MediaTek’s Quad-Core MT6589 Platform

Just end last year in Dec 2012, Mediatek announced its latest quad core solution mobile – the MT6589 platform. It was the world’s first commercialized quad-core System-On-Chip (SoC), targetting the  mid to high end smartphone and tablets market (and the dual-core MT6577 targeting the lower end of the market). This relatively new chipset integrates a power-efficient Cortex™-A7 CPU…

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Xiaomi Phone 2: Quad-Core Jelly Bean 4.1 at Half the Price of iPhone 4S

Recently announced in Beijing, is a low-cost Xiaomi Phone 2, powered by the Google Android platform. If you think this is another cheap knock-off, take a look at its pretty impressive specifications: A 4.3-inch 720p IPS display manufactured by Sharp (providing 342 ppi pixel density); Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Pro APQ8064 quad-core chip running at 1.5 Ghz…

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