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Yotaphone combines eInk and TFT display

Dec

2012

Two faces of one phone – one color TFT and an eInk display on the back side[/caption]It was just yesterday that I was wondering how long it would take until some smart device would have both a TFT color display and an eInk display. There is no need to wonder anymore as the Russian company ...

Mediatek launches MT6589 as first ARM Cortex-A7 quad-core

Dec

2012

Today Mediatek took the stage to launch their newest contribution to the world of smartphone platforms. They presented nothing less than the much-anticipated quad-core MT6589 chipset. It is the successor to their extremely popular MT6577 dual-core product. As a little extra it is not only the first quad-core chipset in Mediatek’s portfolio but it is ...

New AnTuTu benchmark scores

Dec

2012

AnTuTu, the makers of the famous Android benchmark app, have release an updated version of their test suite on Google Play. The new 3.0 version that supersedes the current version 2.9 brings not only a brushed up user interface but also new AnTuTu benchmark scores. In order to get an impression what difference the new ...

A little Jelly Bean for everyone

Nov

2012

While the vast majority of phones does not yet have Jelly Bean installed it is not to difficult to get a little Jelly Bean feeling to your Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich device. A first and easy measure is installing one of Google’s new Jelly Bean wallpapers from the gallery below. Also a backport of ...

MT6577 kernel source released

Nov

2012

One of the very essential things that are needed for creating custom ROMs is a kernel source. Unfortunately Mediatek (and most of their customers) was not very open to providing source code for their smartphone platforms. Needless to say that this effectively keeps the community from porting new operating system releases to their very popular ...