Reviews on MT8173 processor

Qualcomm and Huawei will launch their new SOC based on ARM Cortex A72. Another SOC supplier, Mediatek can not fall behind. Recently, Mediatek launched its new SOC, MT8173, this processor is based on ARM Cortex A72, more important, it single core performance is scored 1752, higher than Kirin 950. This MT8173 may be firstly adopted by AMazon tablet pc, and will be for sale at end of this year.

MT8173 is one quad core processor based on ARM Cortex A72. One month ago, we disclosed this SOC adopts 28nm process technology, if adopting 16nm process from TSMC, its single core performance will be 2200, higher than Qualcomm Snapdragon 820.

MT8173 is specially designed for tablet pc, but early this year, Mediatek announced that it will put LTE-Advanced modem into this SOC, that means, it will be also adopted by smartphone in near future.

As the first SOC with ARM Cortex A72 from Mediatek,  it owns 2 ARM Cortex A72, and 2 ARM Cortex A53. Its performance is 600% of MT8125, and comes with Corepilot 2.0 technology from Mediatek.

The GPU of MT8173 is GX6250, frequency is 600MHz, supports 4K resolution videos.

This SOC will be firstly adopted by one Amazon tablet pc, this unit owns one 1080P 7 inch IPS screen, 2G RAM and 8GB storage. Operation system is Android 5.1 Lollipop OS. It will be for sale at this year end.

Most expensive smart watch, Tag Heuer Connected

After Apple launched Apple Watch, many suppliers started to copy Apple Watch. Recently, Tag Heuer from Swiss launches one smart watch, named Connected. Its price is 1500 US dollars, becoming one of most expensive smart watches.

Connected smart watch adopts design similar as mechanical watch. But its dial plate is one 1.5 inch LTPS LED screen. Resolution is 360*360 pixels. Its screen is covered Sapphire glass, and supports IP67 level water proof function. Its body is made of Titanium alloy.

Connected smart watch adopts one Intel dual core processor, RAM is 1GB and storage is 4GB. There is one built in microphone. This unit can support power saving Bluetooth 4.1, and 2.4GHz Wifi 802.11 b/g/n.

As information from suverimax.com, this Connected smartphone will be for sale in New York within this week, price is 1500 US dollars. Then it will land Europe.

Verizon launches new tablet pc for kids

Though, in tablet pc market, Verizon is not a well known brand name. But till now, it has already launched several tablets pc for special users. For example, recently, Verizon will launch a new tablet pc. Its model name is Ellipsis Kids. From its name, we can see, this unit is developed for kids, it includes contents suitable for kids, colorful shell, and parents lock.

This time, Verizon makes cooperation with Zoodles. People who buy this Ellipsis Kids can have free Zoodle service including books, videos, etc. Parents just need to input the ages, interest, then Zoodles will choose contents for you. Of course, parents can set time and content limitation as well.

This Ellipsis Kids adopts the new Kids-Tough shell, it can help reduce the shocking when dropped. Ellipsis owns one 8 inch 8 inch HD IPS screen, and supports Verizon 4G LTE network(only for Verizon network). Its storage is 16GB, and can be extended by 32GB TF card.

Ellipsis Kids will be for sale on 12th, Nov, its price is about 250 US dollars.