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Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 launched despite hurricane

Oct

2012

Hurricane Sandy almost ruined the big for Google. As today’s launch event in New York was canceled due to severely bad weather it seemed like we would have to wait a little longer until the new Nexus devices would be officially presented. But Google chose to launch their new Nexus products without a big event. ...

Google Nexus 10 information leaked

Oct

2012

Altough the Google Nexus products are far from being Shanzhai devices it is still very interesting to read and write about them. This time the rumors around the new Google 10 inch tablet (project Manta) are have condensed in some pretty hard facts. So far there are three sources suggesting that the Nexus 10 is ...

Mediatek quad-core renamed to MT6589 1

Oct

2012

Along with the availability of first Mediatek dual-core MT6577 phones the news of a quad-core successor came up. At first this chipset was said to be released end of 2012 and it went by the name MT6588.

Jelly Bean update for MT6577 phones in sight 1

Oct

2012

The Amoi N820 (Big V) seems to be the first MTK MT6577 based phone to get an update from ICS to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1). As Amoi most probably did not do all the porting by themselves I am sure MTK will offer this release to other companies, too.

K-Touch V8 (Hornet II) – Dual SIM confusion

Oct

2012

Earlier this year TianYu presented their new K-Touch V8 (Hornet II) phone. The handset was pretty high-end with a 1.5GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core application processor, 8MP camera and a 4.5″ 1280×720 LCD screen. There has been some rumor that the device should support dual SIM operation.