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Mtk6577? (Update: It's here!)

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Potentially faster, potentially slower. In texturing situations it's certainly slower regardless of clockspeeds. In compute/render situations then we're talking solely about clockspeeds here. I doubt Mediatek's clockspeeds are all that high, but at this point that's speculation.
 
ViRGE said:
The S3 would run circles around the MT6589. A7 is comparable to A8 in performance, which is quite a bit below A9 and Krait (depending on which S3 we're talking about). It's maybe 25% the speed of S3 in CPU-bound tasks, assuming the software stack isn't rubbish. And in GPU-bound scenarios those stats would put it at around 40% the performance of the S3 at best. Assuming of course it doesn't have a 32bit memory bus (which as small as the chip is, is likely).

It is what it is: a barebones SoC for budget phones. It does what it's designed to do, but it's clearly low performance to keep the die size to a minimum.
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/mediatek-launches-worlds-first-quad-core-cortex-a7-soc-we-go-h/

"Circles." Riiiiiight. I wonder who is the one that is blowing the hot air around here.

Besides, these things go into Chinese phones for like 1/3 of what Samsung charges for the S3. You can say all you want about QC issues of those but this chip is not a dog like you claim.
 
Well, let us know how it turns out in practice! Honestly I would expect memory to be a bigger limiter here than CPU. GPU could be an issue depending on what you use it for.
 
podspi said:
Well, let us know how it turns out in practice! Honestly I would expect memory to be a bigger limiter here than CPU. GPU could be an issue depending on what you use it for.
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Yeah, I imagine that 512MB of RAM is just going to kill you.

But a perfectly great device for tinkering around with.
 
podspi said:
Well, let us know how it turns out in practice! Honestly I would expect memory to be a bigger limiter here than CPU. GPU could be an issue depending on what you use it for.
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I will. It's going to be a while though. Usually things from China/HK take over 2 weeks to arrive. 🙁
 
And it's here. Comes with a plastic case and a screen protector. ^^ Protected films are applied on both sides. I took some pictures with my N4. (See below)

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Well, the battery is understandably at 0% so I just started charging it. We'll see!

It looks just like the iPhone 5. Haha. It's definitely heavier, though. I think it's almost as heavy as my N4.
 
cant wait for the review!
access to google play store?
i think you told us you are on t-mobile. did the company detect it as an iphone or an android or an unknown??
 
lopri said:
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That is something I totally do not understand about with Chinese copycat phones. I can see why people would want an exact iPhone clone but why slap a fugly logo so prominently to the point anyone would know its a complete fake? It makes no sense.

EDIT - To anyone interested in these Chinese phones

As far as specs go the only really attractive phones are the MT6589 quads + 720p and that goes for around $230 courier-shipped. If you can get a Nexus 4 for $299 that is still a much better deal in terms of specs and support. Unless you have somebody in China that can skip past the middlemen I suggest don't even bother unless you are content with 40nm dualcores and sub 720p for ~$120.
 
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Sorry I know a few members were curious. I had an exciting weekend (not with the phone) and forgot to report.

Well, in short, it's going back to Hong Kong. It's an unusable garbage. Hardware isn't bad for the price. Perceived performance on web is somewhere between iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. CPU is strong enough for mundane tasks, and navigating its built-in apps there is very little lag. But the ROM is total crap. Tried to fix it using a PC but that doesn't seem possible. Inserted AT&T and T-Mobile SIM and it only recognizes 2G networks.

I will see if I can give more details, but this one is a total waste of money even at $99.
 
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