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Omate X Smart Watches Spotted
Late last year Omate launched TrueSmart smart watches and now it looks like they are back. This time with the Omate X Smart Watch. It connects via Bluetooth 4.0 to Apple iOS or Android devices. The user can then make and receive calls, social media and reminder notifications among others at…
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MediaTek To Enter Chromebook Market, Others Could Follow
Chromebooks have currently hit a pricing “brick wall” of around $200, you’ll be hard pushed to find anything cheaper than that based on current hardware solutions: but that could all be about to change. Enter MediaTek, the ARM giant famed for producing affordable, quad, hex and octa core CPUs for…
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MediaTek Continues Explosive Growth, 75% H1 YoY Increases
MediaTek have been going from strength to strength in the smartphone market largely thanks to their ability to offer dual, quad and now octa core mobile CPUs at an irresistibly low price to smartphone makers. That competitive advantage has shown in MediaTek’s latest financial figures. For June their net sales…
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Demand For Fingerprint Sensors To Soar This Year
Global demand for fingerprint sensors is expected to soar in the second half of this year as the Android platform has begun to mainstream support for fingerprint sensors and related applications. According to Digitimes several companies are already gearing up commercial production of fingerprint sensors and sensor modules. The expansion of fingerprint…
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MediaTek Announces Its Quad-Core Cortex-A7 MT8127 Soc Featuring the Mali-450 MP4 GPU
MediaTek has just announced its newest addition to its SoC empire, the MT8127, which is said to offer full hardware support for the new HEVC or H.265 video playback standard, allowing videos to play with an average of up to 50% less video bandwidth consumption compared to the previous H.264…
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MediaTek 64-bit LTE-enabled Quad-Core MT6732 Announced
MediaTek has revealed one of two 64-bit LET chipsets at MWC for smartphones, it being the Quad-Core MT6732, Qualcomm’s 64-bit Snapdragon 410 competition on the mid-ranged market. The CPU features four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, a highly advanced 16-core Mali-T760 GPU, a multi-mode 4G LTE modem, and an imaging…
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MediaTek Preparing New Octa-Core Processor To Take On Snapdragon 800/805
With the recent announcement of ARM’s new Cortex A17 series MediaTek have wasted no time in sampling new processors based on the Cortex A17 design. Engadget reports that MediaTek already have new octa-core processors ready that consist of four 2.2-2.5GHz Cortex A17 cores and four 1.7GHz Cortex A7 cores in…
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Leaked Pictures Reveal The Upcoming Oppo R1 Handset
There has been word that the Chinese manufacturer Oppo is planning to release a new Android-based handset under the name of “Oppo R1”. It appears that some new leaked images of the upcoming device have leaked online. The Chinese market is expected to see the mid-ranged flashgrip, that is expected…
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MediaTek To Shift Its Focus To Tablet SoC and LTE Enabled Chips In 2014
MediaTek is planning to shift its target to the tablet SoCs and LTE enabled chipsets for smartphones next year. According to TelecomTiger(via Fudzilla), MediaTek general manager of international sales and marketing Finbarr Moynihan said the company wants to “democratize” smartphones and bring them to new markets. He noted that five…
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Octa-Core Cortex A7 Officially Released By MediaTek
MediaTek officially released the world’s first Octa-Core Cortex A7 application processor, the MT6592, . It can easily reach speeds up to 2GHz, however 2GHz devices are not likely to be seen in devices pretty soon. This is because the core limit for it to work in a stable environment is…
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Lenovo Vibe Z Announced With Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, Dual-Sim And Flip Cover
Lenovo announced a new model of their Vibe X smartphone series, the Vibe Z. It is powered by a Qualcomm processor and a larger display, replacing the former MediaTek MT6589T chip with the Quad-Core Snapdragon 800 clocked at 2.2GHz with Adreno 330 graphics and 2GB of RAM. The Vibe Z…
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Facebook Joins GSMA To Become An Active Member Of Wireless Trade Group
Facebook has joined the GSMA, which for short is a group composed of mobile operators and other interested technology partners who work in standardizing and promoting the GSM cellular system. GSMA spokeswoman Claire Cranton told FierceWireless that “Facebook is obviously a significant player in the mobile ecosystem, so a relationship…
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White Box Tablet Vendors See Strong 40.4% YoY Growth In Q3 2013
Digitimes reports that Chinese white-box tablet vendors have seen very strong growth in 2013. Compared to the same Q3 period of 2012, shipments for Q3 of 2013 are up 40.4%. Compared to the last quarter, Q2 of 2013, shipments are up a staggering 56.3%. The majority of these shipments from…
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Goophone Inc. To Release A New Addition To Their Gadgets, The Goophone Smartwatch 3G
Chinese phone maker Goophone released a new gadget, but not a smartphone apparently. They released a Smartwatch, entitled Goophone Smartwatch 3G. It comes with an interface similar to the Windows Phone UI and running on Android 4,0 Ice Crean Sandwitch it also grants you access to the Play Store. The…
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ARM To Announce Mali-T760 and Mali-T720 GPUs
Next-generation mobile GPUs for smartphones and tablets have been announced by ARM. The Mali-T760 and Mali-T720 have been classified for the performance and mainstream market segments, respectively. The two OpenGL ES 3.0 compatible GPUs are stated to be efficient and scalable by its designers. “ARM Mali GPUs unit shipments have…
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