The Snapdragon 820 chipset is going to be powering an impressive number of smartphones once the long awaited chip is finally released to manufacturers. Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 820 continues to be benchmarked, producing split results indicating that the SoC could be a worthy successor to the Snapdragon 810. Potential smartphone…
Meizu Pro 5 benchmark results are out: beats Galaxy S6 with its own Exynos 7420 chip
The Meizu Pro 5 is the new top-tier phone from Meizu, a company that has grown immensely in popularity in China in the past couple of years. It’s a large phone: with a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display, and it features a sturdy metal body that looks very stylish (and very…
Snapdragon 820 vs Snapdragon 810: leaked benchmark result chart shows performance improvements
According to previous reports, Qualcomm is currently hard at work tweaking and optimizing its its upcoming chipset, the Snapdragon 820. The last time we’ve heard about the chip and its multiple prototypes, a rumor suggested that Qualcomm will push out a new revision of the Snapdragon 820 called V3.x, with…
LeTV Max 2 to feature smaller 5.7-inch screen? LeTV 1S is run through AnTuTu benchmark test
Yesterday, we told you about some rumored specs related to the LeTV Max 2, the successor to the LeTV Max. The original is a 6.33-inch phablet with a bezel-less screen, and features a 1440 x 2560 QHD resolution. Powered by the Snapdragon 810, the OG model carries 4GB of LPDDR4…
10-inch Amazon Kindle Fire shows up in leaked benchmark result with mediocre specs
Earlier today, a couple of leaked press renders showed that Amazon is working on a 10-inch Kindle Fire with a modified design language. Interestingly, the renders showed that the new Kindle Fire might run a redesigned version of Fire OS, Amazon’s forked Android version. At the time, the hardware specs…
LG H740 shows up in benchmark result with Snapdragon 615, 2GB of RAM, 5.7-inch FHD display
Although most LG fans are probably looking forward to the often-rumored LG G4 Pro, which may actually land as the LG V10, it looks like the company is also working on more affordable options as well. A currently unannounced smartphone codenamed LG H740 was recently spotted making the rounds in…
Huawei Nexus 6 benchmark test reveals Snapdragon 810 SoC, 3GB of RAM and Android 6.0
A phone called the Huawei angler was recently run through the GeekBench benchmark test. The angler happens to be a code name for the manufacturer’s upcoming Nexus device. The test revealed that the Snapdragon 810 SoC is driving the stock Android handset, which will include an octa-core CPU (which ran…
Benchmark battle: MediaTek’s Helio X20 vs. Helio X10 vs. Exynos 7420 vs. Snapdragon 810 and more
The MediaTek Helio X20, with its deca-core CPU and Mali-T880 MP4 GPU, recently was spotted powering up the HTC One A9 on GeekBench. Not surprisingly, the chipset scored very high. With that performance in mind, today we have a series of comparisons showing the MediaTek Helio X20 taking on the…
Snapdragon 820 SoC scores a whopping 83,774 on AnTuTu benchmark test
A device called the Green Orange X1 Pro, running the Snapdragon 820, ran up an AnTuTu score of 83,774. If there is one thing that might have helped Qualcomm’s upcoming high-end SoC rack up that score, it is the fact that the device it was powering had a 1080 x…
The ZTE Nubia Z9 is the first 1080p phone to outperform the iPhone 6 in our toughest graphics benchmark
A premium- and online-only sub-brand of ZTE, Nubia has been churning out impressively sounding handsets for two or so years now, and their latest and greatest — the Nubia Z9 — landed in our offices some days ago. While we’re still hard at work on the full review, we’ve already…