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...
Sonic 4: Episode II, Now Optimized for Tegra
We had a chance to get some hands on time with the Tegra Zone enhanced version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, which was announced yesterday for NVIDIA's...
9 by Brian Klug on 2/28/2012
Apple iPad 3 Event Scheduled For March 7th In San Francisco
It's not like we weren't expecting it, but Apple's now made it official. The event is scheduled for March 7th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in...
52 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 2/28/2012
ST-E Will Have FD-SOI Based U8540: 35% Lower Power, Much Higher Frequencies
There's a close relationship between process technology and performance/power consumption, and it's about to get even more important in mobile. We've already seen that with the transition to 40nm...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/28/2012
ST-Ericsson's NovaThor L8540: 28nm Cortex A9 SoC with Integrated LTE
ST-E is currently laying out its strategy for the company going forward, having suffered a tremendous reduction in revenue as the mobile market has changed dramatically over the past...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/28/2012
Intel Continues Its Smartphone March: Lava & ZTE Partnerships Announced
Intel had two more announcements yesterday about its Atom smartphone progress. The first was a partnership with Lava, an Indian mobile handset manufacturer. The Lava Xolo X900, a rebranded...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/28/2012
Intel Goes Higher & Lower End With Atom SoCs: Z2580 & Z2000 Announced at MWC
Intel had a few updates about its Android SoC strategy for us at MWC this week. The first is a spec revision. The Atom Z2460 we talked about in...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Revealed at MWC
The Galaxy Note, in 5.3" guise, has just hit the States after decent sales in Europe and Asia; and now we have a new member of the Note line...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/27/2012
Hands On With the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity
Earlier today we published the specs and a first look at ASUS' Transformer Pad Infinity, a 10.1-inch Android 4.0 tablet with a 1920 x 1200 Super IPS+ display. As...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/27/2012
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon S4 Pro: Krait with Adreno 320
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon S4 Pro, a version of the MSM8960 with an Adreno 320 GPU instead of the Adreno 225 that is found in the initial shipping MSM8960...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/27/2012
The ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity: 1920 x 1200 Display, Krait Optional
The Eee Pad brand is gone, ASUS has officially reduced it to just Transformer Pad. One of the first tablets to carry the new Transformer Pad brand is one...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/27/2012
ASUS Reveals Padfone Specifications
ASUS has been talking about its Padfone product for quite a while now but we're finally getting some more detailed specs on it. As a recap, Padfone is a...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/27/2012
The ASUS Transformer Pad 300 Series
The Transformer Pad Infinity is the new high-end Android tablet from ASUS, but the TF Pad 300 series slots in below the TF Prime at $399. Still based on...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/27/2012
Samsung Fleshes Out Tab 2 Line and Unveils Galaxy Beam
We wondered what we could expect from the second iteration of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, both in specs and naming convention. To a certain degree, our fears were confirmed...
12 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/26/2012
The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Preview Part II
Yesterday we presented the first results of Qualcomm's Krait based MSM8960 SoC. While we still await the first Krait based phones (widely expected to begin shipping sometime in Q2)...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2012
NVIDIA's Rebrands Tegra 3's vSMP as 4-PLUS-1
ARM Cortex A9 cores are relatively tiny and it's not too difficult to put a handful of them down on an SoC. NVIDIA did just that with its Tegra...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2012
Acer Updates Iconia Tablets to Android 4.0
True to their word, Acer is announcing the availability of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for their recently launched A200 tablet. We posted the PR blurb about...
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Samsung Refreshes Galaxy Tab Again: Dual-Core, No Plus
The original 7" Galaxy Tab was already long in the tooth when it was refreshed in the form of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. That iteration brought Samsung's mighty...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/13/2012
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Gets Ice Cream Sandwich in May
Lenovo will be rolling out its official Ice Cream Sandwich build for the ThinkPad Tablet in May of this year, the company announced via the tablet's product page. The tablet...
1 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/6/2012
AT&T to Launch New Data Plans For Smartphones, Tablets
Beginning this Sunday, January 22, AT&T will begin offering new data plans to its US smartphone and tablet customers, its first change to the plans since June 2010. The new...
32 by Andrew Cunningham & Manveer Wasson on 1/18/2012
MIPS Technologies Targets Mobile Push
There are a number of IP vendors in the SoC processor space. ARM, MIPS and PowerPC are the most popular. Each vendor holds the edge in a particular area...
8 by Ganesh T S on 1/18/2012