More news from our mystery phone friends today, as it is confirmed that this new brand will launch a phone with AMOLED display and 3000mAh battery for under $130!
We’re getting quite excited today as more details of a new phone brand and their first ever phone have arrived in our inbox. At this time we still don’t know the name or the brand behind the new phone, but we are not starting to learn the specifications.
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What we have learned today is that the new phone will launch at a $129.99 price point through online resellers and that the device will come with an AMOLED display and 3000mAh battery! Combine these details to what we learned previously, fingerprint scanner, 5.5-inch screen and CNC metal chassis, and we have the makings of a rather attractive device on our hands.
We’ve also been told this morning that the final launch date, presale date and more spec information will be revealed through-out this week so stay tuned!
this phone should be thin, otherwise 5.5 inch with only 3000mAh battery is not a good point, i doubt if it really sport AMOLED display that they may just want to hide that defect about endurance.
The SoC inside and screen power efficiency are much more important than size of battery for the actual battery life.
Moto G4 is a 5.5 and it has great battery life with just 3000mAh battery.
MTK cost significantly less though, and I`m impressed that their 28nm Helio P10 chips offer great battery life.
Qualcomm have the upper hand in having the cash to produce chips in much more efficient fab process, but that will change when MTK release their next gen chips on 16nm and 10nm
As far as I know, p10’s construction is on 28nm but it was made with a special process that, apparently, helps a lot into power efficiency… Something called like 28nm hpc+ as far as I can see on their website… Ask realjjj for more info about it
I know that 🙂 But still it can`t compete with 16nm chips in efficiency when it comes to power/performance, even SD617 which is also a 28nm chip is an all round better performer(mostly in graphics, CPU lacks a bit)
Try with S625 & newer.
SD 430 is the cheapest one built in 16nm by Qualcomm.
I hear the Redmi 3S Prime is a very good phone for 130$.
For me honestly, any phone below that performance at that price is not worth it.
To be honest it’s possible to make a SoC with exactly same cost (it would cost more with better GPU & that is must) that would have 50+ more CPU performance in real usage (quad core A73 instead of octa core A53)…
Well, there’s a reason if 16nm is a newer, costlier technology after all ?
lol … u may have triggered realjjj
Their is not much special about the TSMC 28nm high performance computing it is significantly more power conservative than second gen HPM. The TSMC will say 40% but I will say 25%. All in all not bad considering cost but compared to FinFET’s I will tie it particularly to TSMC 16nm FinFET+ not impressive as they duble that to 50%. The new MT6737 & MT6750 are meant to be power efficient but still they don’t represent a very good design.
All in all as all other competitors already presented a entry mid range SoC’s based on FinFET’s (Samsung, HiSilicon, Qualcomm) MTK is lagging badly in this segment (not that I really like any of the available designs so far).
Hopefully their will be something good in the upper midrange refresh soon. Think that the really good engineered one with A73s & new T9 (G71) for a first time culd defeat Qualcomm offering. But I don’t see that engineering in MTK (nor Samsung [who tends to spare even more than MTK on GPU block in everything that is not a flagship category]) me by HiSilicon (if they integrate new Tensilica offering) but then it won’t be widely available & probably to pricy.
I can’t really agree or disagree with you on technical basis because I really don’t know much, I can only rely on impressions and real usage datas… So the only thing I can say it’s that we shouldn’t compare high-end architectures used for flagship chips with mid-range socs, and (most importantly with the original matter) that, although both are on 28nm architecture, p10 looks like a beast compared to mt6753 regarding power efficiency ?
Well MT6753 is based on HPM (as much as I know). Now try with comparing it to MT6752.
Actually mid range is a sweet spot to argue about efficiency & architecture as it tends to use referent building block (aka CPU, GPU) designs & it’s not exactly the highest performance race either. What you really need is topical usage in apps under 1W & in games under 2W (1W CPU & 1W GPU) instead of 3.5~6W so that you can be reely happy with heat, battery life, usability… On the other hand I did (still do) had my doubts about all the big litle cpu core config & especially litle litle ones (like especially in MT6753 & alike in the turns of horrible design). Take a look about what is possible to get from old S801-805s with an use of good defined interactive governor & then compare it to more advanced manufactured P10 (HTC+ vs HPM [25% less power usage]). So I do still claim how quad A73 self stand (& only one) reasonably clocked (around 1.8GHz) cluster is a right now to go with FinFET’s instead obsolete 2x quad cluster A53’s or a dual A73 & the quad A53 cluster. I also have a high hopes for the upcoming Mali G71 GPU generation.