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A report by AnandTech suggests Samsung is gaming benchmarks by allowing the GPU in its flagship Galaxy S4 handsets to operate at a higher frequency with benchmark apps than with other apps. AnandTech tested the Exynos 5 Octa Galaxy S4 handset and found that the GPU frequency was clocked at 480MHZ while playing games. When a…
Amazon may be going with a full court press in order to dominate the Android tablet market. According to leaked information from BGR, the retail giant is planning to up the specs on its Kindle Fire HD tablet, while keeping the price low in order to deliver a knockout punch that’ll bring the competition to…
A leaked document from O2 Germany suggests the carrier will drop BlackBerry internally and replace the smartphones with Windows Phone handsets. According to the report by WMPoweruser, sales representatives will soon be sporting Nokia Lumia 520s as their main handset, while managers and above will receive Lumia 925s. The leaked document claims this switch will…
One service missing from Windows Phone is Instagram. Despite pressure from Nokia, Facebook still has not released an Instagram client with support for Microsoft’s mobile OS. As a result, Windows Phone owners have turned to third-party clients to post to the image sharing service. Apparently, Facebook doesn’t like these Windows Phone clients and is deleting…
Moscow Metro police chief Andrei Mokhov told Russian newspaper Izvestia that his department will soon have a new tool to locate stolen mobile phones. According to the report, the police will start installing SIM reading devices in Moscow’s subway systems. The devices will read the SIM cards inside a cell phone and check them against…
An AT&T employee chronicled his Galaxy S4 Active adventures as he dunked it in a fish tank and tried to take a video as part of a product demonstration. Everything seemed fine until the phone started acting wonky a few minutes later. A quick check of the S4 Active revealed that water had seeped inside…
The new Nexus 7 will land on July 30th, but you can grab one early today at Best Buy, Amazon and other retailers. As reported by Engadget, Best Buy confirmed it is selling the Nexus 7 in stores and online. You can also snag the tablet device from Amazon, Walmart, and GameStop. Other retail partners…
Nokia’s flagship Lumia 1020 is available today from AT&T. We’ve been using the phone for little over a day and are ready to share our first impressions of the Windows Phone handset. Before you head out today to pick one up, check out the five things we feel you should know about this striking camera…
Besides a new Nexus 7 and Android 4.3, Google also unveiled Chromecast, a dongle that plugs into your TV’s HDMI port and allows you to stream media from Netflix, YouTube, Chrome, Pandora and Google Play. You launch and control playback of the content via your Android device, iOS device and laptops (Windows, OS X and…
Google held a press event today and used the occasion to unveil the next version of its mobile operating system, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The latest version of Android is minor jump from Android 4.2 with a handful of tweaks and minor changes. Here is a run down of the new features below: support for…