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Acer releases MT6589 kernel source ahead of Liquid E2 launch

Dopi — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:09:52 +0000

Ever since Mediatek launched their quad-core MT6589 chipset I have been waiting for kernel sources to be released for this platform. As Mediatek themselves don’t seem to pay any attention to the GPL we needed to wait for their customers to open the source code. This time Acer was first to step out with a ...read more

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TCL presents slim MT6577 Jelly Bean phones

Dopi — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:40:06 +0000

Slim phones is a clear trend for the coming year. As a bold statement that they are going this direction, TCL released no less than three new slim models. All three phones appear to be more or less on a diet. The thinnest (S820) is just 6.45mm thin. A common characteristic is that all models ...read more

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A little Jelly Bean for everyone

Dopi — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:23:34 +0000

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 ...read more

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No December – How Google stole Christmas

Dopi — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:59:43 +0000

As much as I am happy to immediately install all updates that Google provides for their Nexus devices was I shocked to hear about this nasty bug they built into the Android 4.2 release. In the middle of November, right before Christmas time did the contact app forget there has to be December between November ...read more

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Jelly Bean 4.2 on Nexus 7 – what’s new

Dopi — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:57:26 +0000

While most of the Chinese phones still come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Google started to roll out the next next version if their operating system. Nexus device owners can install the shiny Jelly Bean 4.2 update since November 13th. For those of you who are curious what the small 0.1 step means, here ...read more

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Google Nexus 10 information leaked

Dopi — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:56:12 +0000

Altough the Google Nexus products are far from being Shanzhai devices it is still very interesting to read and write about them. This time the rumors around the new Google 10 inch tablet (project Manta) are have condensed in some pretty hard facts. So far there are three sources suggesting that the Nexus 10 is ...read more

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Jelly Bean update for MT6577 phones in sight

Dopi — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:07:30 +0000

The Amoi N820 (Big V) seems to be the first MTK MT6577 based phone to get an update from ICS to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1). As Amoi most probably did not do all the porting by themselves I am sure MTK will offer this release to other companies, too. I suspect most MT6577 phones run ...read more

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