For the past several days I've been playing around with Futuremark's new 3DMark for Android, as well as Kishonti's GL and DXBenchmark 2.7. All of these tests are scheduled to be available on Android, iOS, Windows RT and Windows 8 - giving us the beginning of a very wonderful thing: a set of benchmarks that allow us to roughly compare mobile hardware across (virtually) all OSes. The computing world is headed for convergence in a major way, and with benchmarks like these we'll be able to better track everyone's progress as the high performance folks go low power, and the low power folks aim for higher performance. The previous two articles I did on the topic were really focused on comparing smartphones to smartphones, and...
Motorola Xoom Review: The First Honeycomb Tablet Arrives
A year has passed without a significant Android competitor to Apple's iPad. Today that all changes as Google and Motorola unveil the world's first Honeycomb tablet: the Xoom. With...
112 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/23/2011
HP's TouchPad at MWC 2011
HP stopped by a Qualcomm roundtable discussion to demonstrate the HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad that it recently announced. Mithun covered the webOS event for us but this...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet User Experience
While I was scheduling my Mobile World Congress meetings I got an email request from Intel. It wanted to give me a quick tour of the latest MeeGo UI...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 10.1
In a not completely unexpected move Samsung Mobile announced that it would be working with NVIDIA on two different projects. First and foremost is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 10.1
In a not completely unexpected move Samsung Mobile announced that it would be working with NVIDIA on two different projects. First and foremost is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011
Analysis of HP's event : It's Raining webOS
Today's HP webOS event was all about letting everyone know that webOS is definitely here to stay and HP is putting in massive resources (human and monetary) to ensure...
20 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/9/2011
HP Announces TouchPad, Veer and Pre 3: All Powered by Qualcomm
We're here at HP's webOS 2.1 event in San Francisco. HP has announced a couple of big things today; a tablet (HP TouchPad), a (tiny) smartphone (HP Veer) and...
27 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/9/2011
Google's Android Event Analysis
Today's Android event had just one real announcement; the Android Marketplace webstore (which is Live at market.android.com). The rest of it was just a Honeycomb/Motorola Xoom show-and-tell, with various...
23 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/2/2011
[Updated with Gallery!] Google's Android Event, with Honeycomb and more!
We're at Google's Android event here at Mountain View. Sumptuous breakfast aside, we expect Google to talk in-depth about their Honeycomb release, other updates to the Android ecosystem and...
18 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/2/2011
Tablet Hands-On Roundup
2011 is the Year of the Tablet. With all due respect to the rabbit, who would have otherwise been assigned to this year, I think the tablet has earned...
49 by Vivek Gowri on 1/27/2011
CES 2011: Toshiba's Tablet and Glasses-Free 3D
We had a chance to visit with Toshiba on the CES 2011 show floor and were able to lay hands on their prototype Tegra 2-powered tablet along with checking...
15 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/9/2011
ASUS Announces Eee Pad and Eee Slate Tablets
With CES 2011 upon us, we must acknowledge that 2011 could well be the “Year of the Tablet”. Everyone—Motorola, Dell, HP, HTC, Acer, you name it—is releasing a tablet...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 1/4/2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab - The AnandTech Review
The iPad started shipping in April, and since then it has basically had the tablet market to itself. Literally, in the six months after the iPad’s release, it didn’t...
97 by Vivek Gowri on 12/23/2010
Nvidia Tegra 2 - Graphics Performance Update
So I have a confession to make. Before we posted our Tegra 2 performance preview, I ran the Quake 3 demo on the Viewsonic G Tablet and the Samsung...
28 by Vivek Gowri on 12/20/2010
First Look: Viewsonic G Tablet and Tegra 2 Performance Preview
The slate computing market is about to explode, with a literal flood of new tablets releasing over the coming months. Many of them will be Android based, running NVIDIA’s...
81 by Vivek Gowri on 12/9/2010
TI Reveals OMAP4440 Specs: Dual 1.5GHz Cortex A9, 25% Faster GPU, HDMI 1.4 3D, 1080p60
Next year is looking to be a very important year for smartphone and tablet performance. Just as we saw widespread migration to the ARM Cortex A8 and Qualcomm Scorpion...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2010