Over 100 Helio P10 phones in the launch pipeline?


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After MediaTek’s success with the Helio X10, it’s the P10 that the tech world is waiting for. According to reports, it isn’t just the buyers that are lining up to get a taste of the new MediaTek chipset, but also phone makers.

Reports suggest that over 100 MediaTek Helio P10-powered models are in line to see a 2016 launch. China’s ‘export brands’ Ecoo, Elephone and Ulefone are among the list of 50+ companies that are believed to be working on the phones.

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MediaTek announced the Helio P10 aka the MediaTek MT6755 late last year. Considering that over 50 vendors have already signed up for the SoC, MediaTek would be happy of their efforts.

ulefone 2k helio p10Besides the aforementioned brands, ones such as Meizu, Lenovo and household names in Sony and HTC too are reportedly queuing up to get hold of batches of the MT6755.

The Helio P10 has a 28nm manufacturing process, and with an MP2 GPU Mali T860 combines and octa-core 2GHz Cortex A53 CPU. It also has on-board support for LTE Category 6, with download and upload speeds of 300 Mbps and 50 Mbps respectively.

Now that we’re already in 2016, we hopefully wont have to wait to much before we get to see how good the Helio P10 actually is.

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41 Comments

  1. Gentoo
    January 12, 2016

    – No GPS (device-only)
    – Non flagship GPU
    – Mediocre cores, will not have “stellar” performance
    – Most will be in badly optimized roms of z-grade Chinese manufacturers
    – The ones from Sony/HTC and other A-grade manufacturers will have high prices
    – Will be better to buy slightly more expensive 801/810 mid-ranger from OnePlus / LeTV

    No thanks. Plenty good SD-801 and 810 (who can live with some throttling / heating) phones around and the prices are cheap as ever.

    • balcobomber25
      January 12, 2016

      – This isn’t meant to be a flagship SoC, it is meant for budget and midrange phones.
      – It isn’t mean for “stellar” performance, it is meant for a good combination of performance and efficiency.
      – Some will be optimized, some won’t be. Some Qualcomm phones will be optimized, some won’t be. And the same goes for Samsung Exnyos and Kirin phones. Bad optimization at exists at every level with every SoC.
      – Not sure what qualifies one as an “A” Grade manufacturer. Do you have the updated grading system done by a reputable industry analyst? I would say Xiaomi and Lenovo are both “A” Grade, but need to see this list you apparently have.
      – Will be better to buy a phone based on the whole package and not just the SoC. Would also be better to stick with SoC’s for your needs. If you are only interested in flagship SoC’s, why are you looking at a budget/midrange SoC?

      • Assefa Hanson
        January 12, 2016

        look at this unbiased reasonable comment just look at this right here *eyes become teary*

        • balcobomber25
          January 12, 2016

          I don’t get into the Mediatek/Qualcomm fan wars. I have used some very good SoC’s from both and some very bad ones from both.

          • Assefa Hanson
            January 12, 2016

            people just love to generalize i guess

            • balcobomber25
              January 12, 2016

              Especially in this industry. According to many if one Chinese phone has terrible quality/optimization they all must. When it’s a brand like Samsung or Sony, two brands with horribly optimized ROM’s, they completely ignore it.

            • Assefa Hanson
              January 12, 2016

              DAMN straight people are so biased all the oems have faulty devices but the big guns get a nice pat on the back lol

            • Karly Johnston
              January 13, 2016

              Aside from Xiaomi i don’t see any of them trying to optimize.

            • balcobomber25
              January 13, 2016

              Meizu has done an excellent job optimizing the MX5, I use it everyday. LeTV, OnePlus and Zuk have all been very good at it as well.

    • Steven Fox
      January 12, 2016

      This chip will be faster than SD801, and the GPU will have lots of new features like full DX11_1 support, that the Adreno 330 lacks, it will score higher in Antutu and Geekbench than the SD801.
      Once game developers start to take more advantage of these features, the Adreno 330 will start to lose it`s steam, while the newer architecture like the Mali 8xx will only gain performance.

    • Riccardo Benzoni
      January 12, 2016

      this will replace mt6753, which has been fine for most people. And will be better than mt6752, which was considerably better than mt6753 on every aspect, except heat and power consumption.
      So, it should be a very nice mid-range cpu on 120-160$ phones, not everyone want to game like no tomorrow on their phone.

  2. Rob
    January 12, 2016

    Just give us the x20 already.

  3. realjjj
    January 12, 2016

    You should have made a preview article for P10.
    There are some benchmarks out there and the features are mostly known. The interesting comparison being with the X10 since it is less in some areas, better in other. Ofc a comparison with 6753/6752 is a must too.

    • balcobomber25
      January 12, 2016

      From the benchmarks I have seen it sits in between the 6752 and X10.

      • realjjj
        January 12, 2016

        Depends how you look at it.
        vs X10 has better power, better price and LTE cat 6 (vs 4) and has CDMA200 unlike the X10

        CPU is a bit less but in practice the difference might not be relevant and GPU is less but not by a lot. The x10 also has 2160p video encode/decode vs 1080p for the P10.

        Given the lower price, power and the fact that cat 6 is starting to be pushed in some key markets (including China where they label it as 4G+) , seems that P10 the wiser choice although X10 could be better for some users.
        Not that i give much of a damn, i want X20 and it’s A72 based friends.

        • balcobomber25
          January 12, 2016

          Yea I am more excited for X20. I don’t care so much about GPU (the game I play are playable on budget devices) but I need a really powerful CPU for video editing. And the A72’s will be perfect for that.

  4. Assefa Hanson
    January 12, 2016

    man phones are getting a bit boring, upgraded parts but almost nothing new, whats still interesting is specs for the money, hopefully some new revolution is coming soon, we need to move way from touchscreens

    • balcobomber25
      January 12, 2016

      What do you want instead of a touchscreen?

      • Assefa Hanson
        January 12, 2016

        something like what the lenovo smartcast has(although the phone has a touchscreen) projector display with haptic feedback, just want the next big thing lol physical keyboard(pre 2007) to touchscreen(2007-??) to projector diplays maybe

        • balcobomber25
          January 12, 2016

          The next big thing is probably VR, but it’s still in it’s infancy and could be years before we seen it adopted by the masses.

          • Assefa Hanson
            January 12, 2016

            🙁 you know what ironic about VR, people say people arent sociable anymore etc but VR would would bring back contact-contact interaction

      • Andrew P
        January 12, 2016

        Software optimisation, new sensors , greater screen-to-body ratio, better internal build quality.

        “Revolution” as mentioned by Assefa is too big word, but there are tons of possibilities. The thing is that small companies can’t afford “revolutionary” engineering, until bigger companies start the trend and component costs become lower.

        After all, every company should think of something new to bring technological value to its product.

        • balcobomber25
          January 12, 2016

          I get all that but he specifically said he wanted something other than touch screens for displays.

          Optimization is usually an afterthought with most of these companies large and small. It’s the one thing i would love to see changed in 2016. Apple is the master of optimization, they know every last detail of each component thet use and how to get it to operate at optimal performance. That’s why they can reuse a camera sensor for years but still get good photos.

          • Muhammad Yasir
            January 12, 2016

            and still makes zillions off of it 😀

      • Mesterio
        January 13, 2016

        One that uses telekinesis !!!! D’uh!!!!!!

    • realjjj
      January 12, 2016

      A72 is the revolution, this year.
      The bigger revolution will be foldable screens at some point soon-ish, after that we go glasses before stretchable screens arrive.

      • MaxPower
        January 12, 2016

        ???
        Which translates to what for average customer?
        Do you realize that most people don’t but a phone to run benchmarks?

        Faster charge, wireless charge, better battery life, better network speed, fingerprint or retina scanner… Those are technologies that affect consumer experience.

        An increase of 10-20% of the power of a CPU doesn’t really change anything since a 2 year old soc can easily run every app of the the play store (and I’m taking of a old midranger)

        • realjjj
          January 12, 2016

          In all seriousness you should seek medical help.
          No matter if you are trolling on purpose or you actually believe what you say.

          • MaxPower
            January 12, 2016

            I was expecting a more elaborate response from you.
            What a disappointment.

            • Yeti hand
              January 13, 2016

              why? you can tell from his first post he’s a benchmarks lover. an antutu score over 90000 is all he wants!

            • MaxPower
              January 13, 2016

              We all know he’s into CPUs and performance and also every phone is overpriced (except for the Elephone Vowney).

              I just wanted to understand how a newer SoC (look, the only feature he mentioned was the speed) is this phenomenal innovation.

              It was clear that the guy above asked if there was some cool feature coming out.

              But anyway, he didn’t offend me, I usually laugh at these childish attacks

            • Yeti hand
              January 13, 2016

              Ahahaha you’re the best sensei!

  5. mikey
    January 12, 2016

    maybe i missed it in this forum.. but how is the accuracy of the gps. does it have gloness and or beido support. does it has fast lock speeds?
    i’m not a specialist but i know you guys will do

    • jo
      January 12, 2016

      have not seen any reviews for a while , who even mention GPS , as if it is not existent anymore on the phones

  6. Muhammad Yasir
    January 12, 2016

    i just want a cheap phone with this CPU !