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8-core


Even without an official MT6592 launch, Chinese phone makers can’t help but start the hype machine over their latest 8-core phones.

After announcing another record quarter Mediatek have also let slip plans for their affordable SoC range of next year.

Another addition to the list of manufacturers working on MT6592 phones is Newman. Spy photos of the Newman K18 have emerged which depict a Sony Xperia Z inspired smartphone in stealth black!

Leaked photos from the recent Hong Kong Electronics fair show an engineering sample of the next generation 8-core iNew V3!

Is this really the 8-core Zopo ZP1000 in this hands on video, or is someone trick or treating us for Halloween?

The next few months are going to be exciting as we see 8-core phone upon 8-core phone launch. The big question is which company will be first? Could it be the Mlais MX69?

Next month Mediatek will release the 8-core MT6592 processor, and already we have some great looking phones to look forward to along with this mystery machine from TCL.

Last month a leaked photo of an 8-core equipped Mlais PCB hit the headlines, today we know what it will be living inside the Mlais Pro MT6589 Galaxy Note 3 clone!

Even with 8-core phones, 2K equipped beasts and innovative camera designs, the low-cost Xiaomi Hongmi remains one of the most sought after handsets to date, and the good news is a WCDMA model is on the way!

No matter how careful a tech company is there is no guarantee that your latest product will remain a secret until launch. This is exactly what Mediatek learned this weekend when full specifications of the MT6592 and MT6588 processors were posted online.

According to sources, Samsung’s homegrown 64-bit Exynos processor is ‘almost complete’, and the Korean giant might well be on their way to a release in the first half of 2014.

Bird have 2 very attractive Android smartphones ready to arrive on the bustling Chinese phone market, one of them being the Snapdragon XL with Xiaomi Mi3 design and 8-core processor.

The second generation 8-core MTK6592 Zopo C2 (aka Zopo ZP1000) has been getting a lot of exposure lately, but this is the first photo which gives us a real idea of the design and size of the new model.

Chinese brand Bird are another of those very large companies which don’t receive all that much coverage on GizChina (due to their boring products) but they have suddenly become a whole lot more special with the launch of the 8-core Dragon XL.

TCL, one of Mediatek’s larger customers, has posted a PCB of a mystery device with 8-core MT6592 processor labeled the TCL Idol X!

GooPhone have just updated their English store to include details of the GooPhone S4 Max, an 8-core, 6.44-inch phablet.

The Chinese smartphone world is going 8-core crazy thanks to Mediatek’s MtK6592 processor, the race is now on as to who will launch first? Could it be Zopo or Sony?

On the 12th November Sony will hold a conference at which they will launch a number of phones for the Chinese market, the star of the show being a purported 8-core device named “Tianchi”.

JXD have made the logical step from Android powered game systems and tablets to launch their first budget 6-inch phablet.

UMi have officially announced a price cut on both current versions of the UMi X2 starting from just $160!