My ShanZhai » Mediatek http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai News from the world of Chinese gadgets Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:52:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Acer releases MT6589 kernel source ahead of Liquid E2 launch http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/04/16/acer-releases-mt6589-kernel-source-ahead-of-liquid-e2-launch/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/04/16/acer-releases-mt6589-kernel-source-ahead-of-liquid-e2-launch/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:09:52 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=710 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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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/04/16/acer-releases-mt6589-kernel-source-ahead-of-liquid-e2-launch/feed/ 2 HTC rumored to release MTK based phones http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/02/06/htc-rumored-to-release-mtk-based-phones/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/02/06/htc-rumored-to-release-mtk-based-phones/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:02:11 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=570 While I am usually not a big fan of rumors on potentially planned phones this one really has an interesting twist. Gizchina spread the news that HTC might be working on MTK based phones for the chinese market. The reason why this would in fact be an interesting circumstance is that it could mean good ...read more

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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/02/06/htc-rumored-to-release-mtk-based-phones/feed/ 0 TCL presents slim MT6577 Jelly Bean phones http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/12/17/tcl-presents-slim-mt6577-dual-core-phones-with-jelly-bean/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/12/17/tcl-presents-slim-mt6577-dual-core-phones-with-jelly-bean/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:40:06 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=385 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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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/12/17/tcl-presents-slim-mt6577-dual-core-phones-with-jelly-bean/feed/ 0 Mediatek launches MT6589 as first ARM Cortex-A7 quad-core http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/12/12/mediatek-launches-mt6589-as-first-arm-cortex-a7-quad-core/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/12/12/mediatek-launches-mt6589-as-first-arm-cortex-a7-quad-core/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:17:19 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=290 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 ...read more

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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/12/12/mediatek-launches-mt6589-as-first-arm-cortex-a7-quad-core/feed/ 0 MT6577 kernel source released http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/11/21/mt6577-kernel-source-released/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/11/21/mt6577-kernel-source-released/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:00:41 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=266 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 ...read more

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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/11/21/mt6577-kernel-source-released/feed/ 0 Mediatek quad-core renamed to MT6589 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/10/25/mediatek-quad-core-chipset-renamed-to-mt6589/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/10/25/mediatek-quad-core-chipset-renamed-to-mt6589/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:29:23 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=114 Along with the availability of first Mediatek dual-core MT6577 phones the news of a quad-core successor came up. At first this chipset was said to be released end of 2012 and it went by the name MT6588. This seemed to make good sense as MT6588 is a good successor name for the MT6577 dual-core. Mediatek ...read more

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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/10/25/mediatek-quad-core-chipset-renamed-to-mt6589/feed/ 1 Jelly Bean update for MT6577 phones in sight http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/10/20/jelly-bean-update-for-mt6577-phones-in-sight/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/10/20/jelly-bean-update-for-mt6577-phones-in-sight/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:07:30 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=101 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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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/10/20/jelly-bean-update-for-mt6577-phones-in-sight/feed/ 1 ZOPO ZP300+ Unboxing http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/09/18/zopo-zp300-unboxing/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/09/18/zopo-zp300-unboxing/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:16:12 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=21 Chinese Android smartphones have recently become more and more attractive with their low prices and increasingly capable specifications. Thus already for some time I had the plan to buy a dual-SIM phone in order to carry around fewer mobile devices. As I spend some days in Shenzhen I came across the Zopo ZP300+ (Field) and ...read more

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