Hello all. Just back from the hospital, so I haven't followed the development much for some time. Anyway, I've recently stumbled upon an interesting device: https://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.50391 I think I'll order that one sometime soon, so that I can look at it in more detail. This is a chinese phone with android, but some things make me think that's MTK inside. According to desctiption: ARM926EJ-S rev 5(v5l) BogoMIPS: 207.66 Android 2.2.1 OS system/Wifi(802.11b)/TV/GPS/FM/JAVA Price - 130 bucks. Sounds familiar? Compared to my E1000: ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l) BogoMIPS: 104.24
Twice more Bogomips. The hardware pretty much seems like a typical MTK, and for that price I guess there actually is MTK inside, something a little better than 2635, so the problem is to find the sources somewhere (And my bet is, that if they don't make it to the mainline - they'll leak out to the web) If the chips are pretty much identical, and they are, this might be a good thing. I think I'll buy one after the holiday madness is over and, hopefully, provide teardown photos, firmware dump and more details.
Regards, Andrew.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Andrew aifiltr0@invyl.ath.cx wrote:
Anyway, I've recently stumbled upon an interesting device: https://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.50391
There are plenty of devices like this. These devices are based on MT6516. It's dual core SoC with Windows Mobile and Android already ported (delivered by MTK). Some of the peripherals are the same as on MT62xx and some are completely different. This topic has been already discussed on the list:
http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/baseband-devel/2010-December/000855.html
To follow chinese phones market (mainly based on MTK) I recommend following site:
BR, Marcin
Can we really deduce anything from BOGus MIPS? :-)
Sebastien
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Andrew aifiltr0@invyl.ath.cx wrote:
Hello all. Just back from the hospital, so I haven't followed the development much for some time. Anyway, I've recently stumbled upon an interesting device: https://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.50391 I think I'll order that one sometime soon, so that I can look at it in more detail. This is a chinese phone with android, but some things make me think that's MTK inside. According to desctiption: ARM926EJ-S rev 5(v5l) BogoMIPS: 207.66 Android 2.2.1 OS system/Wifi(802.11b)/TV/GPS/FM/JAVA Price - 130 bucks. Sounds familiar? Compared to my E1000: ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l) BogoMIPS: 104.24
Twice more Bogomips. The hardware pretty much seems like a typical MTK, and for that price I guess there actually is MTK inside, something a little better than 2635, so the problem is to find the sources somewhere (And my bet is, that if they don't make it to the mainline - they'll leak out to the web) If the chips are pretty much identical, and they are, this might be a good thing. I think I'll buy one after the holiday madness is over and, hopefully, provide teardown photos, firmware dump and more details.
Regards, Andrew.
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