Artificial intelligence, a fingerprint reader built under the front glass and even a bunch of delicacy.

The telephone market is about to change, and that is not the only thing I am saying. It’s one thing to know that Xiaomi, for example, makes phones that are a lot more pressing if not downright better than Samsung’s handsets, but when an emerging manufacturer is already targeting the high-end, plus with a surprisingly good-looking design, it’s worth thinking about that it is worth paying the extra money just to read the name of Samsung on our phone.

Now Leagoo is the company that will be worth watching. Their new, upcoming device, the Leagoo S10, gets hardware that any manufacturer can envy. The central unit, for example, is the MediaTek Helio P60 - you can read more about this in the next paragraph - the display is a 6,21-inch AMOLED panel with FHD + resolution. So the list is really impressive, but for the first time let's see more precisely why the Helio P60 is good for us in this phone!

Processor, graphic accelerator and neural accelerator in the central unit

We always start the presentation of the phones with the central unit, and in this case this is of particular importance. The UMIDIGI Z2 ProLeagoo S10 features a chip, the MediaTek P60 (MT6771), which is extremely fresh, extremely modern and of course quite fast. The manufacturer MediaTek unveiled its new 12-nanometer stripe product at the TSMC factory this spring, and we can see it live in the Leagoo S10. The Helio P60 targets the upper third of the mid-range and as such is one of MediaTek’s most powerful solutions. According to the manufacturer, it can outperform the Helio P70 by up to 30 percent in speed, and its power consumption is even lower than the P23, one of the stronger inserts in the lower category. The strength of the MediaTek P60 is well demonstrated by the fact that the manufacturer says it will be a worthy competitor to the Snapdragon 630 and 636 blades.

The chip uses a processor based on “traditional” ARM cores. The eight cores are, as we are accustomed to, divided into two clusters, one sharpened for low power consumption and the other for high power. The interesting thing about the processor is that, unlike usual, each of the cores can scale up to 2 GHz as a function of performance. However, these seeds arranged in clusters are not the same. Cortex-A53 cores work in the lower, ie energy-saving section, while Cortex-A73 cores work in the upper part tuned for performance. The latter is a special feature, because in the case of Chinese phones, we usually only encounter its predecessor, the Cortex-A72 cores.

Of course, there was graphics accelerator, that is GPU. It is one of the most modern units of the ARM, the ARM Mali-G72 MP3, which employs three cores based on the Bifrost architecture. Although this is one of our eyes, but the other is a bit tedious because MediaTek runs the GPU on 850 MHz instead of the original 800 MHz clock. Because of this and because of the strong processor, the system is likely to be slightly GPU limited. As usual, the memory controller has been integrated into the central unit, in this case, one that is successful with both LPDD3 and LPDDR4 modules, and even with up to 8 GB.

However, the most interesting part of their system today is not the CPU and not the GPU but the neural accelerator mentioned in the chapter title. The Neural Accelerator is a dedicated solution for artificial intelligence, just like the GPU, only responsible for the graphics, while accelerating the artificial intelligence operations. The dedicated solution is generally much stronger, much faster than relying on the processor or graphical accelerator for these special operations. Although the Helio P60 possesses a neural accelerator, it would be a pity to keep in mind that its performance is not in line with the performance of the Kirin 970 used by Huawei, so let's say weaker. However, there is, and still a better solution than capturing CPUs or GPUs for this task. It is likely that MediaTek's experts knew that chip performance could be small, so they implemented the NeuroPilot technology, which can split the gap between computing tasks between the neural accelerator, the GPU, and the CPU.

The Helio P60 is well embossed in the multimedia field as well. A maximum of 32 megapixels can be added to the P60-based phone, and if the manufacturer wants a double camera, then the 20 + 16 megapixel is the upper limit. It is also important to support hardware vibration suppression as well as HDR and zero shutter lag function. The chip naturally supports new screen sizes, including 18: 9 and 19: 9 aspect ratio displays.

Other skills

Since the phone has not yet been officially unveiled, the additional details will be less detailed than the description of the central core. At the same time, several sources have confirmed the accuracy of the data, hopefully these have not taken over each other’s news, and we won’t have to trash all the info when the final data arrives.

The display has already been mentioned above. The bottom line is that we get a 19: 9 aspect ratio, 6,21-inch, so specifically sized AMOLED panel with FHD + resolution. The release of AMOLED at Leagoo is welcome because it shows that it’s pretty slow, but the technology will also leak to smaller manufacturers, and if it runs out in larger numbers, the price will go down as well. So I wouldn’t be surprised if we could come across an AMOLED display phone early next year in the lower-middle third of the middle class as well.

The Leagoo S10 gets 6 GB of memory and 64 GB of built-in storage. Cameras on the back will be either SONY 20MP + 5MP or SONY 16MP + 8MP, we don't know for sure yet. What is even more certain, at least in the announcement video, is that the fingerprint sensor is under the display. The good news is that for this phone, if we can believe the rumors, they will ask for less than $ 300. It is suspected that this will be even more than Chinese traders, but maybe not.