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lispsil on Jan 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility

Inexpensive mobile market in China is 90% closed source or reluctant open source where they give you something thats almost entirely blobs to barely satisfy GPL. https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mobile/KnEn...

Most are squeezing all they can out of the MTK chipset and don't want their competition to know their mods. I'm betting they will flood US market with $80 MTK phones under the motorola brand

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seanmcdirmid on Jan 30, 2014 | | [–]

Right, sorry. It seems like all of Lenovo's current phones are MTKs. I could have sworn to see something higher end from them in ZCN, maybe it was another brand.

Mikeb85 on Jan 30, 2014 | | | [–]

Lenovo's higher end phones use Intel Atom processors.

shimon_e on Jan 30, 2014 | | [–]

Yeah they do. Heck even the Yoga 8 uses MTK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo_A750

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