The Xiaocai G6 made quite a impact when we announced the low-cost, 4-core smartphone a few days ago, now more waves are rippling due to the phones dual-boot system and high-end specs!
Making a low-cost 5-inch Android smartphone which doesn’t have a 1080p display is becoming a rare occurrence here in China, but those times we do come across such a phone the lack of 1080HD is made up in other ways.
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In the instance of the Xiaocai G6 1080 has been replaced with 720p (hardly a bad thing) and that down grade has allowed for a low-cost phone which packs a quad-core CPU, 13 mega-pixel rear camera, Android 4.2 plus the ability to dual-boot!
It hasn’t been made exactly clear which operating systems you will have the ability to boot in to (although Android 4.2 Jelly Bean will be at least one of the stock options) or how this might be a useful feature for most users, but for people who like to mod their phones and tryout custom roms this could be a god send!
Get full specifications from the official website.
maybe is ready for Ubuntu mobile
So bad is too early, I guess! But it’d be nice to dual boot Ubuntu Kylin (้บ้บ) on this phone for that budget O.O
Waiting for that!
“1080 has been replaced with 720p (hardly a bad thing)” I would like to disagree. While indeed 720p is quite nice, on 4.5″ and up it tends to be low-resolution – the PPI is still over 300 yet pixels can be seen quite easily. If we compare this PPI value (in the case of the G6 it is 312), with any other 5″ 1080p display’s (what would be around 440), it is clear that we lose a lot of detail.
Yes, indeed, it helps lowering the price, and maybe the hardware wouldn’t be able to handle it all the time (what would be nonsense, given the specs of the 6589, though a badly written kernel can cause severe problems), I believe many would prefer a fullHD panel, even on 4.7″!
No such thing. After 300ppi, pixels are barely noticeable. 1080p is already overkill, and is suitable for 5inch and above.
Well I guess it depends on your eyes. I had the Nexus 4 in my hands, what has the same specs screen, and it was quite pixelated, especially after using the HTC One (same size screen, 1080p res).
Each to his own ….
I’m nearly 75 and I wear ‘specs … and I love my Nexus 7. Does Yash339 think I should give it all up !
Interesting … the system put my response in an entirely different position than I expected.
Sorry … but not my fault !
Indeed ๐
BTW read in another entry that you were to open a store in the UK, could you please write me an e-mail? I’m really interested in some details. My address is fonix232 [at] gmail [dot] com
Sir, this is with reference to?
The main purpose of this article was supposed to be dual boot.
What ever could it dual boot?
Android 4.2 and adndroid 4.1 LOL?
From the web page: it runs Android 4.2 + a chinese ROM called ไน่ (happy frog?!) unknown for me until yesterday (well, still unseen). So it may be easy to flash other ROMs in it.
I’m pretty sure you did hear about LewaOS, or “Le Frog”. It is a quite popular ROM for some phones, including but not limited to Motorola models, ZTE Blade and variations, and a few more.
They usually target mid- and low-end devices, and add a UI similar to MIUI, yet less resource-hungry. If you like shiny, LewaOS is definitely worth a try (I did not like it though).
miui and pure android for example
windows and android possible??
No. Windows runs on x86 architrcture while Android on ARM. And WP source is not made public so cant be ported to other devices
And why would that mean that it can’t run Windows Phone? It is just a matter of licences, if the company decides to buy it from Microsoft, they are free to do so. Although MS has some quality requirements with WP, they were quite strict with 7, but apparently lowered it with 8 (given that a few chinese “noname” manufacturer already marketed WinPhone8 devices). So it IS possible, though not through home-hackery.
Well yeah but I assumed since this has to do with low cost that licences are out of question. Haha. You’re right actually.
Missed this. Android can be made to run on an x86 processor. Not very effient but yes.
HTC HD2 can run both Android and WP7.5 so why not this one if well optimized?
apparently its LewaOS + standard Android
Wasnt the umi x2 supposed to be dual boot as well ?
But what good will it do? anyway i it both os should be open source. android and linux ๐
when is this supposed to lauch?
Except that the HD2 is not x86 based. Indeed the Android-x86 branch is not quite finished yet, although most hardware is supported (on a limited level).
How to dual boot? Any idea?