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  • A Elliptic Labs' Mobile Motion Sensing Tech Uses Ultrasound

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    On Monday, Elliptic Labs introduced Multi Layer Interaction, a new tech for mobile devices that will display different content depending on the user's hand location and distance. According to the company, device makers can use

  • A Pantech Looking For A Buyer, Sale Could Shake Up South Korean Mobile Market

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    . Currently, Pantech is South Korea's third largest mobile device provider. There's additional speculation that the decision to sell may stem from the difference between Pantech's liquidating value, which is 189 billion Korean won ($180.1 million

  • A GFXBench 3.0: A Fresh Look At Mobile Benchmarking

    - in Articles > Mobile

    Special Test Results: Render Quality use case for mobile GPUs. When high precision is needed for a specific task or computation, mobile GPUs typically just don't match desktop-class hardware, which isn't a power-constrained. If they can, there's a notable performance hit

    Special Test Results: Battery Life And Performance With devices like Nvidia's Tegra K1 announced, there are closer-than-ever ties between desktop and mobile architectures, in addition to the APIs they support. As a result, the games you can (and will be able to) play on your smartphone

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    A Much Needed Benchmark, Just In Time involves the latest games, evaluated using uncompressed video captures of performance. The rigs we have set up are really quite cool. And the storage data we generate can get very low-level. But the benchmarks we run on mobile devices

    Going Beyond Performance Testing Graphics standards continue to evolve, and benchmarks are frequently updated to keep pace. In many ways, GFXBench 3.0 is a new beast, featuring the suite's first OpenGL ES 3.0-based performance test, measures of image quality, system imp...

    High-Level Test Results: Manhattan Manhattan is a complex OpenGL ES 3.0-based test that takes place in a city at night. Its graphics pipeline is based on deferred shading. The geometry pass employs multiple render targets (MRTS). Diffuse and specular lighting is calculate...

    High-Level Test Results: T-Rex T-Rex remains a demanding OpenGL ES 2.0 test that utilizes many modern effects, including materials, high-res textures, motion blur, parallax mapping, and complex particle systems. It also uses complex geometry, planar reflections, specu...

    Low-Level Test Results: ALU Reminiscent of demoscene “progs” from the '90s, this ALU test measures shader compute performance by rendering a complex scene using a full-screen quad and fragment shader code. The results are bound to be dramatically different betwe...

    Low-Level Test Results: Alpha Blending The Alpha Blending test begins by drawing 50 squares on each other. Then, it measures the frame rate. If the FPS result is above 25, it draws more squares. If it's below 20 FPS, it removes squares. The test changes the number of drawn el...

    Low-Level Test Results: Driver Overhead The Driver Overhead test is an OpenGL-based metric that applies minimal stress to the GPU, but taxes its driver by by rendering lots of simple primitives one by one, changing depth and blend state, plus shader uniform values like positio...

    Low-Level Test Results: Fill A fill rate test, blending multiple layers of compressed textures, is about as generic as a graphics benchmark can get, and this one is no exception. The benchmark measures fill rate by rendering four layers of compressed textures. O...

  • A Tom's Hardware Best Of Mobile World Congress 2014 Awards

    - in Articles > MWC

    The Best of Mobile World Congress 2014 The Mobile World Congress (MWC) in beautiful Barcelona, Spain is the trade show for any company involved in the mobile market. We caught a glimpse of what to expect in the year ahead at MWC 2014. While most of the big names

    Intel XMM 7260 LTE-Advanced Modem for globetrotters, as there would be no more need to carry a different device for every region.   The XMM 7260 presents a serious effort from Intel to compete in the mobile space, and that's why it earned a spot on our Best Of MWC 2014 list.

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    Ubuntu For Phones Canonical has been working on its smartphone operating system for a while now. The company first showed off its mobile version of Ubuntu running on a Galaxy Nexus at CES 2013. The OS was shown running on slightly updated hardware

    Roamer routes your calls through a more complex series of forwarding so that it can arrive transparently to your foreign mobile. It also works for outgoing calls, and your caller ID remains the same, so people on the other end of the line won't even

    Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit We were pretty surprised when Samsung announced not one refreshed Galaxy Gear, but three. While two of these models are largely the same, the Gear Fit stands alone as a separate product. Aimed at fitness fanatics, the Gear Fit displays...

    SanDisk 128 GB microSDXC Card At this year’s MWC, SanDisk revealed an entirely new 128 GB microSDXC card – that’s 64 gigabytes bigger than any other microSDXC card currently on the market. Granted, flash storage capacity always doubles at each new tier, but 128 GB ...

    YotaPhone Second Generation YotaPhone was one of the most high-profile devices at MWC this year. Yota Devices, the company responsible for the YotaPhone, made headlines in December when it announced the first generation of the device. Now, just three months later...

  • A Broadcom's 802.11ac Mobile Wi-Fi Chip Increases Throughput To 650 Mbps

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    Today, Broadcom announced a new wireless chip, BCM4358, that combines 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to deliver almost twice as much throughput compared to previous 802.11ac Wi-Fi chips in mobile devices and allegedly a 50 percent

  • A T-Mobile Fires Back At Sprint's New Plans By Offering Free Data for A Year

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    T-Mobile launched a new marketing scheme on Thursday to reel in new customers by dangling free data in front of their faces. The catch is that these potential customers need a friend already signed up for T-Mobile's Simple Choice plan

  • A T-Mobile Denies Throttling Unlimited 4G LTE Customers

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    Is T-Mobile throttling its unlimited customers, too? On Thursday CEO John Legere jumped on Twitter to deny the rumor, saying that there is “no limit on data”. The denial follows reports of an internal memo obtained by TmoNews

  • A Sprint No Longer Bidding to Purchase T-Mobile

    - in Articles > Sprint

    Unnamed sources told Reuters on Wednesday that Sprint has dropped its bid to acquire T-Mobile because regulators are showing no signs of dropping their opposition to the deal. The move is a major setback for Sprint parent company

  • A Mobile Security Firm Lookout Introduces "Theftie"

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    Smartphone theft is rapidly becoming one of the most prevalent types of property crime, and the mobile security firm Lookout thinks they can help stop it. On Wednesday, the company launched a new feature for their popular anti

  • A Microsoft Acquires Nokia Mobile Business Friday

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    and market adoption for Windows Phones. In addition, we look forward to introducing the next billion customers to Microsoft services via Nokia mobile phones." "As with any multinational agreement of this size, scale and complexity, our two

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