Beast - True Octa-Core smartphone

[VIRGIN KLM]

(01-10-2014 02:57 PM)naoan Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 03:10 AM)VIRGIN KLM Wrote:  With 299$, I'm sure you can get a device that performs ALOT better and it's not 8-core (that in the end of the day is a bottlenecking factor for PPSSPP).
EPIC FAIL.

Unless you live where you can get phone with subsidized contract (and actually end up way pricier on long term), not really, there are nothing from big manufacturer that can stand against that phone as a package (1080p, great camera, and depending on the brand, solidly built) or counting only raw cpu and gpu power (it has mali 450 gpu) for the price.

You can say "cheat" all you want but mediatek use ARM reference design (a7) and the quad core iteration that came out last year has been proven to be very fluid.

I agree that octa is redundant for a smartphone and rather have 4 fast cores with good battery life, but it's more than enough for day to day phone and casual mobile gaming. But it would definitely do worse than 4 fast cortex a15 or even a9 clocked at the same hertz for stuff like ppsspp.

The area you'd have to wary about with this kind of phone are customer and software support, get it right however and you're set for a great phone at very great price nothing at the same range can rival.

I do not live on a country that subsidized contracts are famous and actually I am really against them because it's the stupidiest thing people do in Western countries.

Having had experience with these devices, what they promise is LIGHT YEARS away from what they DO deliver so, yes you can take a phone with the same budget and be atleast a bit better than it if not alot better. Only the fact of zero software & costumer support is a huge dealbreaker in Android universe and defeats the whole idea of buying an Android device.

But the real deal breaker is that ALWAYS those phones promise WAY more of what they actually are able to deliver and this is what you must remember from this whole post. I will not say the typical you pay for what you get, but I'll say you will NEVER pay less than what you get, maybe a fair price but this is not the case.