feature the flagship Mediatek Dimensity 1000+ chipset and has allowed Redmi to reduce the price compared to the Qualcomm equipped Redmi K30 Pro, while also improving the display to 120Hz. With this being a flagship spec phone priced at just $349.00, my impulse took over me and I bought it from Giztop. I actually ended…
Announced back in November, the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 looked like it could be one of the best chipsets for 2020 with arguably more impressive specs than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 or Samsung Exynos 990 thanks to the integrated 5G modem and AV1 codec support. Back when it was launched, Mediatek claimed the chipset would hit…
I have criticised Mediatek a lot in the past few months with their questionable chipset launches, which seem to be minor tweaks for individual companies, likely as a marketing stunt. There has still not been a flagship MediaTek Dimensity 1000 phone launched, even though he chipset was announced back in November. This is set to…
MediaTek has today launched another chipset, which feels like a weekly occurrence now. Most recently the company launched the Helio G85 which turned out to be the exact same as the Mediatek G80 but with a 50Mhz difference on the GPU. There is a suspiciously low uptake of these new chipsets, and my best guess…
Video codecs are not the most exciting of things but they make a huge difference with the media we consume. Currently, when we watch Netflix they use the VP9 codec by default which was originally developed by Google. This codec is natively supported on Android in both software and the hardware. The hardware support is…
The MediaTek Dimensity 1000L is a very odd chipset when you look at its specification, it is not a mid-range chipset. It is basically a slightly cut down version of the flagship Dimensity 1000 adopting the same 4x Cortex-A77 & 4xCortex-A55 design as the full-fat version. The only noticeable difference on the spec sheet is…
In the past, I have moaned about the mind-boggling number of Qualcomm chipsets launched, especially those chipsets that sit in the mid-range market. Even now, we currently have phones in production with the Snapdragon 710, SD712, SD730, SD73G, and the new SD765G, then there is also the standard SD765 but no phone uses that. Then…
The last chipset announcement of the year has been done, we now know Qualcomm’s strategy for 2020 and that appears to be 5G in all the phones. So with all the chipsets for 2020 announced, how does the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 stack up against the Samsung Exynos 990, MediaTek Dimensity 1000 and Huawei Kirin 990…