With all the chipsets for 2020 now announced, it looks like 5G is quickly going to gain traction. Almost all the chipsets from the upper mid-range through to flagship will be 5G only, and companies such as Realme will only launch 5G phones (in China) moving forward. This year we saw a strong focus on…
The MediaTek Dimensity 1000 was announced two days ago and with a specification to rival the best of the best from Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei. The 5G chipset which is fabricated on the 7nm process features 4 x ARM Cortex-A77 performance cores and the Mali-G77 GPU. As usual for things like this, a benchmark has…
Today MediaTek formally announced their new flagship chipset which looks set to bring back MediaTek into the world of flagship devices with some impressive specs. This chipset was the “first” 5G chipset to be announced all the way back in May, it seemed like a market stunt, just to get the news out, with no…
Xiaomi has continued to unleash phones on the market in quick succession this year covering almost every price point but shying away from the premium-priced flagships (ignoring the Mi MIX Alpha). The Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro is quite new to the market, but since its launch, in September there has been the Xiaomi Redmi…
MediaTek has been a mainstay in the low to mid-end of the market, but flagging with higher up phones. This all changed recently with the Mediatek Helio G90T which outperforms the Snapdragon 730G in most benchmarks and looks set to start MediaTek’s push back in into the higher end of the market. We already knew…
MediaTek announced the Helio G90T a few months ago and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro is the first and only phone to use this chipset. MediaTek is not particularly well known for their high-performance chipsets so this launch has come as a bit of a surprise with the specification looking like it should provide…
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 was launched almost two years ago, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is due to be replaced with the Snapdragon 865. Earlier this year the Snapdragon 710 was superseded by the new Snapdragon 730 and as technology improves the performance trickles down with generations. So how do this year’s upper-midrange chipsets compare…
MediaTek is not really known for their high-end chipsets, you would typically find them on the more affordable phones on the market such as the Nokia 2.2 and Redmi 6A. However, recently they have been making moves higher up in the market and the new Oppo Reno Z uses the MediaTek Helio P90 (MT6779) which…
With the launch of HarmonyOS on the Honor Vision & Vision Pro TVs, I thought it was worth looking into the chipsets that power these devices. With 4K HDR playback available on most TVs you would expect something relatively beefy powering the underlying SmartOS. Flagship mobiles are currently using the 7nm fabrication process, but most…
Yesterday MediaTek announced the Helio G90 and G90T, their new flagship gaming orientated SoC. In my previous post, I compared the SoC to the flagship chipsets from Qualcomm and Hisilicon, but this was perhaps unfair as the Helio G90 is unlikely to be priced at the same point. New benchmarks have come out revealing how…
MediaTek is the third player in the mobile system on chip world, they typically are used for budget phones and a lot of Chinese phones, they also have a strong market share with streaming devices like the Fire Stick and processors in TVs such as the Sony AF8. Their flagship SoC in the Helio P60 which…
I have had back luck with phones the past year or so, breaking the screen on my Nexus 6P and LG V20. So, I have been on a quest for good but affordable phones. The obvious choice is cheap Chinese imports from sites like GearBest, or slightly more expensive Chinese phones from Amazon. I thought…
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