News & Reviews:   UMI X2S announce

China's smartphone makers reveal another world's first, this time being the first manufacturers to put in MediaTek's MT6952 8-core processor into a smartphone, which they have announced as the UMI X2S. All 8 of the cores on the MediaTek MT6952 are working at the same time unlike Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa which also has 8 cores but only has one set of quad cores working at one time. Other tech specs include 2GB RAM, a 5-inch 1080p display, 32GB storage, 13MP camera with Sony lens and probably a Mali 450 GPU. Other features include LTE and NFC support but there is no mention of a battery. Overall, the design looks much like a slightly larger Samsung Galaxy S3 but we have no idea as to how the battery life or processing benchmarks are as the UMI X2S is a China only smartphone. We could still see it in Malaysia from local sellers but so far there are no exact Malaysia release dates or official pricing just yet. In China it may be sold from RMB1499 (RM776) to RMB1999 (RM1035). Keep an eye out at MobileMegaMall.com or other similar Malaysian markets and it may crop up.