Google has officially partnered with MediaTek, producer of low-cost chips for Smartphones and tablets, for its Android One program. In fact, the Mountain View company already showed the first MediaTek-powered Android One Smartphone, from Micromax, at Google I/O 2014.
The sub-$100 device, featuring a 4.5" display, microSD card slot, FM Radio and dual-SIM functionality, is powered by a MediaTek MT6575 SoC. In case you were wondering, the MT6575 is a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU clocked at 1 GHz, is built on an ancient 40nm manufacturing process, and has a PowerVR SGX531 Ultra clocked at 522 MHz. The chipset was originally announced in 2011. |