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Android at Mobile World Congress – Which will be the go to handset this year?

As you’d expect, Android is set to dominate Mobile World Congress this year but that doesn’t necessarily mean as much as it used to. Now we’re looking at what companies are doing with Android and how they will differentiate themselves so you’ll have their phone in your pocket instead of the competition. With a handful of companies readying multiple handsets to set fire to the Android landscape, which one will rise to the top? We’re expecting at least one handset or tablet (but likely more) from LG, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Read more

Video: Texas Instruments wants you to remember that more cores aren’t necessarily better

Next week you’re going to hear everyone in the mobile industry trumpet NVIDIA’s quad core Tegra 3 as the best thing since sliced bread. Why? Because four cores simply have to better than two cores, right? Texas Instruments, in what can best be described as a public service announcement, just uploaded a video to YouTube showing how their dual core ARM Cortex A15 chip compares to NVIDIA’s quad core ARM Cortex A9 chip on EEMBC’s BrowsingBench testing tool. The benchmark is really easy to understand: 20 web pages get loaded Read more

Stefan Constantinescu

LG X3 to be the Optimus 4X HD at launch – T-Mobile G2X successor?

LG’s upcoming X3 handset is bound to be a doozy of a phone, given that we’ve seen the specs pop up a few times now. Now we’re also hearing that the handset may be called the Optimus 4X HD when launched and it may even end up being the T-Mobile G2X successor later on. The LG X3 / Optimus 4X HD is said to rock a 4.7 inch 720p display, possibly of the True HD IPS variety, NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 8 megapixel camera, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, 2000 Read more

Qualcomm S4 Snapdragon benchmarked, absolutely destroys everything currently on the market

Qualcomm’s got a new hardware platform coming sometime in Q2 of this year called the S4. It’s going to show up in a lot of Android smartphones, so we were delighted when the folks at AnandTech published their early benchmarks of the new chip earlier this morning. Before we get to the numbers, let’s talk about what’s different between an S3 Qualcomm Snapdragon and an S4 Qualcomm Snapdragon. First up is size, the S3 is built on a 45 nanometer process, whereas the S4 uses a 28 nanometer process. Smaller Read more

Stefan Constantinescu