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Lots has changed at Meizu since the end of the Chinese New Year including the return of company exec Huang Zhang and another price cut for the flagship Meizu MX3.

Zopo are back to work after the Chinese Spring Festival and their first order of business is to being the pre-sale page for the WCDMA version of the octacore Zopo ZP998+.

LG have launched a low-cost phone with space for 3 SIM cards, but the specs are way below the standard we are use to!

We are only in the 2nd month of 2014 yet Mediatek’s Octacore MT6592 processor has already sprawled the globe powering phones from China to Inidia and now the Philippines with the Cherry Mobile Cosmos Z2.

If you thought that the octacore CoolPad F1 was a bargain at just 888 Yuan, just take a look at what Infoucs have planned with the 799 Yuan M320m.

The current price wars in China are forcing smartphone makers to drop prices lower than ever while raising the bar on quality and performance. The Coolpad Halo F1 is one such phone which boasts an octacore processor at less than $150!

GizRom, developed exclusively for GizChina by Marsapa has been ported to the octacore Zopo ZP998. Download and install version 2.0 of the new ROM here.

The new UMi flagship phone has been seen in leaked photos online and on Facebook and we know from good authority that the UMi X3 should be available to buy from February, so what are the full specifications of the phone? Keep reading to find out.

While the octacore revolution is well on the way here in China, we have still yet to see an octacore phone which really pushes the boundaries of what local Chinese phone makers can do, this is what makes the all Gorilla Glass iOcean X8 so tantalising.

The Chinese New Year celebrations are upon us here in China, but some are going to have to wait until after the holidays before getting a Huawei Honor 3X shaped gift.

Gionee officially launched the Elife E7 mini with Oppo N1 style rotating main camera in India a few weeks back, since then nothing much about the phone has been said so we thought we would revisit the smart Mediatek powered device with some hands on photos and spec details.

2014 promises to be the year which really blurs the lines between phone and tablet with Chinese Android phones now being offered at sizes of around 7-inch.

iOcean have made good use of their popular iOcean X7 by recycling the phone and refreshing it as the iOcean X7S with octacore processor for only 1399 Yuan!

HTC, long rumoured to be developing phones with Mediatek processors, could be kicking off their new low to mid-range phones with brightly coloured octacore phones.

Xioami’s entry-level Hongmi is ripe for an upgrade and April of this year could be the date it happens.

Thanks to everyone who took part, but I’m afraid there can be only one winner! Congratulations to Jaime Martin Martinez, your octacore THL T100S should be winging its way to you after the Chinese New Year holiday!

The octacore Hike X2 has now been listed and available to try at Hike stores across China and come equipped with Mediatek’s NFC rival “Hotknot”.

The Chinese New Year is right around the corner so expect a number of phone launches ahead and just after the big holiday, the UMi X3 launch could be one of them!

Zopo China have announced that their flagship octacore phone, aka the Zopo ZP998 2GB version, will be available to purchase on Valentines Day.

If you had $1000 to spend on an Android smartphone which would you buy? An Oppo N1? A couple of Xiaomi Mi3, Meizu MX3, Gionee Elife E7? Or this Mediatek equipped Changhong abomination?