MediaTek wants to lead the charge on cheap Android ICS smartphones

0. phoneArena posted on 13 Feb 2012, 14:58

Taiwan chip maker MediaTek wants to bring sub-$200 Android smarphones to the masses, especially the masses in prepaid and emerging markets...

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1. squallz506 posted on 13 Feb 2012, 15:06 2 0

ice cream for the masses!!!

i just got ICS on my g2x and i want to share it with the world. now my three wishes are:

everyone considers the consequences of their actions
World Peace
and ICS for the all the children of the world!

6. paulyyd posted on 13 Feb 2012, 22:44 0 0

you're a GDI

2. nickjjay posted on 13 Feb 2012, 15:23 0 0

Competition is good for the market

3. jove39 posted on 13 Feb 2012, 15:42 0 0

"...3D/HSPA radios" So radios are 3d :)

4. jove39 posted on 13 Feb 2012, 15:48 0 0

ICS runs perfectly fine on 1Ghz cpu (It runs smooth on my vibrant...way better than stock Froyo build).

5. christianqwerty posted on 13 Feb 2012, 17:04 1 0

How is ics supposed to stop the fragmentation when companies are creating these cheap phones. Will theses phones be stuck just on the ics update forever? Soon you will have quad core processors along with dual core and then the single core 1ghz

8. frydaexiii posted on 14 Feb 2012, 08:09 0 0

Exactly...ICS should bring along the end of single cores, if everything goes according to the official Android manufacturers, single core Androids won't exist by 2013, but with companies like this, how is the fragmentation going to end?

7. droidnator posted on 14 Feb 2012, 01:50 0 0

I think it's a great idea! Go MediaTek! Spread the green myth! Cheap mid-range phones, decent specs... Who doesn't want that? Competition is indeed good for the market, good for the customer!

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