Category: Smartphones

Zopo Libero HD ZP800H, 5″ 720p IPS, MT6589

Posted by – March 25, 2013

Sold for 1799rmb ($290) in Shenzhen China, battery capacity is 2000mAh, 1GB RAM, 4GB flash, dual-sim on the MediaTek MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor.

$289 Zopo Leader ZP900H, 5.3″ qHD MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7

Posted by – March 20, 2013

199gr, 2300mAh, dual-SIM, here is Zopo’s 5.3″ qHD IPS MediaTek MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with SGX544 GPU smartphone selling for 1799rmb ($289).

SED Electronics Market (Tablets Market) in Shenzhen walk-through


Here’s my latest 20-minute steadicam/GH3 walk through the SED Electronics Market in Shenzhen, that building is my favorite in the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei Electronics market area. This is where you can find all the tablets, HDMI sticks and tablet accessories. I film through this market with the Tiffen Steadicam Merlin 2 on arm and vest with the Panasonic GH3 camera and 12-35mm lense.

$400 Meizu MX2, 4.4″ 1280×800 Exynos4412

Posted by – March 11, 2013

Here is Meizu’s latest flagship smartphone, running on the Exynos4412 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and using a new 4.4″ 1280×800 LCD display.

MT6589 E2001 N7300 5.7″ 1280×720 by HL

Posted by – March 11, 2013

Here’s a 5.7″ 720p MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 phone sold by HL on the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei market for 1150rmb ($185). This may be a “basic” Sharp display, there may be a higher quality IPS LG display phone of the same size available for about 100rmb more on the Huaqiangbei market. Check back in the next few days for more on these phones.

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Letu MT6589 5.5″ 960×540 for $152

Posted by – March 11, 2013

Some of the latest Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 MediaTek MT6589 phones sold in China by Letu.

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Xin Long MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 4.5″ $151 and 5.3″ $177

Posted by – March 10, 2013

The MediaTek MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 has arrived! The 4.5″ (I say 4.7″ in the video, but I think it may just be 4.5″, I’ll check again tomorrow) is 940rmb ($151) and the 5.3″ (maybe it’s actually 5.5″) is 1100rmb ($177). Check back in the next days for more details and better videos on all the latest MediaTek MT6589 phones on the Chinese market.

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Zopo Leader Max ZP950H, MediaTek MT6589 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7

Posted by – March 10, 2013

Here is Zopo’s latest flagship smartphone. Sold for 1999rmb ($321) unlocked on the Huaqiangbei Shenzhen electronics market, it features a 5.7″ 1280×720 IPS display, 1GB RAM, 4GB Flash, 2500mAh removable battery, dual-sim HSPA+/GSM and MicroSDHC card support. Zopo provides some software support (according to what MediaTek can support), currently running on Android 4.1.2, it also has a community forum (in Chinese) at their website: http://zopomobile.com

I’m currently in Shenzhen filming some videos of the latest devices during these next few days, let me know in the comments if you know of cool devices that I should film here!

iOS and Windows apps to soon run on Android?


Check out my 41-minute video with Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Android engineer at Linaro, where he explains how iOS, Windows Phone/RT/8 and full Linux apps can soon run on Android. He shows off how GCC/LLVM/Clang now runs on Android, allowing developers to develop and compile code directly on Android. Soon, perhaps as 64bit ARMv8 devices reach the market by next year, developers won’t need an x86 Laptop machine to develop for/on Android. Compile a new Android and reboot into it, all within Android itself. He explains how Google and the open source Android project is using Linaro code to optimize and speed up Android Linux on all ARM devices. Here‘s the video that I filmed last year that got him to win the “Online Superstar” award at Linaro Connect 2013.

Fujitsu Arrows X, 4.7″ 1080p 16.3 megapixel camera

Posted by – March 4, 2013

Qualcomm 1.7Ghz Quad-core built-in.

ARM Mali-T604 GPU Compute Renderscript and Open GL


ARM demonstrates GPU Computing on the new ARM Mali-T604 GPU, rendering graphical features, filters, encoding, processing certain things much faster and using much less power by processing those things on the GPU instead of on the CPU.

ARM Mali-T604 Graphics performance beyond 1080p


ARM runs the Epic Citadel benchmark at 55fps at 2560×1600 (4 megapixels = 2x 1080p) on the Mali-T604 while on Intel’s latest mobile platform, that same benchmark runs 10fps slower at a resolution of only 1280×720 (less than 4x lower resolution?). ARM also shows the improvements when using the Mali-T604 with Open GL ES 3.0 which hopefully is soon going to be added in Android, providing higher quality 3D graphics features.

Asus PadFone Infinity

Posted by – March 3, 2013

The newest 5″ 1080p Smartphone from Asus runs on the 1.7Ghz Qualcomm S600 processor and docks into a 1080p 10.1″ Tablet to instantly transform the smartphone into a tablet.

Marvell PXA1088 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 smartphone reference design

Posted by – March 3, 2013

Marvell shows their new PXA1088 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, here in a reference design smartphone. They also show the dual-core PXA968 with CDMA and with TD-SCDMA both pin-compatible in a 7″ tablet reference design.

You can read more about the PXA1088 here: http://www.marvell.com/communication-processors/pxa1088/assets/Marvell_PXA1088-02_product_brief.pdf

Nvidia Tegra4 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 with HDR video and photo engine

Posted by – March 2, 2013

Nvidia is releaing their quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor, here demonstrating their Chimera camcorder and photography engine that enables fast and easy HDR photography and video recording. They have a special sensor and technology that allows one optical system to record enough range to create HDR video at full 1080p 30fps framerate enabling also HDR photography on all upcoming Tegra4 devices without needing to take more than one picture. Tegra4 can playback 4K video, it has a 72-core GPU enabling advanced graphics and GPU Compute and a lot of other features.

Nvidia Tegra 4i Quad-core 2.3Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 with i500 baseband

Posted by – March 2, 2013

Nvidia implements the 4th revision of the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture for Smartphones and Tablets with Nvidia’s new i500 LTE modem built-in on the die, they expect up to 2x more performance over the Tegra3 with even better battery life. Nvidia’s software defined baseband radio means the same hardware supports LTE, 4G, 3G, 2G, carriers can deploy 3G devices that can support LTE and any future baseband radio systems by simply pushing a software update.

Moimstone Android and WiFi SIP and DECT VOIP home phones

Posted by – March 2, 2013

Moistone of South Korea shows their new MWP1100A Dual Band Wi-Fi Phone for SIP VOIP usage in the home on WiFi and their DMP5000 Dual Mode Phone with Wi-Fi and DECT on Android support in the home VOIP SIP phone.

Yota Devices at Mobile World Congress 2013

Posted by – February 28, 2013

This is a tour of the Yota Devices booth at Mobile World Congress 2013, including overviews of their upcoming E Ink LCD dual-mode YotaPhone and their LTE modems and routers, they are releasing several new products including one LTE router with a large capacity battery that lasts up to 21 hours and can connect 8 devices to that LTE connection at the same time.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 and 800 at Mobile World Congress 2013

Posted by – February 28, 2013

Qualcomm talks about their release of the Snapdragon 600 in devices unveiled at Mobile World Congress that are the Asus Transformer Infinity, LG Optimus G Pro and HTC One. At MWC 2013, Qualcomm also detailed more about their upcoming Snapdragon 200 and 400 series and they are also talking about the upcoming Snapdragon 800 series that increases GPU performance by 50%, supports 4K video encode and decode and many other new advanced features for the fastest smartphones and tablets to come later this year.

Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD

Posted by – February 27, 2013

5″ 720p screen on the MediaTek MT6577, can be dual-sim 42mbitps modem.