MediaTek’s Helio X10 is already quite a popular franchise, but MediaTek don’t seem to be in a mood to let any room for competition to crop up… especially from the Qualcomm camps.
Which is why the company is reportedly working on a slightly upgraded version of the MediaTek Helio X10, aka the Helio X12.
Besides Snapdragon SoCs, this upcoming MediaTek chip could very well give the likes of an Exynos 7422 a run for its money. Among the Qualcomm made SoCs, MediaTek is eyeing the Snapdragon 618 and the 620 specifically, reports suggest.
Moving on, the first phone to feature this SoC could be none other than the upcoming Redmi 3. While the Redmi Note (and the Mi Note) series from Xiaomi look after large-screen phone lovers, the Redmi (minus the Note suffix) series is usually made for users that want to use their phone in one hand.
MediaTek Helio X12 AnTuTu
According to the source, the MediaTek Helio X12 — with a model name MT6795X — manages a respectable 55,000 points on AnTuTu. This is besides the 1100 and 5400 points it scores on Geekbench’s single- and multi-core tests.
As MediaTek has done in the past (the MediaTek MT6575 and the MT6577 come to mind), the Helio X12 could be pin-to-pin compatible with the Helio X10. What does this mean? This means that phone makers won’t have to redesign their motherboards and can easily accommodate the newer SoC without hassle.
Now that the Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 and the Redmi Note 3 are out of the way, the focus now shifts on the Redmi 3 (which should be out in Q1 next year) and of course, the long overdue Mi 5.
Sub 5-inch phone with decent specs?! It would really be a total killer: now everyone searching for something like that gives 500$ to sony for they z compact line… I wouldn’t buy something like that anyway, but it’d be an overkill move in the lower segment… After shaking phablet’s market, it’s likely from xiaomi to do the same in the “nearby-smartwatch-screen” market, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if this rumor is true!
Lets just hope the price is somewhat competitive compared to say Letv’s phones, which imo atm gives an enormous value for the money.
Xiaomi is consistent with pricing, expect it to be around 799 yuan at launch, which is about $125 US.
wait a second … isnt Redmi supposed to be an entry level phone ?!
are they out of their minds (in a good way) , inserting that high-end chip in a BUDGET PHONE ?!
There’s room for everything: entry level phone with low price, and mid-ranger with better specs at a slightly higher price… Thus would explain the “pro” in a future “redmi 3 pro” model, since the actual 1gb of extra ram is not exactly what everybody did expected from the redmi 2 pro…
Don’t expect something like that to be a sub-100$ smartphone like past redmi models, yet it should have a fair spec/price ratio like redmi note 2!
i just hope everything is cheap for the best 😀 !
As I remember I told that they couldn’t sell it with those specs at the Redmi and Redmi 1s’ price tag. Anyway Redmi was never a sub $100 phone.
Not at launch but usually a few months after launch you can find them for right around $100.
lets hope its a great deal … even tho the small screen size is a turn-off for me
It’s not really a high end chip, Mediateks high end chip for 2016 is X20 and maybe X30 at end of year. This will still be sold for under $150.
but 6795 still is a very potent chip … pretty sure its ‘pro’ version wont be a slacker either.
all in all , i’ll be delighted to see this in a redmi , even tho im not a fan of their diminutive screen sizes