My ShanZhai » MT6577 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 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 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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