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The upcoming, HTC-made Nexus 9 has been caught at the AnTuTu benchmark site, and from what we can tell it will be a blast. Specs include the super-fast 64-bit NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip that is faster than the one Xioami’s MiPad boasts. This feat alone helped the Nexus 9 hit the impressive 45,923 mark in…
We can’t wait to try out the first Nvidia Tegra K1-powered device. And while we’re not sure when it will be officially announced, we did catch a tablet running this powerful chip at AnTuTu benchmarks. As you can see from the charts on this page, this bad boy is really as powerful as Xbox 360…
Today in the Fall of Western Civilization: I give you the iPotty. The iPotty is a colorful, Fisher-Price-style plastic training potty for toddlers. What sets it apart is its built-in iPad mount. While there have been any number of crass cash-in accessories for Apple‘s tablet, this one might just take the cake. Apparently the world ends not…
The rumors surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S5 are flying and a sketchy image of the device is beginning to form. According to rumors, successor to the Galaxy S4 will likely feature an aluminum unibody case, next-gen processor and a 2k display. A device showed up on GFXBench today, code-named the Samsung SM-G900S, that could indeed…
The Federal Communication Commission released its speed testing app today. It’s out for Android now, with versions for iOS and other platforms in the works. The app will help the regulatory agency crowdsource speed data for all US carriers. Grab it here! When you install the app, it automatically checks your phone’s connection speed in…
We now have some new insight into the Samsung Galaxy S IV thanks to an Android developer, Faryaab Sheikh. Sheikh posted a picture via his Twitter account of an AnTuTu benchmark, revealing some of the components in Samsung’s new device. The specs are nothing surprising, and add up to leaks and rumors we’ve seen before.…
At MWC in Barcelona, NVIDIA released some new benchmarks for their Tegra 4 family of processors,which are promising to bring some extreme improvements to the way smartphone and tablet processors function. So far, according to the benchmarks, the Tegra 4 is blowing away the competition. The processors are not on the market yet, but exist…
We’re still loving the existing Droid X from Verizon today, but in the mobile world, it may as well be the CLIQ. Ok, maybe not that bad, but technology moves fast, and we’ve been expecting a successor to the powerful handset sometime soon. With no official announcement of the DX2’s existence, we know very little,…
Sounds like a joke, right? Well, the Android tablet benchmark wars have begun and this first round is between the Android 2.2 powered ViewSonic G-Tablet and the new Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. Both tablets share the same NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, so does software version really make the difference? Read on to find…
We already know that the next generation of dual-core Android superphones will be led by the LG Optimus 2X (Star) and its NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core 1 GHz “superchip” processor, but there’s nothing like a full suite of benchmark tests to really illustrate what kind of power to expect with dual-core processors like the NVIDIA…