If you have never heard of Cubot then you are not alone, but the phone maker is set to make its presence known with their quad-core MT6589, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 clone!
Now, you might not have heard of Cubot before, but I am pretty confident you have seen the design of the A6589 over the past few months. The exterior is identical in design to the Zopo ZP950 phablet and THL W7, both of which are 5.7-inch Android phablets with Galaxy Note 2 influences.
We wouldn’t be all that surprised if the Cubot A6589 is made by either Zopo or THL either, however unlike the other 2 Chinese phablet the Cubot is running the latest quad-core Mediatek MT6589 processor for more performance and better battery life!
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Unfortunately though that is where the upgraded begin and end! The Cubot still only sports 1GB RAM, an 8 mega-pixel rear camera and the screen is the same 5.7-inch 1280 x 720 unit as found on both the Zopo and THL.
The Cubot is currently on sale at a number of online resellers for around $260, however if you were to hang on for a little longer we wouldn’t be too surprised if both Zopo and THL offered updated versions of their phablets for a similar price.
I was considering of buying this phone, because of
+ MTK6589
+ large battery
+ 720p screen –> which means it will be fast, unlike 1080p
but such huge screen should be protected by Gorilla Glass or similar.. and it is not.
Are there any MT6589 1080p screens that are slow? If so any links? the older MT6577 dualcore may be too slow to handle 1080p screens, but the newer quadcores should be fine. Maybe 1 GB RAM needs to be bumped to 2GB also.
I have no specific links to slow MT6589 phones, as they are just about to be tested… however, the video made by Jiayu G3, having 720p screen and 6577 chipset, was having a rather slow framerate.
I would believe that it is not caused by the poor camera, but rather a heavy load on the chip to both write a 720p movie on the card and also display it in parallel.
If the G3 was not able to shoot a proper 30fps movie in 720p, having a 720p display, i think the 6589 / 1080p phones would have similar issues with HD movies, given they need to display it in fullHD parallel to saving the file.
In other words, i would prefer to have ‘only’ a 720p display, in order to avoid any unnecessary load on the chipset.
what do you think about this device? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/5-7-IPS-1280-720-1GB-8GB-Star-N9589-Note2-MTK6589-Quad-core-Android-4-1/749126389.html