1st true octa-core smartphone unveiled

MediaTek was the primary to announce a chip set with a real octa-core processor back in June and currently the primary phone utilizing it's gone official. The UMI X2S broke cover at the time of year Edition of Hong Kong electronics truthful.

All of UMI’s phones ar supposed for the Chinese market and that’s why you’ve most likely ne'er detected of the brand. The UMI latest X2S smartphone is high-powered by MT6592 chip set with AN octa-core Cortex-A7 1.5GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. there's no word on the GPU, however once the MT6592 got bench marked it had been rocking a Mali-450, thus that is most likely it.

The rest of the UMI X2S specs embrace a 5” 1080p display, 32GB internal depositum, a 13MP camera and Sony lens, and NFC connection. Since MG6592 is LTE-capable, we have a propension to mistrust the X2S ought to be LTE-enabled also.

There is no data on the valuation and availableness nevertheless, however the gizmo is supposed to be best reasonable, despite its fancy central processing unit.

MediaTek was so the 1at one to style and release a real octa-core chip and can most likely stay the only one for a short time as early hopes of Samsung enabling 8-core process on its Exynos five Octa via a firmware update were press. and also the revised Exynos five is unlikely to form it in actual hardware before the Galaxy S5 comes around next year.

source:gsmarena