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For those of you who haven’t pre-ordered the new T-Mobile G2 because you think it will be too slow to satisfy your speed needs, here’s a video to put those complaints aside. The G2 has been benchmarked, on video this time, using the Quadrant application. If speed was the main concern holding up your purchase,…
The NVIDA Tegra 2 dual-core chip will find its way into many upcoming Android phones and tablets later this year, and for good reason. The Tegra2 offers a true dual-core processor, giving any device with the Tegra 2 system-on-chip CPU running under the hood the kind of experience that is probably best described as “blazing…
Well lookey here, it’s an Android showdown pitting the hottest Android smartphones out there in a battle royale (with cheese), but it’s not going spec for spec. Instead, LaptopMag has comiled the top Android handsets for a battery life test, and you’ll be surprised who comes out on top. LaptopMag was fair in their tests,…
So, yeah, because this was a short week with a major U.S. holiday at the beginning, it wasn’t the biggest week for mobile news. Still, we saw the introduction of a new Android handset from Motorola, rumblings that the first HSPA+ phone will be coming soon and we found a way to waste even more…
Like most of you new iPhone 4 owners out there, I decided to use my weekend activities to test out some of the phone’s capabilities. Mainly, its quality and ease of taking and sharing photos and videos. Taking and sharing photos was a snap. Upgrading from a 3G, I was impressed by the iPhone’s touch-to-focus…
If you’re the owner of an HTC Desire (or any AMOLED display that isn’t the Super AMOLED display), you may have the problem shown in the video below: It’s pretty much unreadable in direct sunlight. Well, Samsung hopes to change those woes with their Super AMOLED screens, giving a brighter, crisper, thinner screen that can…
The guys over at Engadget either have it out for the Dell Streak, or just testing out the device’s Gorilla Glass screen. We’re going with the latter, but the video is just not easy to watch for nerds like myself. No matter how tough a glass display claims to be, there’s nothing more cringe-inducing than…
We all know that Android 2.2 is coming. With Flash 10.1 support, automatic application updates, and many other things on board, we have to wonder: what about speed? Well, someone took it upon themselves to benchmark the newest Android version, and it turns out that Android 2.2 OS is faster than anything we’ve ever seen.…
Are you a Motorola Droid owner who has recently updated to Android 2.1, through the OTA or manually? Notice any differences? Any lag here or there? Well, after what seemed like forever, Verizon recently began the roll-out to Android 2.1 on the Motorola Droid, after a couple delays. Unfortunately, the update may have caused you…
If you’ve been watching my Twitter feed, you’d know I’ve been playing with the Motorola Devour. The Devour is Motorola’s second Android phone for Verizon Wireless and it’s the first to bring MotoBlur to Big Red. The handset is a decent mid-range smartphone for social networking fanatics, but it is underpowered and is nowhere near…