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Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone Gets Benchmarked on Video

Despite the fact that Sony may have denied the PlayStation phone in the past, it's obviously a real thing, and it's coming. With rumors suggesting that the device could launch as early as March, 2011, it's easy to start hoping that the device gets leaked more and more. We've already seen the device in some close-up videos, but this time around we get to watch as the device is run through the Qualcomm Neocore benchmark application. Read The Full Story

Futuremark delays 3DMark 11, geeks saddened

In the land of the computer geek, one of the apps that is used to show who has the biggest e-penis is 3DMark. When a new version of the app is announced geeks get all excited at the prospect of being the first to set records and hit milestones using the app. Undoubtedly with the new version of the app, 3DMark 11, being announced and expected soon geeks were all excited about benchmarking. Read The Full Story

LG Star leaks, blows benchmarking out the water with Tegra 2

, Nov 30th 2010 Discuss [6]

The LG Star has shown up in the wild, one of what's likely to be the first wave of NVIDIA Tegra 2 powered Android smartphones. Ostensibly just another big-screen handset, what makes the Star interesting is its Quadrant benchmarking scores, run by tipster berryjuice at Android Forums, and which comfortably blow away rival devices with a 1759 rating. Read The Full Story

DROID X Android 2.2 Froyo update benchmarked: it’s Fast!

, Sep 22nd 2010 Discuss [1]

Motorola's DROID X update - taking the Android smartphone to 2.2 Froyo - has only been in the wild for a few hours, but over at Android Community they've already put it through its paces.  Obviously Froyo brings plenty of neat features and a generally tightened-up mobile experience, but we're more interested in what extra speed it squeezes out of the DROID X's 1GHz processor.  Happily, according to Quadrant benchmarking, it's quite an impressive leap. Read The Full Story

Atom N550 benchmarks suggest doubled performance over N450

, Jun 16th 2010 Discuss [2]

It seems ASUS were playing silly beggars at Computex this year, with their demo Eee PC 1015PN and 1015N netbooks both labelled as using Intel Atom N475 processors whereas actually they packed Intel's newer dual-core Atom N550 chips.  NotebookItalia spotted the discrepancy - the correct processors showed up in the system integration - and promptly ran some benchmarks to see quite how much of a boost the N550 brings over previous generation netbooks.  The good news is that the N550 bests not only the N450 but some Intel CULV chips. Read The Full Story

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