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MediaTek? No, thanks.
by mahouse 12y ago
MediaTek? No, thanks.
- listic 12y agoMediaTek is not just a lower-end chip; it potentially has its own unique advanages. E.g. AFAIK only phones with MediaTek chips potentially can: - ring an alarm when in 'off' state - change their IMEI I'm not claiming that everyone needs that or that it will be possible on Ubuntu; just reminding that MTK chips have some unique advantages, too.
- icebraining 12y agoI wonder why you'd need a specific chipset to have an RTC alarm. Couldn't it be added on the board independently? After having so many Nokias, I'm still amazed how so many phones miss what should be a basic feature.
- listic 12y agoI believe noone bothers to add additional hardware for this, but MTK has the hardware on-chip. I, too, hold old Nokias as a standard in this regard.
- mahouse 12y agoWhat's changing the IMEI useful for, other than to be able to use the phone once you've stolen it?
- vidarh 12y agoWhy? They're not the highest end, but then again the price and other specs makes it clear that this is not intended as a high end phone. For a mid range phone MediaTek CPU's are easily powerful enough. Unless you have other objections?
- qrmn 12y agoMediaTek have not been historically known for engaging with the open-source community, documenting their chipsets, and complying with the GPL, to put it mildly. Unless anyone knows that's changed in recent years?
- vidarh 12y agoThat may be so, but there's hardly any CPU around you can even boot without binary blobs of some form these days. E.g. consider the massive pain the Coreboot people are going through to get anything reasonably open out of Intel. I would prefer more open hardware and will vote with my wallet if there's something open of reasonable price/performance, but I choose to be pragmatic about it. In this space, even getting something I can run a non-locked down Linux on is an improvement.
- davexunit 12y agoYeah, this is frustrating. They are known GPL violators. :(