LG Optimus 3D is now the most Powerful Smartphone, Shreds through Benchmarks
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February 17th, 2011
4:36 PM EST
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LG Optimus 3D is now the most Powerful Smartphone, Shreds through Benchmarks Lately, all of the hardware talk has been about Tegra 2, Exynos, and Qualcomm Snapdragons (ironically). Many people, including myself, have been sleeping on Texas Instrument's latest processor, the OMAP4. The only phone to use OMAP4 currently is the LG Optimus 3D. At first I found this odd because the Optimus 2X uses Tegra 2. Perhaps LG saw the extra power in OMAP4 and thought it was necessary for the 3D technology. (more...)...
Smartbench 2010 Aims to Change How We Benchmark
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January 12th, 2011
3:13 AM EST
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Smartbench 2010 Aims to Change How We Benchmark There are dozens upon dozens of benchmarks now available on the Android Market, so for a newcomer to stand out, it has to differentiate itself on some fundamental level. In the land of the Quadrants, Nenamark1s, and Linpacks; Smartbench 2010 is a 22-day-old benchmark by Smartphone Benchmarks that manages to distinguish itself by being a refreshingly reliable benchmark that gives two final scores: Productivity and Games. (more...)...
Samsung Epic 4G Benchmarked
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August 21st, 2010
3:24 AM EST
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Samsung Epic 4G Benchmarked Order your Samsung Epic 4G from Amazon - Only 199! We received our Samsung Epic 4G review unit and as always we immediately put the device to the test. After weeks of reviewing and testing the Epic 4G's sibling phone from AT&T -- the Samsung Captivate -- we were curious to see how the performance of the Epic would stack up. Quite frankly, we were blown away by the amazing improvements Samsung has made to it's Android 2.1 Touchwiz-equipped Galaxy S software....
Cyanogen Demonstrates Quadrant’s Flaws
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August 16th, 2010
8:52 PM EST
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Cyanogen Demonstrates Quadrant’s Flaws Quadrant has been a top-three benchmarking application of choice since the blow up of Google's Android operating system.  Other than the Linpack and Neocore benchmarking applications, Quadrant's one of the only options. Quadrant is a piece of Android software developed by Aurora Softworks. Today, famed Android developer Cyanogen posted a troubling tweet about the flaws of Aurora Softworks' Quadrant application. He specifically pointed to the I/O portion of the...
Samsung Captivate Reaches New Speeds
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August 10th, 2010
1:27 AM EST
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Samsung Captivate Reaches New Speeds So, remember when we told you that Android developers were working on a fix for the Samsung Galaxy S' I/O read-write problems? Remember when we said that we could see these Galaxy S phones reaching 3000+ Quadrant benchmark scores in no time? Well, buckle up folks, because we're well on our way. Today, users tried out a new modification for the Samsung Captivate that "creates a VIRTUAL EXT2 filesystem inside the stock RFS filesystem on the internal SD card" ...
Developers Work On Galaxy S I/O Problems
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July 31st, 2010
11:49 PM EST
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Developers Work On Galaxy S I/O Problems Today, Android developers brought phones to new heights seeing some of the highest scores of all time in benchmarking tools like Quadrant. Since the release of the Samsung Galaxy S in July, benchmarkers have consistently reported very good CPU and GPU scores. But until now, the Samsung-Intrinsity Hummingbird has been unable to fulfill its full potential due to poor system write/read and database write/read speeds. In fact, this has caused extremely signific...
Motorola Droid X Benchmark Tested
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June 26th, 2010
3:07 AM EST
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Motorola Droid X Benchmark Tested We've been hearing a lot about how great that TI OMAP 3640 processor in the Droid X runs, so many of us mobile phone lovers have been eager to check out some more benchmark tests from the device. Have no fear, Android Central is here to benchmark the Droid X! As you can see in the video below, the Droid X's dedicated GPU runs amazingly. We're looking at some great Quadrant scores and some really solid Linpack benchmarks as well. Without the Android 2.2 Froyo...