SMARTWATCH ANDROID WEAR WITH MEDIATEK MT2601 Review

SMARTWATCH ANDROID WEAR WITH MEDIATEK MT2601-Mediatek, one of the most well-known fabless chipmaker in the world, known primarily for its Soc ultra mobile broadband connectivity with integrated that form the heart of many smartphones currently on the market, has long directed its attention towards the promising segment of the wearable. For a year, in fact, there is a processor with a very high energy efficiency and designed expressly for IoT and wearable called Mediatek MT2502 Aster and we have seen several times at work on smartwatch as the recent Alcatel Onetouch Watch, Omate X, the Mykronoz ZeClock, the Galapad GAYA, or on the development platform of Linkit framework that allows developers to integrate hardware and software in a simple and reduce time-to-market.

As Mediatek MT2502 is a solution appreciated by the industry for its undoubted versatility and temperature profiles very contained, however, does not have sufficient resources to control complex user interfaces such as Android Wear, the release of Android designed specifically to wearables (category which for the moment is reduced to smartwatch companion).

A limit that engineers Mediatek immediately solved by releasing a new chip. It’s called Mediatek MT2601 and moldo different from Mediatek MT2502 Aster, in many ways more similar to a processor for smartphones because it integrates two core ARM Cortex-A7 at 1.2GHz and a GPU ARM Mali-400 MP. Are supported display with a resolution QHD, more than sufficient for one smartwatch, while they are external to the Soc some modules that were directly enclosed in the chip Aster, such as Bluetooth entrusted to the SoC MT6630. Despite this, the surface of the PCB is only 480 mm², which will record the dimensions of only 89.84 mm² Aster, but are still lower than the solutions of many competitors.