after long time rest, all China phone manufacturer is preparing their new device now. As we known, the MTK MT6589 processor is released last year, and some factories already released new phones with this quad-core chipset. How about ZOPO? There is no any information about their new phones?  Don’t worry about it, here is the big news from them: ZOPO finally released 3 units new Android phones with MT6589 quad-core processor: ZOPO ZP810, ZOPO ZP910 and ZOPO ZP950+. Here is the details of these new phone.

1. ZOPO ZP810

ZOPO ZP810 is brand new Android phone with 5 inch HD screen, in the past year, more phablets were out with 5 inch screen, like HTC Droid DNA, OPPO Find 5 and ZTE Nubia Z5. Maybe 5 inch is better size for big-screen phone, at least I think so. ZOPO ZP810 powered the new MTK MT6589 quad-core processor, along with 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM, 8MP rear camera and Android Jelly Bean OS is pre-installed.

2. ZOPO ZP910 & ZOPO ZP950+

The both phones are upgraded device from old model, ZOPO Z910 and ZOPO ZP950+ are base on ZP900 and ZP950, they has same appearance, similar specification, but with a upgraded chipset: MTK MT6589. The new quad-core phones will bring better operation experience.

From officail information, these phones will be available in this month.

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MediaTek is one of chip manufacturer name may still be a little strange, when compared to Intel, AMD, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Nvidia Tegra, or even Samsung, which manufactures chips for their own Galaxy S and Apple iPhone. However, the chip maker MediaTek is probably the fastest growing.

This China-based company to compete aggressively on price with NVidia and Qualcomm, to accommodate the market in developing countries, where low-cost smartphone and still have good performance. This year, Mediatek chip plans to sell 200 million chipset to embed for most smartphones. They also prepared a dedicated processor for tablet to be launched in the third quarter of this year.

Currently, newly launched MediaTek MT6589, a quadcore chip, so it seems the smartphone market from entry level to middle Android devices will soon be powered by this quadcore processor.

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On last year, MediaTek Division Technology has been release their first quad-core smartphone chipset – MT6589 using the ARM A7 architecture TSMC 28-nanometer manufacturing process.

The MediaTek also launched with the previous single, dual-core smart chip, like, MT6589 still has a high level of integration, low-power characteristics. Currently equipped with the MT6589 quad-core processor. This chipset has already embed in Gionee  2 (GN708W) elegance phone is already on the market.

The MT6589 has officially entered our field of view of the average consumer. For quad-core processor, may you also have some preliminary understanding about the MediaTek MT6589 chipset.

Cortex-A7 architecture has reliable performance

You might want to know, what features offered by this new chipset, we want to provide a comprehensive knowledge of the latest MediaTek MT6589 products, which is ARM Cortex-A7 processor based on the ARMv7-A architecture.

The processor overall performance plays a decisive role in the performance of different architecture processor at the same frequency may be a difference of 2-5 times ranging. Bluntly said that architecture is equivalent to the framework of a building, the entire building, the most basic things, As for the future construction of the high and low, and Comfort by the processor vendors decided.

However, due to the architecture is the foundation, so it needs to set an upper limit, such as the building was originally designed 5-storey and can accommodate up to 500 people, eventually forming the house must be within the limits prescribed, the processor The architecture directly determine its maximum performance.

Cortex-A7 processor architecture diagram

See here, have some understanding about the processor slightly, as early as in the single-core era, mainstream mobile processor with a Cortex-A8 architecture, dual-core processors are Cortex-A9 architecture, such as the latest Tegra 4 quad-core processors to achieve the Cortex-A15 architecture, MT6589 Cortex-A7 architecture processor from a digital point of view, whether it is the face of last year’s mainstream quad-core processor Tegra 3 (Cortex-A9) its previous generation dual-core MT6577 (Cortex-A9) are no advantages

In fact, the Cortex-A7 processor architecture and feature set is identical to that of the Cortex-A15 processor, different from this is that the Cortex-A7 processor micro-architecture focused on providing the best energy efficiency, so these two processors big.LITTLE (the size of the size of the core partner structure) configuration to work together to provide the ultimate combination of high performance and ultra-low power consumption. Five times the energy efficiency of a single Cortex-A7 processor ARM Cortex-A8 processor, the performance increase of 50%, and the size is only one-fifth of the latter. Simple point that the characteristics of the Cortex-A7 processor is based on guaranteed performance to provide excellent low-power performance.

Compared to 40nm Tegra 3 and MT6577 mainstream quad-core / dual-core processor, MT6589 also has a more advanced 28-nanometer process technology, which makes the MT6589 in essence, we must be more power than the other two previous processors.

Comprehensive performance measurement: almost double increase
To test this we MT6589 processor reliability test using AnTuTu Benchmark app version 3.1 Since these applications are widely used by Android devices and can produce accurate reports on the specification and performance of your Android device.

With the application of the Benchmark AnTuTu we did some evaluation of the performance of memory, CPU integer performance, CPU floating point performance, 2D and 3D graphics performance, Database IO for testing the speed of performance of the phone to do an overall score.

Fortunately, we uses the same 960 × 540 resolution with MT6589 and MT6577 models, so that we can fully contrast the gap between the performance of the two processors. We are able to see very obvious MT6589 comprehensive performance upgrade.

(Left) MT6577 MT6589 score score (right)

Tegra 3 mobile phone but I at hand and does not use a resolution of 960 × 540, in order to be fair, we did not check 2D and 3D performance test options, and the comparison of these two contrast link at the back of the graphics capabilities, we will have a special introduction. From the results point of view, the MT6589 processor score is already very close to the Tegra 3 processor, it is noteworthy MT6589 phone using the 1.2GHz frequency, Tegra 3 mobile phone frequency is 1.5GHz. If two phones frequency is the same, the results of the MT6589 may be even higher than Tegra 3.

MT6589 score (left) Tegra 3 score (right)

SGX544 GPU rendering ability

Known PC devices running 3D game flow is not smooth, on the one hand, relies on a central processor (CPU), depends on the graphics processor (GPU) on the larger aspects. The same is true for the mobile phone platform before relying solely on the CPU to deal with 3D games, the processing capacity is often inadequate. With the increasing CPU upgrade, also led to the synchronized GPU performance upgrade, the intelligent mobile terminal has been able to easily run large-scale 3D games, rich and gorgeous special effects can be comparable to the PC effect GPU not only for rendering 3D processing, precisely also assist video codec, video capture playback and photo shooting task of coding and graphics.

The MT6589 is still equipped with the Imagination Technologies PowerVR Series graphics chip, its core is to upgrade to a PowerVR SGX544 compared to the MT6577 SGX531 ultra graphics core on the rendering capabilities greatly enhance, then what is the graphics processing ‘s rendering capacity?

Well simple, our eyes see color, shape, and location of the phone on the graphics GPU must go through the “rendering”, “rendering”, in front of just a line-by-line code. GPU “rendering” including the the triangle output rate and pixel fill rate. While on the table, we see the PowerVR SGX544 either triangle output rate or pixel fill rate should be much higher than the SGX531 ultra.

Pixel fill rate is equivalent to the graph coloring fullness

Now we see the improved the MT6589 graphics core specifications the MT6589 measured the graphics capability.

An the Benchmark 3 DRating evaluation is a professional GPU performance testing software and safety benchmark comprehensive performance test, 3DRating only emphasis on equipment GPU hardware 3D, 3D performance is the main performance of the game software.

Through the test, higher score is mean more better 3D performance of the equipment, the devices will also be able to run the game software requirements of the appropriate level.

3D performance measured results are amazing

Same native resolution of 960 × 540, the MT6589’s 3D score reached the MT6577 three times, the difference scores and direct experience in the MT5689 device in my hands running the latest temple fled “significantly higher than MT6577 devices faster.

MT6589 MT6577 score (right) score (left) the

The AAnTuTu Benchmark 3DRating evaluation software allows equipment testing is limited to 2048 × 1024 resolution 3D score, which allows us to compare different screen resolution 3D capabilities of the device. In the limited resolution, the  MT6589 devices 3D score is also more than a score of Tegra 3 devices, reflecting its impressive graphical capabilities.

MT6589 score (left) Tegra 3 score (right)

From the outside. Android system supports packet PVRTC (PowerVR SGX), ATITC (Qualcomm), DXT (Nvidia) three, in addition to ETC1 OPENGL ES a common format. The PowerVR SGX5XT the series support PVRTC and ETC1 two formats, dominant in mainstream GPU platform. We know that most of the games of Android on the iOS platform transplanted from the iPhone or iPad is Imagination Technologies PowerVR series of graphics chips, so the compatibility of the game on the MT6589 is also has certain advantages.

The mainstream GPU support game packet comparison

Achieve 1080p display / video recorders

In addition to 3D performance, the audio and video playback and output capabilities of the graphics chip is also a very important parameter, we can see from the last page of the form. MT6589 Although the maximum output resolution and can be mounted on the maximum number of pixels of the camera than the Tegra 3 has a certain gap, from a practical point of view, however, the display output and video recording of 1080p resolution are reached the top mobile phone products specifications, while the 13 million-pixel camera specifications will become the standard configuration of the mainstream high-end mobile phones this year. These are compared with the previous MT6577 has made substantial progress.

The MT5689 native support for 1080p video recording

The MT6577 support to 720p video recording

Like my hands the bit rate of up to 45.6MB / s 1080p video MT6589 device is also able to stream drag-and-drop. What? No concept of this high-bit-rate video, well tell you, two and a half video capacity reached 843MB. Smooth playback of 45.6MB / s over bitrate 1080 video

To 3840×2160 resolution perverted video test

May be seen before the the evaluation article’s author will know, teacher Xiaobian have an extremely “abnormal” video, Why? Because it is a period of clear “outrageous” ultra-high resolution performance test video clips (exaggeration resolution of up to 3840×2160), it even is even higher than the resolution of the The New iPad Oh, the file format is MP4, maximum bit rate of up to 60mbps. Various details in the video is very, very rich, almost any screen pauses are a considerable praise Wallpaper. Of course, not all computer or mobile phone can play smoothly, and move it, I also try to play a bit Macbook Air really is very difficult to screen and audio out of sync, dropped frames significantly, with a 42-second video 2 minutes to fully aired.

Many details still need to improve the performance highlights of millet 2 relive

Movie screenshots

Movie information:
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 3840×2160
VBR 2 Pass Bitrate: 20-60mbps max
VBR 2 Pass Bitrate: 20-60mbps max
Camera: RED EPIC-M
Lens: ZEISS your (MP lenses) master prime
The film original shooting material for 5120×2700

Resolution is too large, the hardware of this video is certainly possible, and even the use of MX Video Player software solution, it is not all quad-core phone can be aired this video (with images MT5689 device is also Pictures of the simultaneous, dropped frames in serious condition, but it is also this video can be aired, this point is not to run sub can test out the software, largely reflects the limits of the ability of the MT6589.

Many details still need to improve the performance highlights of millet 2 relive

The MT5689 equipment this video broadcast over

Support HSPA + and W + TD dual standby / summarize

In addition to the performance boost, MT6589 in terms of network capacity is not progress, the MTK chip compared to the previous, it finally supports HSPA +, downlink peak speed increase sixfold. PS: HSPA + can be seen as HSPA (high-speed trekking link Packet Access), an upgraded version of HSPA + downlink transmission speed is 42M, 7.2M upgrade HSPA downlink than 6 times.

The more important Previously the MT6517 chip can support TD / CDMA network by adding other RF modules, but the threshold is relatively too high, while MTK6589 W + G / TD + G / W + TD / dual card dual standby dual pass. Therefore, the future we may see more TD mobile phones based on MT6589 ultra-low level, the user selects the richer.

The cheap new quad-core processors killer MT6589 performance evaluation

Support a variety of dual-network dual standby

Summary:
MT6577 emergence of last year, quickly pull down the price of the dual-core phone, but compared to the mainstream dual-core processor, the performance gap is still very large, and the face of the other Qianyuan Ji dual-core chips, it also did not show much advantage. In contrast, today’s MT6589 in terms of process technology, architecture and graphics capabilities have reached the level of the absolute mainstream richer network compatibility allows this chip can get more carriers support. With the emergence of MT6589 Qualcomm MSM8X25Q, cheap quad-core chip, Qian Yuanji pattern of the mobile phone market is bound to be in the near future to be broken.

MT6589 Features at a Glance

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Today, it is quad-core time in smartphone field. It is competition of hardware. It also happened in China. China phone accessed upon level when the MTK MT6589 quad-core processor was launched a few weeks ago. All factories would like launch their new plan which phone first powered MTK 6589 quad-core processor, Goophone is one and done it now. Let’s watch the Goophone N2 phone hands-on video.

Here is the main specification of Goophone N2:

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As former rumor, TCL will be the first factory which will product phone with MTK MT6589 processor, and today, the first phone model is confirmed by TCL official website. It is TCL P600, will launch in beginning of January, 2013.

TCL P600 will has a 4.5-inch QHD screen, with 960*540 pixel display, 1GB RAM and 4GB ROM, 8MP rear camera, 1.3MP front camera. This device is a medium-priced Android phone, the price will be RMB1599 (about $260).

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Semiconductor company MediaTek which has just announced a quad-core SoC chipset, this is world’s first commercial MT6589 series is based on the ARM Cortex A7 CPU architecture. Qualcomm announces quad-core SoC chipset will first but MediaTek chips will be marketed in the first quarter of 2013.

MT6589 uses four core Cortex A7 with 28nm technology which, according to the ARM processor is the most efficient power. This chip is combined with a PowerVR GPU Series5XT and multi-mode modem UMTS Rel. 8/HSPA + / TD-SCDMA made by MediaTek.

The chip also supports for dual-SIM and dual-standby, recording and 1080p video playback 30fps/30fps low-power, 13MP camera with Integrated ISP, FHD resolution to display (1920 x 1080 pixels), and advanced image processing for DTV picture quality level.

Additionally MediaTek MT6589 also supports Cool 3D package that supports stereo camera and display 3-dimensional, real-time 2D to 3D conversion and interface optimized for 3-dimensional. MT6589 also use technology to share content Miracast multilayar and supports WiFi connection combinations of 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and FM radio.

This Chip aimed to using for middle to upper class handset is expected to be used at the beginning of 2013.

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MediaTek was founded in 1997, is the world’s leading professional chipset design company. Flourished during functional machine, MediaTek, with low-cost solutions for functional machine created a cottage industry in Shenzhen, even caused by direct or indirect impact on the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers.

The rise of smart phone, due to mistakes in decision making on the route, MediaTek start becoming downturn. Fortunately, the high-level to reverse direction in a timely manner, launched again to obtain market acceptance for the Android system MT6575/6577 other products.

MediaTek virtue of “Turkey-Solution” this “nanny” chips and software integration, significantly lowering the technical threshold of mobile phone R & D, to attract a large number of mobile phone design companies, terminal manufacturers a MediaTek chip platform-based development of mobile. This practice from the era of functional machine continues to be a major feature.

As Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and other manufacturers have introduced a quad-core chipset on the market today, MediaTek also speed up the research and development of rhythm the MT6589 quad-core architecture fastest expected mass production next year. The MT6589 fomerly known as MT6588, for some reason this name has been renamed, but should be little difference in the general.

The MTK6589 parameter description:

Architecture: Cortex-A7
Core: Quad-coire with 28nm process
Frequency: 1.0GHz ~ 1.2GHz
Memory: LDDR2 memory screen: 720P display resolution
Network: WCDMA / TDSCDMA dual network standard video: 1080P video decoding support HDMI 3D output camera: up to 13 million pixels camera
GPU: PowerVR SGX544, triangular output rate of 55M / s pixel fill rate for the 1600M / s

Cortex-A7
ARM Cortex-A7 processor is part of the Cortex-A series, based on the ARMv7-A architecture,
it features provide excellent low-power performance is based on guaranteed performance.

Cortex-A7 processor and feature set is identical to the Cortex-A15 processor, the different that the Cortex-A7 processor micro architecture is focused on providing the best energy efficiency, both processors in the big LITTLE configuration work together to provide the ultimate combination of high performance and ultra-low power consumption. Five times the energy efficiency of a single Cortex-A7 processor ARM Cortex-A8 processor, the performance increase of 50%, and the size is only one-fifth of the latter.

Imagination PowerVR SGX544
Imagination new generation of mobile graphics core the PowerVR SGX5XT (contains 530/535/540/543/544) belongs to the fifth generation of PowerVR products, unified architecture, support for DX9 SM3.0, OpenGL ES 2.0 is still the use of advanced the TBR rendering mode supports H.264 hardware decoding.

Single-core PowerVR SGX544 is part of the the the GPU PowerVR Series5XT family, is the second member of the series, based on the Second Generation of scalable shaders (USSE2) support 2D, 3D, GPGPU processing, can be configured as a high-performance 4 pipeline can be flexibly configured to dual-core to 16 core (8-64 pipeline), but take into account the power consumption is generally not too practical application.

Product Positioning
Alternative of MT6577 based on past experience, MT6589 will become the next mainstream configuration, the price will be in the range of $100 to $ 00, mainly for low-cost quad-core smart phone market. Products listed, will form a certain impact on the current quad-core pattern, further compression of the market price of the domestic smartphone.

In addition, Qualcomm also for the entry-level market to launch a MSM8225Q/8625Q processor, but it is A5 architecture, and the only support 720p video decoding, the performance advantage is not obvious, the threat of MT6589.

Application examples
The recent exposure of a suspected MT6589 Lenovo’s mobile phone, the specific model is unknown. Screenshots general can be seen, the smartphone is equipped with the MT6589 processor, the highest frequency of 1.2GHz, is a 300MHz graphics core SGX544MP has 1GB RAM memory, equipped with 960X540 resolution screen also supports TD-SCDMA, support dual card and dual standby.

Rumored TCL and othe domestic smartphone manufacturer also has begun the planning of the MediaTek MTK6589 Quad-Core smartphone and even possibly as early as listed in the association. Can imagine, if the quad-core smartphone next year will be available with affordable price will become mainstream in the market.

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GPS is one of most important feature on smartphone, you will never lost with your phone. The Google Map and other navigation softwares always provide direction service on your phone. The GPS features also is available at most cheap China phones which built-in MediaTek(MTK) processor. The GPS chip is integrated to their main processor. EPO (Extended Prediction Orbit) is one of MTK’s innovative proprietary off-line server based A-GPS technology. It supports up to 30 days satellite orbit prediction, which can be used to greatly enhance user experience by improving GPS Time To First Fix (TTFF).

Most users of China phone are comfused that how to setup GPS on their smartphone. Here is the guide base on HDC Galaxy S3 plus phone.

1. Access Setting > Location services, select most checkbox to make EPO working.

2. Access EPO settings:

If you select Auto download, the phone will download file when your phone connected with internet. You can can download the EPO file by click Download button.

When you finished all these setting, you can use GPS features on your phone.

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3G smartphone with MediaTek MT6589 processor will be launched early next year, we have ever covered this news and said that the domestic mobile phone manufacturers are preparing to use a quad-core processor MT6589, some local manufacturers who have set up their products are Lenovo and ZTE and now they has made a prototype of the phone that uses this processor.

Some of the first domestic company will use a quad-core processor made by MediaTek MT6589 are; Lenovo, ZTE, TCL, Jin and Oriental TUOYU. However, the most often heard from the manufacturer is that Lenovo has prepared a prototype named Lenovo Arkansas.

Lenovo Arkansas will have the following specifications; 1.2 GHz processor, 4.5-inch screen with QHD resolution 960 x 540, the phone is equipped with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, but the Lenovo has yet to confirm officially on the phone.

MTK6589 is the MediaTek latest upcoming quad-core processor for smartphone, using a 28-nanometer process technology A7 architecture, support LDDR2 memory at the same time support WCDMA / TDSCDMA dual-network standard, to support the maximum 13 million pixels of camera, support 1080P video decoding, support 720P display resolution, rumored graphics processor with PowerVR SGX 544, supports HDMI 3D output the triangle output rate of 55M / S, pixel fill rate for 1600M / S.

MTK6589 mainly for about $ 150 quad-core smartphone market, while MediaTek official initial recognition the MT6589 Published at the beginning of next year, the second half of next year, will be launched support for FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE smartphone solve programs.

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