Just yesterday we covered an article about the Bluboo XFire which aimed to be the cheapest MT6735 quad-core chip powered smartphone in the world. While the company is yet to announce an official price tag for the phone, you can expect it to retail somewhere around $70 which is an excellent price for the specs that comes with the device.

While we were impressed with the chipset as well as the 2750mAh battery on the device ( at least on paper), today the company has released a few images captured using the phone’s 8MP camera. The rear camera module is made up of an 8MP OV sensor with f/2.0 aperture and 5p lens. The company reportedly invested about 3500 hours of debugging to make sure that the camera software was perfect.

All this sounds good, but is it any good in real life? Well, the company has released a set of pictures that’s directly compared with the iPhone 6. Apple iPhone cameras have always been praised for their stellar rear cameras, and comparing the phone’s images with the iPhone 6 will reveal the true capability of the camera.

From the images, we can see that the Bluboo’s camera performance turned out to be quite good. The images came out clear and sharp, with minimum noise. Of course, its not as good as the iPhone 6, but its still good as compared to competitors.

Of course, these images are directly released by the company. Hence, we would advise you not to get too excited. Many a times, the actual performance of the device turns out to be disappointing, so lets wait for an official review of the phone to see whether it lives up to our expectation.

You can check out the comparison from down below. The one on the left is the iPhone 6 sample and the one of the right is from the Bluboo Xfire.

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Mediatek has just unveiled two new processors in the market, namely the MT6735 and the MT6753. Both the SoCs are built on the 64-bit architecture. The MT6735 will come with a four core architecture while the Mt6753 will be much more powerful thanks to its octa-core architecture.

The highlight of both these chips is probably its support for the new CDMA2000 technology. It supports both TD / FDD-LTE Cat.4 150Mbps, DC-HSPA +, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 1x / EVDO Rev.A, EDGE, which is true 4G full Netcom.

The higher end MT6753 comes with eight Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.5Ghz which makes it powerful yet battery efficient at the same time. The integrated Mali T720 GPU will make sure that the its graphic performance is impressive. On the other hand, the MT6735 processor will come with just four Cortex A53 cores.

The MT6753 supports dual-band Wi -Fi 802.11n, and Bluetooth 4.0. Multimedia support include 1080p 30fps H.264 video recording and playback, 1080p 30fps H.265 video playback, 16-megapixel camera, PIP, Self-portrait, display output at 1080p 60fps, and MediaTek MiraVision support.

Since, both the chips support 4G LTE and is targeted at the mid-range market, expect a lot of manufacturers to adopt these two processors in the upcoming smartphones.

Both the processors are expected to be released by the end of Q2 2015.

Meanwhile, here’s a comparison chart of the current Mediatek processors available in the market.

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Recently, MTK has been releasing SoCs one after the other. Last night, MediaTek’s newest product roadmap was published online featuring a new SoC called the MTK MT6753.

The MTK MT6752 was first announced early this year and will be released during the Q4 season. It is a 64-bit octa-core chipset that uses Cortex-A53 cores. This is MTK’s second 64-bit processor since the MT6732. It uses the ARM Mali-T760 GPU and supports 16mp display screens. It also has support for TD/FDD LTE internet, and other types of networks.

The MTK MT6753 is more of a gift for China Telecom-supported devices. It comes with support for CDMA 2000 1x and EVDO Rev.A as well as 3G and 4G networks. This chip is a Christmas gift for both cellphone users and manufacturers. It only has a frequency of 1.3-1.5GHz, however, which is lower than the MT6752. It also only supports display screens with resolutions up to 1080p.

It seems to be mainly targeted at mid to somewhat-high end devices. Although the 640bit octa-core MTK MT6795 chipset is at the top of the roadmap, as you can see from the graph, it is not China Telecom-supported. Despite its low specs, the MT6753 is and hopefully an upgraded version will be released soon. We can expect one during the Q2 season of 2015.

If you do not like octa-core SoCs, you can also check out MTK’s 4G quad-core processors like the MT6735 and MT6735M. Both use A53 cores and have a frequency range of 1.3-1.5GHz, and 1.0GHz. It also has support for 8mp photos and 1080p/30fps video recording. They should be released by the end of the Q1 season of 2015 or the beginning of the Q2 season.

It is worth noting that this graph was reposted by insider analyst Bo JiuTAng who verified the existence of the MT6735.

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Early next year, MTK will release their first 64-bit LTE chip, the MT6735. Among other things this chipset supports CDMA/EVDO China Telecom internet.

The product map above was posted by Bo Jiutang. According to the map, the MT6735 is set to hit the market during the Q2 season next year. Besides the standard version, there will also be a low-end version, the MT6735M.

The 64-bit MT6735 chip supports the Android OS 64-bit version and uses a four-Cortex-A53 CPU giving it a 1.3GHz-1.5GHz frequency. It supports a 720p screen as well as a 1080p video codec and 13mp camera.

The 6735M also uses four A53 cores but has a lower frequency (1Ghz). It supports a qHD screen, an 8Mp camera, and 1080p codec. Both versions support LTE CAT4 and increase upstream speed to, at most, 50Mps, and downstream speed to 150Mps.

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Early this year, MediaTek signed an agreement with Via Telecom and was given rights to the CDMA2000 allowing them to make processors that support 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. So, when will the first MTK chip that supports all these networks come out?

Analyst, Bo Jiutang, recently revealed that MTK’s first 2G/3G/4G chipset called the MTK6735 (EVDO-supported) will come out later this year. Based on the name, this does not sound like a high-rangking processor. The Snapdragon 400 and 410 will just be imaginary rivals for it. It should support four Cortex-A53 cores and its GPU might be the Mali-T760.

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