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PCWorld details 3G/4G test results for US mobile networks

PCWorld went on a bit of an adventure recently to put AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon’s 3G and 4G networks to the test. They traveled to 13 cities across the United States — Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. – and tested data speeds in a total of 127 different locations. The tests between the carriers are broken down into four categories: 3G download speed, 3G upload speed, 4G download speed, and 4G upload speed. The Read more

iOS kicks Android’s ass at HTML5 gaming

Spaceport.io, the maker of a cross-platform development tool kit for games, decided to conduct a study pitting iOS against Android to see which platform HTML5 games perform better on. It did so by determining how many images their respective browsers can move across the screen while maintaining at least 30 fps. The test dates back to the iPhone 3GS of 2009 when the iPhone had virtually no competition. It scored a 53, which means it could handle 53 images moving all at once before dropping below 30 frames per second. Read more