While at NVIDIA’s booth at the 2013 CES, we took a quick look at an upcoming TegraZone game, called Blood Sword THD: Sword of Ruin, played on a Tegra 4-powered Android developer tablet. NVIDIA claims Tegra 4 is the world’s fastest mobile processor. You may not be able to tell from this particular gameplay...
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While at the 2013 International CES, we dropped by Qualcomm’s booth to check out their upcoming flagship quad-core mobile processor, the Snapdragon 800, which succeeds last year’s Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset (think: HTC Droid DNA & LG Nexus 4). Understandably, since the Snapdragon 800 won’t debut in retail smartphones and tablets until mid-2013, Qualcomm...
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At the 2013 CES, NVIDIA was easily the star of the show for gamers, as they announced the Tegra 4 mobile processor, Project Shield portable Android gaming console, and NVIDIA GRID cloud gaming service. In this video, we go hands on with NVIDIA GRID to see if it really has the potential to be...
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The Ascend Mate phablet took most of the spotlight, literally, with its massive 6.1-inch display, at Huawei’s booth at CES 2013, but the company based out of China also unveiled another flagship Android smartphone worthy of coverage – the Ascend D2. In our demo video above, you’ll learn all about the Ascend D2′s features,...
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Huawei made a big splash at CES 2013 with three impressive smartphones: the Ascend Mate, Ascend D2 and Ascend W1. The former are Android smartphones while the latter is a Windows Phone 8 equiped handset. In the video demo above, we go hands on with the Ascend Mate, which is a 6.1-inch screened Android...
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At CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Sony unveiled the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL Android smartphones, each of which are set to release globally in Q1 2013. The pair of handsets are very similar in terms of core features, but there are some slight differences as well. One thing is for sure, the Sony...
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In this video, we check out how Verizon’s HTC Droid DNA smartphone performs when playing three highly rated Android games. We demo Glu Mobile’s Contract Killer Zombies 2 (third person over the shoulder shooter), Gameloft’s Zombiewood (dual-stick shooter), and Madfinger Games’ Dead Trigger (first-person shooter). Coincidentally, they’re all zombie games available for free in...
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UPDATE: Winners have been selected and contacted by email! Congratulations to: S. Baranco, L. Imutan, S. Rener, Asa, A. Baroudi, D. Hansen, G. Ries, and R. Jeffries. Thanks to everyone who participated and stay tuned to our YouTube channel and smartkeitai.com for more giveaways. We, at SmartKeitai, want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas,...
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This is a video review update for Christmas HD, one of the best live wallpapers available for Android this holiday season. We demo every feature using a Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphone running Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean and Google Nexus 10 tablet running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. If you’re interested, grab the festive Christmas-themed...
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In this video, we benchmark the Samsung Galaxy Note II and HTC Droid DNA Android smartphones, both of which are available on Verizon Wireless, using the standard benchmarking utility known as Quadrant. The Droid DNA clearly wins that round convincingly; however, if you take a look at the benchmark results using other apps, like...
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The HTC Droid DNA is the first smartphone in the U.S. to feature a 1080p Full HD display. The Super LCD3 display with 1920×1080 resolution and 440ppi is also complimented with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel rear camera, a 2.1MP front-facing camera, and 4G...
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In this video, we unbox the Samsung Galaxy Note II for Verizon Wireless (SCH-i605). This Android smartphone-tablet hybrid, or “phablet,” is also available on all major US carriers, including Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile, as well as many worldwide mobile providers. It’s the same device showcased in a recent Samsung commercial featuring NBA superstar LeBron...
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In this video, we review Ocean HD Live Wallpaper for Android. It’s another fantastic live wallpaper from DualBoot Games, the same team responsible for past hits like My Beach HD, Christmas HD and Haunted House HD, among others. We check out the underwater, deep-ocean scenery of Ocean HD on the Google Nexus 7, HTC...
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Gameloft’s Asphalt 7: Heat is finally here for Android. In the quick video review above, we take the popular racing game for a spin on a Google Nexus 7 Jelly Bean tablet. Asphalt 7 features 60 cars, 15 tracks, online multiplayer, and 6 different game modes packed with 15 leagues and 150 different races....
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In this video, we review Madfinger Games’ Dead Trigger Android game (version 1.1.0) using the HTC EVO 4G LTE, Google Nexus 7 and Asus Transformer Prime. Dead Trigger is a first-person Zombie shooter with spectacular graphics and gameplay. Best of all, it’s available for free on the Google Play Store (also available for iOS)....
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