MediaTek MT6572 Chipset and UBIFS System Review [Pros and Cos]

MediaTek is a Chinese company which are making cheap Android devices with good specifications. Most of us know Indian companies like Micromax, Karbonn, Lava, Spice etc. are just cloning those devices are renaming with Karbonn device, so we also get MediaTek chipset in our Android devices. There are different versions of MediaTek chipsets like MediaTek MT6577, MediaTek MT6589, MediaTek MT6573, MediaTek MT6573, MediaTek MT6572 etc. but we always need to be sure which chipset is best. I get Celkon A63 for just testing purpose and found that it was not at all lagging on Jelly Bean OS. You might thinking why would it lag but I need to tell you that it's having 512 MB RAM. I saw that device is having MediaTek MT6572 processor, which is very fast. Another thing which made this device faster is the UBIFS system and data partitions. UBIFS is actually a Nand Storage but it's better than other Nand storage like EXT4 because it is faster and durable.
Some pros and cos of UBIFS File System:

Pros [Advantages] of UBIFS System support:

• It's faster than other storage devices- I made a CWM recovery and the way it was restoring the Nandroid backup was amazing. I've tested CWM on same devices but with EXT4 storage and found that UBIFS is better than it.

• It's un-corruptible- UBIFS system is made to be faster and un-corruptible. Even if you use the storage like a machine, the storage won't be corrupted! This is helpful for developers like me because we need to flash many files to test if they are working or not.

Cos [Disadvantages] of UBIFS System support:

• No CWM/TWRP Recovery- There's just some devices with the recovery that mounts UBIFS system and that was Christian Troy's CWM Recovery. He's the one who mounted the UBIFS system on CWM Recovery. I also successfully ported his CWM Recovery to support Celkon A63 but the power button is not working, that's the only but I'm facing in mounting UBIFS in Celkon A63 otherwise the recovery is working with no errors.

So I think UBIFS is better than EXT4 because of it's speed and it can be best if we get development for CWM for UBIFS devices.

Okay, as I said another thing that makes Celkon A63 faster is MediaTek MT6572 Chipset. Let's quickly see the Pros and Cos of MediaTek MT6572 Chipset too!

Pros of MediaTek MT6572 Chipset:

• Faster- A device running Jelly Bean on 256 MB RAM is running like a butter! I could play Subway Surfers and other High Definition games with swap support and there were no lags. The chipset is designed to be faster on even low-end Android devices.


• Battery saver- There's 1500 mAh battery in Celkon A63 and the battery backup of this device is good when we compare it to other devices having 1500 mAh battery. I use it to play games and running some big apps and still there's no need for me to charge it frequently. The devices like Lava Iris 405 (running on 512 MB RAM, 1 GHz Dual Core Processor, 1400 mAh battery) needs to get charged after ever 7-10 hours! Whereas Celkon A63 needs to charged after 1 day. A63 is running on MediaTek MT6572 chipset, 256 MB RAM, 1.3 GHz Dual Cor processor and still having better battery backup than other devices with other chipset.

• Don't get up heated- Again, I'd like to give you example of Lava Iris 405 only. People using Lava Iris 405 always have a complaint about the heating problem. The device is running on 1 GHz Dual Core processor and have heating problem whereas A63 is running on 1.3G GHz Dual Core processor and no heat at all.
• Cheap- When we compare the price of devices running on MT6572 and on other specifications, MT6572 always wins! you can get a device with 512 MB RAM and 1.3 GHz Dual Core processor at just 4-5 thousands. Lava Iris 405 is of 7 thousands whereas Karbonn A12+ is just of 4.5 thousands.

Cos of MediaTek MT6572 Chipset:

• No Development support till now- When we see to devices like Lava Iris 405, Micromax A89 etc. [MT6577 and MT6589], we see many lots of Custom ROMs for them but when we see devices like Karbonn A12+, Celkon A63 etc. [MT6572 both] there's not even a single ROM for them. No MIUI, No Lewa OS, No BBM-based ROMs etc but in MT6577, there are tons of ROMs. If you are developer or 'superuser' I would say you not to buy MT6572 based Android devices.

MT6572 devices are not having any ROMs because they are new in the market whereas MT6589 and MT6577 are very old. That's having more ROMs before it's old. Don't worry, soon we [MT6572] users will also flash MIUI, Lewa OS and other cool ROMs.
Personally I didn't found any other disadvantage of MT6572 android devices, just one and that I mentioned. Other things working flawlessly like Xposed Framework, Gravity Box etc.  

If you are a simple user, no doubt, just go for MT6572 devices and if you are developer go for other devices.