Showing posts with label MediaTek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MediaTek. Show all posts

April 3, 2016

New Lava Pixel V2 and V2s Camera-Centric Smartphones released

Indian manufacturer Lava Mobile returned with their latest budget friendly Android
phones, the Pixel V2 and the V2s. The two handset are focused at the mid-range users, yet they are intended to provide remarkable camera features. 

Based to the report, the Lava Pixel V2 is available for purchasing in India with a price starts Rs. 8,750 or approximately 130US dollar outright.  Furthermore, these handsets will ship with Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS right out of the box together with Star 2.0 UI on top.

Other big factor of these two handsets, the Pixel V2 equipped with a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor, pair with Mali-T720 graphic processing unit and 3GB RAM. The Pixel V2s equipped 1GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735P processor, Mali-T720 graphic processing unit and a 2GB of RAM a bit lower compare to V2.

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Unlike the Pixel V2, the Pixel V2s ships with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OS however the Indian company guarantees upgrade of Android 6.0 Marshmallow in the following months.

Both handsets features a 5inch HD display with Asahi Dragontrail Glass Coating for screen support, the V2 includes the 16GB internal memory while the V2s has only 8GB, both feature a microSD slot for memory expansion up to 32GB.  The Pixel V2 Camera features 13MP main with f/2.0 aperture, BackSide Illumination sensor with 14micron pixel, Autofocus, LED flash and 5P Largan lens with Blue Glass Filter, and 8MP for front facing with F/2.4 aperture, 14 micron pixels sensor and LED flash as well.  The cheaper version has 8MP for main camera with twin LED flash as well as its front facing camera with LED flash. 

The two handsets offer 4G LTE and dual-SIM support together with Bluetooth, GPS with AGPS, 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi and FM Radio. The whole device powered by same batteries with 2,500mah.

February 24, 2016

High powered graphic chips will be arriving to cheap smartphones

The company that develop the iPhone’s graphic chip desire to deliver its pixel-crunching skills to affordable smartphones. Imagination Technologies is introducing the PowerVR 8XE, a new line of chips that provide significantly better graphics for far less money. The hardware developed to assist the new Vulkan API, which guarantees graphically extensive mobile games without the regular lag or slowdowns. Imagination’s pitch is that fairly than just creating bigger piece of silicon, its mastering to do a lot more with a lot less. Furthermore, the chips will be use in cheap set top boxes in and automobiles.

More useful graphic chips are also a smaller one, and smaller chips are normally cheaper to produce and set up. Meaning Imagination can offer chips with    higher resolution and performance for the exact price as the present generation. Given that there is little change between so many low end smartphones these days, being capable to offer better graphic is a big deal. It is also anticipated that the VR8XE chip will enjoy rather than guzzle at the smartphones power reserves. Joe Chen, co-CEO of MediaTek is excited about the new technology expressing that he is “delighted” to be one of the first company that will get access to the items.

With the release of the cheap PowerVR 8XE chips, definitely many smartphone will be out much more cheaper. Many smartphone users will be happy.