Homtom HT17 could be the first phone with MT6737


It’s probably not needed to overly introduce the Homtom brand, the chinese phone makers are already well established as mainly the budget oriented producers. For the future they are planning to climb the ladder with the flagship model Homtom HT10, but before that we should be first getting yet another budget model with Homtom HT17.

The Homtom HT17 could be the first phone sporting the new Mediatek chipset MT6737, so what could we expect from this successor of the popular budget MT6735 line in this phone ? Well the CPU part looks pretty much almost the same with 64-bit quad core processor clocked at 1.1 GHz, but if we are to believe the promo then then the power effiency level should improve compared to the last gen. Claims about the performance boost are pretty much suspect, because its the same cores with same clocking (its 1.0 GHz in MT6735P and 1.3 GHz in full MT6735).

HT17  6737 1_result

HT17 6737  3_result

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But the interesting and somewhat confusing part comes with the introduction of “faster” GPU in the MT6737, which looks like complete wishful thinking to me and even contradicts the official Mediatek specs. In the promo we can see Mali-T720 MP1@550 MHz touted as better and faster than the Mali-T720 MP2@600 MHz used in MT6735 so errrrr what ? If we look at the underclocked Mali-T720 MP@400 MHz in the MT6735P then maybe we have a solid ground for such statement even i’m not sure if the higher clock would compensate the missing one core. But it gets even more confusing when looking at Mediatek website, where we can find the GPU used in MT6737 listed as Mali-T720 MP2@550 MHz….

HT17  6737 2_result

First batches of information about new products can get messy of course so let’s keep an eye out for clarification about that. Nonetheless the Homtom HT17 should see the light of day maybe even during May.

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20 Comments

  1. Yeti hand
    May 3, 2016

    the hell???

    • Muhammad Yasir
      May 3, 2016

      first lying on battery and now GPUs…

      DONT THEY DARE LIE ON GPUS ! i love Gpus man !

  2. balcobomber25
    May 3, 2016

    Looks like Doogee is up to it’s old tricks.

    • Assefa Hanson
      May 3, 2016

      LMao damn right about that

    • Muhammad Yasir
      May 3, 2016

      is homtom related to doogee ?

      • balcobomber25
        May 3, 2016

        Doogee owns them.

        • Muhammad Yasir
          May 3, 2016

          damn…

  3. Muhammad Yasir
    May 3, 2016

    is Doogee involved ?!

  4. Yeti hand
    May 3, 2016

    the hell???

    • Guest
      May 3, 2016

      first lying on battery and now GPUs…

      DONT THEY DARE LIE ON GPUS ! i love Gpus man !

  5. balcobomber25
    May 3, 2016

    Looks like Doogee is up to it’s old tricks.

    • Assefa Hanson
      May 3, 2016

      LMao damn right about that

    • Guest
      May 3, 2016

      is homtom related to doogee ?

    • balcobomber25
      May 3, 2016

      Doogee owns them.

    • Guest
      May 3, 2016

      damn…

  6. Guest
    May 3, 2016

    is Doogee involved ?!

  7. Zealer
    May 4, 2016

    aha, Homtom always live under the shadow of doogee

  8. Zealer
    May 4, 2016

    aha, Homtom always live under the shadow of doogee

  9. Steven Fox
    May 4, 2016

    It’s just more BS. Homtom don`t even know the specs of the chip(and it should be faster than the 6735, otherwise MTK would never brand it higher).
    I`m still waiting for the SD430/435 and the MT6750 as the new entry level, which will make any smartphone powerful enough to properly run 1080p res with even the more demanding games.

  10. Steven Fox
    May 4, 2016

    It’s just more BS. Homtom don`t even know the specs of the chip(and it should be faster than the 6735, otherwise MTK would never brand it higher).
    I`m still waiting for the SD430/435 and the MT6750 as the new entry level, which will make any smartphone powerful enough to properly run 1080p res with even the more demanding games.