At CES 2013, we had a chance to witness an Nvidia Tegra 4 powered Android development tablet outputting a 4K video sample to a $20,000 84-inch LG Smart TV (84LM9600) with ULTRA HD 4K resolution (3840×2160). The Jelly Bean tablet played the “After Earth” movie trailer flawlessly and the 4K video looked brilliant on...
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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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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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Verizon Wireless took top honors among major carriers in Consumer Reports’ 2012 wireless subscriber survey, which is based on participation from over 63,000 readers. Sprint and T-Mobile were next in line, respectively, while AT&T, the second largest carrier in the nation, finished last of the big four. It’s important to note, however, that AT&T...
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According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study (Volume 2), which is based on responses from 26,695 customers between January and June, Verizon Wireless currently ranks highest in five out of six geographic regions. Verizon leads the pack in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest and West regions. U.S....
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Samsung has kicked off its mass-production efforts for ultra-fast flash memory, in 16, 32 and 64 GB densities, for Android-powered smartphones and tablets. The Samsung eMMC (Embedded Multimedia Card) Pro Class 1500 claims the industry’s quickest speeds for an embedded memory device – reading data at up to 140 MB/s and writing it at...
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If you closely watched the entertaining 2012 London Olympic Opening Ceremony last night, then you may have noticed Samsung’s brief presence during the event. Both the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S III were featured during the first cultural segment of a dance routine in the show’s celebration. The scene celebrated the invention of the...
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After unboxing the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Android smartphone and coming away with positive initial impressions, it’s now time to push it to its limits with various benchmark utilities to see how it compares to the competition. In this video, I put the EVO 4G LTE through a series of benchmarks using apps...
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Today, Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at their annual I/O developers conference. While Jelly Bean isn’t the huge upgrade to the OS that we experienced with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it’s still a significant update with several key elements. Android 4.1 will be available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Nexus S...
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One of the key features of the new iPad is its Apple A5X dual-core processor with quad-core graphics. While introducing the third generation iPad to the world, Apple claimed its A5X chipset offers 4X the graphics performance of rival Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, which will power an army of Android smartphones and tablets...
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Curious how the Asus Transformer Prime handles gaming with its new Tegra 3 quad-core processor? Check out the video above, in which MSNBC’s Todd Kenreck shows it off running Luma Arcade’s upcoming Bladeslinger, Madfinger’s Shadowgun, Vector Unit’s Riptide GP, Glowball, and EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. He even demonstrates HDMI-out capability with a...
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Samsung has unleashed details on their latest System-on-Chip (SoC) that will debut in the first half of next year. The Samsung Exynos 5250 features two Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 2GHz. The 2GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 processor, manufactured using a 32nm-low power HKMG process, is said to have twice the performance capabilities and four times...
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NVIDIA has announced their highly anticipated Tegra 3 processor, bringing “PC-class performance levels, better battery life and improved mobile experiences” to Android tablets and smartphones. The world’s first Tegra 3-powered device will be the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, which will debut this December (possibly with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich). Tegra 3,...
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In this video, we benchmark the Motorola DROID 3 from Verizon Wireless. The DROID 3 has a powerful 1GHz TI OMAP4430 dual-core processor, moderate amount of RAM at 512MB, 4-inch qHD display, and it runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. The handset seems to perform well under regular use, but that’s not going to stop us...
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After unboxing the HTC EVO 3D, we decided to put it through its paces by benchmarking it with some apps from the Android Market. In the video below, we benchmark the EVO 3D using CF-Bench, Quadrant, FPS2D, Multitouch Test, and Neocore. While the results aren’t mind-blowing for a dual-core device, they are respectable and...
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