Recently, in response to Samsung’s Gear S 3G smartwatch, Mlais launched its own flagship 3G smartwatch, the MX50, which people can use to make phone calls and surf the net.

The MX50’s features almost rival those of a regular smartphone. It supports China Unicom 3G SIM card (WCDMA) and GSM card. It also supports 3G internet and direct dial. It can also serve as a cellphone accessory by letting users synchronize information in both devices. It also supports WIFI, GPS, Blue Ray, etc. Its OS is the Android 4.04 which can be downloaded separately.

Like the majority of Chinese 2G phones right now, the Mlais MX50 uses a processor from MTK. In this case, it’s the 1GHz MTK6577 dual-core chipset. It sports a 1.54 IPS screen with 240 x 240 resolution and has 512M RAM and 4G ROM (supports memory card). It also has a 2mp camera and is powered by a 700mAh battery.

The Mlais MX50 will hit the market on September 2 and cost 666 RMB.

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The list of MTK devices which can be customised is as follows, although this list is by no means comprehensive, feel free to try these steps with other MTK devices.

• MT6589
• MT6577
• MT8389

There are a few precautions and prerequisites, make sure you have rooted your phone and have installed CWM on it. If you have not installed CWM then do not follow these instructions.

If you’re happy and have a rooted phone with CWM installed then let’s get started:

1) Backup your current ROM in custom recovery. 

2) Get the Xposed installer from Download section from the Xposed official site (the latest version is typically available at this link: http://dl.xposed.info/latest.apk).

3) Install and run Xposed installer

Now select ‘Framework’, then ‘Install’ and then reboot the device.

4) If the device does not boot that means that the Xposed framework is not compatible with ROM you are currently
running. You are unable to continue with the next steps in that case and will have to restore your ROM from the backup.

5) Download GravityBox and install it from here . Make sure the app is installed to internal memory, if it was installed to external storage then it needs to be moved to the internal memory before you proceed.

6) Run the Xposed Installer, go to the ‘Modules’ menu and then check the checkbox to activate GravityBox.

7) Reboot the device once more.

8) Launch GravityBox from app drawer or from the Xposed installer, and set the desired options.

The Xposed framework has opened up some interesting mods, some much more useful than others. GravityBox does a lot more than most. This module from XDA Developers member C3C076 seems to incorporate all the little tweaks that people generally flash a custom ROM for, but it’s built for stock Nexus devices and ‘clean’ AOSP ROMs.

You can do almost anything with GravityBox, highlights include: PIE controls that replace the on-screen navigation buttons. CyanogenMod-style expanded desktop with hidden navigation controls. Extra control buttons in the Jelly Bean Quick Settings menu. Right-side, single-finger pull down for the Quick Settings menu. Status bar tweaks including colour options, centre clock, brightness control, and even the ability to hide the cellular bars when you’re running the device without a SIM card. There are some added Reboot and Recovery options on the Power menu. You can even adjust the backlighting on your buttons, if your device has them. There really are options for absolutely everything.

Here are just some of the things GravityBox can do for you:

Fixes for bugs and issues such as:

• Date and Time settings crash
• Mismatch in caller ID
• Messaging  – split conversation
• Wakelock in calendar app periodically turning on the screen
• Wakelock in messaging app turning on the screen every time new message received
• Missing TTS settings in Language&Input
• Missing extended developer options

Mods

•  CyanogenMod Pie controls
• Expanded Desktop
• Statusbar QuickSettings tile management with tile reordering
• Lockscreen targets
• Status bar colour and transparency
• Status bar Brightness Control
• Status bar icon colours
• Additional QuickSettings tiles such as Sync on/off, WiFi AP on/off, GravityBox shortcut, Torch, Network mode (2G/3G/2G+3G switch), Sleep, QuickRecord, QuickApp, GPS on/off, Ringer mode, Volume tile
• Quick pulldown – switches to QuickSettings when status bar is pulled down near the edges.
• Auto-switch to QuickSettings when there are no new notifications
• Centre clock in status bar
• Battery indicator style options
• Navigation bar tweaks
• Low battery warning policy
• Disable LED flashing when battery low
• Disable LED while charging
• Auto-hiding of signal icons for empty SIM Slots
• Advanced power-off menu (reboot, recovery)
• Volume key cursor control
• Skip tracks by volume key long-press while screen off (thanks to rovo89)
• More volume levels for music stream
• Option to control safe headset media volume
• Button for clearing all recent tasks at once
• Fullscreen caller photo
• CRT screen off animation
• Minimal brightness setting
• Autobrightness level adjustment
• Lockscreen tweaks – show widgets maximized, lockscreen background style (colour fill or custom image)
• Lockscreen rotation
• Phone tweaks – flip action, disable vibrate on call connect
• Hardware key actions – menu long-press/double-tap, back long-press, home long-press
• MasterKey vulnerabilities patched
• Dithered Holo background
• Option to use solid black Holo background
• Expandable volume panel
•  Option to unlink ringtone and notifications volumes
• Notification drawer style (background color, image for portait/landscape, transparency)
• Button backlight modes (default, disabled, always on while screen is on)
• Button backlight notifications (for devices that lack Notification LED)
• Navigation bar ring targets
• GravityBox Actions shortcuts
• Lockscreen “see-through”
• Smart Radio
• Notification control (allows controlling notification lights/sounds/vibrations on per-app basis)

As you can see then, comprehensive isn’t the word, you really are spoilt for choice with this amount of modifications. You could spend weeks fiddling with it all.

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Most user today need larger screen device, and we have another 6-inch smartphone from domestic market, thats called Mimic PAD3, this is the upgrade smartphone from previous version, Mimi PAD2 which using MT6575 single-core processor and Mimi PAD3 comes with MT6577 dual-core processor.

Mimi PAD3 has same form factor and same design with the previous version, while the body is close identical to Mimi PAD2 they don’t need to re-design the Mimi PAD3 motherboard I think,

This phone has 6.0 inches screen size, made from TFT with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, has 3 megapixel front-facing camera and 5 megapixel rear camera and is equipped with LED flash light. The key aspects of Mimi PAD3 is two virtual keys with a physical Home key combination.

The the Mimi PAD3 body covered with good material, while there is no logo on the back cover, just a camera with flash light and speaker phone on the back bottom area, is very simple design but its so elegant.

Other hardware aspects, The Mimi PAD3 also has 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, support for external memory card, powered with 3000 mAh battery capacity, running Android 4.0 system. Mimi PAD3 also supports for light sensor, gravity sensor, proximity sensor, and supports for dual card dual standby.

The price of Mimi PAD3 is around 1,288 yuan, comes with two battery, original charger, data cable, headset and screen protector.

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The large-screen smart phones are now increasingly popular, big screen is now the major trend for smartphone on the market today, the phone screen trentd increasingly bigger and bigger, so now a lot of smartphone using more than five inches, thats called tablet phone.

Since MediaTek 3G chip was introduced, many manufacturers have introduced a large-screen flat-panel smartphone on their product. However, a variety of styles of flat compared to the single-core, dual core tablet phone is very small. Today we take a referral beginning of a flat panel mobile phone from Shenzhen manufacturer Owen: Owen ONN V8 Bullet Android smartpahone.

The Owen ONN V8 Bullet Android smartphone is equipped with MediaTek’s latest dual-core MTK MT6577 chipset, using the A9 architecture and 40nm processor, the default frequency is 1GHz, Owen ONN V8 is also equipped with the a 5.0-inch screen display, wich more comfortable for user to watch movie, browse the music and playing game.

Meanwhile, Owen ONN V8 has also 8 megapixel high-definition camera with flash, while the body thickness is only 9.5 mm, more slim and more style, with color of the body is black, white, green and red colors available for select. The ONN Owen V8 Bullet is running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

As we write this news, the proce and availability is not official announce yet.

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Backgammon Vivo is young market-oriented development of intelligent mobile phone brand to create the star models, such as V1, S1, and S7. And now their make a new product is called Vivo S12.

Fore few weeks before, Vivo S12 is become a rumorerd in microblogging site, this is a dual-core smartphone that will be launch in August. And now we have get the picture of Backgammon Vivo S12. Not oly that, we got the quick specification for those products too.

Backgammon S12 is the latest VIVO family, powered by MTK 6577 dual-core 1Ghz processor, equipped with a 4.3-inch IPS screen, the display resolution is 480 x 800 pixel, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, there is 8 megaoixel camera on the back and 2 megapixel camera on the front. While the battery capacity is 2100 mAh, running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the phone has 10.5mm thickness and support the gravity, distance, light sensor.

Here are the picture gallery:

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Sharp, is the one of electronic manufacturer from japan trying to atract user by developing Android smartphone, Sharp SH530U. Fortunately, that phone is powered by MediaTeK MTK MT 6577 dual-core processors.

As we all know, MediaTek is one of chip manufacturer from China and the will compete with Qualcomm. MediaTek offers high-quality chipset with affordable price. Maybe that’s the reason why Sharp choose MT 6577 chipset on their smartphone.

Sharp SH530U equipped with MediaTek MT 6577 dual-core processor, the CPU frequency is 1Ghz, while the phone memory has 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, that phone has 5.0 inch large screen with 480 x 800 pixel, sports with 5 megapixel camera on the rear and 3 megapixel front-facing camera and the battery capacity is 1,930 mAh, running Android 4.0 system.

While we write this news, there is no information about release date and price of this phone, but I’m sure, the Sharp SH530U is not too expencsive.

MediaTek Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company, designing and selling components for wireless communication, optical storage, GPS, high-definition digital TV and DVD products. The company was founded on May 28, 1997. It is headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, with sales and research subsidiaries in mainland China, Singapore, India, Japan, South Korea, USA, Denmark, and England.

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HiLive Technology has been release of the launch of smartphone HI2012, this is smartphone with MTK6577 cual-core chipset. We have couple photo of this new HI2012 smartphone with MT6577 chip, and exposed the detail picture.

Here is HiLive HI2012 smartphone specs:
CPU Model : MT6577 (Dual-Core)
CPU frequency:     1.2G MHz
RAM:     1GB
ROM:     4GB
Resolution: 960X540 pixels
Main Screen Size: 4.7 inches
Network mode: Dual-card dual-mode (WCDMA + GSM)
Camera: 8 megapixels (rear) and 3 megapixel (front)
Operating System: Android OS 4.0
Battery capacity: 1800mAh

Exposure parameters MT6577 dual-core 1.2G processor and 4.7-inch screen is the bright spot compared to other vendors MTK6577 program models for hi waves HI2012 configuration is quite satisfactory.

HiLive HI2012 engineering prototype uses a black color (commonly known as Panda), black and white fashion, lifestyle, the fuselage is a 4.7-inch screen, the fuselage below the four sensors, compared with general three-button a search key, the top of the screen is a 3-megapixel front camera, can be used for self-timer taking photoand 3G video calls.

While rear camera is using 8 megapixel camera dual fill light, the right of the camera is the speaker on the back of the lower part does not do any design, made it very simple. Left fuselage design combo interface of USB and charging, the right side compared with the volume keys top is the 3.5mm headphone jack and switch machine function keys.

Here are some picture of HiLive HI2012 Android smartphone:

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